The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-11-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

A new national bank has been au-
thorized at Greene, Iowa,
The report of the humiliation of the
of the Egyptian false prophet is denied
Ten city officials of New York have
been recently indicted for forgery and larceny.
A cowboy has got into new line Ct
business, and gone TO counterfeiting in Maine
He has beea arrested.
Prince Bismarck is reported to be
nowise annoyed by the reported desire of the
Nihilists for his scalp.
Ex-senator Tabor was the winner in
the recent suit between himself and Bush,
formerly his confidential adviser Bush will
appeal
There is reward Of e1,000 offered
for information leading to the conviction of
the men who did the deviltry in the London
Underground Railway.
The Boston Globe publishes reports
from all over the state of Massachusetts,
which came from Butler mon and say their
governor will he re elected by from l., 900 to
20000
There are more rumors of changes
in the cabinet 1t is now said Ion high au-
thority" that Folger viii go out, Chandler
take his place. and Pennsylvania to take
the navy portfolio.
Joseph Pulitzer being asked at
Democratic mass meeting in New York to
define the political issues, said it was ''Should
Republican piunderers be kept in Office by
| Democratic bIunderers"
The secretary of the Chinese En-
| bassy at Paris has told an interviewer that if
| the French attack BAG Mini, which attack is
said to be inevitable, there win be war be
tween China and France.
The matron of one of the Chicago police
stations has in charge a young woman, Alta
| Baldwin, of Guthrie county, Iowa, who says
a city employment agency took her money
and sent her to houses of i'll fame for employ
| ment
Samuel Pines, bad criminal, in Jail
under states prison sentence for burglary, and
who outraged Miss Slocum, the Salem school
mistress, has escaped from the Bridgeport,
Conn. Jail, and a reward of 81 900 is offered
for his recapture.
The wives of Henry Turnbull and
Perry Belmont, of New York city, promi-
nent society people, are said to be living at
Newport, K l., for the purpose of getting a
| legal standing in that state, as its divorce
laws are very accommodating.
A rumor was current in England that
the dynamiters We're going to try the effect
| of cartridge on their royal highnesses, duke
and duchess of GennaHght, on the eve oil
their departure for India, but they made the
railway trip to Dover rnmo. este1, and the
rumur was not believed
The capital stock of all the national
banks, Oct . last, was 500 900, 00O circula
ton, 1914 1851, SIS The total contraction OF
national bank currency is about Sl0,000,0O0
The banks hold for all purposes United
States bonds in the sum of $685., 090, 900; theil
loans amount to 81, 30S, 100000, and deposits
Sl,049, 100000
/ Gov Ordway, of Dakota, in his re
port to the secretary of the interior at Wash
ington defined himself vigorously for his ac
ton in reference to the recent constitutions
convention. He denounees in no ambigueu
terms the promoters of the state government
scheme, but says he is willing to co-operat,
with the peas,l y, NIL NJ two states out o.
the territory, Dul nor "lth demagogues
/ The United States has "A, 872 post
offices; England, 149i4; Germany, Il, LOSS
Great Britain sends ,929. s54, 800 letters in he
mails and the United States I,O4G, 1o7, 34s
the United States leads the world in humble
of offices, newspapers sent through the mail
and miles of mali routes, the second item be
ing $50. 1s0, 49,, whiclsis nearly twice as man,
as Germany and over five times as many a
England. This country is one of three whic
has deficiency in its postal revenues, til
otheg two being Russia and Japan