The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

oawdust is now used instead of sand
Tor plastering in New York.
Ex-senator Jel ONE Chaffee is daroer
ously i'll at his home in Denver.
Az recent election in Seattle w
tnefe were go votes cast by women,
half million dollars in gold bo,.s
reached New York Thursday from F,,ron s'''
The electric street-cars of Cievo
land' Ohio, make eight miles an hour easily
mrs Il. M. Bates, at Saratoga, attracts
attention because she carries a M rasoI ,,,r,.+,
81, 1000 Ct pH' ''"oi worth
Inc Central Illinois M. E. church an.
nual conference will meet at Kewanee Sent
u, over which Bishop Bowman will preside
iron mills at Pittsburg employ at pres.
eilt ''ooo men less than last year, and the
depression is greater than for several wears,
lhe government building at WASHING.
ton now holds $500, 600, 900 in silver coin Tba
enormous mass of metal weighs about O00
tons. '''''
A shark was caught recently near Provi.
dence, X. l., in whose stomach was fnind :,
sheath-knife and in its nav a MANS rio,+
hand - NJ
League ball games Thursday: Cleye.
iahd o''Chlcago 2; Philadelphia 6, Boston ..
buffalo ., Detroit 0; Providence i. Na,s
York 2. = Ne"
The Society of the Army of the Ten.
nessee Will hold its annual n,eetine At 81
Paul, Mimi, next week. Gen Sberrna,, ~, IN
be present '''' III
I,h,
John Is. Sheriden, puddler in one of
the IRON mills at Pittsburg, has fallen heir IN
fortune of $1,000, 900, left by an aunt DIVING
in England ~ ms
The Rochester Driving park offers
S2WO to Westmont to attempt to lower his
record, and If he succeeds, will give 81. 600
additional
The war articles which Gen. Grant has
agreed to write for The Century will number
IL is SAID, eighteen or twenty, and he will re-
ceIve $4,000 for them
The New Orleans exposition manocors
VIII negotiate to have Bartholdi's statue ex.
mblted at New Orleans before it is placed in
position ON Bedloes island.
The convention of the Catholic Total
Abstinence union has closed its session at
II "NopOeu RESOLUTIONS deuOuncing
In very strong terms the liquor traffic
A COW was killed at Dayton, Ore.
recently which had $50 gold piece in her
windpipe. The coin was worn perfectIv
smooth and the stamps were barely percent.
Lille Fo-N
Since his trouble with Mrs. Mackav
Messonier, the artist declares he will nut no
more women on canvass, mahciously adding
That they can paint themselves better than he
can do it.
Inc annual tournament of the Western
Rifle association will be held at Wes4ar-n
Union junction, near Milwaukee, Auc. 1921
A large number of money and badge prizes
have been arranged
Grace Higgs, colored, who lives within
two miles of Savannah. Ca. is said 70 ba ION
years old 1t is claimed that she was a primo
mover in the erection of the first Colored
BAPTIST church in Georgia, and held the first
BOARD nailed on it. This church was erected
in l7SS and still stands
For congress. Thursday, the Fourth
Ohio district Democrats nominated C. M
Anderson; the Second Ohio district RepubIj
cans nominated Gen. Charles E. Brown: the
First Ohio district Republicans named the
lion Ben Butterwerth; the Fourth
Indiana district Republicans nominated
JOIN .. Cravens, the Twenty-f1rst PennsyI-
Faila district Democrats nominated the Hon,
[. h. Bayle; the Democrats of the Tenth Vir
gina district nominated J. Randolph Tucker
IN the Seventh North Carolina district tbe
Democrats nominated Kerr Craig Upon the
5'4th ballot the Eighth Ohio district Repub
hcans nominated Judge Little Republicans
OF the Third Iowa district nominated D. B.
Henderson