The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-29
The DAILY Argus.
CONDENSED NEWS.

! triFtCt..e IS Nt'siu.
A sgeeessful test of IN electric tram
car was mad III london Saturday.
j. I. RrcrSan, fer many years pTomi
| nent iii Chlcs.o mercantile affairs. i
d@tlt. 1T tn. ,sga Of 40 years.
Il'atiisl,, ior of Germany sends 3.e0
marks "a German sufferers by tie flood
IN tile Quilted States.
y break il, the French submarin,
! cable. two hundred miles from tht
American end, IS reported.
Tie Nova Scotian assembly has pass
rd biz ahol:shlng imprisonment TO
debt.
Th" New Jersey senate has passed {
/ b'li 10; bsiding the sale of cigarettes o.
tob eco III amy form 10 minors.
y high i.ic.'nse act has been adopt
| cd 10y bot:l houses of tie Missouri legis
| laItsre.
louis Michel has escaped to Arden
neS. but promises to appear in courl
| wien d / ITia! O:c;lrS.
I'm autopsy will bc heii ON the re-
| mains 81 Prince GortschaAotf, suspicioi
| hay ng arisen that his death was has
| tened i'y poisoning
| Tha suciaiistjc disturbances in Paris
| are attributed 10 the fact that there are
! sixty thnltS;snd work n!rn III the city ont
OF employ inrnt.
Hcrbcii 81. Tayioh prominent
| founder AID iron dealer Of Cleveland
OHIO, died suddenly Tuesday evening,
aged ~ Years.
Mrs. Marry Car. maternal grandmother
OF Mrs Potter Palmer and Mrs. Fred
ID. Grant, died Tuesday at Louisville,
Kentucky, ut the age of 50 years.
\ b.sl prescribing the. whipping post
as the penalty for Wife-heating has pass
oil of to
tlves.
Work has been resumed at the rolling
mills ut Allentown, Pennsylvania, Civ
ing employment to four hundred per-
sons.
Secretary Lincoln has asked the
president to order court-martial for
the trial of General UaZen, chief signal
officer of the United States army.
English holders of Virginia state
bonds have raised fund of ED 900 with
which to contend for their rights III
tribunals of the United States.
Parnell, Eagan, and Davitt are eX-
pected to be present at the convention
of the Irish Land league of America at
Philadelphia, April % and 90.
The st. Petersburg police are said to
have received information from Paris
of the existence of Il plot to murder the
car.
Count dc Chambord, replying to an
address from the workingmen of Lyons,
declared that the republic is leading
France to ruin.
William Sprague has been nominated
for governor of Rhode Island by the
independent state convention that met
at Providence.
There is no foundation for the report
started some time since that the prince
OF wales intended visiting the United
States this year.
The contractors for the $50 miles of
the Northern Pacific railroad remaining
to be constructed promise that the gap
will be closed before the 1st of Septem-
Der next.
An advance of so cents and 81 per
ton for pig-irOn has been demanded by
the furnace-men of Alabama and Tenn
eSSee who supply the Cincinnati and
tributary markets.
Clarence Hite, one of the James gang.
of outlaws, recently sentenced to
twenty-five years Imprisonment, has
been pardoned by Governor Crittenden,
of Missouri.
Daniel Woods. of Indianapolis, is
dead at the age of l06 years. He served
in the English army under the Iron
Duke, was at Waterloo, and accom-
panied Napoleon to St. Helena.
The Russian police are showing in
creased vigilance as the time for the
coronation approaches, and many ar
rests are being made of suspicious char
acterS.
Ex-Governor William Sprague, of
RhOde-Island, was married Thursday
night in Stanton, Va, to Mrs. Dora
IneZ Calvert, of Greenbrier county
West Virginia.
The law fOrbidding the importation
of American pork into Germany has
not yet received the royal sanction, and
can not become operative until thirty
days after its publication.
Ira Steward, who achieved consider
able notoriety in the United States as
Il champion of the eight-hour labor
principle, died Tuesday at Plano,
Illinois.
The Reformed Church of the United
States has deposed the Rev. A. 5.
Keyscr. OF Pottsville. Pennsylvania,
from the ministry for sins of tieshly
order.
Chief Justice William White, of the
supreme court of Ohio, and recently
United States district judge
to success the late Judge Swing, OF Gin
cinnati, is dead.
A dangerous counterfeit of the stand
ard silver dollar is being circulated in
Ohio and Indiana. 1t has the weight
ard ring of the genuine coin, and re-
sists the acid test.
The dividend on Western Union Tele-
graph stock, payable April Is, will be
the large st ever declared by that corpo-
raff"fs w. Il per cent. for the first
& ii he current year.
= O7Neill. broker of Science
sW York, has Swindled people,
Wnom he had business relations,
..,L OI the total sum of $3.50 eco, in
ainOunts'V varying from 81 800 to S12,CUJ.
An effort is being male in the Brit isl!
parliament to cause the government To
hasten measures for the recovery from
the United States of the surplus of the
Alabama award.
In order to lecoyer the cargo of the
sunken steamer Cambria the use of dy
Mantle Wal he necessary, involving the
probable mut llation of the four hun
Gred corrseS imprisoned III the wreck.
Mrs Mary Hughes Grove, aged III
years, died VI ednesday at Lake Megan-
tic. near Montreal. Size had been
resident OF tie dominion seYcnty-fve
years. whittier she immi grated from
England.
Inc newly WedCeu wife OF eXGoV-
ernor Sprague, of Rhode Island, is the
daughter of a poor shoemaker, and,
like her husband, has been separated
from her first cOnjugal partner by the
divorce court.
The warrant for the arrest of Louise
Michel, the French communist agita-
tor, alleges offenses which, if proven
against her, will entail upon her from
five to twenty years imprisonment at
hard labor.
The captain of the steamer Yazoo,