The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-23
THE NEWS in Balea.

The senate confirmed the nomination of
Postmaster Palmer for pp~iatmsnt.
Hannibal Hamlin is about to write a
book giving history of his political life.
The centenary of the French revolution
win be celebrated in Paris by worli's :air
in 1889.
B. G. Winston g. Co.. lumber dealers
at St. Paul, assigned; liabiliti ,s, SsO,Ooo and
assets s125, 600.
The Turkish legation at New York Off.
cially deny that massacre of Christians in
Macedonia has taken place.
Jones Nelson, of Frontier county, Ne
braska, was taken from jail and lynched for
the murder Of Eugene Sherwood.
Reports to the effect that the farmers of
northern Michigan are suffering great desti-
| tuition are authoritatively denied.
o. ]. Wilson Il Co., carriage makers,
Ottawa, Ills, failed. Mortgages amount
ing to $4l, 100 were filed against the firm.
An object of interest at a fair in the
| northwest, the contribution OF an Indian,
| was war bonnet fringeI with human scalp
| locks
| 4,
while temporarily demented, wandered from
| home Saturday night and was frozen to
death.
A COW pasturing on the shore of Bel
| grade pond, Maine, is alleged to have eaten
sixteen pickerel which Il party of fishermen
had temporarily deposited on the bank.
Two shipwrecked sailors spent seven
years on all island wher. the L only food was
cocoanuts and an occasional flying fish They
retained good health AID gained weight
| The council of the Baptist Church
which has been invest eating the conduct Of
Professor Moss at Bloomington, Ind. brought
| in a verdict that the professor was guilty Of
moral wrong.
In is reported the French minister has
been instructed to inform China that fur
ther negotiations between the two countrie!
are useless, and that the dispute must now bt
settled By sword.
A natural gas explosion in the residence
of job Gates, at Butler, Pa, left the build
ing a mass OF ruins. The family, consisting
Of six persons, were rescued from the debri
alive, but severely injured.
A conductor in Massachusetts put
tramp off his train ami thrsw him bundle
which he supposed was his baggage Tn,
tramp threw it back, and il was afterwart
found to be a package of bills containin,
"a, 500.
A distinguished officer of the navy says
apropos OF the Nicaragua dil,nema, that If tn
treaty is ratified the United States will b
obliged to provide itself with modern feet
and modern forts in order to maintain it
position.
At meeting of the Democratic con
gressmen from Indiana in Washington las
evening it was agreed that Indiana ought t
be given place in Mr. Cleveland's cabinet
and that Ex-senator Mcdonald was suita
BILE person to represent the state.
When the drill struck the granite i
boring au artesian we'll near Atlanta, Ga.
the thud of tie p IN !erols instrument coul
, be heard at Charleston, ten miles away.
ledge OF 70 r. OF the same formation crop
out in tie town, which transmits the soun'
Of the falling drili
Mrs. j. W. Mackey announces that tn
marriage of her daug uter, Miss Eva, to Do
/ Fernando ColAna, Prince of Galatro, wi
, be soleinnized in the simplest manner poss
: | Uits Wltuout LoStiNly vi I'ouilI luAs Sduoe
disappointment to Parisians, who weI
anticipating series of gorgeous fetes.
, Fire in Weston { Fishes oil warehouse
81 Wall street, New York caused loss
$4,000; at the Thorn Creek oil wells, Phi
, lips City Pa. So, 900; at Milwaukee, in Boz
den s. Heath's vinegar factory, 81, 900. TIL
Mansion house, with the exception of Il
northerH end, at Long Branch, was burne
| down.