The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-11
THE NEWS in BRIEF.

n new volcano has broken out in Alaska.
Half the town of Alma, Neb., was de.
stroycl by fire.
Fred Adler, of Bloomer, Wis, has failed
for $25, 600, with assets said to reach $50 200.
A quarterly dividend of Il per cent has
been beclarei by the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe road
A powdermill explosion Thursday at
Cumminsvillo, Ont, killed four men and
wounded two others.
Payne and Wiley, who perpetrated frauds
and fed to Canada, have been expelled by
the Louisville board of trade
League ball games Thursday; Chicago
10, Philadelphia Z; Cleveland IL, Providence
3; New York Q, Detroit 5; Boston-B Buffalo,
tie game, each.
Hank White, funny and popular lend
man" of a New England minstrel troupe,
has been elected to the Vermont legislature
from the town of Reading
The United States supreme court
meets next Monday. The number of cases
on the docket is 1925, or "a less than at the
corresponding time last year.
ii. r. Warehouse, carpets and dry
goods at Clinton, Iowa, made an assignment
Thursday, with liabilities of 1000 an. as
sets of between $50, O0J and $4,000
Frost, with hail. snow, and sleet, has
fallen in sections of Kansas, and cattle men,
believing that the Texas fever germ has been
destroyed, are preparing to. snip beef cattle.
l.. Blandcn & Co 5 steam Touring mill
at Fort Dodge, Iowa, was destroyed by fire,
with 2, 600 sacks OF four and 5000 bushels
of wheat. The loss is $4,000, with $4,000
insurance.
The second day of the fall meeting of
the Chicago Driving park was not well at
tended but two races were completed. Bull
do2er won the 2:22 pace and Albert France
won the 2;22 trot.
An epileptic had fit in Montreal
| church and uttered a fearful cry, which
| threw the people into a panic, resulting in a
rush for the doors. Several persons were
| injured but none fatally.
At St Louis the Mexican veterans
| elected Gem JamoS ". Denver, of Ohio,
| president. a telegram was read from the
| Mexican secretary of war stating that it was
| impossible for Mexican officers to attend
On the invitation of forty churches OF
| Boston and vicinity, the American board of
commissioners for foreign mis- IONS in ses-
sion at Columbus, decided t. lnest next year
at Boston, AMI will ten eel ''rate the com
pletion of the seventy -f;fth ye1r of its exist
| enCe.
Mrs T. =. Croker, one of the wealthy
women of San Francisco, kindly threw her
art gallery open once "A week 10 the public,
but has been aampaliel t. close the doors, as
the vanla!s knocked the noses Off her statues
and treated the Cro2jor hric-a-brac as if it
were common cra2lagg.
The total transaction Of the New Yorl,
| clearing house -iace its organization, thirty
one year. Az, amount to this startling ag-
grcgate, 10, SIS, SIS G5aO o. The largest
| Transaction for any one day during the past
year was vi March ,. whom business amount
ing to i21l 56t, 03GG. WAS handled
Day Brothers 4 Co, dry goods dealers
at Peoria, HIS made al assignment Thurs
day, just tea minutes hefo.e United State:
Marshal Jones stepped into the establishment
to make 4 seizure for eastern creditors.
partial statement shows: Secured claims
| 100000; other liabilities, $4,000; assets
! $4,000.
In the Ohio x Mississippi railroad con
cat, the inspectors of election reported al
Cincinnati that the Baltimore & Ohio people
had been successful against the English in
terests, and the new directors Immediately
| organized, but were served with notice o.
quo warranto suits by representatives of
English bondholders.