The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-13
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.

New York city has nearly $4,000
900 in February by fires
The senate has ratified the Mexican
treaty by a vote OF Al TO %.
The Massachusetts, house has passed
the bill pun shing wifa-beaters by flogging.
The loss of property by the recent
Ohio foods is now estimated at some Sl0
900 0J0
The manufacture Of perfumes from
local grown flowers is becoming an ext.n.ive
industry in Florida.
The Rev. Father Phelan, while cele
brating mass at Wool River, Neb., dropped
dead from heart diseae
Capt Hunter, of the Salvation army
at Bridgeport, Conn, sues the chief Q; police
for sl2, 900 or false arrest.
Mr.. W. II H Murray has abandoned
the ministry, and now turns out as the
travelling correspondent Of Texas Siftings.
.Ninety-one Wills deposited in the Ber-
lin royal court over fifty years aso are SILL
| lying there unopened and without clamants
Joseph Silk, aged IS, upon being
| reprimanded by his father at New York
Tuesday shCt himself five times in the head.
Walter Lawren e, who died in Lans-
| ingburg, n. Y, had for many years believed
| that he was immortal AMI would never die
The Cub1ns have the most of our
| mutilated coin TIE banks in this country
sent it to them because they would as soon
| haveit.
The Buffalo Express is filled with
| alarm lest Nlr. Cable snal. be mistaken iii
| Chicago for the inventor Of The cable street
| railway.
archibald Forbes, the English war
correspondent, has settled down t. bard and
steady work in order to regain the fortune he
| has lost
The Emmet Catholic association al
| Dover. n. H, has been triore TO oishand
by the priest of the parish, Or else the mem
bers viii be eXconlEluGicatcd.
Victor Hugo is now de5oting se5eral
hours every day to The faal revision OF his
works for the complete form in which he
wishes to leave them to poss'r.ty,
James Riley, Now York telegraph
messenger boy, WHOSE BRAN has bee turned
by yellow back literature, cyntinually howIs
that he is Butts, the boy dstactiee.'
1t is stated that the lumber cut in
| Wisconsin the prs NJ season doubles the
quantity fellel last winter, and, as a result,
that prices will be mat rally reduced.
The Supreme Lodge Kosher Shell
Barrel, Hebrew order, endowed a nonA for
aged and infirm IsraeHt-s at Cleveland, Ohio,
as a tribute to the Jewish phiianThropist Sir
Moses Montetiore
An English tourist says that most OF
the hard wood shipped from this country to
Scotland is converted into paper folders aud
| other tTinkets and sent back to Us as souv-
enirs from the house in which Burns was
born OF died or the tree under which Walter
Scott wrote some of his most brilliant gems.
Rumors prevail at Milwaukee that q
shortage of 100000 has been discovered IN
the books of the bennett Harvest Machine
company. The officers and leading stock,
holders say that the examination of the &C
counts at the present time by experts is simply
the annual inquiry which ali large corpora
tions make, and that if any losses have oc-
Cured they may be credited to n,ismanage
ment 1t is also asserted that th5 ace cunts OF
". G. Morgan, manager, in Ha' ttord, Conn,
for Putnam, Earle & Co, of New YGlk, arr
| somewhat confused.