The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-07
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The overdue steamer GaIlia arrived al
Queenstown Sunday.
Toyama, Japan, was visited by a con-
flagration on May 90 which destroyed 5,9i7
houses.
In railroad collision at Mauch Chunk,
Pa, nine persons were injured, four of
them fatally
William Wood, chief clerk Of the Ashley
hotel, Bloomington, Ills, is a dsfaulter to
the amount of $4,000
Big Bear and a number of his braves
were captured near Carleton Friday by the
Canadian mounted police.
A case of yellow fever has developed at
New Orleans. 1t was of purely local origin
The patent is convalescent
The Baltimore & Ohio telegraph and ex-
press offices in New York were damaged by
fire to the extent of 800 900.
George o. H. Dunbar, superintendent Of
the Pittsfield, Mass, Coal Gas company,
was murdered near his home Saturday
night, robbery being the object
Old Pap" Whitaker who was a veter an
master Of ceremonies at all the principal
sparring events in New York for many
years, is lying on his death bed at Erie, Pa.
President Andrew D. White, of Cornell
university, in CONVEX alton with reporter
Saturday, stated that he was not and could
not be candidate for the Office of governor
of New York
Land Commissioner Sparks has made a
complete list of cases where the public lands
ia We been improperly fenced and in every
Instance the parties have been notified to re-
move the fences.
At the Washington park races in Chicago
| Saturday. the winners were Ballwin's Es-
trella, Corrigan's Modssty. Ashes Alta, Cor
rigan's Irish Pat Baldwin's Grismer, and
McBriie's Maj. Pickett
| j. C. Anderson deputy sheriff of Milan
| county, Texas, attempted to arrest Lee
Lovelaee and was mortally shot As An
derson fell he raised his rifle and shot Love
/ lace, killing him Instantly
In the Spanish senate, Senior Novaliches
has entered a protest agaln,t the visit of
King Alfonso to the cholera districts, claim
| ing that 1t was against any constitutional
right enjoyed by the sovereign.
DIR. Walter H. Lenox Maxwell. who
murdered c. Arthur Preller at the Southern
hotel. in St Louis, is in the custody of Off
GERS from the latter city, who expect to sail
from Auckland, New Zealand, July 81.
Tramps stole the clothing OF an unknown
man who was bathing in the Missouri river
at Omaha. He remained in the water all
day, and when he came out at nightfall he
was found to be insane, and died few hours
later.
Henry Ward Beecher announced in Ply
mouth church Sunday that next fall he
would preach on such subjects as the
Miracles" Prayer" "The Atonement, II
"The Divine Savior, Jesus" and "Immor.
tality."
Another heavy rainstorm visited eastern
Kansas and western Missouri Saturday,
which was the sixth day of almost continu.
Gus cold rains The work of gathering the
wheat crop is brought to a standstill, and
the damage is reported as great
Near Waldron Tex, Sunday morning, q
waterspout struck an eastbound freight
train, deluging the engineer. fireman and
braksmen, who abandoned the train and
climbed trees just in time to avoid wave
of water eight feet high and fully 100 feel
wide
Stevenson Takes Hays Place.
| WASHINGTON, D. C., July IA E Ste
venson, of Illinois. Monday, took the oatl
OF Office and entered upon his duties as frs
assistant postmasier-general Ex-First As
sistant Postmaster General Hay viii re
main in this city for a few days to assist hi
successor in learning the routine of Office
| He will than on Ia pittsb.rrr vvhan a fxa,