The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-09-11
TEAEHRkPH?C BREYiTIES.

The defender, of Baltimore in lS12-14 at
tended religious services Sunday. Only SIX
were present
By the breaking OF IN omnibus wheel at
Leayenworth five persons were Injured, City
Clerk Shepard having both legs broken.
Ex-Governor Biddle, Of New jersey, acct
dentally fell into a New York ferry house
Saturday morning. a1d broke his left leg.
Sir Harry MaXse, Governor Of Newfound-
land, one of the famous six hundred at the
charge Of Balaklaya, died Saturday Mt St.
Johns.
A petition is ia circulation in Chicago
asking Sheriff Hanchett to appoint as q
Deputy o Chinaman named Charley Kee.
who peaks English
Fourteen Mormon priests are holding
meetings in Minneapolis. They have Sc
cured ten converts in Minnesota after three
months labor.
John Supple provoked quarrel at jersey
City Saturday with the brothers James and
Thomas Hearn, and in the struggle Supplies
neck was broken.
Lord Coleridge, Oh his arrival in Boston,
requested to be shown Faneuil Hall and the
wharf where the tea was thrown overheard
in the Revolution.
Dr. J. V. Wallace, dentist, OF Clinton,
Ill, committed suicide Saturday by throw
ing himself in front OF an Illinois Central
train near Decatur.
Colonel d. p. Holloway, who was Com
missioner of Patents under President Lin
coin, died Sunday in Washington, and will
be buried at Richmond, Ind.
James Bryce, the discharged bDall-keeper
of Henry Ferris Il Sons, New York brewers,
was indicted Saturday for embezzling S21,-
0G0 of the firms money.
General J. S. NegIey, President Of the
National Union League, has called a
special meeting of the National Executive
Committee at New York Thursday next
The widow and daughter of General
Stonewall jackson are guests OF Governor
Butler, at Boston. Lord Coleridge was
present at Sunday breakfast given in their
honor.
George Taylor was shot aud mOrtally
wounded at Wilmington, Del, Saturday BY
Lewis List, Jr. The trouble grew out OF
Taylor abusing his wife, who is Lists sis
ter.
A clerk named Johann Gottleiz Jasllosk
who absconded from Moscow, Russia, with
twelve thousand roublcs belonging to his
employers, was arrested in New York Sat
urday.
A farmer near Marshall, ILL.,, has steel
whose hide recently kept so hot from disease
that he could not rest his hand on the ami
NAL Since then the skin has entirely peeled
off i'll large strips, although thesuferer eats
and moves about as well as ever.
A freight train going down Kenoshf
Mountain, in Colorado, by sections, me-
with accidents which injured seven en-
ployes, three of them fatally. The engint
Jumped the track at curve, on q grade OF
two hundred feet to the mile.
Part of the Highland mine, at DeadwOOd
caved in Saturday evening, impriSOninG
three workmen behind one hundred tons o.
ore. One man worked his way out through
eighty feet Of ore by using giant-powder
The corpses of his comrades were recovered
Sunday night.
A register Of the Interior Department a
Washington has been prepared for the blue
book. There are 1901 persons on the rolls
of whom GIL are women, and 204 negroes
Seyenty-one clerks receive salaries ranging
from S72O to $500, one lady from Illinois
drawing 81, 800.