The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26
THE NEWS in BRIEF.
A clergyman's fee at a fashionable wed

A clergyman's fee at q fashionable wed.
ding in New York last week was 81, 900.
Maud S. weighs GAG pounds She has
arrived at Chester Park, Cincinnati, her old
home
The Socialist vote in Germany has in
creased 10000 votes, as shown by the election
just over.
In England there are over 2,000,00
families that possess an average wealth of
$4,000 each
In the court of claims at Washington
Monday the case of the government against
the Union Pacific road was begun.
The pauper population Of England ex-
ceeds by 100000 souls the entire population
of the great colony of New South Wales.
An Indian horse thief was hanged to
tree fifty miles from Socorro, N. NJ, six
months ago, and L, skeleton still hangs
there
Dividends of 81 per cent. on common
and = per cent. on preferred stocks have been
declared by the Chicago q Northwestern
ROAD, payable Dec. %
Near Hammondsford Mimi, Saturday
night, Tim Dunahue's "shaHty' took fire,
Donahue and Il man named James Ryan
perishilg in the flames.
The building at Chicago occupied by
the Chicago Paper company was Quilted by
fire Monday night. Loss to paper company,
$50, Oo5; insurance, $1,000.
In the house Of commons Gladstone
gave notice he hoped T., introduce the re,lis-
tribution bill next EIond4y and move its
second reading the following Thursday.
The Erie railways alternative writ Of
mandanus, by which Ii aimed to prevent
the collection of SI25, 900 taxes on its prop
erty, was dismissed Monday by the supreme
court OF New York
Clearing house exchanges last week
$500, It's, 5O0-are S4-,9)G2c4 greater than
the previous week; compared with the cor
responding week in 1888, the falling of
amounts to Sko9, 959, 4j}
A patient at the Santa Cruz county,
Cal, hospital coughed up three live bots.
His doctor says he never heard of a similar
case The bot is Il small worm that is found
in the intestines of horses.
The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly
| review of the British gram trade, says: "For-
| Unfathomable bottom, ana how far it will
| go before bottom is reached is q matter of
| pure speculation"
Near Perdido, Ala, a passenger and
a freight train were in collision Sunday
night, one man being burned to death,
another losing both legs, and q third re-
| ceiving serious injuries. Fire consumed the
| express and mail cars.
The knights of Honor Observer
charges Robert J. Breckenridge, of Ken.
| fury, late treasurer of the order, for being a
defaultcr for about $lG0, 900 In an inter
view at Louisville Col Breckenridge pro-
nounced the charges a tissue of falsehoods,
and Will bring suit for libel
John H. Stancliifc and wife" were ar
rested at Wheeling ". Va, Monday night,
upon requisition from Iowa, the man being
charged with seduction and the woman with
| bigamy. The latter Is Mrs, Hannah W. Nc
| Conkey, who eloped with Stancliffe from
Monroe county, Iowa, i'll July last. They
came direct to Wheeling, went to housekeep-
ing, and were much respected in the neigh
| borhood.
Near Gambler, Ohio, last week, Mrs.
| Welka, a spiritualist, grew i'll, refused to see
| physician, but submitted to treatment by
medium named Burrows who alleged
| that the woman was afflicted by devils, &c
expel whom he beat her cruelty with a stick,
resulting in her death. Burrows then said
tho demons had entered his wife, whom he
! thrashed severely, hut not fatally. Burrows