The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Great Britain is ordering war vessels
to the vicinity of Madagascar.
A soft glove match has been arranged
between Sullivan and Sladc, the Maori.
1t is expected that Washington monu-
ment will be built to height of forty feet
this year.
The Detroit & Niagara Falls Short
Line has established fast freight service
over its route
Fire at Cincinnati destroyed A. d.
Bullock & Co.'S cmrled hair and bristlo fac
tory. Loss. $4,000.
Peter McGeoch has mortgaged
nearly all his property to secure money to
settle with his creditors.
The Mile Lac Indians complain that
white mon are encroaching upon their lands,
and there is promise of trouble in that direc
ton.
There is a loud call in the east for
England to take direction of affairs for the
purpose Of checking the spread of the
cholera.
1t is said that c. A Dana is writing a
play founded upon the defense Of Thermopyln
by the Spartans He will offer it to Law
renee Barrett.
Nebraska farmers have got their rye
and harley in the shock and secured from
harm, The yield is said to be very fine
The wheat harvest has commenced
Six young men of Chester, Pa, have
started on a pedestrian excursion through
the states of Maryland Virginia and North
Carolina. They carry their own tents and
other luggage.
Ex-senator Window Will soon sail for
Europe, with his wife and children, to be
gone until November Mrs. Window may
remain abroad for year with the children.
who are to be educated in Europe.
The telephone companies OF New Eng
land are arranging for a consolidation, in
crease of stock and uniform dividend OF
per cent per annum The capital of the CON
solidation will be about 81, coo
The wife of Marcus Newman, a tailor
of New Albany, Ind, told her husband, to
whom she had been married but three days,
that she thought more of the Salvation Army
than she did of him and therefore left, and
think he is in luck.
Watterson, of the Courier-Journal,
in giving some reasons why Randall should
withdraw from the race for the speakership.
says Randall is protectiOnist, and his cleo
ton will be heralded by the Republican press
as a Republican triumph while the Demo
cratic party is nothing if it be not a revenue
reformer.
The majority of the Tewksbury com
mittee in its report on the late investigation
says that the main charges of the governor
are groundless, and then proceeds to criticize
the governors method of conducting his side
saying that at certain parts in the examina
ton of witnesses and the governors argu
ment, 1.-THE committee blushed for the com
monwealth and turned away in amazemcnt .
Rev. Thos Vickers, man of promi.
hence in Cincinnati, public librarian of that
city. and whose name is well known else
where, has entered suit for divorce against
his wife, charging her with deSertion Those
who know the lady say she is a model wife
and mother Great efforts have been made
to keep the matter secret, and it is probable
that there is a first-class scandal behind it all
Speaking of Tilden, The Courier
journal says in editorial that both The
Courier Journal and The New York Sun are
in possession Of facts which furnish irrefuta-
BILE evidence that the odd ticket could be
nominated without series opposition, but that
Tilden stands in the way. He is in excellent
health; he enjoys life abundantly, says tbs
Louisville editor, but has no idea of a return
TO political life for a moment