The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-29
The NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fifteen Massachusetts, girls who snioy
walking will take 300-mile tramp in the
Adirondacks.
The premiums for races at the Iowa state
fair, beginning at Des Moines Aug. %,
amount to $4,000.
Since the suspension and reopening of the
Metropolitan bank of New York deposits
have been diminished s9,000,0 900.
Over hundred little eels were found
squirming around in a street puddle in Pau
tucket, the other day, after shower
An ll-year-old girl of Girardville, Pa,
died there the other day of congestion of the
brain, caused by excessive rope-dancing.
terra-cotta bust of Miss Mary Anderson
has just been made to order for the princes
of Wales. The bust represents the actress as
Galatea.
AT St Louis, Alfred Suess, whose wife had
prosecuted him for abandoning her, went to
Ter rooms, shot and killed her, and then COM
nitted suicide
Thomas w. Evans, Cornelius F. Thomp-
son and John B. Dickson, bank officers at
New York, have been held for trial for over
certification Of checks
The Rev. l. n. Terrence, secretary of the
Pennsylvania Bible society, proposes to pros
ecute Robert G. fngerson for violating the
law against biasphemy
In Fountain county, Ind, in deposit of
black sand, gold has been discovered yield
ing large percentage to the ton. The find"
has caused no little excitement in the dis
trict.
The first message over the new cable has
been received at Rockport, Mass, the steam
ship Faraday thanking the selectmen for her
reception. and hoping to complete connection
with Dover bay that day.
At Tower Hill, ILL.,, mob attempted to
lynch three highway robbers on their way to
the Shelbyville Jail. The officers threatened
the vigilantes with death, and safely lodged
the men inside the prison walls.
The marriage of Mr. Samuel Bowles, of
The Springfield Mass Republican. and Miss
Elizabeth Hoar, daughter of the Hon. E. R.
Hoar, is announced to take place in Concord,
Mass, on Thursday evening, June IL.
Judge Blodgett has decided that he sees
no injury to the United States government
resulting from the use of the lake front
property by the Chicago base ball club, and
hence would allow games to be played until
the matter is settled in the courts
At Goshen, Ind, jesse Hefner, IA years
old, was caught in the machinery of mill
and his arm torn off AS he was being
whirled about his feet struck John Bartholo-
new, about the same age, in the head, and
crushed his skull Both are fatally injured
John Schmittinger, recently released from
a lunatic asylum, while working in Mil.
waukee cigar-shop suddenly made an on.
slaught among the girls with great knife,
creating a panic. He was seized and dis
armed before any person was seriously in.
jured.
The American Congregational association
held its thirty-ffrst annual meeting a Boston
The years receipts were $23, 3S9, and The
balance on hand is S133 The changes in tn,
directory include the dropping of Charles G.
Hammond of Chicago-T V. Blatchfork tax
ing his place. Annual memberships were
abolished and life memberships raised from
$50 to $50
In connection with renewed interest In the
subject of cremation, it is recalled tina
Annie Louise Cary NOW Mrs. Raymond wa
once asked to sing for the benefit of
| crematory scheme in Pittsbnrg, and as a
inducement was offered a certificate en-
itling her to the free cremation OF her re
mains. Il should as soon think of bnyuG
| my own coffin" said she, declining the offer.