The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Three shocks of earthquake were felt


It Rothesay, n. B.
Several business houses at Hope,
irk., burned causing loss of $50, 900
The Atlantic & North Carolina road
win be sold at auction to satisfy executions.
Newton W. Taylor, wholesale paper
.ealer, OF Chicago, made voluntary assign
nsnt
Col. Nathan Huntoon, of Unity, n.
l., is the oldest Free Mason in the world,
having been initiated in 1903.
Judge John l. Campbell, for many
reais partner of the late Samuel T Glover,
If Mis- o@ri, died at Rushville, Ill. - .E
Several duck and cotton mills in New
England have begun running on half time
ntil the market for their product improves.
Martin Sellers, "a years old, COM
nitted suicide at ksndaliville, Ind, rather
han APPEAR as a witness in the Cain
murder n1ai at Albion
A huge boiler in the Newherne On.
y gas works exploded, went through the
eof, and fell back near its original position
4lthout killing anybody =-l r... ..s.
At Rosita. Col, John Gray and
frank Williams, the murderers OF Orrin
\nrtz, were taken from jail By masked men
tni hanged to the rafters of a log shanty.
Senator Walker, of Arkansas, has APP
pointed Cai E. t. Boudinot, the Cherokee
rave, bis private secretary. This was done
At the earnest request Of Senator VOORHEES,.
Beer brawed in 1888: In New York
ity, 5,29, 900 barrels; in Philadelphia, 1,O23,
NJ; in Milwaukee, 9S6, 500; in ST. Louis, 9i3,-
40; in Brooklyn. S.6, 900; in Chicago GIG, 0GO.
A Chinaman in Milwaukee claims to
lave made $500 at the laundry business
"fthin the last two years. He proposes to
90 to Cornell university and then return to
lima as missionary. F .r
Twenty seven principal clearing
houses IN the United States report exchanges
| asst week amounting TO So11, 2256, 404, which,
| sien compare with the corresponding week
1888, shows reduction of 2 per cent
Not one OF the six congressman from
California was born in that state. Tu,ly is q
native Of Tennessee, Glascock, of Mississippi,
Henley. of Indiana, Rosecrans, of Ohio,
3udd. of Wisconsin. and Sumner, of Massa-
| husetts. .-
The funeral services over the remains
! Herr Lasser were held in the new syna-
gogue at Berlin, and were attended by repre-
sentative persons. DIR. FRANKIE and DIR. Fre1-
erich Knapp delivered orations. A long pro-
session of workmen's aud other clubs fol-
owed the casket to the cemetery, where,
after the coffin had been lowered, they de-
lied past the open grave and placed wreaths
IN the tomb
Upon petition of his attorneys, O. A.
Carpenter, charged with the murder of Zura
Burns, was permitted to have bedding and
certain furniture placed in his cell The
prisoner pleaded net guilty TO the indictment,
and motions by the defense to quash that
document, and that the state elect upon
which count it would proceed were quashed.
The trial was set for february S.
Reports Of disasters by the storm in
England show that the ship Juno foundered
! in the Mersey, aud the crew of twenty five
men persisted; the Austrian bark Civet was
wrecked of Lands End, two persons being
drowned; a church at Neweastle-upon-T Tyne
was unroofed and the spire damaged; train
| was overturned in ireland, and a large por-
tiomof the Northern railway embankment
! was swept away - .sa ,s.a