The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-05-29
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Victor Hugo's funeral has been fixed 70,
Monday, juno l.
Fire Tuesday night, swept away the bust
ness sectios of Scottyillo, Mich, with heavy
loss
Qaeen Victoria's bill for private kilograms
during her two weeks stay at AK les Bains
was 81, rs
By the hurting of a water-spout at Indi-
anola, Neb., Tuesday nig hit, nine person.
were drowned.
Mrs Jane Wallace, aged - years, we'll
known resident of Galena, Ills, has been
missing for three days.
Franklin Kinds, leading hardware mer-
chant of Dubuque, expired on Tuesday
evening, in his list year
John J. Van Leuven, millinery goods, at
Grand Rapids, Mich, made an assignment
Wednesday night, his liabilities amounting
to SIS 900
Mr. Clevaland's presidential pen is a steel
one in plain wooden holder, and his desk
is ornamented with small statue of An
drew Jackson.
The value of Jersey cattle killed by the
state veterinarian of Illinois, because of
their infection with pleuro-pneumonias ag-
gregates upward of $1,000.
Cyclones did serious damage Wednesday
at Nortonville Colts, and Frankfort, Kan,
wrecking several structures and injuring
many persons, a few fatally.
1t has just been discovered that Msssa'
chusetts has no state seal, and really never
had one, as there has never been an act
passed to authorize the use-of ono.
l.,
treal, modelled after the civil-service ass0
Citations Of London, made an assignment
Wednesday, with liabilities of 500, 900.
Herman c. Goliath, rich farmer o.
Rome township, near Adrian, Mich, ageC
| e., hanged himself Wednesday morning
fearing that he might become pauper
A New York woman had trouble with her
| siSter-in-law, and lawsuit was the result
in which Ter husband was the opposing
| counsel, and conducted the case agains
her.
Russell Sage is reported to have lost fully
! SS,0O0OO0 in speculation last year. He !
still very wealthy, but is growing more eau
| tious, and has not the dash OF his yOunge
| year,.
A wealthy Boston man has offered to be
come one of 100 contributors OF 500 each +
complete the $4,000 subscrition from tina
city toward the pedestal for the Barthold
statue
A delegate convention of the coal IN liner
of Iowa has been summoned TO meet at De
Moines June % next for united action in Sc
curing the passage Of laws regulating tn
screening and weighing OF coal
Rebecca f. X Hey secured a divorce a
st Louis Wednesday from her husband
Thomas X Hey, weli.know sporting man
ON tie ground of cruelty AMI bar barou
treatnsnt with 81, $40 aiimouy.
The Bank of Mitchell o. IT, of which Eli
jah Rutterfeld, of Milwaukee, is president
suspended NsinsSity morainS, and re
ceiver was appointed. Mr.. Butterfiell a
ecss that irregularities of the cashier (N
t. MetcalD eau 81 The disaster.
League tall games Wednesday resulted
Chicago 6, Providence !; New York ?
, Buffalo o; Philadelphia 4. st Louis 3: d
troit g. Boston l. Games wers played 1
follows bv American Association clubs; 4
st l.ouis-St. LOnis Z, Brooklyn .; at Cil
cnaati-Athletics 1G, Cincinnati 9 at Pitt
burg-P ittsburg 6, Baltimore 2.
Capt. Alexander S. Williams, of Il
Twenty ninth police precinct in New Yorl
was presented Wednesday night with
monster album by tho business men al
private residents whose property ana Nv
have been under his protection. The albu
, weighs 100 pounds, and ON the plush cover
} a laurel wreath of gold, and large wv
formed of twenty-one diamonds