The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-19
THE NEWS IN Brief.

The Londoners consume about 49,.
10000 pounds Of meat each week,
The husband of the queen of NADIA
gascar is old enough to be her grandfather.
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is
spending the winter in Florida with his
family.
The number of man killed in the
Pocahontas Va, mine is officially reported
IA be 1l2
Mapleson's opear has been 50 sue
cessfui in San Francisco that he will exten
he season one week
The railway train upon which Michael
Davitt was recently journeying in County
Tyrone was fired upon.
Mrs. Annie Key Turner, daugher of
The author OF the Sta Spanglei BANNER,
lied at Mare Island, Ca
Berlin dispatches says that Bismarck
receiving Numerous te.egrams approving
MS speech in regard to I4Asker.
Sarah Bernhard refused the offers
Of Abbey AMI Al ison Brown Tor an
American tour She wants higher terms.
The horses of Oregon are said 10 be
suffering and dying in large numbers from
blind staggers, and the disease is contas ious
Forty thousand dollars has been col
lected by the liquor interest in Scott COUNT,
Iowa. to test the prohibition bill after the
legislature adjourns.
The act giving the mayor of New
| York the power of appointment without
subsequent confirmation by the aldermen,
nas been signed by the governor.
The Russian police have sappre sod
school-hook written by French teacher
because it infringed on the czar's paeroga-
lives by speaking of "the Majesty of Nature
Clearing exchanges the past week
sS24, 497, 411-are sos l3O,643 less than for
the week ending March s, and when com
pared with the corresponding period in 1888
shows decrease of % / per cent.
At the annual festival of the Benevo-
lent Aid Society of st. Patrick Gen Lord
Wolsely said thousands of loyal Irishmeu
were ready to shed their blood to defend the
union of Great Britain AMI Ireland
The Albany IN. Y. Evening journal
passed under the control of w. J. Arkel
the paper adopting Republican principle,
protection, civil service reform, and the abo-
lition of internal revenue save on whisky and
tobacco
At Grand Rapids, Mich, William
Riley opposed the baptism of his wife by
Bishop Patterson, and when she refused t
return home with him shot at her twice
without inhicting any injuries
Capt. 3. D. Vinegar, with his team
has reached Escanaba, Mich, from Wash
iugton Island, a distance Of thirty-fve miles
on the ice, which he reports to be three fee
three inches thick, blue and solid. This fea
was never accomplished before.
A letter was received at Pc tersburg
Ills, postmafked GAINESVILLE, Wis, wherein
the writer confesses that he killed Eur.
Burns, was the father of her unborn child
and after cutting her throat took from he
pocket $50 which Carpenter had given her
He is believed to be crank
A few minutes before tue dynamite
explosion at Victoria Station, London, re
Gently, I. D. Sullivan and Nicholas Lynch
two Parnellite members of Parliament wer
In one Of the waiting-rooms Of the building
Had the elock-work machinery worked as i
was intended the two gentlemen would hav
been blown to atoms. 1t is perhaps an illus
tration of the eccentricities of Irish polite
that Mr.. T. d. Sullivan, mentioned above,
the author of the song God Save ireland,
with which all the recent Sheridan-dynamit
meetings in this country have been woun