The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-29
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Siberian plague has appeared in
China.
The Greedy party got within ass
miles of the pole
Butler win be 66 years of age the day
after the election.
1t is said 10000 women are steering
canal boats in southern and middle England
A plan of moving streetcars by cleo
tricity has been successfully tested at Cleve-
land, Ohio.
The Sioux Indians with DR.. Carver's
Wild West show gave SACRED concert" at
Louisville Sunday
IA receiver has been appointed for the
Indianapolis Cracker company, whose assets
are $4,000, with $4,000 liabilities.
1t is said that fifty Canadian newspa-
pels have declared in favor of independence.
Annexation finds but few candidates.
League ball games Saturday resulted:
| New York, - Boston, 3. Providence, Ii;
Philadelphia, 3 Buffalo, ,, Cleveland, l.
The new water supply for New York
city will cost from S25, 200 900 to $50, 900 900.
| The reservoir will supply 100000, 900 gallons
| daily.
The Northwestern Base Ball league ha
| accepted the resignation Of the Bay City
| club, and elected Evansville, Ind. to fill ths
| vacancy.
| Masked men bound Farmer Fair and his
wife at their home near Wooster Ohio, ami
| robbed the premises of money and watches
valued at $3.50
After two sessions, of four days each,
the Republican congressional convention at
| Warren, Pa, again adjourned Saturday
without making a nomination.
AT Oak Hill, Ohio, the other day, a man
killed garter snake, and when he cut itopen
found seventy-eight small snakes which had
been swallowed for protection.
Minister Lowell, having temporarily
relinquiShed the govt, has been so violently
attacked with rheumatism that he consents tC
leave London for a health resort.
Five men attacked four Hungarians al
| Uniontown Pa, killing one outright and
seriously injuring the others. The ruilians
| have been arrested, and are held for murder
The car of Russia has appointed com
mission TO revise the laws of Finland il the
direction of the complete suppression of locaI
| AHiS uStHii ~ Iiktil III c'1lSt-
quence Of the Nihilists making Finland tlloh
base of operations against the car
The health commissioner at St Louis
officially notifies Surgeon Hamilton that ii
the suspected case on the Annie P Silver tut
child died of SUNNI er complaint, that th(
family have resided in Mexico for more thai
Il year, and that they came to this country
seven months ago
Last week Scrgt r. H. Witcher, Of
Lexington, Ga, returned to Capt. Luke r
Tidd, of Woburn, Mass, a sword captured
from the latter during the war Capt. Tide
sent in return to Witcher picture of the
fight wherein he lost the weapon, the reverse
depicting the scene in Tidd's house upon thu
reception of the long-l lost sword
Pleasant Valley, Clear Creek, Bruins
wick, and the section around those towns il
Wisconsin, were swept by hailstorm, tn,
frozen humps being eight to ten inches IL
diameter. Dwellings were shattered, cattle
hogs and sheep killed in large numbers, an
| crop, en- uely destroyed. All tie bridge
which spaHned Otter creek We're swept away
| Christian CommIssEon Reunion.
Pm ADFLrHA, Pa, July 29-The fiftl
reunion OF the United States Christian com
mission wall occur at Ocean Grove, N. j.
| nj