The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-04
THE NEWSAN BRIEF.


Yellow fever has reappeared at Guaymaa
Mexico.
Boise Bros planning mill land spindle fac
tory at Bay Springs, Mich, was destroyed
by fire.
The colored people Of Des Moines, Iowa,
are to hav paper Of their own called The
Rising Son.
Two hundred hair-pins were found in the
stomach Of a COW killed in Logan county,
Kentucky.
In a mixed wrestling match at New York,
Duncan c. Ross defeated Sorakiche, the Jap
| anese athlete.
Fire destroyed the Touring mill and eleya-
| tor of C. R. Barnes, at Clay Center, Kan.
| Loss, $40, 600
Because of the revenue stamp tax five Mex
| lean states have proclaimed war agains,
| President Gonzales.
The commission of the German Reichstag
has approved the bill for the insurance Of
working people against accidents.
League ball games Monday resulted: Bos-
tou, 10; Philadelphia, /. Providence 8
New York, s. Detroit, 9; Cleveland 5.
Liberty Hail." Alexander H. Stephens old
home in Georgia, is to be sold at auction,
with the library, furniture, and other effects.
In William Lethers' mine, near Dubuque.
Iowa, a valuable lode of lead was struck at g
depth of eighty feet. Mr.. Lethers is 6
Chicago commission merchant
Henry Wheeler, of Hickory Flat, Ga, has
never seen city, and is "a years old Il,
has l22 grand children .:and great-grandchil
dren He never used rum or tobacco.
For bad conduct at the Cincinnati riot ths
Fourth regiment, o. N. G. has been dis
banded some of the men being then reor
ganzed under the name of the Seventh regi
ment.
George W. JONES' to whom was first ap
piled the phrase "The Watchdog of tn
Treasury" is living in Fayette, Lincoll
county, Tenn, in robust health at the age o
50 years.
The United States Circuit Court at Phila
delphia has appointed Stephen N. Caldwell
Edwin Nj. Lewis, and George De B. Klein
receivers of the Reading Railway company
and issued an injunction restraining any in
reference with the receivers.
The executive committee of the nation a
board of trade has memorialiZad the bankin
committee of congress to amend or max,
| 0IieSIlNt Ciat5o VI thO ndliUud
banking act governing the loaning of larg
sums to one corporation or individual
e Twenty-six clearing houses reported las
week exchanges aggregating $725, ,6SS, ,07t
: which is $lS6, ,6S5, ,69l less than the returns G
/, the previous week. As compared with til
corresponding period of 1885, last week
clearings show decrease of lis per cent.
e The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly IT
, view of the British grain trade, says the ou
l look for the wheat crop is more than usual
i promising. The sales of English wheat la.
5 week amounted to Sc, 351 quarters at BIS Il
against S., 1913 quarters at As Sd for the CO.
responding week last year.
The stomach of Sabin Trowbridge, pos
6 master of Lee Center, His, who died la.
y February, has been sent to Chicago chem
} ist for analysis, it being charged that b
lie young wife poisoned him. Letters found 3
: creted in an old lounge, recently sold, gay
:, the clew to the crime. The whereabouts
y Mrs. Trowbridge are unknown.
In the Cleveland rolling mills, in tappil
'e a vast cauldron of molten iron, holding fifi
: tons, too large an orifice was made and Il
ssething fluid speedily covered the castin,
: / room floor. All tho employees escaped sa,
y two, who were compelled to wade throul
d the kissing mass, which an explosion se
flying in all directions stripping the moa
81 their clothing, and literally cooking the
flesh. Their injuries are fatal.
Mr. Pulitzer, of The New York MorniI
Journal, is in Paris where he has been ente
~ !, tanned by Consul General Walker and othsl
\ He has likew ise been interviewed, and in G
| course of his remarks stated that no Ame
~ ican daily paper has ever got beyond 2OO, 0
~ circulation. In France there are numero
journals which have had as many daily pu
- chasars as 200, 900 for good many years, al
a ~ The Petit Journal now claims Ga. 900 dali