The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Miss Julia Pease, o Vassar graduate, cul.
avates q 900 acres Of land in Texas
Dom Patt is writing life of one of the
greatest soldiers-George H. Thomas,
Mr.. George Riddle, of Carroll county,
Md, has living with him at the present tine
twenty-five Of his daughters.
By an explosion of gas in colliery near
PItston. Pa, Wednesday morning, a num-
Der of men we're severely injured.
Serena Morse, young woman who was
deaf and dumb, committed suicide by hang
ing Monday night at st. Charles, Ills.
Emil Moncourt attempted to kill his
brotheri in law Monday near Centerville,
Ills, and then going to his wife's grave in
the cemetery shot himself fatally.
Two cyclones swept over the section near
Sterling, Kan, Tuesday morning, demolsh-
ing or partly wrecking number Of houses
and barns, but no lives were lost.
In the second game of the balk-line tour
nament at New York Tuesday evening,
Jacob Schnefer defeated Maurice DAILY
800 to Sl6 Nine. Patti witnessed the con-
test
or the four American sculptors now set
biuh III al IL sc dIt lTbIl liltilOlNs NIX II.
I. Bringhurst, from Litchfieli; Mr. Bernard
from Chicago, and Mr.. Taft, from Cham
paign.
The National Reform association, Whose
platform opposes the licensing of the liquor
trade, easy divorces, p,lygamy, and carry
ing mails on Sunday, met in annual oonven-
ton Tuesday at Pittsburg.
The family of james Hlmiiton, living at
Northrop, Ohio, ate canned wbortleberries
at supper Monday evening, and all became
suddenly i'll, three prisons dying before
morning, and the recovery Of the others is
still in doubt
Miss Mary Moorhend, Of P.tt,hurg, Pa, q
sufferer from a painful disea-e OF thirty
years standing, has been restored to health
by faith and prayer. Nine persons at Mid
way, Pa, have also been cured by faith,
causing mild sensation in the district
The mine inspector icds great difficulty
in enforcing the law for ventilation and san
itary regulations in cartain coal mines in
Iowa, and Governor Sherman has announced
his intention to call out the militia il neces
sary, and close the coli risi until they obey
the laws.
lhS lilihplS h'u ~ - 'uNs AoSAAh7A oh
invitation of the I,inoi Central road Il
visit the New Orleans expo ition. Speaker
Haines was given leave of absence for 6
week to visit the exposition, and permission
was also granted that he take a select com
mittee with him.
| 1t is announced that the marriage of Miss
Edwina Booth and Mr.. lgnatius r. Gross
4 man, of New York, will take place mex
month privately, at the home of the bride
father in Boston. The young couple viii
take passage for Europe on May 30, ant
spend the summer there.
| Sunset Cox will not leave this country mi
til his new book, "rhree Decades of Fedora
Legislation" has been completed. The worl
is to be his best, and will be finely illus
trated with portraits of the men who hav
been prominent in public life during tn
period embraced by the author.
A waterspout Tuesday caused suddel
and unprecedented rise in the river at King
man, Kan, several houses, with thei
screaming occupants, being torn from thei
foundations and swept away. Four womel
and one man are known to have persisted
but it is feared that many children hav
been drowned.