The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-08
THE NEWS m BRIEF.


Miss Mollie Garfield is shortly to enter
Vassar college.
In base ball Monday Buffalo defeated
Providence - to 2.
At Esseg, Austria, fourteen children,
while playing in boat on the river brave,
oaIsized it and all were drowned.
The body of colorcd girl, about II
years old, who had been outraged and muir
dered, was found near Mortonsvile, w.
Va
BY order of court, the effects of the St.
Louis Malleah'e Iron company have been
turned over to its officers, and work will be
Immediately resumed
Oliver H. Bateman, who outraged and
murdered the Mclaughlin children at Flat
Springs, Mo, a month ago, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to be hanged Nov 81
1t is said that immense numbers of pa
per cigars are now imported into Australia
and that they are so skillfully favored they
cannot be distinguished from the genuine
article
Hrs. Robert Wallace took an opiate at
Erie, Pa, Saturday TO relieve pain, and inn
meiiatcly fell into a trance, from which
she can not be aroused. She has all the
appearance of being dead.
According to the London Graphic there
is living in Klyeta, japan, a family all of
whose members have reached the age of 100
years, and there has been no exception since
the family was founded, A D. 80
The clearing house exchanges last week
-$S05, 0ji, l5j-are 500 i52, SCI greater than
the preceding week; but compared with the
corresponding period in 1888, tho reduction
is equivalent to 23.7 per cent
1t is charged that the assignment of
Emil Dalheimer & Co., the Cincinnati jew
| elers, is a deliberate swindle, and that they
have been receiving goods on credit from
| Boston and Attelborough, and selling them
in the west 10 per cent. below cost.
The Pennsylvania line notifies the B. 6
o. road that from Oct II it will not be per-
| mitted to run trains over the Pennsylvania
tracks between Baltimore and New York
Neither passenger tickets nor baggage from
| the west, by way of the Baltimore n Ohio
will be received by the Pennsylvania com
pany.
Harboring the opinion that her character
was not of the best, the women Of Canning,
| D. T., banded together and warned Miss Mel
| lie Knapp, who has been laundress and
school-teacher, to leave the town. The girl
| disappeared, and now it is not known whether
she was murdered or has committed suicide.
She is vouched for by people who knew her
as good and pure, and the excitement IN the
| section is at fever heat.
Forty italian railroad laborers, who de
manded their pay, created a riot at Tam
worth, Ont, and with knives, clubs, and re-
volvers chased one of the contractors about
| the town The citizens armed themselves
and took hand against the Italians, the
fight being bloody one The majority Of
the rioters were wounded, five dangerously
| and half a dozen of the citizens were alsC
painfully injured. The militia are now or
| duty.
The simple making and selling of mems
clothing is the greatest local industry in New
York city. 1t employs nearly double as
many people as any other single occupation
not taking into account the workmen who
manufacture ana finish the cloth Inside
the city limits about 500 establishments are
devoted 70 the business, with an aggregate
capital of about S25, 000, 900, employing So,
600 oprRtives, and paying out $4,000, 600 {
year in wages