The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-08-26
THE NEWS IN 9slgs.

John Ruskin, the English art critic, d
convalsscent
During the week ended Aug. % there we're
5l3, 4sf silver dollars Issued from the mint.
John r. Cough, who has just completed
his 6Sth year, is saii to be seriously failing
in health.
Sam Jones says that if he lived In Chi
eago he would drink river water in prefer
snce to whisky.
The DeSplsines, Ills, camp meeting ended
Monday. The ram flooded the grounds aud
compelled everybody 10 leave.
Miss Laura Bradsn. treasurer Of the
W ashington & Wsynesburg railroad is said
TO be the only female railroad official in the
country.
In speech Monday night the British at.
torney general denounced Mr. Chamberlain
as a Socialist and warned his hearers
against "thievish attack on vested in
terest5.
Miss st Quentin, the vocalist, contradicts
the sensational story that, at New Orleans
recently her tenor, MIR. Henry Molten,
struck her with cowhide during the per-
| formance.
| The Hon. James q. Blaine was given q
reception Monday afternoon ON board the
| United States steamer Tennessee at Bar
| Harbor, Me. A salute of twelve guns was
| fired in his honor.
German manufacturers of boots and shoes
are making rapid strides toward the highest
| degree Of perfection of manufacture, and
many of the shops ara completely furnished
and conducted on the American plan.
| Monday afternoon car filed with speci
mems of Oregon agricultural products, lifted
| up under the direction Of the state board OF
immigration, started on its eastern journey,
and i, expecCsd to exhibit at Chicago Sept
IA TO 49,
Adiutant General Drum received dis
patch Monday from the officer commanding
in New Mexico, saying the southern Ute'
were starving, and that unless food was i'm
mediately procured for them they would g
out on the warpath.
The growth Of the female population il
the large cities is a remarkable feature o
the venslseS Of the time New York has
surplus Of about %, 900 women, Boston @
Is 900, Baltimore of 1900 and so ol
throughout tine whole list of cities in tn
east
League ball games resulted Monday: New
York 10, Providence 5; Boston 3, Phila
delphia o. The following games wer
played by American association clubs: A
Pittsburg Plttsburg 9, Louisville 3; a
Phila elpdia- Athletics Is, Baltimore J; a
Brooklyn Brooklyn :; Melropolitans B.
James Gordcn bennett contributed S25
, 900 toward the build ing of the America
yacht Priscilla, TO compete With the Eng
r liSh sailor Gsnesta, ami prevent her froI
r carrying of across thN Atlantic the queen
, cup, 50 CALAMITY won ly tine American
British waters thirty-frur years ago.
/ Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, issued ol
ders for special elections to be held Tuesday
Nov. 5, IN the Seventh dj.trict Of the 81
preme court to elect a successor to Judge
! LYLE Dickey, deceasei in the Ninth judit
Ial circuit to elect q successor to Jud ys J,
siah McRobcrt-, decegSed, aud in the Fift
= con res iuual l-trlct 80 aiect a successor I
Con FRESHMAN Reuusn Ellwood deceased.
Samnd,I, an allegel prophet of Islam, {
tine Eeaa q. 100 900 men, Is lighting Paga
pot,nta o. II Central Africa and spreRdui
the aim Of BANNED. Already tt
power { serera rulers has been DESTROYS
and tlou7aads of lives sacrificed 1t is b
Iirv al rhat SlNu.iu'a operations Will haN
: The effect II opantuG interior sections
| American negro mi ,slonaries, and thu
| American commerce will also re enhance
| thsIa