The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Gen. Grant was able to be out New
Years day, butuse1 clutches.
Gov Ordway arrived in Washington,
and denies all the charges recently made
against him.
The property of the New York &
Nav England railroad has been placed in tbs
hands of n r~'eiver.
BY the sinking al government
steamboat near OpoSsum Point, On the MIS-
sissipli, three men were drowned,
The art loan exposition in favor of the
Bartholii statue PEDESTAL fund, which has
closed at New York, realized net receipts of
$4,000
The Thorndike Miss company's
new cotton mill burned. c. Wilson, one of
The corporations agents, fell dead while
fighting the flames.
The brain Of Conway Brown, Har
ward STUDENT who killed himself at Provi-
dence, was so diseased thvt he had no
power to control his sections,
In quarrel between New York
saloon keeper named John Regain and his
son Conrad. vona9 Regain crushed his
fathers skull by a blow with bottle,
The forthcoming congressional direc-
tory viii state that Thomas p. Ochlltree, of
Galveston, is the first naive Texan ever
elected to the congress of the United States. y
United States Judge McCrary, of
the Eighth judicial district, hes not yet re-
signed His quitting the bench, however,
hinges upon the settlement of certain business
matters.
Capt. Pike, the principal witness in
| the Proteus court OF inquiry, says that il
Lieut.. Greeley remains in his winter quarters
he will be safe, The danger is that he win
move south, expecting to find supplies,
| The legal complications in the estate
of the late s. B. Psge, of Milwaukee, who
left property valued at $500, 900, are SO many
that thus far his widow has received but
! 1880, and is almost destitute of means.
The Oldest newspaper carrier in
Philadelphia has jGst retired from business
at the age of u. lie has sold his route which
he held for forty ght years, In summer
and winter he never missed day in all tins
| time
Large crowds attended the Orange
and Nationalist gatherings at Dromofe, Ire
LAM, New Years day. Nunerous soidiery
and police prevented a collision between the
factions but not without bayIpeting two
men, woGnding them mortally.
A report reached Easton. Pa, that
Ephraim Bartholomew, farmer had been
found dead, with, his clothing, which had
been saturated with oil, burning A denial
came later, saying that Bartholomew was
not dead, but that his wife had been killed
by her step-daughter.
Walter E. Kidier, recently brought
to Peru, Ind, upon a requisition, the
charge of bigamy, has married four wives
and recently came near adding a fifth to the
list at Harold, D. T. One of his spouses is
dead and the last one whom he married
Miss Eva Todd, of Peru, Ind secured the
arrest Of the culprit.
Near Salem, Ohio, the dead body Of
L. n Griffith, a farmer, found, with G
bullet-hole through the heart and a revolver
by his side The dead mans son Stanley
aged 49, gave the alarm that his father hat
committed suicide, but immediately disap
peared, and the general opinion is that the
youth murdered his pirest:.
At the White House reception New
Years the question was decided as to whether
in the absence of Mrs- President or Mrs. Vic
President, the wife Of ihe speaker, ranked tht
wives of the secretary of state and chic
Justice as the first lady of the land. A preca
dent was established, for when the hour fol
reception arrived Mrs Carlisle came in upoi
the presidents arm and took her plac
/. | at his right