The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-18
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Mexican Central road has earned
g., 092. $40 since Jan. l.
The china set used in the state dining
room at the White House cost $4,000.
Snow fell in New Hampshire Thursday
morning to the depth Of three or four inches.
A dispatch from Rheims states that the
vintage of 1884 is the best in France since
1874
1t is estimated that when the Washing
ton monument is completed its total cost will
be 81, 120000
Ben Butler was born Nov 5, 1918, and
he will celebrate his birthday the morning
after election.
The number Of postoflices in the United
States is increasing steadily at the rate of
over 1900 year.
There have been 1886, 742 acres of
land granted in the United States in the in
terest of education.
The debt of Spain, with her II, 600, 900
Of people, is JUS about the same as that
Of thu United States
lohn King was elected president of the
Erie road. Jewett having announced that he
would retire tho LIST praX.
The entire length OF the capitol building
at Washington city Is 75l feet and four
inches, and the greate,t depth is 324 feet
schaeircr challenges SlJsson to play two
games # billiards for / 900 each, and will
play both II Chicago if allowed $3.50 ex-
psnSes,
Jesse james mother and widow have
brought suit against st Louis publishing
house TO recover $I3 900 royalty on the life
Of the desperate
Gas exploded in the Central Pacific mill
at Lawrence, Mas, destroying the naptha
house, SCATTERING its windows, and fatally
miuring two men.
The Chicago branch OF the Bank of
Montreal has secured an attachment against
the property Of Davies, Atkinson & Co,
packers for &lS9,04G
The bank, opera hall and four stores
at Monticello, Wis. wrr" destroyed by fire
Thursday morning, causing $50 coo loss,
with one-half insurance
Cash purchases of timber lands and i'm
provements having depleted the company's
| sarplus the Calumet and Hecla directors
voted TO pass the dividend.
The Carriage Builders association at its
| session in ST. L4onis elected Henry c. Mclean,
Of Wilmington, Del, president, and decided
to hold its next annual M odng OF Boston.
r. T. Snipc and Jacob, the men who
melted negro to murder DR. Schumacher
at Ellisville, Miss, have been captured at
New Orleans on board Il steamer bound for
Guamatala.
Matt 3. Parkinson rode to the house of
| Derby T. Payne at Deer Trail, forty miles
from Denver Wednesday, and because
Payne could not pay $50 he owed him,
Parkinson shot him dead and surrendered.
4 receiver John W. Harrison, of St
Louis, was appointed for the Carbonate Coal
and Coax company, with valuable mines and
railways in jackson county, Illinois The
last showing stated the assets 10 be $7)2, 900;
liabilities, S351,0
Several oyster-packing houses, a
| few lumber yards, and forty frame struc,
| lures, occupied by negroes, we're burned at
| Crisdald, Nd, the loss reaching 100000 A
| lamp explosion caused the fire. which was
| famed by stiff hroezn
A subscription had already been started
of small sums to coin gold medals of King
Humhert, Of Italy, when the project of Ma.
pies received an intimation that by the
| kings order The money should be distributed
among the sufferers ty cholera.
The Tichborne claimant, Arthur Orion
| has been dressed in sos worth of citizens
| clothing and removed with great privacy
| from the Porteel prison to Pentcnville
where he resumed the convict garb and viii
wear that uniform till his final release, which
will occur shortly.