The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-10
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Mr.. Gladstone receives salaries which
aprreeata 81. 500 q yaar

Mr.. Gladstone receives salaries which
aggregate S37, 500 year.
A gas explosion in a mine near Sham.
okin, Pa. Monday, killed five men.
Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, says he
is in favor of placing Gen Grant On the
retired list, with pay of lieutenant general.
The highest priced clock in America is
owned by a Wall street broker i'll New
York. 1t cost s3i, 1000, and was made in that
city.
Natural gas has been discovered in
Dawson county, Dakota, and coal and pc
broieum are now supposed to be abundant in
that region,
1t is said that of the nineteen men who
perished in the Greedy expedition all but one
used tobacco, and of those saved none used
the weed IN any way.
The author of "Do They Miss Me at
Homes" is Mrs. Caroline A. Mason, of Fitch
burg, Mass. She is 81 years old, and wrote
the song forty years ago.
A dispatch from Alexandria says De
Lesseps has obtained from the Egyptian
government concessions for fresh water
canal from Ilagazig to Port said.
W. NJ Woodside, the Irish bicycle
champion, bta5 tie American record for
fifty miles at the Chicago exposition build
ing, Monday. His time was 2:54 Holy.
Clearing house exchanges last week
SS7., 775 ,l39- are $@06, ,V55 great'r than
the preceding week As compared with the
is $262, l52, ~
Cook, the leader of the gang which
robbed the tram Saturday night near Little
Rock, has mi.ae fnii confession, and all the
bandits ar7 IN custody, save one. Ten
watches and $500 lm money have been recov-
cred.
LoggeIs in the northern pineries are re-
ported to he In ii wrctched condition, some
of the Swedes selling their labor for 10 cents
a day. For to,d they are furnished rye
bread and coiloe, With salt meat three times
week
The treasury Of tie Baptist Home Mis-
sionary society is in such depleted condi-
| ton that appointments have been only made
| for six months fears being felt that money
enough may not be contributed to pay full
| years salaries.
Miss Nellie Arthur, assisted by daugh.
| ter of Chief Justice Waite, Is Lnsily engaged
in raising the funds for Christmas dinner
for crowd Of poor children in Washington
who We're Lencfciaries of the same more
| fauored children last year.
Nettie Horan, a schoolteacher, com.
mitted suicide Monday at Whitewater, Wis.
| Before dying she confessed to having
poisoned her two sisters, father, and mother
and Il fifth person. name unknown Only
last week she killed one of her sisters, and
the sending away of the womau's stomach
for analysis caused Nettie to poison herself
Charles Clark, a burglar, arrested fol
robbing the city clerks office at East st
Louis last June, confessed at st Louis Mon
day, stating that Police Lieut. Thoma,
Duffy, of East st Louis, was his accomplict
in the job, and shared in the proceeds of the
burglary. Duffy was also arrested, AMI tn,
affair causes "a little breeze of excitement al
| East st. Louis.
A Seattle, ". T., correspondent of TIL,
| San Francisco Chronicle says that woman
suffrage in that territory is a success, 50 fal
as its application to practical politics is con
cerned. At the recent election in that terri
tory the women organized and carried on
campaign in a manner that gave points t,
old politicians They elected every maj
they put on their ticket
! The plenary council accepted gift o
$500, 900 from Miss Mary Caldwell, who's
father was a wealthy citizen of Louisville
for the purpose of founding a Catholic uni
versity. Sufficient has been promised iron
other sources to raise that sum to $1,000, 00l
laymen, with Archbishop Gibbons as chair
| man has the matter in charge