The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-31
THE NEWS IN ss,re

Inc nllchlgan and Wisconsin farmer
are not 50 respondent as they were.
they are taking up subscriptions il
England for the wife of Capt. Webb.
The French have a new order O
merit, to be bestowed only on agriculturists
The results of the wheat threshing il
Illinois aud Indiana are not at all salts
factory
Eighty thousand acres of land in Ire
land have relapsed into bog, and the area un
der crops has decreased ia, 039 acres
There is strong anti -British party
In France which is doing what it can to sth
up row between these two countries
Nine. Sohlke, at one time a favorit,
premiere danseuse at New York and Chicago
Is reported to be living on the charity o
friends in the former city.
The Marine hospital service has beei
placed III charge of the National healt
system, because congress did not appropriate
any money for its separate maintenance.
The Roman Catholic journal pub
lished in st. louis, The Waterman, has pub
lished savage editorial critlcising Mayo
Ewing for marrying protestant, and bein,
married by Methodist minister
Gov. Foster has sent Judge Hoadl1
Noodward's t'Jayhawker'D letter to him OK
planning the matter of Hoadly's expenses
the Ohio Democratic convention, consider
ing that it iustities whatever he said about tn,
matter
At ball at Ebonito rancho. twenty.
five miles from Brownsville, Texas, two me1
murdered woman who had discarded one o.
them She was shot in the back, and her es
cort, who attempted to defend her, was also
fatally wounded.
There is. a revival in England of the
Confederate bond boom 1t is said tina
several eminent juri-consults! have beef
consulted and they hold that the bonds should
in law and equity be PACED 1t is hoped t.
make compromise at - or Is cents on the
dollar
The remains OF the reckless Capt.
Webb have been found below Lewiston, N
Y. 1t was discovered that he had deel
cash in the top of his head, which was ii
itself sufficient TO cause death. There is n,
doubt about the identity. The body Will b,
sent to Boston to his wife.
The Supreme court of Connections
has decided, in the case of Edward Malley VS.
several insurance companies, to compel the
payment of $l27 900 on his burned dry good,
store, thatthe fact that the policies were mad
out in the name of E Malley, and thai
the store, when burned, was ownet
by +. Malley & Co., vitiated the policies
A Buffalo, n Y, telegraph operator
was.recently convicted Of stealing on circum
stuntial evidence, and sent to the peniten
tnry Subsequent developments showe'
that lie was innocent and the WeSte1r
Union manager at that point was very activ
III his efforts for the release of the cond emnst
man When success WAS reached the oper
ator went to his friend and expressed hi
gratitude in the warmest terms, but tn
brotherhood strike being on, he refused to e
to work, although high salary was of
fered
There is reported to be great excite.
ment in Mexico and agitation against Ameri
can influence The anti-American agitatoH
say the country has been sold out to Gran
and the other railway men by DiaZ, and Their
is a strong anti American feeling beini
worked up 1t is still asserted that the late
attack on the American consulate at Mon
terey was prompted by Mexican hatred OF
Americans The more moderate of the Mex
leans are of the opinion that too much in tn
way Of concessions has been granted Ameri
can railway contractors, the concessions hav
ing created ponopolies and then almost sus
tainetl them, it is asserted. and it is also com
plaiReh that instead of bringing wealth to th,
| country they were draining it.