The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-16
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

California ostrich eggs are only 81 200
dozen.
A Mr. A&iaxxaxy visited Bay st. Louis,
Miss, last week.
Tom Green county, Texas
Cyrus Field proposes torebuild the mon.
ument 10 Andre, the British SPY.
The natural gas III the Westinghouse
well at littsbuis exploded, fatally injuring
two Neil
W, " }. Sempliner, millinery and fancy
dry goods at Bay City, Mi,h, made an as
signment Monday.
In Tiilis recently remarkable hailstorm
occurred Tie stones were a. large as the
eggs of geese, Forty lives were lost and
seventy houses ruined.
League ball games Monday resulted;
Chicago 6; Detroit, 8 Providence, O. Bos-
ton, e New York. 5; Philadelphia, 2 Buff
falo, Il; Cleveland 3.
Professor Richard A. Proctor the as
tronomer, with his family, reached St, 10
seph, Mo, Sunday from London, and intends
to reside there for the future.
~ ID Duloiu " W, Oi inc IoCh ISAIAH
Qll) Plow works, made an assignment
Monday. The liabilities are $500, 900 while
the assets are placed at 100000
Lincoln, Neh., is to have new German
| newspaper, which will be edited by Professor
| Godfrey l. Bluehdon, and christened The
| Lincoln Freie Presse. 1t will be Republican
in politics.
A L. Moore, of Moore & Jones, bust
ness men at Wabash, Ind, disappeared, tax
ing with him considerable amount of the
funds. A young man, named Daniel Baker,
| Is also missing.
| The work of disinfecting the New
York tenement district has begun. The
death of seaman from violent cholera NOR
bus gave rise to a report that his death was
caused by Asiatic cholera.
The clearing house exchanges the past
week are but sos, Gas, 5S9-a falling off from
the corresponding per iod in 1888 equaling
| 23.5 per cent. But tw enty three towns are
represented in the returns
A Lot of people were poisoned the other
day by eating ice cream, and now the chem
lists Of the Brooklyn board of health says the
soda water in that city is dangerous because
OF the copper and lead In 1t.
| The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly
| review of the British grain trade, says:
Trade in foreign wheat very duh. The mar
ket is decidedly weaker, especially for Amer
lean, the supply being excessive
| In fight at negro festival at Holly
| Station, N. c., one man was decaPitated by
a blow of a razor, another was shot through
4l dc
/ from brass knuckles and slung shots.
/ The CHILEAN newspapers announce the
/ recent death of certain Don Jose Miguel
Herrera at the age of l22 years, and AYERS
1 that his age is well attested by official
4 records He was born at Talca and died al
| Santiago. -S t1.
i Mr. Dana, the editor of The New York
Sun, is preparing paper containing the Sc
cret history Of his visit to Gen. Sheridan dur.
ing the last campaign in the Shenandoah val
ley. 1t will be read before the First regiment
of the Union veterans Of Boston.
MIR. Labeau, sexton of Toronto church
has been found guilty of passing the pew Of
Mr.. Turootte and neglecting to present tn.
contribution box, the neglect being a willfu
intent to insult Mr.. T1rcotte, who sued fol
800 damages, The court awarded him 8!
| and costs.
Seven graves in two cemeteries at Sink
ing Springs. Va, were desecrated SUNDAY
night, three bodies of adults being carriet
| off, and the remains of an infant and an
other adult left beside the open graves, prob
ably being too much decomposed for use
The citizens are greatly excited, and tn,
criminals, if caught, viii be lynched.