The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-22
THE NEWS rs BRIEF.


Elk Governor Booth, of California, is di
ssctor of a dancing club in Sacramento.
y A snowstoTm ragged all day Thursday al
Quebec with the thermomer at zero.
The total amount received by the Demo.
cratic national committee during the cam.
paign is said to be $3.50, 900.
Adams & Leonard, private bankers al
Dallas, Texas, failed Thursday, the liabilities
being estimated at $500, 900
President Arthur has received ten
pounds Of butter that took the premium al
the North Carolina state fair.
The Hon James Speed attorney gen.
elal Under President Lincoln. was taken sud
denly and eIiously i'll Thursday at Louis.
vilie Ky.
A confagration, caused by fireworks,
destroyed Il largo portion Of the business
section of Hickman, KY, Wednesday night,
the loss reac hing SIP, 900.
Two workmen in the Winchester arms
factory New Haven, would not bet money,
but decided that the loser should go on hi,
hands and knees 10 ana from work for two
weeks.
Because Of heavy losses, the genera
manager of the Federal bank recommended
to the stockholders Thursday, at Toronto,
that the capital stock be reduced from S.
900 coo to Sl,@50,000
At New York Thursday. the suit of the
Lamar estate again { the ecr2tary of the
treasury to rccoyo" $il0, so for cotton taken
during the war Was di,il.ss d in the United
States district court
Mrs. Jesse Putnam, Of Danvers, Mass.
completed her Tooth year recently. John c.
Whittier paid his respects to the old lady,
who is the widow of the nephew of that mar
of undying fame, Gen Israel Putnam.
Carriage hardware manufacturers repre-
senting 81 900 capital formed a Natona
association Thursday at Mcriden, Conn, and
decided upon pooling combination for the
restriction of goods placed upon the market
A novel auction will soon take place al
San Francisco, Cal. Some time ago lady
near that city gave birth to triplets, and now
she proposes to give the privilege of naming
the three children to the person who casts the
highest number of votes mt s. vote.
In the Congo conference, now in SEES,
| sion at Berlin John A. ka son, the Ameri
| can minister to Germany, announced thai
| Henry NJ Stanley, the African explorer
| had been appointed technical delegate to tn,
| conference for America.
Professor Doremus says Il brown stont
mansions and marble aaccs of New Yorl
are surely and rapidly crumbling into dust
mainly through the absorption and freezing
| of water, while other climatic effects ar,
working in the same direction
Dom Pedro, when recently starting on
| pleasure trip on a small Steam yacht dow
the Bahia ct Todos Sante from Rio de ia
Metro, fell overheard. and was hauled out o
the briny By naval engineer officer and al
| army officer. Both We're made barons
The seventh annual American fat stool
show closed at Chicago Thursday evening,
large attendance being present. The prize
for dressed beef were awarded, resulting il
a shorthom victory, Clarence kirkleving
ton, tho shOrthorn taking the grand blu
| ribbon.
Miss Irving, niece of Washington Ii
| wing, has offered to tho class Of 50 for tin
| Princeton college class IVY at the comm,
commencement, Slip from an ivy whici
was planted by the famous authors owl
| hand. The original plant came from Sir Wal
| ter Scott's home at Abbotsford.