The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-29
THE NEWS III BRIEF.

! The forests are burning between Basi
Tawas and Oscoda, Mich
Judge Miner, of Garfield county, Col, com
mitted suicide by drowning
About two million sheep are at present in
Colorado TIE clip this year will be 10000
600 pounds.
Belina B. Lockwood, the female lawyer,
daily appears on the avenues in Washington
riding a tricycle.
The Bay Shore mill at Menominee, Mich,
was completely destroyed by fire Loss, 500,
900; insurance, 100000
Two grain elevators at Pekin, Ills, con-
tanning $4,000 bushels, were destroyed by
fire, involving a loss of 100000.
Harry Deakin, manager of the Milwaukee
Academy of Music has sued George c. Min
for 1000 for breach of contract
Lack of work has compelled the closing of
the Wheeler Iron company's works at Mid
dlesex, Pa, rendering 1000 men idle
Mrs Frike, VINO was savagely beaten by
her husband at Waukegan, H., is dead
Frike himself is in a feeble condition.
F. L. Goodrich, of Chicago, has sold his
trotting stallion Hickory, with private
scors OF 2:22 to some Iowa gentleman for
$500
After quarrel with his father at Decatur,
H., Walter Corrigan, aged II, took dose OF
morphine, refused to take an emetic, and
died Saturday morning.
The Cincinnati festival closed with rendi
ton of Henry w. The total receipts fol
the eight performances will not exceed Sl2
900. while the expenses will reach S45, 900
The authorities of Madison county, Mis-
sissippi, have begun contest as TO the legal
ity Of SO 900 bondsissuad in 1878 for railroad
purposes. The bonds are held in Chicago,
New York, and other cities
Mrs Sally B Hemingway, the oldest in
habitant OF Jaffrey, Mass, who died in her
p4th year recently, left six daughters, thirty
eight grandchildren, ninety great-grandchil
dren, aud five Observation-Disclosures
Editor Harper, of The Farmer City Ill.j
Republican, has received an anonymous com
munication warning him to leave the dis
trict or electing TO remain, the writer and
others will forcibly expel him.
a collision near Harmarsvile, on the West
Pennsylvania railroad between passenger
and freight train, demolished the engines
and several cars. The engineers and firemeu
# the respective trains were severely in ured
By the falling of the interior walls of
building at Pittsburg, Pa, two children,
Albert and Edward Wagner, were buried
under the bricks, and when extricatoi Ed
ward was found to be fatally injured, while
Albert was badly bruised
The steamer Grand Pacific, in passing
through the drawbridgs at Burlington, Iowa,
Sunday afternoon, struck the pier, tearing a
hole in her hull, and sunk in twenty feet of
water. She is valued at $4,000, aud will
likely prove total loss. No lives were lost.
E. F. Seaver, of Reedsburg, Wis, Rspub-
lican delegate-elect to the Chicago conven-
ton, is accused of forgery and embezzlement
by the Reedsburg Wooden Mills company,
but has effected settlement. He has re-
signed his delegateship aud also his positions
as postmaster and president Of the village
A Washington female correspondent
sketching the latest street portrait of DR.
Mary Walker, makes her Nwell-dressed
dude in well-cut. close fitting trousers and a
tall silk hat, but describes her as looking like
little, ugly, withered boy, with brown
black hair hanging in soarF 'a1ks down her
neck