The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-05
THE NEWS IN Brief,

1t is now asserted with great posi-
tiveness that Gen. Crook has not had fight
with the Indians at all.
The Russian Gar, addressing the
marshals at Moscow, concluded May God
give US peaceful and quiet life.
The Americans at Moscow during the
coronation were treated with distinguished
consideration by the czar, and are extremely
pleased with their visit
The city of Greenville, Texas, was
visited by fearful tornado, which damaged
and destroyed about $50 houses Only one life
was lost--a colored child
The Otoe reserH alton lands have been
disposed Of, The prices paid were from s. to
$34 per acre. About two thousand land
seekers were present at the sale.
The Chinese consul at New York
with his secretary and other attendants, Wis
tied Plymouth church during the service,
dressed il their native costume.
There is larger number of cattle
moving westward from points in the south
west at the present time than at any other
time in the history of cattle raising in this
country.
The workmen of New York are agitat-
ing the proposition that demand for half
holiday on Saturday be made of the masters,
and it is thought that it will be agreed to
without trouble
One Of the civil service commission
e1s says that the people think the government
is an aims house, which can afford employ
nlent u those who cannot earn living in the
ordinary cmployments
A dividing rail has been put on the
stairs OF the Brooklyn bridge, and proved a
complete failure. About the middle of the
afternoon the crowd cholled one-passage while
the other was not half null
The treasury department returns fol
the first eleven months of the present year
show that the receipts are less and expenses
greater, notwithstanding the large reduction
Of interest charge owing to the funding OF
the debt
1t is believed that the committee In
England which is inquiring into the matter OF
building a tunnel between England and
F1ance under the channel will report in favor
ot the project, the military big guns to the
contrary notwithstanding.
The city government of Denver is in
trouble because it is thought that bill pro
viding for sHndIy changes in the city govern
ment aud upon which the city government is
organized was not legally passed by the
legislature, and is consequently void
"Dr." Langley, the originator of a
number of swindles in the nature of bogus
corporations, in various parts of the country,
and 10y means of which he has swindlel peo-
pie ont OF large sums Of money, has been ar
rested in Boston, and is now in Jail under
bond of Ss,Ho0, which will probably be in
creased to SlO0,0n,
Lord Charles Beresford, the com
mander of the gunboat Condor, who distin-
guished himself for his bravery at the bonn
bartlnent of Alexandria, foughta mill with thu
prize fighter Jem Mace, and knocked him out
III short order. He then invited the Maori
Slade to try him round, but Siade was salts
fed with what Mace got,
One year ago. VIM. Newell, a wood:
sawyer living at Winterset Iowa, disappeared
and nothing could be heard of him, although
search was made. 1t was finally concluded
that he had run away. A short time ago a
convict in the Anamesa penitentiary made
tho statement that be had helped TO bury
Newell's body, and that Newell was murderet
by man named John Hamper, a disjoluts
man whose father lives on farm near Win
teiset The prisoner said he could show
where the body was buried, and did SO, when
it was developed that the head had been sew
cred from the body and the body terribly
paSita1 besides Hammer WAS arrested ADd
placed in JAIL from whence a mob took him
Sunday morning early and hung him to a
tree in the Jail yard, also shooting him
through the heart as his body was jerked into
the air The mob was masked and no one was
identified