The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-27
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

A rumor that Bob Ingersoll was
lead is promptly denied
Tin has been discovered in the neigh
oorhood of Harvey, Dakota.
Gen. Crook has been ordered to
Washington to consult about the captured
Apaehes
Dennis kearney is on his way from
California to attend the Anti Monopoly CON
vention at Chicago July a.
Secretary Chandler says the party to
win in New Hampshire in 1884 is the one op-
posed to railway consolidation.
A cyclone passed over Elberton, Ga.
Killing one man and blowing down sixteen
buildings, including three churches
The great corn region bordering on
the Mississippi river for 100 miles below Cairo,
will not produce half crop this year.
The government is taking steps to
stop the pauper immigration business, and
energetic measures are being adopted
A Chicago assessor has discovered
81 500, 900 in personal and 81, 500, 600 in real
property never before taxed to add to the list
il IdAdDieS Oh UndG ClCy.
A collision on the Northern Pacific
railway eesulted in the killing of the engineer
and fireman and nineteen Chinese iaborers,
and the wounding of twenty four others.
The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance
company, of New York, has taken s51s, 900
in Buchanan county, No, bonds, bearing 5
per cent interest The county court will
now take up its old bonds.
In the case of Doolittle and Mickey
VS. Jacob Forsythe and wife, in Chicago, in
which the plaintiff sued for lawyers fees and
got judgment for SAC, 600, Judge Blodgett de-
MED the defendants motion for new trial.
Judge Blodgett has decided that the
quo warrant case of the People ex rel A. C.
Story ct al VS.. Clowry and the Western
Union company is properly in the United
States, court and refuses to remand it to the
state court
There is no change for the better in
the prospects of the flooded districts. The
victims are in absolute destitution in many
instances, and nothing but outside help will
prevent fearful amount of suffering. One
of the features Of this food is the vast amount
of damage the railways have sustained in the
loss of embankments, ETC. The engineer OF
the Missouri Pacific estimates that it will cost
S300,o60 to put his road into good condition
again.
William Henry Hurlbut, in an inter.
view, says the purchase of The New YorR
World by Jay Gould was business transac
ton having nothing to do with the politics Oh
policy of the paper, and that the negotiation
was opened with Gould by Hurlbut, the lattel
| having never seen Gould before that week
He declares the lately reported interview IL
which Gould is made to say he bought Tht
World as part of negotiation for the pur.
| chase Of the Texas Pacific from Col Scott. o1
| the Pennsylvania railroad who appealed to hin
| take the railroad as favor is untrue in ever1
particular, and he doesn't believe Gould eve
used the language attributed to him.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music was
crowded with friends of Henry Ward Beechel
at the celebration of his seventieth birthday
| A great many prominent men were present
among them Mayor Low, Robert Collyer, E6
ward Beecher Rev. DR. Hall, and Judg
Neill Ex-President Hayes, A. s. Hewitt
George VIM. Curtis, A. D. White and many
other distinguished men sent letter of regret
| Speeches were made by Rev. DR.. Co1lyer
John Barry, M P for County Wexford, Ire
land, and Mr. Beecher At the conclusion Q
Mr. Beecher's remarks, which were a rev.ey
| of the advance of invention during his ow
| time, the congregation rose and he pronounce
| the benedietion.