The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-18
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

4uC per llCSASc HAS no
come law In Illinois.
The business part of Sterling, On
tario, has burned. Loss, $125, 900.
There were 165 failures in the United |
States during the week ended June IS.
Ben Butler made speech to the
New Orleans soldiers who recently visited |
Boston.
It is estimated that $1,000, 100000 is |
required to pay dividends in the United |
States each year.
1t is calculated that the cost of the
star-route trial will amount to about half q
million Of dollars.
The building of railways into the
lumber region promises to make big change
in the lumber market,
Judge Barnum, of Chicago, has de-
cided that option deals ara not recognized by
law, being mere gambling transactions.
The personal relations OF Hendricks
and Mcdonald are cordial the story of the
GOODNESS at recent banquet being untrue.
Chester Fl. Krum, the missing St.
| Louis x-judge turns out to be defaulter to
| the amount of $4,000, ar1 possibly 100000
Gen. Sherman says that the jury sys-
| tenn was on trial in the star-route case, and
intimates that the law should be changed to
| allow a majority to convict.
| Major Niekerson is still missing An
| army officer, being asked what steps were
contemplated toward the eourt-martial of
the major, said; First catch your fish.
The colored Republicans of Washing
ton City serenaded Dorsey, and the ex-senator
made a short speech, thanking them for the
courage they showed in coming to see him.
Solomon Hewitt and VIM. Hardee,
both colored, were hanged at Conway, s. c.
for the murder of an old man named Stalvey
of Socostee, Horny county, in October 1889
Mary Clemmer Ames, the newspaper
correspondent, is to be married soon to Ed
ward Hudson, proprietor Of two Washing
ton papers, and who is his BRIDES junior by Is
years.
| The Ashland, KY, people are sub
scrtbiHg TO a purse for the defense of Direly,
who is in Jail charged with the outrage on
the Gibbons children, for which Neal and
Craft are under sentence of death.
Capt. Kelly, of the whaling steamer
| Lucretia, arrived recently in San Francisco
reports mutiny on board the ship while in
the Arctic ocean, which was quelled by the
captain shooting one of the sailors
The Leavenworth, Kan, Times pub
fishes report in relation to the corn crop in
, Central Kansas, which shows less satisfac
tory state of affairs than people had been lee
to expect. Not over half an average crop il
assured says The Times
Il 1t is stated that William D. Kelley
| | has improved very much since he had the
t | operation performed on his jaw 1t is also
7 | said that he is not q good business man and il
. SO hard up occasionally that his friends hav'
TO come forward and help him.
j DR.. J. F. johnson, of River Falls
$ Wis, caught his wife and one Ole Anderson
; | a good-looking young clerk, in fiagrante de
+ | lictu, and attempted to kill the young man
S failing in which he beat him over the heal
Il with a revolver and declares that he brok
> his jaw.
: A consultation of prominent Mich
gan Republicans was held at Detroit with
: view to organization for 1884. The feelin
was unanimous for standing by protectlv
. tariff as adopted by last congress The pla'
= form of the Ohio convention seemed to striE
the gentlemen present most favorably.
Postmasters commissioned: Indian
q | Angus J. Elleman, Amboy Wisconsin
i, | William Ennis, Mapleton Peeley Burdicl
! | Clear Lake Michigan--Fred F, Scidmor
l. Grass Lake; Henry B. Stohlman, South Arm
r William O. Thurston, Cedar River; Charlt
H. Cook, Burlington Iowa-Henry N
t Taylor, Selection.
1t John Rayser mechanic of Kansa
Ie CITY, shot and killed his W ife in house Of i
fame in that city They were married eig
t teen months ago, but she left him and entsre
Y a life of shame He attempted to get her
m 60 back to him and she refused One of ii
shots took effect in the heart. He resistt
n, arrest, firing twice at the officers.
y s. W. Dorsey has written letter
e s Gen. J. A Morton, secretary of the nation
- Republican committee, stating, in answer
: questions, that there is no record of the pr
- ceedings OF the national committee althoul
10 Dorsey says there should be; but he foul
~ none and consequently made none
e, . closes his letter with scathing rebuke to t
7 national committee for not standing by hi
- when he was in trouble.