The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-20
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.

In portions of Texas severe hailstornls have
.eriously damaged the crops.
Frost in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania,
| CAUSED great damage to the growing tobacco.
The repair shops of the New York Central
& Hudson River railroad burned. Loss,
| $2t0. 600
Lieutenant Governor Black, of Peunsyl-
vania, is busy arranging for the publication
of the life of his famous father
Over 5000 people of Chicago have signed
| the pledge, and now wear the blue ribbon, a.
the result of Francis Murphy's labors.
Arthur D. Patterson, of Champaign, Ills,
was found dead on his fathers doorstep Sun
day morning, shot through the brain.
Tully H. Smith, prominent business man
of Milwaukee, who disappeared several days
| ago, committed suicide i'll New Orleans.
| Professor Alexander johnson, Of Prince
ton, has offered prize for the best fielding
average of the college ball nine this season.
! J. C. fietjens the insolvent wagon and i'm
plement maker, of Lyons, Iowa, owes about
$40, 600 and can pay but SO cents on the
dollar
For use in case Of necessity, s., 900, 900 in
legal tenders we're shipped from Washington
on the 18th inst, to the assistant treasurer at
| New York.
Commissioner Fink asserts that the east
bound freight-rates viii not advance above
Is cents per 100 pounds from Chicago to
New York.
Since the LIST of January $41, 807, o55 in
specie wac exported, against $6.l2l, $40 in
the same period last year; S359, SAB was
shipped last week.
c. Mccullough, Beecher s; Co., New
York merchants, failed. They gave pre-
ferenees for SIS, 600. Mr.. Beecher is a nephew
of Henry Ward Beecher.
League ball games, Saturday, resulted
Boston 9, Chicago7 eleven innings; Buf
falo 4, New York /; Providence S, Detroit
2; Philadelphia l6, Cleveland, 2.
Charles O'Conor's fine estate ON Nortf
Shore, including his fire-proof library build
ing, will pass by bequest into the hands o.
the Roman Catholics of Nantucket.
Washington dispatches assert it is tn,
policy of the leaders on the Democratic sid,
of the house to adjourn some time the last O
June, Or the 1st OF July at the latest.
Bishop Hillary, of the African NJ. E
church, and located in New York city, ha
been deposed by the general conference fo
refusing to settle whisky bill of s3.75
At Water Valley, Miss, some person
emptied bucket Of tar over Mormon ED
er's head. In that region the Mormons ar
making many proselytes among the lowe
classes.
Melville, the alleged baronet, who elope'
with Miss Whitney recently, was held il
81, 800 bail for bigamy at Toledo, Ohio. Hi
last matrimonial venture is supposed to b
his eleventh
Judge Walker, of Indianapolis, last wee
granted a divorce TO Elizabeth Beeler frou
John V. Beeler OH proof Of continued drunk
enness. They are the parents of ninetse
children, fourteen of whom are living, an
several of them testified against the father.
, The jury which acquitted Ras Wheeler o
the murder of Point Matthews at Hazslhurst
Miss, make statement to the effect tina
neither politics nor public opinion affecte
their verdict, and that after prayer to til
i Almighty they reached the decision tina
Wheeler was innocent.
In 1879 John Maginnis was torn from th
arms of his young wife at camp meetin
near Battle Creek, Ga, and a charge of i
[ licit distilling persuaded him to go west, an
grow up with the country. His wife, nc