The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
An Alabama farmer obtained eight gal.
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An Alabama farmer obtained eight gal.
Ions of molasses from 100 watermel ons.
The total assessed value of real and per.
sonal estate in the state of New York is
$3,014, 591, 372
League ball games Wednesday: Boston
10; Cleveland g. Buffalo 9; Providence O.
Detroit / Philadelphia o.
Mrs Niehaus, aged 70, committed sui
eide at St Louis Wednesday by holding her
head in tub full of water until death re-
suited
Three executions will take place in Gin
cinnati during October viz: Palmer on the
10th, Hoffman Oil the 24th, and Richardson
on the 2Sth.
A reporter for The St Paul Day claims
to have found brother of Ell Mehdi, the
false prophet, in St Palh in the last stages of
consumption.
Duplicated receipts for 5000 barrels of
whisky, amounting to sl5OO0O, have been
found in examining the affairs of the New
comb buchanan company, of Louisville
The late Dean Terry, of Chicago, be-
queathed all his property which is said to
| be considerable, to Catholic charities and for
Che benefit of his old church at Ottawa, Ills.
A street-car driver at indianapolis re-
fused to give up his cash box to highwaymen
Wednesday night, when they fired two shots,
one instantly killing the only passenger in
the car.
The writing paper makers in session at
Springfield, Mass, resolved, in view of the
prohibition of the importation of foreign
| rags, to advance the price of paper l and .
cents per pound
AT Riverhead, l.. l., Thursday, Roscoe
| Conkling, aged II years, was killed while
| playing base ball by bat flying from q
| players hands. Another boys iawbone was
cracked by the ball
1t is proposed by the Italian soldiers
to subscribe for a sword of honor for King
Humbert in recognition of his heroism in
| going among the cholera patients at Naples
to minister to their wants.
1t is proposed by some English en-,
| gineers and capitalists to connect the Baltic
and Black seas by means of a canal from the
| Danube near Vienna to the Oder near Bres.
Ian. The distance is about 200 miles.
| Maud S. will attempt to lower hel
record at Hartford on the 18th A match
between Maxy Cobb and Ihallis is being
arranged. Jay Eye-See is improving and viii
probably trot again before the season closes.
There has been remarkable increase in
the number of small farm, at tie south since
the war. In South Carolina there are now
| five small farms where there was one twenty
years ago, and the number is steadily grow
ing.
While the price of wheat is lower thar
it has been for several years, the farmers
about Anoka have made as much, if moi
more, money from their wheat harvest thar
they have in preceding years. Farms whose
average yield heretofore have been from
twelve to fifteen bushels to the acre this veal
have produced from twenty-five to thirty
bushels
The will of the late John W. Garrett
was filed Wednesday, giving his entire estate
to his two sons and daughter, and providing
that $1,000 shall be given annually for the
relief of the poor of Baltimore, and that out
of the net income $50 900 shall be expended
yearly for benevolent and educational pur
poses. He also directs that his trustees shall
for twenty years hold 80, 900 shares of com
mon stock of the Baltimore & Ohio road, t.
the end that his policy in the government Of
that line may be carried out.