The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-10
The NEWS In s7le-.

The Current Fact is a new Republican
weekly started at ii ,cinnati.
The Civil Service Reformer is a new
and neatly printed monthly paper in Balti-
NOR.
4 box of mortar from the walls of q
Catholic chape! in ireland is effecting they
say many mira. ulols cures at Wheeling,
W. Va.
Mai Mutt, the midget, aged A, and
Clara CorGeld, agei Is vino is considerably
taller than Nut, were married Thursday at
Boston
The Transcontinental Freight associa-
ton has ma - -weepiH re AUCTIONS On iron,
steel, an glassware he. weea Pittsburs ana
California roin;s.
Edmund Gosse says he expected to find
III Amer ca n somewhat notified English
life but trat ie Is. in fact, French life
scarcely modiiiel at al
Stoyering Is Flcming's iron works,
foundry, and machine-shop, at Cleveland,
were destroyed by fire Thursday evening,
the loss reaching 100000, with 81, 800 in
surance.
The Democrats of the Missouri legisla-
ture in caucus at jefferson City Thursday
uight, nominated George e. Vest for re-ele9-
| ton for United States senator without op
| position.
| William Vaughan, of Grafton, w. Va,
| became jealous Of his wife. whom he mar
ried four weeks ago, AMI shot her dead
| through a window of their residence Thurs
day night.
The jury in the case of Dimick, the
| Buffalo insurance agent charged with
crooked practices could not agree, and was
| discharged. Dimick will be tried Jan. 20 on
| another Indictment
Becky Jones, the wonderful woman
who pre- erred going u jail rather than tell
| what she knew, complains ~ the New York
Iapers that Il certain alderman annOys her
| with his love-making.
| The assignment Of Donald Gordon, q
Rochester IN. " dry goods dealer, was set
aside Thursday, and Judgment for 5000,
900, vita costs of action was ordered to be
paid to H. b. Claflin &, Co, of New York.
4 new argument found against the
Spanish treaty is that it would strengthen
Spain in Cuba. There is a general senti
nent in Congress in favor Of the acquisition
Of the islani, and IA number OF public mer
| think that It will soon come into our hands
| upon easy terms.
A syndicate formed by tie Lake Su-
pcrior copper mining companies TO prevent
Improbable competition, was declared sub
yelrive of public policy Thursday ny tbs
New York supreme court, and an injunction
restraining the Quincy company, member
Of the organization, from making sales Ii
| violation of the agreement, was dissolved.
David dudley Field, a nephew o
Cyrus w. Field ami Stephen J. Field. died &
few days ago at Pamaix 4. T., under tn
assumed nama Of Donald Mckenzie II
was implicated in the Boss Tweed affair
and family troubles caused him 10 leave hi
home in Westtrook, NJ. some five or sil
years aga At Phoenix young Field, who's
last days were spent IN poverty, was n
spected as an upright utitn.
Failures reported Thursday embrace
JOHN :. Dew y o., 81 l!ers, liYerpoo!
Eng. W. J, MACK, merchant tailor, C.ncin
: matt; A. G. Hairy, iron and petroleum
broker, pittsbnrg; He's & Savll, woole
manufacturers, Knoxville, IL; (. z. Conf
lin, boots and shoes, Waupeca, Wis; Moor
& Wilson, straw board manufacturer,
Waterford, n Y; and Patterson, Boyne
| Co, wholesale grocers, Baltimore.