The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-03
THE NEWS BIN BRIEF.
Diaz was inaugurated president Of Mex

Diaz was inaugurated president Of Mex.
leo Monday
Elder John England. well known
preacher, died Sunday at Mt Pulaski, His,
aged 90.
1t is said that the illustrations in Har-
per's Magazine for the last year cost over
$4,000
Five of the seventy-five counties Of
Mississippi gave Republican majorities at
the recent election.
Stewart l.. Moore has been appointed
assistant general freight agent of the North
ern Pacific road
T. II. Thomas & Co.. law books, ST.
Louis, made an assignment Monday. Their
assets amount to SO 90
While carelessly handling his gun Sun
day at Woods Run, Pa, George Rankin
shot and killed his aged mother.
The EmpeSQr William has presented
Henry NJ Stanley his portrait, handsomely
framed and bearing the imperial auto
graph.
A California farmer knocked his hired
man down with a bunch OF grapes weighing
ten pounds and was fined $40 for the
ofPense,
The present population Of the world is
stated at l,24, 533, 975. of whom 1881, $50 are
Jews ami 81, SIS, 066 ara Christians. These
figures leave 9l5, ~, S27 to be classed as
heather
There was a difference of IS between the
vote cast for Rapalo Democrat, and for
Andrews, Republican, Tor judge of the court
of appeals i'll New York, out of a total vote
of IT, 00,0
The Mark Lane Express in its weekly
review of the grain trade, says: Foreign
wheat is in better inquiry. American spring
and rcd wheat have generally advanced in
Liverpool"
Clearing house exchanges last week
$3.50, S55, 0Si-are sl4J, 913, 4lG less than for
the previous week As compared with the
corresponding period in 1888, the falling off
is so, 6l2 800.
At negro dance near Upton, Ky,
RATE Howard stabbed 10 Heath Alex Wells
because he refused to lend him quarter,
and when Howard tried to escape Jim Phil
| lips shot him deal.
One thousand pounds of candy, manu-
| featured from sorghum sugar at Champaign,
| lllS., will lie exhibited 1T t4o New Orleans
| exposition by the United State government.
| 1t is in eighty-three varietios, and equals the
product, it is alleged, of the best white sugar.
Science hall, at Madison, Wis, with
| its chemical, physical z, o,ogical and geolog-
ical appliances and collections, laboratories,
| etc, was entirely destroyed by fire Monday
| evening. The in surauce is Sll 900, but the
| loss can not be estimated, as some of the
materials and collections destroyed can moi
be replaced
| The Illinois state board of canyaSsers
completed their wor.. Monday. The re
turns from the Forty-uinth district were SC
| defective, AMI no word coming from the
clerk of Hardin county, in whose returns the
errors were, that that county was virtually
thrown out, without affecting the result Of
the election, however. The board decided il
favor of Mulhern as against klupp, in thu
| Thirteenth district
In the First Baptist church at Rock
| ford, HIS, Sunday morning, after services
| the Rev Mr.. Anderson desired to read &
| communication which he had received. OBJ
jections were al once made ard excitement
began to rise. One member moved to con
vene a regular meeting which was carried
as was motion a few seconds later, thu
defeating the pastors wishes. The missiv'
was an indirect desire that Mr. Anderson re
sign the pastorship, bat making no charge
against his character or work. At meet
ing Monday night the church committee
| voted that Mr. Anderson resign Immediately
| notwithstanding that he implored 10 be KEEP
TIL May l.