The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-26
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mary Anderson, it is said, will mako
England her permanent home.
John o. Sullivan, lumber merchant
1T st. Louis, has failed for $4,000.
The jewelry store of Marks & Son,
Troy, n Y, was robbed of property valued
at $50, COO
A national convention of wool-grow-
ers has been called to meet at Chicago on tine
7th of May,
The first regular Newspaper in the
United States was started in 1885,, and was
called The Boston News Letter.
Sergt. Bates, who has Just made q
pedestrian tour through the south, arrived
at the national capital Sunday morning.
tits said on good authority that Mrs.
Langtry, at the close of the season, viii re
turn to England and build a theatre on her
own account.
Jacob Barth, q patient in the Sisters
hospital at Belleville, ILL.,, fired at one of the
sisters, the bail making a scalp wound, and
then shot himself dead.
1t has been definitely arranged that
the empress of Austria will visit Northamp-
tonshire aud hunt with the Pytchlev hounds.
The empress has'of late been good deal of
an invalid.
The italian government has deter
mined to offer on the occasion of the Turin
exhibition prize of 10000 francs for the
most practical process for the transmission of
electricity.
The explosion of lime light at Old
ham while childrens entertainment was
being given, caused great excitement AMI a
panic ensued. One child was suffocated ami
nine others were removed in an unconscious
condition.
The grand jury of Lee county, Iowa,
after an examination, declare that the con-
ditions existing in the poor-house at Keolluk,
where INDECENT and incurably insane persons
are kept, are a disgrace to humanity and an
insult to civilization
Eighty-three per cent. of the popIla
ton OF the United States is composed of white
natives and the immigrants from Germany
and Great Britain, leaving four per cent.
from other countries and thirteen per cent.
for those of African descent.
Ben Thompson, the famous des-
perado, Of Aast!n, Texas, held a passenger
train at the city limits with a revolver for
some minutes, shot hole through an organ
being ground near his residence and fired a
salute of SIX shot after Governor Ireland and
party at the rock quarry
Union block, with five frame build
ings, at Jackson, Mich, was totally destroyed
by fire Sunday morning Loss, SG03o3o,
with an insurance of about so, 900. Several
lives are reported lost, but as yet bat one
body has been recovered. -Four Others are
injured so that they will die.
At st. Paul Sunday afternoon the
large foGr-story warehouse occupied by Hast,
Buford, BurweIl 4 Co, dealers in agricul-
tural implements; the stove store of Brand &
Co, and Gliddeu, Gliggs & Co, wholesale
grocers, was totally destroyed by fire. The
loss is about 1925, 900 and the insurance 49,
900
Notwithstanding the suferings and
exposure occasioaed by the food, the deaths
in Cincinnati last week were fewer than for
the corresponding week OF 1888. Last week
the deaths numbered ninety-seven and for
the corresponding weeks of 1888 and 1852
there were AS and 102 respectively,
Or. Emil Pretorius, editor Of The
st, Louis Westlichte Post, the leading Ger
man paper Of the state says, that in his
opinion, the Republican nomination for
president lies between Arthur and Edmurds,
with the chances in favor of Edmunds, if lie
will become an active candidate His pre-
ferenca is Edmunds.
The latest development Of fashion in
France concerns the announcement Of births
invariably sent out by French parents. For
boy they are pale blue, for a girl delicate
pink; in the left hand corner is the father
coat of arms or monogram, and underneath
the sign of the zodiac which was paramount
when the babe first saw the light.