The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Judge Iourgee expects to have new
book issued the first of next month.
Mrs. Anna McIntire, of Fonda N V
aged w years, is learning to play the piano
Mr. Hendricks intepds to make his fret
speech in Indiana for the campaign at MN.
Gle, Sept g. az "uii'
Orange peel is now being utilized fo,
1uel by economists 1t is dried and helm.
oily, 1t burns rapidly.
The Chicagos defeated the New Workers
saturday 10 to 8, and the Bostops vanouisbe.I
the Cleveland club too.
Recent rains have greatly improved tbg
hansas corn crop, and it is now predicted
mat the yield will be large beyond prece
dent
Inc last joist in the main exhibition
building at New Orleans was placed in posi-
'ion saturday, and the structure is alno-;
completed
The Hon. Nathan Barnett Democratic
candidate for reelection as secretary Of stat,
OF Georgia, is 80 years old and has been il
his present office since 1872.
The First National bank of LIVINGSTON
M. T., is embarrassed through bad MANAGE
ment. Depositors may receive their monev
but the stockholders will suffer
reports from various points Of Arkansa,
indicate that the cotton crop Of the state wi,
yield about l,00O,0OO bales this wear wbiaI
is 100000 bales more than it has produced i,
any previous year
Seventy eight buildings. COMPRISING
two-thlrds of the business portion of Grenada
Miss, were destroyed by tire Saturday night
The loss is estimated at @300O00. The insur
ance is about SOS 900
Ihe Philadelphia Times is authority foi
the statement that Senator Cameron will h,
candidate for reelection to the Unite,
States senate, and that all reports to the con
trary are without foundation.
While cleaning the wreck caused by tn,
locomotive explosion OF Thursday, near De
catur, Ind, the charred remains of two ne,,
sons were found 1t is supposed that the,
were tramps, who were stealing a ride.
1t is authoritatively stated that Gen
Ramirez Mejia and two others taking par
IN the late conspiracy in Mexico, have beei
executed. Sensational proclamations hav,
been made by the conspirators DECLARING
President Diaz and others have forfeited
their lives.
y wonderful blackberry patch is tina
situated near Los Gatos. Nevada. Fou
thousand hve hundred pounds was recently
picked in one week from one and one-hal
acres of the patch. 1t will not cease bearins
until September.
George Alsop and Theophius Graves
the two convicts who led the recent revolt il
Frankfort pennitentiary were killed in ,
colntleld near Lexington, Kentucky, Sunday
One of the sheriff. posse, George Cassel wa
killed by the convicts in the first fire.
AT the edge of the water at Isle O
Shoals, N. Y, is a wave-worn rock known f,
local fame as Miss Underhilps chair. Sew
eral years ago young school-teacher VIII,
was visiting the island went to read on thi
rock and fell asleep. The tide came up an.
swept her Off into the sea, and her BODY wa
found few hours aftsrward
President Arthur is having a large pho
tograph of himself, twenty-five by twenty
eight inches in size, framed by McElroy, t
he presented TO Aleck Powell, his colore,
hody-seryGnt The president has written
in large and bold hand on the margin o
the picture, the following: "To Alecl
Powell, from his friend Chester A. Arthur