The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-24
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Cincinnati News-J ournal has been s3id
by order of the superior court
The Fifth Avenue hotel, at New York, has
been mortgaged by Amos R. Emo for ST.
$50, 600.
Ferdinand Ward, not being ablet to procure
the $500, 900 bail, has been incarcerated in
the Ludlow street Jail. -,st 'a
A mortgage on Gen Grants farm, southpf
St Louis, to secure the Vanderbilt loan, has
been recorded at st. Louis. a.1.-..
A little girl in Cincinnati last week fell
from third-story window, but was caught
by citizen and escaped injury. .h
A man who proposes to row across the At
lantic in dory is exhibiting himself and bis
boat in Bowery museum in New York. !
Cases of diphtheria and scarlet fever were
discovered among the little ones in the baby
show at Milwaukee, which suddenly ended
the exposition.
Attachments for 1926, 6s5 against the prop
erty Of the insolvent brokers' firm of A. ".
Dimock has been granted by the supreme
court at New York.
]. T. Richardson, railroad and ferry agent
at Venice Ills, committed suicide. Ashort-
age of Sc 900 to the indianapolis & St Louis
railway led to tho act. Fl
Charles Weslers wholesale liquor house at
st. Louis was robbed, a little currency, S15,-
O00 in warehouse receipts, and bundles Of In
surauce policies being carried of.
George Lewis eloped with the wife of Ed
ward Worldly, of Beaver Falls, Pa, last
week. Wordley didn't care anything about
the wife, but he had his rival arrested for
stealing soma old clothes. -.- 81
W. " Esmond, alias Mark Felton,
Chicago detective connected with the Car
penter-Zura Burns case, has been indicted / at
Lincoln, ILL.,, for receiving money under false
preteuses. Esn1ond says be is to marry Miss
| Fannie Carpenter a.
The body of Gustie Luckow was found lin
| the river at GAINESVILLE Wis She had been
| discharged by her employer for being too in
| innate with man named F. NJ. Puncbeon,
and the condition of the remains gave rise to
| the suspicion that she had been murdered
Puncheon has disappeared
Mrs. Van Buren, and her daughter, rot
Hackensaek, n j., drove from their premises
seventeen MEN who were putting up the
Bankers &, Merchants telegraph line Tues
| day, and kept them from planting poles
throughout the day.--Ths only weapon the
lady used was cardinal parasol
| The st. Louis board of trade having fol-
lowed Chicago's example and cut off Quota
tations from the bucket shops were
much puzzled at finding that the boss of the
illegitimate traders was getting the figures
as usual After a strict search man was
discovered up among the chimney pots de
ciphering the contents of the bulletin board
by means of a powerful spyrglass. A pot Of
white paint was spread over the window, and
now a fertile Imagination is once more at
| work
A staff correspondent of a London paper
who visited this country not long ago gives
the following information concerning one of
the southwestern states. rArkansaw is sit
aated between Memphis and San Francisco
Its climate is mild in winter, but in summer
am told by an old inhabitant, is extremely
cold. The governor of this state receives
sS0o,009 year, which he spends mainly fol
the entertainment of his friends am mnct
concerned in American politics, and never
tire of studying the situation AT the pres
emit writing the countJis much stirred W
about President Dorsey He went out on hi
sheep ranch somewhere in Cleveland, and ha.
. not been heard of since Should he never IN