The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-15
THE NEWS IN Ha,ss.

The Wabash & Illinois platform bridges
ct Danville, Ills, burned, the loss being s75,-
COO
A boiler explosion In HARRISON county,
Georgia, killed three men and wounded sew
eral others,
A curiosity at the American Institute
fair in New York is bunch of grapes weigh
ing six pounds
A medium of New York city has sue
ceeded, it is alleged, in obtaining wax casts
of spirit" hands
Plans for raising the banks of the Wei.
land canal two feet are being prepared by
tho engineer of the Ottawa government
New York defeated the Detroit nine
Monday, to 5; and Boston and Buffalo
played an eleven-inning lie game each.
The eastern synod of the Reformed
church OF the United States, Mt Pottstown
Pa, resolved IL favor of constitutional pro
hihiton
DR.. Emma l.. Call is the first lady ply.
stefan who passed the examination admitting
women TO membership in the Massachusetts,
Medical society.
A resident of Salem, Mass, 81 years of
age, who has not voted for forty-four years,
/ as registered this year with the intention of
voting for st John
Thomas NJ. Scroggy, an old stationer at
Philadelphia, was sentenced to two years
imprisonment and finci 81 600, for selling
obscene pictures and books
At Lexington, Ky, Monday, Johnston
PACED in 2:GS, lowering the record two sec
| onds; and Eagle End trotted in 2:3OA the
fastest time for 2-year-oli ever made
Clearing house exchanges last week
S74O, SIS, 352-are sci, "a, S03 less than the
| preceding week; ard when compared with
the same time i'll 1888 the loss equals SO Q per
cent
On Sept Is the cities of Yokohama
| and Toxic were visited 10y terrible typhoon.
| In the latter place 5000 houses were de-
stroyed and the loss of life by sea and land
was appalling
Georgia papers arc complaining because
| the contract for building the new state cap,
itol has been given to a nonresident, and be-
cause the materials of which it is to be built
are to b. brought from other states
In a political quarrel at Paris, His,
Saturday, Marshall Smith shot and wounded
George Collier and Bud Elliott, the latter
MORALLY Smiths brother Tom, held Elliott
on his lack while Marshall shot him
The drought continues il sections OF
cast Tennessee, north Georgia, and north
| Alabama with disastrous results The
| Tennessee river at Chattanooga is within
! three inches Of the lowest point ever reached.
Among the curious crowd of names ir
the recent applicants fer pensions are Phi
| grim Crazyious. Pennsylvania pcdagoguc
! Chr;stly Grow, a color2d preacher; Tornen:
| Twist, Christian Bible. John Drinklager
Reason Tuig, d. Slataciphcr, and Syka Leaf
Near Florence, Kan, Sunday night an
attempt was made TO wreck u Santa Fe ex-
press train, section mon finding tie firmly
bound across the track The object of the
wreckers is believed "a have been robbery,
and heavy reward for their arrest is
! offered.
At Chicago Wardell Il Hinckley, ma
| chinery ,wera closed by the sheriff Liabilities
So, 000; assets, s23,0o0 Zimmerman Bros,
wholesale cloak dealer, c!oscd by tne sheriff
| liabilities, $50, 900; assets, 5000. Mogan.
roth & Co, closed by the sheriff; liabilities
| SIT 900; assets, $4,000.
At New York, the defendants not ap
pcaring, the Judge directed that the jury
render verdict for Sl5,o0o in the suit Of
Artemus II. Holmes against ex Senator
| Chaffee add David H. Moaatt, who induced
the plaintiff to invest in Little Pittsburg
mining stock on promise of enormous divi
dends