The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-04
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Hartford Coulant entered last week


The Hartford Coulant entered last week
on its l3ist year.
The semi-annual dividends payable in
Boston this m. mn aggre ate $3,912,57l.
Harvard University has this year /, $50
students, i,006 being in the academic depart
mant.
The majority vote in favor of taxation
of cfur !, property in Washington territory
was :, 9}7.
Dwight L. Moody. the evangelist, Tues
day began u three days Christian conven-
ton III Toronto, Canada.
Ell Dorado county, California, has pro-
ducad tx cuoumb,Ts al roile,t together and
looking Ike a fiG,el pgml KIN.
AT Toronto, William Bone, aged So,
took laudanuin because {, gIrl OF 10 Tilted
him. There is little hope OF his recovery.
The Wisconsin State Breeders associa-
ton organized at Milwaukee Tuesday, with
H. C. Dousman, Of Prairie du Chen, as pres
ident.
The Farmers National bank at Bush
nell, Ills, has suspended. The bank was or
ganized in ISL, aid has raid up capital Of
$4,000
Mrs. Mary Haserty. aged co years, was
run ever and killed Ly the cars in the
Wabash switch-yard at Jacksonville, ILL.,,
Tuesday.
Mr. Bartlett, Of the navy department,
has shaped a scientific model of the bottom
OF the Caribbean sea for the New Orleans
exposition.
4 Canadian has had his tongue ampu
taled at the general hospital IN Toronto be
cause of cancer, alleged TO have been caused
by cigar smoking
Governor lloadly has committed tc
life imprisonment the senteHce OF George
Oliver, who was to be hanged in Cincinnati
for the murder OF Allen.
There was executed at the minis during
November goit com 20 the value of 81 ,535,
700, and ol silve. 2, i5n,00 standard dollars
and l,0S0, 600 Scent pieces, valued at S54,
900.
The bark Clyde, from Mauritius, was
wrecked on Nov. ) near AkarOa, New Yea
land. The captain, hi- vile and three chii
dren and the officers 9nd all the crew, ex
ccpt one, were drowned,
The Edgar Thompson steel works ii
Plt5sburg, emp!oyms $500 men, will clos
| down the latter part OF next week, and re
main idle until after the holl lays unless ther'
is an unexpected rush Of or .err.
The state departmental Washington ha
| recently reoeiyeI from Consul Anterior, o
| Pernambuco, sample oi the medicine nov
being, it is said, successfully used in Soutl
| America in the treatme 1t of cancers
Governor Click has offered a reward o
| $3.50 for the arrest Il j. c. Pussy, abscond
| ing clerk OF the Kansas I'enitentiaTy. Til
warden offers 500 more. pusey's cmbezzle
| ments and ttTgeries amount to 5000.
4 recent issue Of The Rutland vt.
Herald was printed ca paper made entrel!
Of sawdust, ;ainvngs, clips, pieces of wool
| and refuse of saw mills, with not a paIticl
of rag in it. The paper is Strong and tough
The advocates Of cremation ask tn
| press b. use tine word crematorium instea
Of crematory III designating the building il
which bottles are burned They say tina
crematory Is liable to be confused wit
creamery.
The lion. Abram s. Hewitt has secured
through his friend, the sultan OF Turkey,
rich coll ction Of TIrlijh books and manu-
scripts, viii h vii be presented uvon thei
arrival to thu National library at Washing
ton. The Uoasi are being bound i'll ric
oriental covers.