The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-26
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Bank of Montreal sent S,0o1.3 200 in
gold to New York during the panic
Leland Stanford has invited Gen Grant
and family to 60 to California and live at his
expense.
Charles A Hincklay, paying teller of the
West Side bank, of New York, has embedded
SOC, 600 and disappeared,
A pension bill for $50 per month to Gen.
Ord's widow has been passed by the national
house of representatives
William Crichton, wealthy resident of
Pleasant township, Indiana, aged 20, COM
m tilted suicide by hanging
In the United States the past week there
were 1877 business failures against 155 in the
corresponding period of 1888.
A. K Shepard & Co., of Milwaukee, who
failed recently, have resumed business and
| will pay 100 cents on the dollar.
Wednesday, 21st inst, was the bath ami
versary of the birth of Stephen Girard, the
| founder of Girard college, Philadelphia
| The directors of the Erie railway have de-
| cided to pass the interest on the second con-
| solidated mortgage bonds due on the lst OF
| June.
| The French brig Senorine foundered of
| the great banks of Newfoundland, the crew
| and passengers, numbering sixty-two, per-
| ishing.
Frank NJ Puncheon, charged with the
| murder of Gustie Luckow at GAINESVILLE, WIS,
was arrested at Elgin, Ills, where he was
known as Frank Davis.
At Pittsburg Judge Atchison, with ths
concurrence of Justice Bradley, of tht
United States supreme court, decided tha
whisky in bond cannot be levied upon
Lighting struck an oil tank of the Atlantic
Refining company in the suburbs OF
Philadelphia. The flames spread rapidly
and in short time loss OF $l50,00O wa
caused.
The veteran actor, James E. Murdoch, re
members Kate Field as a child sixty year
J ago An excellent memory on this occasion
has brought him into trouble, as Miss Field
J reported as very mad.
The announcement is made "authorita
} lively by The Boston Globe, that DR.. Georg
L. Austin, author of the Life of Wendell
Phillips" is writing a life of Gen. Butler
The volume is to be of $50 pages, and will b
ready in few weeks.
: Private letters to New Orleans say the car
tain general of Cuba has liberated some de:
perate criminals upon condition THAT the
JUN Aguero's band and assassinate hin
Aguero is burning and pillaging on b
march, and his force is being daily aus
; mented
|, A railway mail schedule has been per
: fected between the United States and tn
City of Mexico. The trip from New Yor
u will be made in six days, twenty three hour
/. and from the City of Mexico in seven day
: one hour, the distance between both poin
y y being 3, 749 miles.
The Dakota supreme court has decided thu
:. the capital commission was validity organize
Q reversing Judge Edgerton's decision in Il
n district court. An appeal was taken to Il
a United States supreme court, and until ii
r latter's decree is entered 1.-THE capital swi
l. remain at Yankton.
= Senator Aldrich's substitute for the hou
: labor bureau bill was passed by the senat
!. 1t provides for the establishment of a lab
it bureau in the department of the interio
5 which shall be under charge of commi
y sioner, to hold Office for four years, who sha
. collect data relating to capital and labor, al
4 make an annual report to the secretary
d the interior.