The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-13
THE NEWS IN 6HlEf,

Professor John Il. Comstock died SUI d
The Georgia mosquito attacks canaries
and mcclang birds, and even kill, chickens.
Ice half IN inch thick formed in the
Montgomery and Kingston IN W districts
Thursday night,
A Kansas farmer realized over 800
from an acre Of watermelons which he
shipped to Colorado.
Business failures for the week number
2l3, against lSS last week, and 1865 in the cor
responding period OF 1855
Dr.. c. G. Graham, OF Louisville, was
100 years old Friday, lie WAS personally &C
quainted with Daniel Boone
A Fort keogh, NJ T, dispatch SAYS a
horse tumbled 1900 feet down the side of
of Sheep mountain, and walked of uniniured
A twenty six pound mountain trout is
the latest production of Eagle river Colo.
The monster is forty-seven inches in length
and is on exhibition in Donvor
The American board of commissioners
for foreign missions, ut Columbus, and the
Episcopal congress, at Detroit, completed
One large tobacco factory at Petersburg,
Va, has shut down, and others are doing but
little work, he, au>e OF thu scarcity of
tobacco for manufacturing purposes
League ball games Friday resulted
Chicago /, Philadelphia ,; Providence Il,
Cleveland >; Eo,ton -. RuIfnio seven in
nings; New Norh-ne,r.it, t,y game, ? each
y physician Of New london Conn, has
patient who eXperieLco hluoi sweating. The
disease is not fatal or serious The patient
swCats bright, healthy hiood from the arm
pits
In a five mile race at Boston Friday
evening T. d. Stunlckc, on a bicycle, de-
feated X. ~ Skinner, on roller skates,
Stunickle making the distance in 1920, beat
ing the record hy 81 seconds.
The Womans Foreign Missionary soci-
ETY. of the Methodist Episcopal church for the
northwest, i'll session at Jacksonville, HIS,
Friday, elected Mrs. J. /. HIT, of Evanston,
aud Mr.. 7. y. Hill, of Chicago, president
and recording secretary, respectively and
will meet next year at Kalamazoo
One hundred men were discharged OF
left the shops Of the Missouri Pacific road at
Scdalia, Mo, and clerks in the departments
have been notified thai their wages will be
reduced. The scheme, it is understood, is to
make II good showing of light expenses III
London, where effort, ere being made t. list
the bonds
The fastest trip from Sandy Hook to
Queenstown has been made by the Oregon in
six days eight hours and thirty minutes, and
the next fastest "trip by the America, il six
days. fourtcen hours and eighteen minutes
The Oregon burn 331 tons of coal day m-
der full "tcamin., power, while ls2 tons sup
ply the Americas furnaces
Katie Spencer, a miss of Is years, from
Waterloo, Iowa, who had tcen visiting her
sister, Mrs Brott, in Albert Lea, Mimi,
slightly cut one OF her thumbs about two
weeks since and to heal the wound she
| wrapped it in n cloth wet with carholic acil
The acid became absorbed by the blood, and
| the girl soon became i'll. and finally died in
about a week on account OF it.
The national agricultural report fol
q, to3cr shows the general average Of corn
to be -. The drought has not been Suflicien;
| to reduce seriously the yield, and very little
| injury by frost. The wheat crop confirms
| the indications of the former report. Ii
| cotton the average condition has been re
| The corn crop Is the best for five years, and
| there will be loo, 600, 600 bushels more wheat
| than last year