The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

A colored Salvation army has just
been organized in Charlotte, s. c.
Clarks paper mill at Marseilles, Ills,
burned, causing a loss of 500, 1890; fully in
sured
Mrs, N. P. Plotner, of Tontogany,
Ohio, cut her throat from ear to ear in the
presence of her children
The scafoid on which John Brown
was hanged was recently sold to a syndicate
Of Telic hunters for 5000.
Prospects for the wheat crop in
England are good, but trade is slow. Flour
rules lower, and corn is easier.
The national house of representatives
has passed a resolution declaring it mex
pedient to reduce the tax on spirits distilled
from grain,
A few nights ago twenty sheep in
Poland township Ohio, were killed By being
hurled by the wind over the ground with
frightful velocity.
Col. George L. Perkins, of Norwich,
Conn, who is 96 years old, said in recent
interview: 81 have buried six family physi-
clans and still live"
William Brown, the negro, who con-
fessed to killing the peddler at Canokia, Ills.
and chopped up the body, was sentenced al
Belleville to be hanged HAY 80.
t. E. Biles, for many years a bust.
pess man at Princeton, Ills, killed himself
with a revolver Two brothers of Mr. Biles
also ended their lives by suicide.
A heavy snowstorm prevailed Mon
| day and Monday night in central Iowa. A
regular blizzard is reported at Hillsboro,
| H., which, it is feared, will seriously injure
| fruit.
The most expensive book ever pub
| lished by a single individual is Lord Kings
| borough's "Mexico" 1t has seven volumes
with 1000 colored illustrations, and cos
$500, 600
The Rev. Henry Wood, M. D., form
erly judge Of the probate court in Grant
| county, Wis, and later pastor in four in
| fiuential Methodist pulpits of Wisconsin, dice
in Chicago.
Clearing house returns last week
| $685., 048, 0Si-are Sl34 ,667, 629 greater thar
the preceding week, and when compared
| with the corresponding period in 1888 show {
| decrease of 0, per cent
Reports to J. W. Tallmadge, of Mil
waukee, from the different states and FROM
| government agents are to the effect that tn
condition of winter wheat is excellent, prom
ising bountiful harvest, In Georgia, alone
the plant is backward.
l. Saunders Irving, who died il
Washington City q few days ago, was /
nephew of Washington Irving. Two un
married nieces of the distinguished autho
survive, living at Sunnyside, and they arr
his only known relatives
The G, A. r. excursion to Shiloh
battlefield held their services Sunday, tn
column marching from the boats to the cen
ter of the National cemetery to the time O
the dead march, with muffisd drums. TIL
Hon. f. D. Smith delivered the Grafton, bein,
followed by Judge 7. Lyle Dickey. No repre-
sentative of Tennessee's confederacy wa
present. The hymn-singing was solemn an
pathetic, Sunday school children of the dis
trict informing a hymn based on Stone
wall Jackson's last words, ale
Us Cross the River" An old
time camp fire was held by the spring q
night, and during Monday the visitor
sought objects of interest and made searche
for old bullets and other mementoes of th
great conflict, the twenty second anniversar
of which they were observing.