The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-01
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The steamship Great Eastern will sail
for ew Orleans d C. -
The First National bank of Carlinville.
Ills, has gone into liquidation.
Henry NJ Stanley has just received the
Phi d, degree from the University of Hella.
Six hundred thousand pounds of fish
were taken III the Milwaukee fisheries this
season
Edward Ii. Ludlow, the veteran real
estate dealer Of New York, passed away
Friday.
Fire at Boswell, Ind, Thursday night
swept away six business buildings creating
loss of SO, 900.
Heavy rains fell Friday in the St Pc
tersburg va region, breaking up the long
continued drought
Woods Perry 6 Co, lumber merchants,
burned out at Cleveland two months ago,
have resumed business
If the farmers in Iowa gathered $1,000
900 bushels of corn per day, it would take
fifty -five days to gather the crop.
The average hotel bill of the cowbows
at the st. Louis convention was S275 of
which $l97 Ii WAS made at the bar.
Numerous tlatboats, with cabin attach.
ments and families on board have passed
Burlington, floating down to New Orleans
and the big show
The Lafayette journal property, with
its franchises, viii be sold at auction to the
highest bidder, on Friday, Dee %. by II, l..
Wilson, MORTGAGE.
An Indiana man bet his sweetheart on
Blaine and when, after the election, she
went over to the other fellow, he accused
her of playing him false some men are
never satisfied.
Private letters from English officials in
| india state there is a dangerous condition Of
| affairs in that country, as the feelings of the
natives were never so excited against Eng
and as at present
At San Rafael, Cal, Thursday night, q
| buggy containing six persons was struck by
locomotive at a crossing, two being killed
one fatally injured and the fourth having al
arm broken. The others escaped.
Herman Linde, the Shakcsp earear
reader, claims to have discovered at Louis
willie Rembrandts picture Of the Slaughter
of the Innocents," and purchased it for $100
Art connoisseurs have been seeking for year!
| for this painting.
! The wife of Eli Boiling. respectable
colored man of Egg Harder City, Pa, wh(
| began to turn white twenty five years ago, i
now, to all appearances, "a white woman, thC
only traces OF her African origin being found
in her kinky hair.
In settlement of an election wager Mr.
| Lang undertook to ride bull around th,
public square OF Kirwin, Kan He wa
thrown OH three times, and finally gave
cowbow So to finish the circuit, which he dit
in spite of the violent disapprobation of tht
bull
Because Of advances made secretly by
President King, the Middletown a. Y.
National bank closed its doors Friday morn
ing Its capital was sos, 000 and the sur
plus $4,000, and the statement is made tina
the depositors vii! be paid in full Senate
Van Wyck, Of Nebraska, is ono of tn,
directors OF the broken bank
Beliefs are expressed that the "long
strike III the Hooking valley viii soon end
Some twenty Of the persons indicted for out
RACES have been arrested and viii be triet
for conspiracy. The railway bridges burne,
have been replaced AMI traffic has been re
sumed. The output IRON the mines, it i
expected will soon reach its normal pro
portions
A man calling himself Charles W. Mcr
ryman has just decamped from Wayne town
ship Ohio, taking with him tie prett
laughter of wealthy farmer and IS, 10
fraudulently obtained lie claimed to be
relative of an influential family in the dis
trict, said he was an attorney, and procuej
the funds to help regain mythical forum
left 10y Engli.h cousins