The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-11-17
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Jay Gould passed through Chicago
Thursday.
= Rosenberg & Co., clothiers, New
York, assigned, giving $4,000 preferences.
A fire at ,Mandel Bros dry goods
store, Chicago, caused $25, 900 damages; in
sured.
The German counsel at Tamatave,
Madagascar, has been instructed TO display
his flag.
Marquis Tseng is credited with saying
that he went to Paris as an act of courtesy tS
NJ. Ferry.
Throughout the northwest Thursday
night the thermometer registered Is to 40 de
Grees below zero
At a meeting held at Chicago. passen-
ger rates from Kansas City to Chicago were
restored to $14S0
Il is again reported that Mr.. ]. D.
Laying, general superintendent of the North
western road, has resigned.
Rice Brothers sheet-iron mill at
Newcastle, Pa, was closed by the sheriff.
Their total liabilities are about $4,000.
At Penn Yam, n Y, the steamer Yates
burned to the waters edge, and three boat
house, were damaged, Total loss, $4,000.
Manager Nixon, of the Chestnut
Street theatre, Philadelphia, was held in 5000
bail for failure to pay the state license tax OF
$500
The North German Gazette saws the
decay of French trade is due to the fear Of
an impending war with Germany, which is
paralyzing all business.
By the fall of a scafold at Copeland's
ice house, near Keozuk, Iowa, Thursday, six
men were injured, one fatally. Mr.. Cope
land was seriously hurt
Seneca D. Kimbark's great establish
ment on Michigan avenue, near Lake street,
Chicago, was damaged by fire about 500, 900;
insurance covers the loss
The offer Of f. Shaw & Brothers, the
bankrupt leather merchants of Boston, of
s., 300, 900 for the assets of their firm, was re-
jected by the creditors.
The county Democratic central COM
mittee, of Cook county, Illinois, report, for
the public benefit, that the last campaign
cost just exactly S6,07As0.
Thirty-fve pure-bred Clydeslale
horses and mares, imported by Galbraith
Brothers, of GAINESVILLE, Wis, were sold at
auction, fetching good figures.
The iron ore receipts at Cleveland.
this season were 663, s07 tons, against 9G3, O4s
tons last year; and the shipments aggregated
GA, SS3i tons, while in 1882 they were 67S, 1856
tons,
At Prospect park, Thursday, Frank,
with 7 n New as running mate defeated H
| B. Winship, with Hiram Bruce as mate in
the best time on record-2:0SK. Winship
took the second heat in 2:i0A.
Owing to the depressed condition of
business the Cleveland Rolling Mill company
will shut down their rail-mills and bank
their blast furnaces. Other mills will follow
this example, or greatly reduce their force of
workmen
| The Austrian minister promised Sem
ator Vest and Congressman Carlisle and
Casey Young at Washington City that he
would use his best endeayors to effect trans
| fer of the late Vieuia ciee rical show to the
Worlds exposition at New Orleans next
year. Foreign countries are greatly inter-
ested in the latter exposition
Twelve trsmps congregated ut Sour
Lake, Texas, and when train came along
rushed for the express ear, but halted at the
sight of twenty Winchester rifles held by de-
termined men, warning having been wired
that the trauIps looked suspicious. The lady
travellers were badly scared, and hurriedly
sscreted or threw away their valuables. The
Migrants, who were unarIned, said they
simply desired to steal q ride.