The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Nation lllsl section was swept by
fierce hailstorm Tuesday evening.
Dr. Edward W. Davis. of Dodgeville
Wis, committed suicide Monday evening.
The late Minerva Greeley, of Hartford,
Conn, left $50 coo to Carleton college, Min.
nesota.
The Fargo Argus says Dakota has enioyea
the loveliest spring weather for the last two
months
Andrew Jackson Gross, of Cloyerport.
KY, has been appointed United State; mar
shall for that state.
Agents OF the Pennsylvania Railway COM
pany have been instructed to restore passen-
ger rates on all its lines.
Ryerson & Brown, livery stable keepers
failed Tuesday, in New York with liabili-
ties estimated at $500, 900
Ell Makki, a rival Of the False Prophet in
the Soudan, is now said to be Larry MacSey
who used to keep a shoe store in Donegal
Ireland
The wheat plant has greatly improved in
the Wabash valley within the past week.
and the prospects now indicate, it is said, a
beautiful harvest.
Richard A. McCurdy, the secretary of the
late Frederick S. Winston, succeeds to the
presidency of the Mutual Life Insurance
company, OF New York.
Rugg, the stranger Of the Maybee
women WHO is awaiting execution at Long
islrnt City, n. Y, has become member of
The Roman Catholic church.
The election for collector at Chenoa, HIS,
Tuesday, resulted in tie, the contestants.
Messrs Arnold and P,nkey, Grew cuts" for
the position, GnI Arnold won.
Irince Bismarck is regular subscriber to
the London Times for the reason, as he saws,
that he wants to real daily the same matter
peru cd by the British nobility.
Great satisfaction is expressed at Berne,
Switzerland, over tie recall OF United States
Minister Cramer who has made himself ob.
noxious by his active championship OF the
Salvation army.
Early Tuesday m raing an express train
on the Louisville. New Albany & Chicago
road was ditched ten miles north of Indian
apoiiS. The engineer was the only person
hurt, but tie 10 in rolling stock is heavy.
A preliminary peace convention has been
signed by France and China, according to
the terms of which France is to abandon her
claim to an indemnity and is 10 raise the
blockade OF Formoss pending tae evacus-
ton OF the island.
Howard Cooper, the negro who outraged
and manned Miss Graz near Roeklani. Nd,
last week, was captured Monday night by
farm hands, taken TO Towson jail, and Ia ter
privately conveyed by the sheriff and two
deputies to the prison in Baltimore. Cooper
confessed the crime
Maurice Thompson, the poet and graceful
writer Of outdoor prose, WHO has recently
been appointed state geciogist OF Indiana,
has written a novel called AT Loves ex
tremes,' which Cassell s. Co will publish in
April The scene OF the story is laid in the
mountains of North Carolina.
The death list of the day includes the
names of Mrs. +. o. Prince, of Boston; 0.
H Goodwin, county clerk at Grand Rapids,
Mich. Joseph B. Milan, ST., an aged citizen
of Norwalk, Ohio and Mrs. John Black, the
widow of a pioneer resident at Freenort,
Ills The mother of Gen. John A Rawlins,
residing near Galana, is dying from stroke
of paralysis.
Thomas Jefferson built small observs-
tory at Charlottesville in 1925 Now on the
site of that there stanls new $G4. 900 OBJ
servatory, endowed with 81, 900, and with a
new twenty-six inch telescope that cost
$4,000. OF the SUMS mentioned Laander
j. Mccormick gave 500, 900, W H. Wander
bilt SIS, 900, aai the alumni OF the Uni
versty of Virginia the balance The obsery-
atory will be opened with ceremony on the
18th inst