The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-06
THE NEWS in BRIEF.
NJ. Pasteur will spend some time /,


NJ. Pasteur will spend some time al
Rio de Janeiro studying yellow fever.
Three Mormons have been convicted at
Prescott a. T, of bigamy and Thursday
two elders pleaded guilty.
President Arthur is said to be very fond
of apple jelly, while Pre- ;ident-elect Glove
land does on pumpkin pie.
The Austrian budget for 1885 was sub
mitted TO the reichsta Thursday 1t shows
a deficit Of 5000, 00) tio!ias
Ex-Secretary Windom will spend the
winter with his family IN Mexico, where he
has large interest, in silver mines.
Salaries and other eXpelscs of the Pitts
burg base bali club for next season, as ma ie
up at PRESENT, viii Amount tn $,3l, 900.
Mcasels is epidemic at Cleveland, Ohio
Thou sailds OF cas,s at present exist, and
deaths from the disease are numerous.
When constable read a warrant to
Thornton WolfnGer, at Philadelphia, Thurs
day, fo4' abusing ms wife, Wolfinger imme-
diately drew a revolver and blew out his
cwl brains
The Hon. Joseph Fiter, of Bloomington,
has q cabinet photograph Of President Lin
coin taken in 1850, which is said to be one Of
the best likenessa5 ever made of tho mar
tyred president.
The committee in the French chamber
of deputies decided Thursday to increase the
duty upon foreign crn to francs 40 cen
times per ceater; -four, francs pr barrel
oats, / franz 50 ceniines per centner, and
barley francs per ctn,Itr.
William Rogers, veteran, who LOST
his sight during the war, and for years has
been grinding an gan for a living a
| Carthage Mo, WIS the recipient Nedne day
of 81, 3l2 10 !en>ina money, and will besides
receive 81 per month Ter / lie.
| Before a committee of the Georgia
| legislature 1hursdly, MIR. Raoul, a leading
railroad man, It led that if the hamperin2
control of the state railway commission were
continued, all the railroads i'll the STATE
would be bankrupt in five years.
The Iowa Improved Breeders associa
ton is in session at ct; umwa, and passed res
! oiutions Thursday that pubic lands be helt
| solely for settlement, and not be parceleI GU
| for grazing purposes: AMI that railway trans
| portation ue controlled ~ state and natiOna
| legislation.
Five hundred pounds Of cannon powder
in the magazine of the Va ANA Military in
stitute at Lexington, Va, exploded Wednes
| day night, shaking hodssi u mile Off, and
sllattering glass TO a scat extent. Five
| students, who were dismissed for stealing
powder, are suspected
Five boys of Worcester, Mass. built
fhei ii the woods AMI Supplied it with i'm
PIGMENTS of war, being determined to harder
themselves by exposnre this winter for
campaign against the Indians next summer
| Two OF the band were Thursday arrested fe
burglary and larceny.
A man named Asch, whose wife an,
children are said 10 reside in Chicago seate
| himself on q bench in Madison square, New
York Thursday evening, and shot himsel
dead, upon Which IA thief ran off with tn
revolver Unfortunate spceulations il
cigars are Supposed 10 have led to the suicide
A youth on the farm Of James NAPKINS
near Liberty, Va, was standing under
rec, the sky being slightly overcast.
vivid lightning flash was seen, whereupo
the youth fell dead His clothing was tor
to shreds, but the skin on his body wa
broken in only one small place on his back
Lightning was never known Whereabouts tn
time of year before.