The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tom Thumbs Bridgeport, Conn, property
has been sold for $1S,4e0
A ship with smallpox on board is quarau
tined in the lower bay at New York.
Senator Edmunds is said to be the owner
of the largest tombstone factory in Yer
mont
L. W. Reed agricultural implement dealer
at Springfield, Ills, has failed for 1000
with assets of about $4,000.
Emanuel Clement, one of the men charged
with the outrage on Emma Bond, is seeking
employment in Milwaukee, where he once
lived.
Maj. Henry W. Wells Rep) announces
himself candidate for congress in the Tenth
Illinois district, making the sixth man in the
field. Maj Wells is for free trade.
1t turns out that there are two Bertha Won
Hillerns one an artist and the other q bicy-
clist, and both are much offended at being con.
founded, while each most heartily confounds
the other
In ten-mile bicycle race at Washington
j. L. Prince defeated W. M. Woodside by
thirty feet in 1916. W. j. Morgan quit on
the second mile, and H. w. Highman broke
n spoke in the tenth.
The clearing house exchanges for last week
--S9l2, 1873 706-are $2l3, 351, 623 less than for
the preceding week; and, when compared
with the corresponding period in 1888, show
a decrease of rs per cent.
The London Mark Lane Express reports
the sales of English wheat last week at S..
057 quarters at So shillings against 66, 2A
quarters at 4S shillings pence for the cor.
responding week last year.
The district attorney at Chicago has filed
in the United States circuit court a petition
| for an injunction restraining the Chicago
National league ball club from using the
| grounds on the lake front.
Saturday, oath inst, was the anniversary
of the opening of the Brooklyn bridge. Dur
the year nearly 100000 of people have
| patronized the structure, and the receipts foi
tolls were a little less than $500, 900.
| As result of a dispute over a woman,
| Thomas Brilton attacked James Considine at
| Detroit when John Hickey shot Brilton, who
died within an hour. Hickey escaped, but
Considine was locked up. The two are
sporting" men.
At dinner recently given by Mrs. Mackey
| in Paris the table was covered with a verita
BILE grassy lawn in miniature, the center
piece was replaced by small pond of water
in which fishes leaped about. Rare fower
took the place of trees.
Some weeks ago deformed negro VISITED
the house of woman who was senceinte al
Washington. The expectant mother was Sc
impressed with the mans appearance that
when her infant was born, it bore the same
defornity noted in the negro. She refused
to attend or care for her infant, and shortly
after committed suicide by drowning.
The Baptist Foreign Missionary union, in
session at Detroit, decided to send mission
aries to the Congo, in Africa, at a cost Of
$4,000 yearly. At the meeting of the HON
Missionary society the largest receipts in it
history were reported-S401, 692 During th
year las churches were organized, and in th
south and west 107 new churches wer
erected The society has school property o
greater value than $500, 600
John Carpenter, recently released from
prison for assaulting his wife and attempte
murder, met his wife and her sister acc
dentially in New York. Knife in hand b
rushed upon them, ard when the siste
threw herself before his wife he stabbed he
twice. Mrs. Carpenter rushed into store
! but the assassin followed, and plunged hi