The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-25
THE NEWS IN Brief.

Thousands of people are dying of
lever in the south of Java
By the wreck of the bark Ada Bar
ton, of st. John, n B., nine sailors were
drowned
The Yale College pitchers for next
base ball season will be Booth and Oden, who
will receive 81, 500 each
La Russia since the LIST of january,
sixteen persons, including the authoress,
kenniz Raja, have been sent to Siberia
A babe that was born in the court
house at Lawrenceburg, Ind, has been
christened Ohio Flood Wallingford
AT a Joint session of both houses OF
the lowo legislature portrait of the late
Senator Grimes was presented to the state.
The board of education OF Omaha,
Neb., refused to sanction the closing Of the
schools on Washington's birthday, causing a
good deal of comment in the city.
Winnie Ream, who made the model
for LinoJm's statute al Washington, has rr-
Gently modelled little baby SO perfectly that
visitors imagine they can hear it cry.
At New York John Gassman beat
Peter Golden and all previous amateur re-
cords in a thirty ive-mile race, making the
distance in hours q minutes AZ seconds.
Ez-United States Senator Robert E.
Withers has bought The Wytheville (Va)
Dispatch, which he will conduct as q Demo
cratic journal Mr. Withers was formerly
| sditor of The Lynchburg News
The monument to Gen. Lee-the
figure being sixteen feet in height, standing
upon white marble column sixty-six feet
| resting on base of Georgia granite twelve
feet high@ vas unveiled at New Orleans.
The ball given by Minister Sargent
| at Berlin, Friday evening, in honor of Wash
ington's birthday, was attended by 200
! Americans At Paris a banquet was given
by the Stanley club, sixty guests being
present.
The Collar Mine at Maiden, NJ. T.,
having been closed by attachments, the
! boarding house closed its doors against the
| employees, fifty in number, who had not been
! paid for a month and the men are now with
out shelter and in destitute circumstances.
In regard to a report of his i'll health,
which originated i'll Boston, Judge Tourgee
says that it is incorrect, and that he simply
| lITtCIcu liIS tie5etlk W lldke no more engage
ments for him for the next month, in order
that he might complete book now under
way.
| A London correspondent says that
Archibald Forbes is in very bad health. And
in addition to his physical sufferings he has
been 50 unfortunate in certain speculations
and lost the money he made by his brilliant
feats as a special correspondent and his sue
cessful lectnring tours.
At the annual meeting of the Wash
mgton Monument society at Washington, a
committee was appointed to arrange a pro
gramme for the celebration of the completion
of the monument, which is expected to take
place in December A stone for the pile
sent by the king of Siam was thankfully re-
| ceived.
A citizen of Dakota has taken posses
sion of the valuable homestead pre-empted
by Michael Mendelssohn, formerly clothie1
1 in Milwaukee, who failed recently. The
Wisconsin laws provide that the maker of an
assignment must be resident of that state
and when objections were raised Mendels
sohn took an oath TO that effect The home
stead statutes insist that person taking up
claim must be resident; and when Men
delssohn swore in Milwaukee that he was
citizen of Wisconsin the Dakota man imme
diately Jumped the claim" and means tt
hold If