The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-29
THE NEWS BIN BRlEr.

Harpers Young people is sold in Lon.
dun at penny eopy-juSt ialf its prica
here
Peach buds and fruit trees have been
killed by the intense cold in the Holland
(Mich.l district.
The assets of the Laporte. Ind, Savings
bank are : 1874, sos IS, and the amount due
the depositors is SITS, $3.50
The crew of the bark Holmstrand, sunk
by the seam,r Cheiydra, off Eidystone,
England, it is feared are lost.
A meeting of Chicago printers was held
Friday evening to urge Jerry $ Thompson
for the piece of government printer
Elliott Bros. & Co, dry goods. Phila
delphia, are unable 10 meet engagements.
They owe sly, 900, and offer 90 cents on the
dollar
Two of the train robbers involved in
the job moath ago near Little Rock We're
sentenced Friday to six and seven years In
the penitentiary respectively.
Mrs John Greenridge was assaulted
Thursday night near 6reenridge, Pa, by
unknown parties, who left her unconscious
and she was frozen to death.
Rainwater Il Stems elevator at Dallas,
Tex, was consumed by fire Friday, two men
perishing in the flames The financial loss Is
$50, 900, with S34 600 insurance.
The shoemakers' lockout at Philadel-
phia came TO close Friday. Many manu-
facturers will keep their shops closed, how
ever, until rel airs are completed
AT meeting of the citizens committee
of Chicago, it was resolved ~ push tie prose-
cution Of the baIlot-box suffers, and sys-
TEN of procedure was decided upon.
A well digger at Atlanta, Ga, found at
a depth of sixty five feet, oyster shells and
varieties Of sea shells never seen in the
region. Geologkts are investigating.
Josef Zenari, manager of the Discount
bank of Carnoiola, at Laybach, a defaulter
to the amount OF 10000 iiorins, killed himself
in the bank when about to be arrested.
The Rev. Alexander B. Crawford,
chaplain and rector of the Episcopal hospital
at Philadelphia, has been deposed from the
ministry hy Bishop Stevens Tor drunkenness.
At Rurgin, Ky, Dave McGinnis, 49,
year-old 10Y, shot am Instantly killed Je
rome GAY. Gay and Lis hlc5ler forced the
| fight on Mc5innis, hcG.nn;s was not ar
| rested.
Joseph A. Coons, cashier Of the Moser
hotel at St. Louis, d.sappees-i Thur day,
taking funds belonging to las wife the HOUSE
anu tine guest 1t is believed tuas he has
| fled with woman
Business failures for the week mum
| berei rs, against 3}5 last week and $50 III
the CORE ,poalng period Of 1888. The fail
ures for 1884 will exceed 1850, while the
record for 1888 was 10 1871
There is much excitement in the Fort
/ moumam Georgia. region over the discov
cry OF a rich silver mine, the ore assaying
| from so to g, 900 per ton. Cod has here
| tofore been found and miners are fiocking Il
| the district
A queer SANDER suit is pending out il
| California A sued b AMI Z Ter SANDER F
and C do not deny having applied opprobri
Gus epithets to a, but insist that because A
is deaf he could not hear the slanderous Ian
guage, and therefore, 81 far as he is con
| cerned, it did not exist
\ wager has been laid between Mr.. Nc
| Laughln, the engineer, and Paul Hines, tn,
base ball player, that the latter can no
eaten ball dropped from the top of Wash
in5ton monument Il is estimated that ST
feet from the ground the ball will have ",
locity of two miles per minute.
A review of the trade affairs of Chicag,
for the past year, published BY Tne Times
shows that there have been an overproduc
tionof manufacturers AMI a shrinkage in banl
clearings of 100000 Grain has touches
the lowest point III twenty years; the receipt
of cattle and hogs have been lighter; bu
more sheep have been marketed