The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

A fruitraiser near Saugatuck, Mich,
reports that he can find no dead buds on his
Crawford peach trees.
The police officials of Hamburg have a
letter containing threats that the imperial
naval observatory win be destroyed
Search was made in the military bar
racks in Paris an large number OF social
istic pamphle found in the kits of soldiers.
The comptroller of the currency has au-
| thorzed the Union National bank OF Chicago
to begin business with capital of $1,000
900
Bear Ridge, Indian Ridge, and Plank
Ridge collieria4, near Sleiantoah Pa, have
shut down indefinitely, throwins 1000 hands
out Of employment
The Rcading railway receiver has served
notice on tue employe q that road, number
ing about Ii ESQ OF reduction in wages and
salaries Of from 10 20 nor cent
1t is reported in Louisville that a woman
of that its in EoSenber sent Governor
Cleveland a. large plum pudding which was
| found to contain poison, She has disap-
peared,
Penroe D. Good, clothing. Monmouth,
Ms, assigned; Liabilities, Sl2,002; assets,
S25, 900. H. S. Hopkins, bridge builder, st.
Louis, failed, with liabilities amounting to
| $Ss.0o)
Apostle Cannon, of Utah. is vigorously
pushing ais poiygamans campaign in the
canton of B.e~.fs. in SPITE of the arrest and
| expulsion Of Mormon missionaries from
Sw tzerland
The emeralds in the crown of the ey-
Empress Eugene, which were sold to an
English noiiemau for 4, 900 pounds sterling,
are reported to be bogus and the purchase
money has b,rn r,tutned
The reported illness of Gen Sheridan is
| nothing mora than a cold, which he con
| tracted at the unwilling of the Dupont
statue, AMI from which he has recovered
sufficiently to be at his Office.
A peculiar phenomenon was witnessed
at Liberty, N. y, Fri-ay, after heavy
snowstorm. Wnen the storm was over mill
ions OF oddly shaped yellowish worms We're
| found craving On topoi tae snow.
j. c. McMath, whose term rs prose-
| cutting att. tG,ey Tor Cirrmoat county, Ohio,
| is about to expire, shows a clean hand us to
his official accounts, bus has II .nsferred all
his property to meet losses sustained in specu-
lation
1t is said that the executor Of Francis d.
| Moulton', win has been utlr,' 81 90 for the
| famous letter Of cont, ntiDnn leHned by Mr..
| Beeeher III tine trouble with Mr. Tllton. All
! the correspondence in this unpleasant affair
is among Mr. Mcuitons papers.
Early Sunday morning the Blake opera
house tat Eacna, VIZ, was totally destroyed
by fire, involving los, o. $4,000 Mr.
! and Mrs. Russell Glover, Of the Thompson
! Beggar STUDENT Opera company and a
| clamternaid name Mrs. Patrick were
! burned to death i'll the hotel portion of the
| building.
Thomas Merrill, cattleman living near
| Sierra blanca, on the Rio Gganj. with hi
wife, were Sunday discovered murdered.
| Merrill was truck with hatchet, while his
wife's head was severed from her body
! Two Mexicans who Were employed on the
ranch are missing. The Texas State rangers
have started for the seena of the crime
The extensive sad,ilery hardware works
of Elbel fillian q Co., ii Canton, Ohio
were destroyed 10y fre nj midnight Sunday
The loss will reach $500 0G0, with insurance
at 100000. Two hundred men are thrown
out of employment. The works viii be re
built the indianapolis cotton factory
burned down, involving ii loss of $900 coo
on which there was insurance Tor $50, 900
North, OITison Il Co.'S furniture store al
Kansas City was destroyed by fire; loss
I SlO1, 900