The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-21
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The empress OF Russia IS i'll with con-
sumption.
kin9 halakaua mas sent to New Haven
for gold watch.
Garnicr defeated DAILY in the billiard
contest al Lyons, 900 to 1870.
The o1t re business portion of Med
ford, Nina. was destroyed bY fire.
Lord Sponcor had guard of sixty ex-
TIA police during his recent stay at Kildare
Contracts for the sale Of articles for
fulue delivery are now illegal in South Caro-
liza.
Arson q. McCook, the new secretary
Of the senate, is the first New Yorker who
ever tilleJ that position.
A convention at Blunt, D. T.
ADOPTED a memorial 90 congress opposing the
opening of the Sioux reservations.
James Dorsher5y, a former partner
Of J. ". Mac.iey th California millionaire,
Is in jail il leadY lie for drunkenness.
Austrian iroons lave suffered severely
iii cohA.eSs With mara iiers. who captured
one company and inas,lcral them
Henry Stocller, Of Southwark, Mass,
fell dead while III pas SION caused by the
refusal Of his | yeaI-old son to obey him.
Tho North Pacific whale catch TIL,
s2ason was 1l,.9) barrels Of oil. IG9. PA
pounds Of bone, 80 600 pounds of ivorv-au
worth $500
The fire started in the Consolidated
Virginia mine in Nevada three years ago IS
still burning at distance Of over go feet
below the surface
The dairy products, grass crop. and
| cereals raisei in Pennsylvania last wear are
valued at Sl9z, 399.4 2 The horned cattle
are valued at SOL, 959, 100
The Michigan Mcrino Sheep Breeders
association, i'll session at Lansing, unani-
/ mously passed resolutions demanding the re-
storation of the tariff on wool
Miss Luct'a Hamilton, niece of the
| governor Of Illinois, was marie at Wenona,
| Ill, to NJ. John T. Evans Gov. Hamilton
and wife participated in the festivities.
| The colliesies in Northumberland
county, Pennsylvania, have been closed for a
week, rendering 12,0Dpersons idle. and there
! is thirteen inches of snow on the ground.
In the house of jim George Ccolored),
near Clinton, La, his 17-year-old daughter
and another woman were shot and killed
Ed Eli, negro, is suspected of the crime.
Mr.. John Rely, Of Frederick county.
Virginia will he 1U7 years old on the 18th of
January. lie is in excellent health, and fire.
quently walks to Winchester, ten miles dis
tant.
A Paris Catholic journal asserts that
the German crown prince proposed to the
pope close of the cultur kempf and states
Won 5chloezer has received Instructions to
the same effect.
The report that the Pullman Car
company was to purchase mill No of the
Willimantic company is kauthoritatively
denied, also the report of depression in the
latter company's business.
The family of Henry Hagedorn of
Cleveland, Ohio, was found suffocated with
coal gas in their residence Mrs. Hagedoru
and a 9year-old girl were dead, while the
father and two other children were uncon.
scious but soon recovered.
A letter signed John Joseph RYAN
citizen OF the Irish Ranuhic" containing
naturalization y w. deposited in the
naturalization bHe..4 4, sew York, Wedres
day, asking the judges Of the court of com
mon pleas to erase his name from the citizer
vol, as England was hanging and imprison
ing American citizens without protest