The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-04
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Middlecof & Sons, of Clarion, Iowa,
have fai ei far 100000
Fire at Ut,ea, N. Y, destroyed prop
| srty valued a: $4,000
Gen. Iglesias has taken the oath as
provincial president OF Peru
Chambers Encyclopedia does not
mention President Martin Van Buren,
An Ohio physician is preparing a
medical lexicon in forty-two languages.
The Western Engine works at
Painted Post, N Y, burned, causing a loss
| of $4,000.
The Wisconsin Agricultural society
has decided to hold the state fair at Madison
this year. Se:st. Is to 49,
A party of pot-hunters Of Raton
| Rouge, La, boast of killing i,4tO ropins
with no other weapon than sticks
In an ARRAY Saturday among party
| Of Hungarians at Roaring Greek, Pa, one
woman and two men We're fatally stabbed
Last year l, 800, 1914 net tons of steel
| rails were produced III this country, q reduc
ton from the previous year equaling 20 per
| cent
A mass meeting in the opera house at
Youngstown, Ohio, protested against Nor
rison's tariff bill and any reduction OF the
! tariff
Owing to the fire in the chemical
works, quinine at Philadelphia jumped from
s1.40 to $50 per ounce, while the foreign
article advanced from 81 10 to $3.50
The works OF the United States
Stamping company at Portland, Conn,
burned, resulting in a loss Of 800, 900, With
S225, 900 insurance in forty companies
The Rev. Myron W. Reed, pastor OF
the First Presbyterian church, Indianapolis,
has resigned and accepted the call of the
First Congregational church at Denver
While wedding party Of thirty five
men, women, and children were crossing the
river Thesis, in Hungary, about three weeks
ago. the ice suddenly broke up and all but
one of the company were drowned
Judd Crouch and Dan Holcomb were
arrested for the Crouch murders, perpetrated
near Jackson, Michigan. November u last.
Officials claim that the circumstantial evi.
dence against the men warrants he arrests.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, now IS
goes over to Cambridge once a month ana
| charms the medical students with his chat
about old college men and days He is still
sprightly and wears well his advancing
years.
The prohibition bill passed the lows
house-52 to 4l-alI the Republicans and one
Democrat voting for the measure. There
being prohibition majority of twenty foul
in the senate, its passage in that body il
certain.
| Two packages containing 81 900 each
sent by United States express from Cleve
land to Washington recently, were found tx
have been riflei, 81 500 having been taker
out. The floods caused detention of tht
packages for three or four days at Youngs
town, and detective is Investigating.
A shanty in Harrisburg, Pa, il
which laborers had lett dynamite dryin,
near a stove, took fire, when an explosion
occurred, leaving no vestige of the shanty
shaking three residences apart, and SMASHING
the glass in sixteen houses near by. 4
woman and two children were cut by fiyin:
glass.
} A young woman, claiming to be :
} daughter of Thomas Fields, at one time con
J nected with the Tweed ring, applied 70
shelter in a police station at New York Sh
} said that she was homeless and hungry, an
} had been brought from Montreal by a sister o
the Notre Dame convent and left to care 70
herself, as she refused to take the veil.