The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-15
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
British gold bars to the value of 81 $50.
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British gold bars to the value of 81, $50 .
900 reached New York Wednesday.
1t costs annually 81 200, coo for links
and pins for the freight-ears in this country.
John Kelly the Tammany leader, paws
taxes On Sl65 900 worth of property in New
York city.
Inc routes OF some newspaper carriers
IN Philadelphia are said to be worth $40 OoO
as an Investment.
League bail games Wednesday; Buffalo
IS, Chicago 4 Cleveland l. Detroit o;
New York 8, Philadelphia 4.
Capt William ]. Allen, enrolling and
engrossing clerk of the house of the Thirty
third Illinois general assembly, died at
Springfield
The Western Union telegraph directors
state the receipts the past week were Sl65,
ooo, net gain OF $4,000 over the correspond
ing week last year
field at Trinidad, Cuba. was planted
with corn imported from the United States.
and each stalk has produced six ears, without
single exception
A farmers boy of Is, in Washington
territory, became SO Respondent because he
could not raise money enough to 90 to the
circus that he hanged himself
Lieut.. Greedy weighs forty pounds more
now than he ever before weighed. lie is So
weak, however, that he can barely crawl IN
stairs, and his muscles refuse to harden
The New York board of police commits.
sioners reappointed John J. O'Brien, chair
man of the Republican county committees.
chief OF the bureau of elections for three
years.
The New York Sun denies the report
that Gen. Butler has been visiting Mr.. Dana
at Long island, and also adds an invitation
to the general to come over to Long island
whenever he pleases.
In 1871 Benjamin Franklin made the
city OF Boston the trustee of fund of l.00U
pounds sterling, to be lent to young mechan-
les, calculating that in 1891 the fund would
amount to S5S2 900. His figures must have
been faulty, however, for the fund now only
amounts to S29l, 900.
A little boy walked into the police sta.
ton at Kansas City Sunday and announced
that he had walked from MISUNDERSTANDING
been four monGhs on the road-to see the
west. He was not discouraged, and proposed
to continue his travels, but the chief Of police
detained him until his friends could be com.
municated with.
Fourth Iowa district Republicans
Wednesday nominated w. E. Fuller for con
gresS, The Eighth Illinois district RepubIi.
cans nominated Col Plumb, of LaSalle. In
the Seventh Iowa district State Treasurer
go,
Hiram Y Smith to fill the vacancy caused
by the appointment of Mr.. Kasson as min
lister to Germany. Congressman Holmes
was renominated by the Republicans Of the
Tenth Iowa district The Republicans OF
the Fourth West Virginia district nominated
the Hon. A. r. Barbee tGreenback candi.
date
In telegram to Governor Hamilton,
Governor Click, of Kansas, urges that
quarantine be not declared against Kansas
cattle, as the state officials are doing then
utmost to prevent Texas fever from gaining
foothold. In reply, Governor Hamilton
states that the shipment of infected cattle tC
Chicago must be stopped, or quarantine viii
he declared, Texas fever has appeared
in Pottawatomie, Morris, Wilson and
johnson counties, Kansas. The ap
pearance Of Texas fever among cat
tie in Dew lit county, Illinois, has caused
considerable alarm among farmers but re
ports as to its true condition have beer
much exaggerated There have been some
few deaths, but the number is small 1t.
progress has been checked, and it is very
probable that it will soon totally disappear
Pleuro-pneumonia has been discovered in the
COW stables at BIissville n. Y The object
ionable establishments will be closed.