The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The German semi-oficial journals
openly demand the recall of Minister SarS-
The Chicago Society of the Red Or,
has contributed SIS 900 for the relief ol e
food sufferers
Two revenue officers killed three men
and wounded another in Mitchell COUNT,
North Carolina.
A lady in Willimantic, Conn, lodged
the measles for eighty-four years, bat WAS
caught last week.
The call for the national Greenback-
Labor convention designates Indianapolis as
the place, and May % the date
The wife Of driver of street-car
at Chamberlain, s. c., is worth $500, 900
Her name is Mrs 0sulan Boiety.
J.P. Bellup & Co., cotton brokers,
New York, has sued the cotton exchange for
100000 damages for expelling them
1t is stated that the wheat and fruit
crops In Southern California will be greatly
benefited by the floods, and farmers anti
cipate a golden harvest
All the members of Mapleson's com
pany, save Patti and Necolini, will 60 San
Francisco Patti, after twenty days rest,
reioins the troupe at Cincinnati.
Near Glasgow, Ohio, John Brehmer
prevented his father, who was drunk, from
numbering his wife, when the old man shot
his sOn, infiicting mortal wound.
BY dynamite explosion in the exca-
walton for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneap-
oils d Omaha track, near Omaha, one man
was killed and many seriously injured.
Tie first permanent appointment
under the civil service rules is Of q clerk in
the st Louis postofice He had served the
probationary six months required under the
rules
Representative Frank Hurd, OF Ohio,
was, it is said, originally intended for the
priesthood of the Roman Catholic church,
but was debarred therefrom on account of
his lameness.
The bodies OF three eolored persons,
missing from 4 burned house in Avondale,
Ohio, since Friday night last, were found in
the Ohio Medical college at Cincinnati, and
removed to the city undertaker's.
The Washington correspondent of
The New York Tunes says: at seems to be
admitted that Judge Gresham will be tn
residuary egatee Of President Arthur in the
event of his candidacy proving hopeless.
Henry Irvings two sons have been
Distinguishing themselves at Leigh Vicarage,
Tunbridge, in tableaux and recitations, par
ticularly in the school for Scandal" Henry
playing Joseph Surface and his brother Law
renee Charles Surface, both showing talent
which evidently runs in the family"
Charles C. Copeland, Milwaukee
saloonkeeper, refused toreturn to John Samp-
son, aged 10, a parrot which the latter had
left in the saloon, until whisky bill was
hquidated, whereupon Sampson and two
other youths procured the prosecution OF
Copeland for selling liquor to minors.
On the question of the return of the
Lasker resolutions, Congressman Reed, OF
Maine, insists that it IS the reichstag, and not
congress, that has been insulted by Bismarck,
that the document was sent to the reichstag,
and if Bismarck does not deliver the message
the reichstag should move in the matter.
The Cleveland Leader says: Col.
John Hay has repeatedly denied that he is the
author of 1.-THE Bread winners" He is gen.
tleman, and his word ought to suffice. We
can also say that be does not intend to run
for congress, and would not accept nomi-
nation if rendered to him, for his health for
bids him doing So We have all this from
his own lips
Before the investigating committee
on the Copian county outrages, one witness
testified to the deliberate murder Of Mathews
at the polls; another had been taken out Of