The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-27
THE NEWS ia BRiEF.

Emperor William and Gen, Won
MoItke attended ball at the French EN-
bassy
FaillieTos has ordered media st,lek
in honor of the cishty-sacond annjye "a. D.
Victor Hugo's birth,
Tennyson intends to support in the
lords the bin legalizing the marriage win q
deceased wifes sister.
Ex-senator Conkling is said to be
looking better, as far as health i concerned.
than h, has for years.
The prime minister of the Hawa;ian
king 'oai is { native Of South Carolina ~
an ex-n@ G7spaper man.
On May 10 Frank Ashton, os Rock
ford, H., leaves that place 10 ride TO san
Francisco on his bicycle
Olive Logan says Mary Anderson is
very happy, bu5 she doesn't mertlon the
name of the young Il an,
Sir Henry Brand, ex-spe2ker of tn,
house of co UNIONS, has bees elevated tn til.
Peerase, with the title OF Lord Hamp.irl,
'. T. Lindmans shingle, s!ave and
heading-mill, AT White Hal, 1,ra, W.,
burned. Loss, $4,000; insured s1r 5000
4 marble bust of Longfellow, pro,
nouncsd by his daughters a striking Likeness,
will On Saturday be unveiled in Westminster
abbey,
The son of Mrs. Mary Bull, of Mar
shall, Mich, was 50 seriously burned in fir,
that destroyed her house that the fest
dropped from the body.
Two young women OF shady repata-
ton, from Bainbridge, Ga, were shot aud
killed by an unknown assassin at a railroad
camp near Tampa, Fla.
Mrs Gaines, the famous litigant, de
MES that she is rich. She says that during
fifty years of effort she has not recovered
enough property to pay her lawyers.
In Ecuador, Caanano and Guerrero
have been elected respectively president an
vice president. The election was the result
| of q trade with the church, and the Liberals
/ threatened to revolt
The Milwaukee Telegraph says
| Gen. Lucius FairchiId stands as good
| chance to receive the Chicago nomination &
any man yet named, aud a letter Chanc
than Logan, Senator Sherman or Nj
/ Arthur.
The Rochester n. y Herald says
| OF Logan, the politician and candidate 20
the presidency we have nothing to say. Il
may have been brilliant commander an
still be unsuitable for the greas clice t
which he aspires.
The grand council of Basic, Switlor
| land, desiring o place Catholic schools uude
the care of laymen, took a plebiscte an
gained the majority. The result will prac
| tically deprive the religious orders of tn,
| care of the schools.
J. r. Davis, Barnum's European agen
offers 81 900 to any charity which may /
selected, provided any one proves "tha
there are in India Tor elsewhere outside {
Siam and Burmahj elephants similar to Ii
one in the Geological gardens"
In the circuit court at San Francisco
Judge Sawyer, in an appeal case decide
that a Chinaman who left this country witt
out return certificate, between the passag
and going into effect Of the restriction act c
1852, was unlawfully in the country.
The wife of Attorney General Brew
ster is plump and handsome brunette; ST
has been more or less il public life ever sine
her father, Robert J. Walker was secretar
of the treasury. Her first marriage was III
happy and ended in divorce After ht
,athers death, and a season of work in IL
treasury, she married her fathers friend, NJ
Brewster, who is twenty years her senio
She has one son by Mr.. Brewster and he
husband legally adopted and gave his nam
tn her three other children.