The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-22
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Congressman John II Evans died Mon
day at Spartanburg, S. c.
Lumber mills at East Tawas. Mich,
are shutting down for want of dock room.
The registration in Brooklyn closed
Monday with total of 124,G23 names,
against ia, $50 in 1880.
Out of about 600 cases of sunstroke
noted in New York, the past summer, at least
80 turned out to he DRINKS.
At Shenandoah, Pa, the drought has
made water so scarce that families are al
lowed bat a couple of quarts per day.
John Splan is reported TO have severed
ais connection with Commodore Kittson, and
viii drive next year for Il. V. Bemis.
Mr.. Rocker, statesprinter, has made APP
plication at Springfield, His, for a receiver
iui The Post Capital, an evening paper
ravid Walk, of Indianapolis, lately
realized $4,000 from property in Kansas
City which he bought five years ago for
; / 5GD
Unknown persons have poisoned sheep
Lel'nginG t. Uriah Blue. a stock raiser of
Clinton Ills Fifty of his flock died. and
't+'!S can not survive
dam burst at Ansonia, Conn, Mon.
u. night, flooding the streets, in some in.
;t,t'rs to depth OF four feet, sweeping all
"toVahIes into the river.
Hogs attacked Edna Allen. a little girl,
ii hnrristown toum>lip, Illinois, Sunday,
III mutiiated her so hatiy before help came
!iiat sha cam t recover
Eoct VIII NJ Carleton was recently
married, ami has settled in Brooklyn His
wiie's Christian narte is Betsy, but they arc
not reported us "out" 50 far.
There are only four ports of entry in
this country larger than that at Puget sound
The business of the great northwest is rapidly
assuming mammoth proportions.
In Il jealous quarrel at Hartford, Conn.,,
Monday night, Martin Harrison murdered
his wife ami was killed bhns,lf, while the
woman's paramour WIS painfully cut.
A traveller says Mississip and Alabama
are covered with mortgages held by New
Orleans merchant. Good tirnbered prop
erty in those states can be- bought for fifty
cents an acre
Clearing house exchanges last week
S'oi 'VOotu"i diS TNo,"-7-s 80 - tACCSS Vi iii
preceding week; but, comtmei with the
corresponding period in Is ), ;hero is a fall
| ing off of 36.5 per cent
A farmer in Washo" county, New,
claims to hnve the cham IN OH horses. He
| has one 81 years Old, another ~, and q third
81 years Old. They ara oil in perfect healtl
mi able t. do regular worl,.
Sir John Macdonald. the present pre-
| mier OF Canada, btgan .!tr IS a bootblacS
| He pcrsna led II wealthy Canadian girl t.
| elope with him when he was only Is, and ths
| influence Of her forgiving father ushered hin
| into his career.
Experiments in raising grain in Cana!
| prairie, Idaho, show that wEcrc irrigation i
rcsortcd to the crops VIII not mature befor,
the frost catches tic kernel liz the milk B,
| dry farming the crops have time to mature
and tie yield is ahlEdaHt.
Eobert Clark, having illuminated tn,
daughter OF Elijah KIN, at Shalbyville
| Ky, the latter rode to Ciark's residence ben
upon revenge. Clark quietly opened deo
and fired two barrels OF gun at Kirk, al
most blowing off his head.
The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly
review of the British grain trade, SAYS
"Sale of wheat for the week, 75,412 Quarter
at SIS Al, against 65, 3SS quarters at As I'd fo
the corresponding week last year Trade il
foreign wheat completely demoralizsd"