The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-29
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,

The highway commissioners of ~o,,,.
VIII meet in state convention at Spri,,a.,.,o
Sept. "a -''s' '''''
Commissioners of the City of Mexico
nave authorized a gentleman in Paris to ma
gotiate municipal loan.
Mr. Case says that no one has the ontion
from him to buy or authority to sell jaw Eve
See, and that he is not for sale.
While placing her daughter at school at
harrington, Conn, Mrs Garfield registered
as Mrs Brown to avoid notoriety
The debt of the United States is eousl
to $50 for each of the inhabitants In France
the ratio is 500, aud in Great Britain 500
The American Pharmaceutical associa.
ton, in session at Milwaukee, elected John
ingalls,, Of Georgia, president, and NJ. Maisch,
Of Pennsylvania, secretary.
Richard Tweed, eldest son of the late
William NJ Tweed, of New York, died in a
farls mad house Wednesday 1t is UNDER
stood he left little or no property
Way down in Pennington. Me. lives
an Old veteran who lost both arms in the war
OF the rebellion, and who marches to the bal
iot-box and drops his vote from his teeth.
The red flannel shirt which, tied to an
oar was used as distress signal by the
Greely party in the Arctic regions, will be
on exhibition at the Cincinnati exposition.
Edwin D. Bailey, secretary of the
national committee of the American nart,,
announces that Senator S. C. Pomeroy, nom
mated Tor president, will withdraw in favor
of st. John.
A charity society in Philadelphia reports
that In six months lS5 cases of desertion bv
men of their families have come under its
care lntemperance was the active cause in
| ll2 of these
A painter in New York tried to smother
fire in his Office Monday with coat. After
the coat was burned up he remembered that
| There was 500 in cash and check for $40 in
one of the pockets.
The pOstoffice department finds the sale
Oh 2-cent stamps steadily increasing. and the
ohlclals OF that branch of the government
service expect to soon see the the department
selt-sustaining again.
A dispatch from Berlin asserts that a
Franco-German alliance has been arranged
France is to obtain certain territory on con-
dltlon of not opposing Germany's claim of
two ports on the North Sea.
A nurse in the family of George Ingra-
ham, Lancaster, Pa, put opium in the nuls-
ing-bottle of Mrs. Ingraham's infant, ami the
little one came near dying. The girls object
was to make it sleep while She went to pic
uic
Much painful surprise has been excited
at the vatican by the dis ,overy that King
Alfonso belongs to the Masonic craft Cardi
nal Jacobini has written to the nuncio at
Madrid, in the pope's NAME asking for all de-
tails.
A Chinawoman Of Sacramento, Cal,
made a matchbox of her bosom, and retired
with bunch of lucifers therein During hen
lumber the matches were ignited, and the
Celestial female was nearly roasted in hel
burning bed.
Samuel Roberts late paytmaster OF
Charles Parrish q Co, coal operators al
Wilkesbarre, Pa, is reported defaulter tC
the amount of $4,000 or $4,000. He sur
rendered his property to his employers, snC
a settlement has been effected
A tiny steamer. brought across the At
lantic in big one, and flowed through the st
Lawrence river and the lakes, is finally to b,
carried by men forty miles overland to ge
her TO Lake Pend d'Oreille, which is close {,
the northern boundary line of Idaho She i
owned by Englishmon, who have bought {
tract there