The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The steambarge Minnie burned at
Fort Howard, Wis Loss, $1,000; insur-
ance, 5000,
Frederick Ives, president of the New
Haven Conn Palladium Publishing com
pany, is dead
The Austrian reichsrath has con-
veped The 1884 budget shows a deficiency
of 6O0d, 600 FORMS
The Australian conference at Sydney
has passed resolution favoring the anneNa
ton of the South Sea islands
The grand jury at Danville, Va, after
two days Investigation of the election riot,
reported with no indictments.
Twenty one structures and The Sen
tinel Office burned Lynchburg, Tenn. Tho
loss is 500 900, with S15, 900 insurance.
At NIarseilles n clerk of the Credit
| Lyonnaise was seized by man in the street,
! strangied and robbed of $4,000 francs
There are beliefs at Madrid that
| Sagasta will soon return to power. Th
Bourse was buoyant in consequence of
there rumors. rEss
For eleven months of this year 154,
| $50 packages of dry goods have been ex-
| portedsagainst 15O, 3l4 for the corresponding
period last year.
A mine explosion at Stambaugh killed
| one man and injured six others The con-
cussion leveled pillars in the mine, upset cars,
and extinguished the lights.
s. NJ. Meyerberg & Co., silk manu-
facturers at New York and Hoboken, have
failed. Their liabilities are 900. The
| firm employed 400 persons.
Prof Mitchell, organist OF the NJ E.
church at Canton, Ohio, has been discharged
from that position for taking a woman OF
ilI-repute to an entertainment.
A large meeting was held at Chicago
of mmbermen and others determined &c
resist in courts the claims of Robert Carsley
to royalty on stamp perforators.
j President John J. Mcdonald, in his
address to the Butter, Egg and Cheese con
vention in session at Cincinnati, said the
butter product of the United States annually
amounts to 1852 oeO, 600; cheese, $50, O00, 900
while eggs and poultry approach the latter
figures.
The suit of Charles d. GlmouI
against Carl Schnrz has been removed to tbs
United States court at New York. Gilmour
who is lawyer, claims $500, 600 damages be
cause Schurz while secretary of the interior
prohibited him from practicing in that de
partment.
At Woiverhampton, MIR. Chamber
lain made speech maintaining that it wa
the duty of the Liberal party to remove the
causes of Irish discomfort, ana denouncing
the " shame, fraud and transparent impos
ture y of the present system of Irish repre-
sentation in parliament.
An aged party is travelling through
Montgomery, Shelby, Christian, Fayette
and Bond counties, Illinois, buying SHEEP
and requesting signatures to document
appealing for reduction of taxes, etc, Thes
documents he transforms into promisSorI
notes, and by their sale victimizes iunocen
persons.
In attempting to cross Chesapeake
/ bay in row-btat, Capt Hugh l.. Crockett
his wife and two children We're thrown intC
the sea by the craft capsizing The captain
with his wife and little ones clinging to him
; regained the upturned boat, and, after float
ing with it two hours, all were rescued, bu
l half frozen.
Frank James appeared in court a
Kansas City, No., and his trial and that o
Charles Ford for the Blue Cut robbery, wa
set for January il next Bail was fixed a
s., 900, which win be given if James attoI
news think best. If the outlaw is released
, however, he will be Immediately arrested
upon other indictments