The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-02
THE NEWS IN BRiEF.

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In quarrel at Madison, Ind. ), Clay
Garlinghonse cut his brother Oscar fatally.
Gen. Hancock will attend the reunion Of
Mexican veterans at st. Louis on Oct g.
League ball games Tuesday were: Chi
cago IL, New York Q; Cleveland 8, Boston O.;
Philadelphia 8, Detroit l.
Nearly 10000 square miles of United
States territory are now owned by foreign
syndicates and capitalists.
The Wabash road has established a hos
pital for its employees at Springfield, Ill.,,
with DIR. F. L. Matthews, surgeon in charge
Maxey Cobb lowered the stallion record
made by Phallas) at Narragansett park
Tuesday by half a second, trotting the mile
in 2:13A.
In the hurdle race at Jerome park Tues.
day, the horses Pickett and Rebok fell, the
latter being impaled by stake and in
stantly killed
The increase in the population of Paris
since 1876 has been 25t, 1872. The total popu-
lation is now 2,239,92s In 1875 the total
was $685. 806
Sister Mary Ann, of Mercy hospital,
Chicago is in search of young girl, whose
home is in Pullman, who eloped from con-
vent with an unknown man.
Mary E. Barrows and her paramour,
Oscar T. Blaney, were sentenced at Alfred
Me-, to be hanged in December. 1885, for the
murder of the woman's husband.
An air-tight lifcboat was recently sent
safely through the Niagara whirlpool, but
was totally wrecked before reaching Queens
town, several miles below the falls.
Attachments for over $50, 600 have been
issued at Lincoln, Neb., against ex-Judge B.
+. Cobb, real estate dealer and farmer.
The opinion is that the failure is disastrous
one. aF
Miss Woodford, Dryer Bros mare, has
been retired for the season Her racing
plates will be set in solid silver by Tiffany,
of New York, and presented to friends as
souvenirs.
A Coldwater, Michigan, man named
Charles Coleman claims to be the champion
tobacco-chewer in America. At one time
his regular ration was one pound per day,
but he now uses but eight ounces.
One of the preachers who have been
conducting the Holiness camp-meetings
throughout Pike and Davies counties
Indiana, in the last few months, who has
passed for a man, revealed her sex unmis
takably the other day by becoming the
mother of a vigorous child
The daughters of Fred Miller, living
near Marshalltown, Iowa, are missing. They
left home at midnight, Sept 10. Aravene
the elder, is 81, slender, five feet one incl
IN height. Dora, the younger, is II, and Of
heavier build, five feet two inches high. The
ather offers 800 reward.
That education is making rapid strides
in the south is shown by the fact that in
Florida alone the number of public school.
has increased from 675 eight years ago t.
], 479 at the present time, while during the
same period the number of pupils in attend
ance has increased over 50 per cent
A peculiar wedding took place at Biz
mingham, KY , few days since. The Rev
William Nolan was united to Miss Aggie
Love, the Rex. Kennedy officiating The
happy groom had reached his 74th year
while the smiling bride is but 20 years old
and is tie reverend gentleman's fifth wife.
A singular celestial phenomenon wa.
seen last Thursday night, Sept. IS, at Win
nebago Mimi 1t was bright belt ap
parently about four feet in width, and il
color and appearance resembling the north
ern lights. and spanned the heavens from
east to west The belt was of unif orm sizt
throughout, and presented most beautif u
aoIearanca