The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-23
Tbs NEWS IN BRIEF.

It is reported that cold weather and
ram a.' FL ., the Kansas wheat croa.
Tie o1thern exposition at Louis
vile a. D.ra t4,s year Aug. It, AMI Gloss
Oct IT,
Il s estimated that 10 per cent. OF
tine LAP. #r- in British Columbia crishel
Ggru- ire as winter.
Grow Ming, once powerful Sioux
chic, ra'.,..i recently. bscamr converted
to Car ..".-a 5e ms ieathb'}
The tweft: week of the weayers'
strik ., Eaa silver, Mass, began Monday,
with aa Indications Of q settlement
Joseph Alien was arrested at Hamil-
tol, Ont, Monday night, charged with being
the prime pal N the Crouch butchery at Jack
sor N5aa
While temporarily insane William
LatelmAksr SHOT lbs wife at Canisto, Mimi,
as she lay Sleeping upon a lounge, and then
shot himself.
The Massachusetts house has re-
jected a senate order for biennial sessions Of
the legislature, and also voted down resolu-
ton for prohibtory amendment to the con
stitutioa-S1 to -.
clearinghouse exchanges last week
-S925 SO, GsyS-are sos, OF, 466 greater than
| for the preceding week; but, when compared
with the corresponding period in 1888, show
a decrease Of 15.5 per cent
William Black, the novelist, some
| times smokes as many as forty pipes a day
| while writing. His copy is so bad, how
! ever. that his daughters time is occupied in
trauslating it for the printers,
During the performance in a circus at
| Vienna Monday evening the roof fell in, the
lights were extinguished, and terrible panic
enSuei, which was increased by an outbreak
of fire. Five dead bodies and 100 wounded
have been carried from the ruins
The Cincinnati dramatic festival was
iuaugayatei Mon1ay evening with Julius
! Cesar MesSrs. keene, Ward and Barton
Hill enac5mg the principal roles. The
/ weather was Indictment. and the audience
numbered but between 2,e00 ami $500
A meeting Of members of the West
era Expors association a. Cincinnati has de-
/ cil2l upon 81. 10 as the price of highwines.
/ which fact Is taken TO mean that the whisky
| pool viii he maintained. The only effect of
! the break at Louisville has been to step sales.
Six families in Louisville were poi
| sonei by cake purchased at confectioner's S,
one child dying, while ten other persons suf
ferei severely. but are out of danger A
chemical analysis showed the presence Of
arsenic but how it got in the cake remains
/ unexplained.
/ Gen. George Washington Curtis Lee,
the eldest son OF Gen. Robert T. Lee. has the
reputation of being the handsomest man in
Virginia. His bearing as he grows older is
remarkably like that Of his father. The
Youngest son of the family is quiet
! farmer near Richmond.
DR.. Charles T. Clark, of Boston,
while rumaeing around in a junk-shop in
that city recently found some valuable col
ouial documents. worth their weight iu gold
The papers were bought by Abbott Law
renee, and by him they have been given to
the Boston public library
Republican leaders in Pennsylvania
feel un asy owing . the placing of five di
rectors OF national banks on the electora
ticket, the argument being made that, as
the banks were created by the government
the directors might be said to hold offices Of
trust under the United States. and therefort
be ineligible.