The Rock Island Argus., 1884-12-05
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


P. T. Barnum is so III at Bird geport,
Conn, as to alarm his family
The Shoe and Leather Insurance com.
pany'of Boston will retire from business.
John Elman, merchant at Blooming
ton, Ills, wa' closed Wednesday by the
sheriff
AT the urgent request of President
Grevy the French ministry Wednesday with
drew their resienations
A crank in New York has informed the
common council of that city that the world
will soon come to an end.
The wife Of Gen. Oyama, the japanese
minister OF war now visiting this country,
was educated at Vassar college
Comptroller Lawrence, comptroller of
the national treasury, has recognized Bis
marck as the capital OF Dakota.
While George Hart was working in a
Pittsburg mill, Wednesday, an iron girder
struck him, cutting off his head and both
legs.
A beekeeper at Oshawa, Ont, makes
the cells himself, and thus enables his bees to
produce honey in one-tenth of the usual
time.
The people of Minneapolis who gave
the grand banquet to Christine Nilsson last
summer have been sued for the cost of that
affair
The New York Young Republican club
voted Wednesday night 10 expunge from its
rolls the names of persons who voted against
Blaine and Logan.
A regular dividend of s. per share
and all extra dividend 1or the same amount
were declared Wednesday by the American
Bell Telephone company.
The Illinois Millers' association held its
annual meeting Wednesday at Springfield,
and reelected d. N. Sparks, OF Alton, presi-
dent for the ensuing year
Application las been made to the Swiss
federal council for a concession to enable a
corporation to build a railway through the
great st, Bernard mountain.
Jacob Rannels, wealthy merchant and
cattle dealer at Perrysbur1, Ind, killed him
self Tuesday night BY first taking arsenic
and then cutting his threat.
If the Spanish treaty is ratified, it is
claimed that Key WesL viii bs ruined
bONh AONCH biicuNdllti psi hbtiN GInplOy Oh III
the cigar factories will be rendered idle,
while the loss to property will te So, 000, 600.
In the German reichstag, Wednesday,
DR.. WindthOrst's motion to repeal the law
empowering the government to expel priests
for illegally exercising their functions passed
-2l7 to Notwithstanding the opposition
of Bismarck.
The latest trick of thieves is to rob
newly-laid corner-stones, under which money
or other valuabes are put as was done in
Pittsburg few days ago when about So in
foreign and United States coins, copies of
local papers, etc, were secured.
AS practical joke on young police
| officer of Statesville, near Raleigh, N. c.,
| two of his friends jumped suddenly from be-
| hind tree, the other night, and demanded
his surrender. He quickly fired upon them,
seriously, if not fatally, wounding both men.
Walter c. Allen, confidential clerk of
Baltman & Co, of New York, was arraigned
yesterday for forgery. He received less
than s., 900 yearly, yet kept horses and lived
like millionaire. His scheme was to issue
| orders on the cashier of the firm for goods
he pretended to have purchased.
The presidential electors met at the
state capitals Wednesday and cast their bal
lots for the respective leaders in the late
| campaign Mr.. Andrew Shuman, of Chi
cago, was chosen president of the nlinoi.
body, and was also designated to carry the
vote to Washington In North Carolina the
| ballots used were of silk grown in the state
| and were United States flags in miniature.