The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-08
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Eli Perkins says the winter wheat
crop this year will be largest ever harvested
in this country.
The new Cit:co iron furnace at Chat
tanooga, with 100 tons daily capacity, ha.
been blown in. Il cost 100000.
Another American artist, Miss Susan
B. DodSon, is nov conspicuous in Paris tol
exhibition Of her painting, "The' Signing o.
the Declaration"
The trunk line roads will carry dele,
gates and visitors TO ths Republican anc
Democratic convention at Chicago for one
unlimited fare for the round trip
John Davenport, the spiritualist, dis
appointed an audience at Bradford, Pa, il
an entertainment, and was chased through
the streets to his hotel by a mob.
A three story carriage factory in St
Louis, the UPPER floor OF which was occupied
by dozen families, caved in, seriously in
jurfng Mrs. Caearno All the rest escaped.
The tug Peter Smith exploded her
boiler off Vermiilon. on Lake Erie, killing
John Perew and John Cado, engineers, anC
Capt. Smith, of the schooner Sherman, who
was on p pleasure trip
John 3. Woods,des deacon in ,
Presbyterian church, was arrested at L,oais
willie, for receiving stolen goods. 1t il
claimed that his store has long been used as
receptacle f,r such property
Gen. Goshorn, whose name was or
the tip Of taore tongues than ono during the
Centennial period, has been offered large
salary to become the manager of the new
Museum of Art in Cincinnati.
All the east shore harbors on LAX.
Michigan are open. Crafts have arrived il
Chicago from Muskegon, Grand Haven
White Lake, and hiaaistee Goodrich steam
efs commenced their regular trips on tn,
west shore
9 The city marshal Of Shreve, Ohia
crushed the skull # an inofTensive old man
because he could not walk enough while
drunk. The indignation of the citizens al
the assault was so great that the officer wa.
taken TO Wooster to escape lynching.
at a recent distinguished" Dime,
perty IN London every la ~ present was al
American, intending the hostess of the ocea
sion, Mrs. George Benhck, and among the
guests We're such American Representatives
as Ladies Mandeville and Churchill, Mrs
Ronalds aud Miss chamberlain.
The schooner Shelters, which left
Key u est few Gays ago in a mysteriou,
manner, has returned to that port The pilot
in charge states that when the vessel wa.
clear Of the harb0s Aquero, Cuban chief,
with drawn pistol, forced him to take party
of tilibusters to the Cuban coast, landing
them near Cardenes.
A committee OF fifty marched to the
house of ofrin A. Carpenter at Lincoln, Ills,
apd presented the resolutions inviting him to
quit the county. Carpenter refused to accep,
tine document, saying they had no authority
TO pass resolutions, and that his future course
would be governed BY his own discretion.
The committee then retired, no disorder or
violence being manifested
In interviews with the Hons. John S,
Runi,els 5nl w. D. Dolnan, OF Iowa, re-
spectiveiy member OF Tire Republican
aatiohai committee and chairman of the Re.
publican state central committee, the opinion
is expressed that the Iowa delegation will
come to the convention unrestricted.
though, personally, composed to large de-
gree of Blaine men; and that the prohibition
law viii meet with general support from the
people of Iowa.