The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

James Winkleback, tried at Nation,
Ills, for the murder of Nehemiah Fleetwood
and wife, was acquitted.
The clock in Trinity church tower, New
York city, is the heaviest in America II
takes two men over an hour to wind it up.
Judge Chauncey L. Higbee, associate
justice of the appellate court, Third Illinois
district died very suddenly at his home al
Pittsfeld Sunday.
The Merchant mills of the North Chi
cago Rolling Mill company at Bay View.
near Milwaukee, shut down Saturday even
ing for one week
In the Joliet penitentiary, Saturday
night John Kelly fatally stabbed his cell
mate, John Gaines. Both men were sent
down from Chicago
No confirmation of the reported whole
sale tragedy III Custer Neb., has yet been
received at Omaha, and the impression pre-
walls that it is hoax
A man named Wantena confessed to the
murder Of John Dreger, a farmer OF Jasper
county, Ind, whose body was found in the
Kankakee river Nov. l.
Mr.. Richard Grant White has been pros.
gasritis. lis many friends, however, will
lie glad to learn that he is now colv alescent.
A Louisiana negro man attempted to
shoulder five bundles of cotton ties at once
the other day. He succeeded in getting them
nearly up staggered AMI fell dead from
over-eXertion.
The Rev. W. H. Tibbals of the Metho,
dist church, Paw Paw, Mich, resigned ow-
ing TO political differences with the congrc
CATION, he having advocated prohibition
during the campaign
Francis Murphy has inauguratcd an
other tempe anca revival in PiJtsburg, Pa,
which promises TO ex OF that Of eight years
ago. Twenty five hundred signatures to the
pie ige were obtained last week.
Albert Lyons, l0-year-old boy Of San
Jose, Cal, is serving out sentence of ninety
| days in the county jail. This is the fourth
time that Albert Las cen sent to the county
| jill for petty larceny
In certain province in southern Russia
a com rs current wnicn Is made in tie form
| of wafer from the juice Of a tree. Their
| value is so microscopic that 30, 900 of them
would be required to pnrcha an American
| dollar.
4 prize fight took place Sunday, near
| St Paul, between Patsey bie4len, OF Mime
| apolis, and Fred Webber, oi -: Paul. After
five rounds had been fought, both men being
terribly punished, Mellen was declared the
| winner.
The correspondent of The Courier
| Journal, Louisville, who has investigated
the pestilence causel by drought in the
mountainous regions of kentucky and Vir-
| ginia, reports that up to date s,0i5 deaths
have occurred.
Masked robbers boarded a railroad train
near Little Rock Saturday night, and Sc
cured 5000 in cash and valuableS, and siH
persons were arrested Sunday in Little Rock
for participating in the robbery, three OF
whom have been identified.
Notice of reduction of p per cent in
the wa ses of lint glass workers at Beliaire
Bird geport, and Martins Ferry, t. take
etfe,t Dec Il, has been given, to which the
union has replied, declaring its intention to
resist. The Nillimantic mills Connecticut,
will reduce wages 10 per cent. after Jan l.
| The HARTFORD carpet company has reduce
| time une-haif.
| A rain and wind storm of unusual
severity passed over eastern Pennsylvania
and New York, unrooting houses and barns
and destroying telegraph wires and doing
| much damage to other property. In New
| y ork city the front wall of the Adams Elk
! press company's Office, ca Fifth avenue, wa.
! blown down. At Pittsburg three person.
were fatally injured