The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-07
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Sitting Bull announces that he would
like to become citiz n aud lie allowed to
vote.
Butler & Co, clothicrs At Vinton, Iowa,
have made an assignment. They owe s27,
900, and have assets o. $4,000.
The proprietors of the Hotel Brun swick
at New York, made an assignment Thurs
day, giving preferences for $5S,000
Ex-Governor Hoyt of Pennsylvania,
tells that when he was in college Iafayette)
he and his classmates got board for 81 cents
Il week
Matte Feed shot and fatally wounded,
at Youngstown, Ohio, Thursday, Edward
Shell, who hai seduced her and refused to
right the wrong
The loss ty fire in the United States and
Canada during January is IS, 503, 000-more
than s1,00000) above the average January
loss in nine years.
The London newspapers have a curious
etiquette f0rbidding one to either quota or
comment uron anything that appears in the
columns of another
One man in Boone county, another in
Peoria county, and woman in Kane
county, His, are reported, by DR.. Paaren to
be afflicted with CHAMBERS.
The steamship Wilmington, from San
Francisco for Victoria, with passengers and
freight, is many days overdue, and it is
feared that she has been wrecked.
At meeting of the Illinois board Of
health Thursday the Old officers were re,
elected, including Newton Eateman as presi-
dent, and DIR. Rauch as secretary.
| 1t is stated that q very extraordinary
| diamond weighing 10 SIS than 45f caratS,
has been shipped from south Africa to Eng
land The Koh-i-noor weigh l06 earats
Women constitute over quarter of
Germany's a&ri.ultura laborer~. Ia the
! last ceGsu, 1, 692, ,3IS per. oa5 were returned
| as engaged in agricultural WORK, of whom
! |, ,2Sl 0sl ars females.
The steamship Servia reached New
! Yurk Thursday alter a iearfuliy t9mpestu-
oas pas;a looking ike a wreck, and the
! Alaska, d0e last Saturday, has not yet been
sp ken at Sandy Hook.
While 80 guests were congratulatng q
| young coupe WHO hal just bees married al
Plato, Ills., Wednesday evening, the pariol
| for Of the reailenca fell mo lAe cellar
Bat three persons were injured
Miss Florence White. of Brookston
Ipa, who first poisoned her i}egitjmat
babe anl then burned tie remains wa'
given two years IN the ss..{e retormatory by
jury NJ iog#nsp IT, Thar 'ay.
On sbaW's island, W T, lunatic whs
live ia a las,iy > ot, h,lia q hunter an,
later shot an kilel c le Of a harift's posse
The latter then burned the cabin, tn mnr
derous maniac p,rj,ain; IN the flames.
The New Cr!cans Iicay unc says that
striking feature a. jit- wa4aane oepn tnan
of the exposition Is he display of beautiful
work made by aged women In fact tn
sO-yeaI-oId ladies have a mora cretitabl
showing than tho of Is and -.
The receiver Of the Laporte, Ind, Saw
ings bank, reported in court Thursday tha
the assets exceeded The liabilities by $4,000
upon which the old hoard of trustees was re
appointed, officers were elected and tn
bank will resume business next Moniay.
At the French cooks ball in New Yorl
the other night "lrioute from Boston" wa
received which puzzled many of the guests
It was a framework eight feet high, in tn
shape of an Indian pagoda, with window
and doors covered with strings of drie
beans of various colors The entire build
ing material was beans.