The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-11-01
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.

John G. New will not resign the as.
sistant secretaryship of the treasury.
The president, il is said, will sustain
the postmaster generals war on the lotteries.
Eon-union miners have gone to La
Sale, H., to take the place Of striking nm
ionists. kA Is
Three men lost their lives by suffoea-
ton in Pittsburgoil well in less than five
minutes
Spike factories at Pittsburg are clos
ing down to see what effect it wild have on
the market
The Irish constabulary tear down
threatening placards which are put up
by OIangmen
Henry Ward Beecher addressed the
Republicans of Brooklyn in favor of the re-
election of Mayor Low.
The postmaster general estimates the
revenue of his office for 1885 at s47, l04 900
and the expenses 5000, 900. =
Syrus Sargent, wealthy citizen of
Wisconsin, living near Lancaster, was thrown
from load his hay and killed.
The Penny Press, Cleveland, Ohio.
newspaper, has started fund for the benefit
of the family of Gen, Steedman
Ten million five hundred thousand
registered articles were handled by the post
Office last year and the total loss was only
s627.
The last st. Louis belle to disappear,
Miss Jareiux, who eloped with a sewing ma
chine agent, has turned up again. She says
she was drugged.
William and Alexander Neusel, of
st. Louis, pension attorneys, have been de-
barred from practice before the interior de-
pa1tment, for gross fraud"
Lieut.. Darlington, of the recent I'M
successful Polar relief expedition, having
asked for a court of inquiry, has been granted
| one and viii tell how he happened to fail in
| his mission.
Specimens of anthracite coal found
in Ohio near Akrn, at a depth of 400 feet
so it is alleged, have been submitted to the
state mine inspector, who says it is fraud;
that there is no bituminous coal where this is
said to have been found.
At great meeting in London in the
in the interest of land reform, Davitt spoke
| and said that those who were moving in the
matter did not propose anything which
would subvert society He said the National
| league held that landlordism was theft.
The report of the Utah commission
contains nothing new, except to recommend
| the passage of laws compelling public mar
riage, disfranchising women, making the first
| wife acompetent witness against her husband,
and making new appointment. If this does
not do the work the commission says it has
something else to suggest.
Eugene Lynch, of Philadelphia, was
to have welded Mrs. Mulcahy, of New
Haven, Conn, and the wedding day was
/ fixed and came around, but failed to bring
| Mr. Lynch, who has not since been heard
| from. It is rumored that Mr.. Lynchs next
visit to New Haven viii be made very I'M
pleasantfor him by some of Mrs Mulcahy s
| friends
| Gen. Myers, U. S. A., denies in toto
| the charges brought against HIM by d. B.
Verinilye, that he Myers was guilty of wean-
ing Mrs. VS. affections from her husband.
The general says his relations with Mrs. V.
| were entirely honorable and that Vermilye's
charges only ''show his despicable char
| acter"
/ Mrs Rowell, the wife of D. W.
| Rowell, prominent man in Batavia, n Y,
| wrote Utica lawyer named Lynch telling
him that her husband was going away and
inviting him to take Mr.. RS place in the
| family for week. Mr. r. didn't go away;
he had suspicion. He made his appearance
very Unexpectedly at his home, and now Mr..
Lyneh's funeral is announced to come off.