The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-28
THE NEWS In BRIEF.

The khedige has appointed Gen.
Gordon governor of the Soudan. and has in
vested him with full powers
Mr.. Gossett dry goods, Independ-
enee, Mo, las failed, with liabilities of
81 $50 an assets amounting TO $1,000
The West Shore & Ontario Termini
company filed a Sla, o01,00J mortgage at
New York in favor of the Central Trust
com any.
The snow is so deep that communion
ton With the rear townships of Ontario is
cut of, aai il is feared the settlers must suf-
fer for tn IA. c,ssaries OF life
Brad :reet reports that prices for all
ccmmo..io.e, are generally iirmer, and that
the movement of;merchaudise throughout the
country has Increased in value.
The Rev DIR. Max Ladsburg. the
most prominent Jewish clergyman in west
ern New York declares that the old dietary
| laws have lost their legal authority, and that
Jews mar eat pork at viii.
A piece OF ice getting into the pud-
ding mschine being experimental with III
the Western Iron mill at Phenixville, Pa,
resulted in an explosion which wrecked the
machinery and injured several persons,
The twin babes Of Isaac Martin, Of
Liberty Mills Ind, who had bsen placed 10
sleep in cola room Thursday night, were
found frozen to death in the morning. The
neighborhnod is excited against the Martins
Frank S. Heath. ex-preacher and
Grcenback leader was arrested at Cory; Pa +,
Thursday night. for sending obscene matter
| through the mail Heath's Objectionable Is
say touched upon the propagation Of only
noble men and women.
joseph Kuhn, insurance agent and
broker at Detroit, who for years has been da-
po-itoGF FOR the German working people, is
! financially embarrassed. causing excitement
among his creditors Kuhn's accounts are in
such a mixed coalition that it is impossible to
| tell how lac stands
One of the jury which acquitted the
alleged rayi,l;er, of Emma Bond weeps often
! another has been given "the mittenT by his
| lance; 2 third hastily leaves his residence
when he sacs strangers approaching; and
| font one saainS 20 be overcome with grief
The grand jury at Lincoln, Ill, in
! licte1 Ogrin \. Carpenta- for the murder Of
! lura Burns TIL. accused was summoned to
court. and after hearing the indictment road,
| Judge Herduan, in .aost emphatic manner
refused to take bail. AMI Carpenter was hur
'ied off toprison
Thirty four dead bodies of the miners
| buried in the Crested Buttes coal mine in
| Colorado were recovered Friday, many Of
| sham beng mangea in the most shocking
manner. Il is now known that there were
| fifty nine men and boys in the mine at the
time of theexplosion
Mrs Quincy Shaw, of Boston. spends
| s50,0J0 annually out of her private income in
support Of thirty kindaTgartens and twenty
| nurseries which she has established in those
par Is of the city where the toughest and most
| SqHalid features reign. In addition to this
she spends 500 00o a year in other charities
The Toronto Mail has been sued for
| 800. 90 da nag 5 + IT. iibe4 by john Living
stone, of the Iron aud Bot company, based
upon a correspond -nt charging that Living
stone receive from his brother-in-law, PIHssi-
| lent Craig. of the Exchange Bank of Mon
pany
Near Elgin, Ill, VIM, Coombs, a
farmer, attempted to murder his wife, and
then cut his own throat. This is tue story
that Mrs. Cooin6s tells; but another dispatch
states that she wrencbed the knife from her
husbands hands and killed him herself
Their domestic relations. however, have been
very unhappy, Mrs. Coombs may not re
cover from her injuries,