The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-18
TIE NEMSlN BRlET.
Mr.. Blaine has eight gold headed can

Mr.. Blaine has eight gold headed canes
as memsntoes of his canvass
George l. Samuels, clother at Bloom
ington. His, made an assignment, owing
about 81 003.
At Cheye me Tuesday Boneto Duran
shot Mrs Adella Sanclez AMI then shot and
killed himself
At SUPERIOR, Wis. Tuesday morning,
N. j, Neiter. proprietor of the Badger State
house, Shot hlms Il dea
There has been a decrease of over co..
600 tons in the marine ship building interest
as compared with last year
Tuesday the house of representatives
passed resolution providing for holiday
recess from Dec - until Jan. 5.
1t is again announced that President
Arthur will give a dinner to Mr.. Cleveland
a few days before the inauguration.
The Methodist centennial conference at
Baltimore decided Tuesday that it was mex
pedient to call an ecunenical council
\ York county, Pennsylvania, grocer
has sworn out a warrant against his wife for
pouring gallon of moIasses over his head
At Lima. Peru. a company of bull
fighters were fined LOGO soles for furnishing
sport inferior to the 81 ccifcations of the con
tract.
DR.. Koch, the famous German physi.
clan. has recently forwarded to the Wash
ington Medical museum cholera germ
safely sealed in a bottle
The board of directors of the Ohio In.
stitution Tor the Blind nave removed c. l..
Smesd, the superintendent and appointed
Henry Snyder 30 the Pine.
The stockholders If the Faneui Hall
Insurance com any have Instructed the
directors to wind up the affairs of the com
pany and is'oive the corporation
The secretary of the American Iron and
Steel association reports that business is
very depressed, but notes an absence Of the
hopeless feeling PREVALENT after the panic
of 1873
A Seventh Day Advent prophet of Den
yer has fixed upon jan as the day for the
end Of the world, AMI .pat five miles from
that city as tie starting point for the ceies-
tial regions
Scrgt. Bates, who carried the star
spangled banner through the south, is sick,
and nearly destitute, at hS nome in Say
brook. His. A constable T,siay sold his
saber to satisfy a debt
judgments aggregatins az, 600 were
glantei iu,.,,.aS again / tie Wallpaper
manufacturing firm of Trout, MoIvana s.
Elder, Of Philadciphia. TIE firm hopes tc
arrange with creditors
Tie oldest person, perhaps, now living
in the United STATES ~ Sylvia Duboice, ~
gress and former slave WHO. in August last.
celebrated her ll5th birthday, and Whl
lives i'll de ,titution on the bleak summit OF
the Sourland mountain. in Huntericn
county, n, }.
The sale of the household effects OF
George Z. Buchanan, acau ed Of Viii Ky
frauds, Nas begun fue.day ct Louisville.
The residence is >umWtuousiy furnished anu
| decorated, AMI lEeait,c,es fstch good price
Buchanan family 10, iled themselves in =
room, amt the sobs OF the wife often puuct
uGted tlR remarks of tar auctioneer'
Some time since skeleton was found
near Bellaire, Ohio, ana it was at once sur.
| missed that it belonged to Margaret Porter
wko disappeared twenty Year, ago The
woman's fatherlreceiyed an anonymous letter
| last Week that Margaret was alive and we'll
and Tuesday she was discovered in Wheel
| ing, ". Va by her brother, and explained
| her flight by saying that she had been DO
| trayed and desired to hide her shame