The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-30
The NEWS IN BRIEF,

lhere are to be fifty-seven expos;tio,s :,
the United States during the renainde,. ~
the year. ''''iiiNei Vi
1t is predicted that the volume of talo
graph business will be doubled within tha
next five years. "i'-'i'' 'he
Nevada City, New, has to imprison
Chnese laundrymen to enforce the payment
of their license P''' 'i''ii'
All the cotton-mills at Lowell evoo,,t TIN
lawrence VIII stop two weeks. The print
works will run as usual.
Twelve petrifed clans were foupd
recently, at depth of 25O feet while borino
for oil at Purissima Cal
The American Pharmaceutical Associa.
tion voted to meet the second Tuesday in
september 1855, at Pittsburg, Pa.
The Republique Franchise analyzes Bis
niarcks colonial policy, and declares that
france has no reason to find fault with it.
Mrs. Langtry is chillingly polite to her
former friends in London, because she he-
lieges that they have talked uncharitahlv
about her
1t has been ascertained that Frontepac
island in Cayuga lake, n Y, was moved
several feet from its former position by ice
pressure last winter.
Near Decatur, His, an open switch on
the Wabash wrecked over twenty fraiobt
cars, killing Henry Nordeck, the engineer
and Thomas Devlin, the brakeman.
The emperor of Germany was thrown
from his horse while riding in the mark of
Ihe imperial palace at BabelSburg. He will
DC prevented from taking active exercise for
few days.
3. W. Tallmadge, the crop statitician of
Milwaukee, issued his final estimate of tbe
wheat cropof the United State for 1884. as
fellows: Winter wheat, $50. 0O0, 0OJ bushels:
spring wheat, l50, 100000 bushels more than
the crop of 1883.
The Medical News, of Philadelphia,
hopes the navy department will direct an in
Vestigation by medical experts concerning
the color and vision of officers and men
of the TallGpoosa, to determine if color
blindness was responsible for the sinking of
tn at vessel
After two trials on the Prospect park
track Thursday, Jay Eye See failed to lower
the record, the fastest time made being
2:l@73. AT Hartford the $1,000 race was
won by Wilkes. Maxey Cobb was driven
by John Murphy, to beat Smu@gler's record
OF 2:l5A, and made it in 2:l5
Col. Perkins, of Norwich, AGED 96.
Henry Denison, of Ledyard 81, and Charles
+. Williams, of Stonington, 50, are the only
survivors of the actual participants in the
hattie of Stonington, Conn, in August, 1874,
though there are several old women who re-
call that occurrence Of their girlhood
Near Perryville, w. Va, a skeleton
was found by hunters with the skull crushed IN.
1t was at first thought to he that of a woman
who had been outraged, but the finding Of a
| long white beard and portions of male attire
caused the theory that it was an Irish ned
der who disappeared in ISIS Detectives are
working on the case,
Among the many curious things which
! will I've on exhibition at The Phladelphia
electrical exposition will be the ORIGINAL
Morse Instruments with which the first t.,le-
| graphic message ever sent over a wire was
| transmitted from Washington to Baltimore.
Side by side with it will be placed the latest
| invention in telegraph instruments, by which
an operator can send seventy-two messages
IA tonce over one wire.
Col. John c. Vaughn, an old lawyer and
| journalist of Cleveland, who was for many
years prominent in Ohio politics and WIS a
close friend of Joshua L. Gidiings and u i'll
lam Lloyd Garrison, was last Saturday sent
to The poorhouse, wealthy daughter living
on Euclid avenue refusing to support him.
With Joseph MediIl, Col Vaughn founded
the paper which is now The Cleveland
| Lender.