The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-14
THE NEWS IN Brief.

Ten cases of CHAMBERS have been discov-
RED at Vincennes, Iowa.
An 11-year-old boy named O'Brien has
'een convicted of horse-stealing at Ypsilanti
| nd sent to the reform school.
The people of Wyoming territory are to
rote upon the 4th of November on the ques-
ion of taxing church PROPERTY
An incendiary fire at Liberty, Va, Sun
| lay destroyed twenty-one business houses,
md the estimated loss is S150000
The coal miners in the Belleville, Ills,
district have demanded of the operators a
inform price of 2 cents per bushel for dig
ring coal.
| At Livingston, Wis, the safe of John
Allen was broken into on Saturday night and
| obbed of money and securities amounting
| o S23, 000
Eleven pupils of the School of Agri-
culture at Bordeaux have died from the ef-
ects of eating mushrooms gathered in
wood near by,
Gen, Wolselcy complains to the British
| var Office that his advance has been par
dyed by the failure of the commissarait
md transport service.
| A New Haven fruit dealer caught two
boys stealing pears, when he put each one
nto potato sack and hung the sacks up to a
amppost for m hour.
| John Philbrick, of Seabrook, N. H.,
who is % years old and blind, shaves him
elf with the only razor be ever owned, and
which he bought seventy five years ago.
At colorcd camp meeting near Marion,
Ia, Erwin Goibold began to pray on Satur-
lay night and prayed until / o'clock Sunday
morning. when he died He prayed himself
% death
The Dakota Methodist Episcopal con-
| erence adopted a resolution refusing to CON
vent to the admission of the territory as
state unless its constitution contained pro-
| libtion.
Miss Emma Larson and her younger
sister, who left their home in Wisconsin In
.he spring of 1883 to riGeon horseback to San
| Franc c. and return, have reached Cheyenne
N their way homeward.
Spies report the mahdi is sending two
arge amies to attack Dongola-one coming
across the desert and the other along the
| Nile. Native merchants state that Col Stew
art is alive ana at Khartorm
| Some farmers in the vicinity Of Wash
| ngton, Iowa, are cutting timothy grass q
second time. It is nearly as tail as the first
crop, and IS heading out Volunteer oats is
naarly a second crop liEcwisa.
As Il result Of consultations among the
English Conservatives ii has been decided to
reject th2 redistribution scheme 10 maintain
| opposition to the franchise bid, and try to
orca Z dissolution of parliament.
The family of Henry Minchouso, at
3loony Eye, MINI, numbering four persons,
was poisoned by eating cheese made from
sour milk, upon which Tactic acid had gath
| cred Mrs. Muchouse died from the effects
Of the poison
The Chicago Base Bal club defeated the
| Philadelphia club by n score Of IL to 5 Sat
uriay, closing the season and coming on;
| fourth in the league contest; Providence be
ING lr.t. Boston second Buffalo third, New
YorI, fifth. Cleveland sixth, Philadelphia
seventh, and Detroit eighth
Daniel Shuehrue, the young Connecticut
farmer who fell in love with Ella Larrabee
the pretty girl burglar Of Brooklyn, merely
from reading about her in the newspapers
has visited her in The pcritcntiaTy, which
| will be her home for The next four years
She told him that she would consent tt
marry him only on condition that he would
get her out of prison.
| Mrs. Hutchinson, recently died at Can
ming, Dakota. Previous to her death sht
had hid away fer safe krapina q roll of bill!