The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-27
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Since the outbreak of the cholera in
Naples there have been 10,e03 cases and
5,SSj deaths.
One Ullman, a German, aged rs,
fatally shot his wife, 65 years old, near
Whitastown, Pa.
There are twin sisters near Cleveland,
Ga, who are exactly the same height, and
alance the scales at the same notch
Gurlcr Brothers butter and cheese fac
tory at Dekalb, Ills, was destroyed by fire.
The loss is $4,000; insured for one-half
E. P. Ripley, general freight agent of
the Burlington road, is SO i'll from rheumatic
fever as TO excite the gravest fears of his
friends.
The youngest immigrant that ever
crossed the ocean alone arrived on German
steamer at Castle Garden, and was only .
years Old.
The workmcn in the st Catharine, S.
C., gold mine, in Charlotte, while blasting in
the 2T0foot level dry or two ago, unearthed
petrified oak Tree.
Bishop Crowther. who goes to Africa as
the representative of the Church of England,
was sold on the gold coast fifty-eight years
ago for a hogshead of rum
League ball games Thursday were:
Providence 6, Chicago Stem innings; De
troit 5, Boston 5; New York IA, Buffalo 2;
Philadelphia defeated Cleveland
Striking miners in the Shawnee Ohio
district are killing cattle belonging to
farmers for food. They slaughter them in
the fields at night, and carry off the car
cases.
Washington territory has two Cinnamon
who are entitled to vote They are Shoe Fly
and Andrew johnson, who were born at
Walla Walla, and are, therefore, native
citizens.
The diplomatic representatives of Ger.
many, Austria, France and Russia called on
the Egyptian prime minister and entered
protest against his action in regard to the
sinking fund
The only electric railway in the United
States is at Cleveland, and is a mile long.
Ireland Germany, and France all possess
electric short distance railways eight or ten
miles in length.
The body of William Britain, brake
man, of Salem, Ills, was found mangled
| utuI JULIUS SLubiOl1t vi JL- OIlO O m4SslSSlpil
| road, having been thrown from the car by
tramps and then crushed by the train.
| Reuben E. Springer has made an addi-
tional gift of SIS, 900 to the College of Music
at Cincinnati This clears the college of en-
| barrassing debt and leaves it with property
and funds valued at not less than $1,000
| The largest hog ever exhibited in Maine
| is now on exhibition at Lewiston. The hog
is eight feet two inches in length, girths
seven feet around the body and five feet
around the neck, weighs $50 pounds, and is
only years old.
A statute of John Harvard the bene-
factor of Harvard university, will be I'M
yelled shortly at the college. 1t is a bronze
figure and has cost $1,000. The bronze will
be put in place of a base west of memorial
hall at Cambridge.
In excavating a well at York, Me-, the
roots of neighbering oaks and hickories were
| found imbedded in the rock forty feet below
the surface. From either pressure or alb
sorption they had in many instances formed
cylindrical channels in the stone.
The excess in value of exports of mer-
chanaise over imports for tho twelve months
ended Aug. 81, 1881, was sT7,174,341. The
total value of imports of merchandise for
the same time was $657, 49,, 1874: for the pre-
vious twelve months, s7o7, 81, 1854; decrease,
s49439, 450
Mime. belong Tuyssusian, of France,
has, after experimenting for eighteen years,
succeeded in constructing an instrument by
which it is possible to cut metal plates of con-
siderable thickness in aDy elaborrte pattern
or design. She has received eighteen medals
and diplomas a different European exhibi.
tions and her invectln is very highly
praised by French architects