The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


James Buchanan is running for congress
in New Jersey, and Zachary Taylor in Fen
aessee
League ball games Tuesday: Providence
J, Cleveland Z; Boston Z, Buffalo 3; Detroit
), New York /
The Mechanics bank of Altoona, Pa,
has suspended because of tho withdrawal of
large deposits.
A lawyer in Pennington, N. j., has
been cast in damages of s., -i43 for neglecting
the interests Of a client.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, at San Francisco, reelected E. S.
Engraham first grand engineer
Scott Medkins. youth Of 10, was mar
ried to AnEie mgerSoll, his l2-year-old step
sister, at Snowfall, Nd, Tuesday.
The annual consumption of imported
| and domestic cigars is sixty to cvery man,
woman and child in the United States
The heat is so excessive at Savannah,
loading vessels One death occurred Tues
| day from sunstroke.
In seven years Americans have paid SO,
| 0,000 for French paintings. The purchases
have steadily increased from SOL, goo in 1877
| o 81, $50, 900 in 1888
Mrs Charles McNair (colored), aided by
Two other negroes, killed her husband, who
aas an invalid, ut Laurel Hill N c., being
| ircd of supporting him
At Helena, Ark, Monday evening, c..
| E. StanlefoId, d prominent young attorney
| of Relen, ARK, was xii Il by some unknown
| party firing through the window.
The Manitoba & Northwestern and
Manitoba & Southwestern railways have
Oeen granted land subsidies of 6, 400 acres per
nile by the Canadian government.
Iowa has 6J0 creameries, Illinois has
40, Wisconsin 430, AMI Minnesota 139, max
| nG total of l,8S9 1t will e seen that Iowa
| mas more than one third of tie creameries Of
| four of the northwestern states.
Louis Green, Jr, of Columbus, Miss,
who two years ago, by forged orders and
| bills of lading, swindlei Fall River manufac
turers and New York merchants out of $780,
J00 has been arrested at New York, having
out recently returned from Europa
| Because of the increasing number of de
5aulters AMI the immunity offenders enjoy
| it is said the British and American govern
lIments are engaged in negotiations for re
lIvision of tho extradition Treaty, but salts
IFactory decision has not been reached
L Among the reasons urged by Peoria
Illinois, woman for divorce Gre: Drunken
noSs, swearing, ohscenity, arson, filthy habits
fncompatibility, intideiity, brutality, laainess
bigamy, and non-Support She married hin
to spite her father for boxing her ears.
There are five forcign-born Unitei
States senators--0ne Enalisnman, one Scotch
man, and three lrishmen-whiie in the hous
there are twenty folegnars--three English
mon, three ScotchmeI, six iriShmen, fv
Germans, one Norwegian, one Brazilian, anC
one Canadian
An officer of the Society for the Pre-
vantion of Cruelty to Animals, attempted L
prevent the horse Jim McGowan starting il
the steeplechG>e at Jerome park, claiming b
had sore back The officer was roughl
handled by the crowd, and was escorted from
TIE track by policemen.
The AstOrs paid their taxes of the cur
rent year in New York recently, their con
lripuUon TO Inc MUNICIPAL revenue Dem
S425, 600 The Goelet estate paid in par
$4,000; James Gordon Bennett, 500, 50C
and the New York Central and Hudson Rive
Railroad company, $li0,o01
| According to The France there is
woman living at ST Just-de-Claix, in tn
department of Isere, who was born in 1861
so that she is now in her 124th year He
name is Marie Girard, nee Quand. She wa
married in 1779 at st. Just, and had tw
children, one OF whom died few years agt
age 81.