The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-25
THE NEWS IN HRiEP.

Lawrence Barrett has agreed to go to
Australia to appear 100 nights
The Eank of Mitchell, D. T., has sus
pended, the assets being SOS 900 and the LA
bilities $1,000.
Last Monday was the centennial ami
versary of tie execution of Major John
Andre as a spy.
A 12year old girl in Lewiston, Me has
recently become the mother OF child which
weighed three pounds at birth.
One-third of the towns in Kentucky
have taken advantage of the local option
law to prohibit the sale of liquor
The gold reserve in the United States
treasury is 500, 100000, or about $l5,O)O,0OO
more than it was two weeks ago
Leon Hirshman, wholesale hat and cap
dealer at Indianapolis has been closed by
the sheriff on writs by New York creditors
Miss Clara Morris, of fame as a star,
has bought the Cornell mansion, which ad-
joins that of Mr. Morosini, at Yonkers, for
$4,000.
Near Broad Point, Ark, unknown per
SONS assassinated Henry NJ Dunlop, who
formerly resided in Sangamon county
Illinois
In the White bay Uabrador) district
1900 persons are said to be starving. Six
vessels were wrecked on the coast during re-
cent gales.
Exports from New York Specie ex.
cluded) for the week ended Tuesday were
$7,OGS, m, against 81, 442, 600 for the CORES
ponding period i'll 1885.
Stage and his wife were found guilty at
Fort Atkinson Wis, of killing their 3-weeks-
old babe with arsenic and both will go to
the penitentiary for life.
Col George W. Hooker of Burlington,
| Vt, and T. C. Crawford, the Washington,
! correspondent of The Chicago News are said
| to have bought The New York Mail and Ex-
press.
The National Temperance society man.
| ayers, at meeting in New York, adopted
resolutions congratulating Maine for the
adoption of the prohibitory constitutional
| amendment.
Howard Sullivan, the negro imprisoned
at Salem, N. j., for killing Ella Watson,
confessed the crime, saying be perpetated it
to secure the money the girl had, as he
wanted to go on an excursion.
After ransacking the house of a wealthy
resident of Pana, ILL.,, the burglars retired to
| sleep in one of the bedrooms, came down in
the morning. procured and ate breakfast al
his table, and coolly left the premises when
discovered by servant
| The disease which has broken Out
| among the cattle in the Leavenworth Kas
district is pronounced by the state veterina-
rian to be Texas fever. 1t was commune
Gated by herd of Texas cattle driven
through the district 1t will be speedily
stamped out
The fireworks display in honor of Mr.
Blaine at Philadelphia was stopped after
three bombs had been exploded; some of the
blazing fragments falling and burning many
persons in the monster gathering and causing
panic. Children and women were crushed
and men even lost their footing The mayor
and police force helped to make exits for the
crowd.
| At Haysville, Tenn, Capt. E. T. John
son surprised Maj. Edward Henry and shot
him dead This is the result of scandal 6
year ago at Indianapolis, when Johnsons
wife committed suicide, confessing pre-
viously in letters to her husband, that SD.
had been seduced by Henry. From thai
time johnson has been on Henry's track, bu
at last has had his revenge