The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-05-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Western export association l., s.ss,ov
at Cincinnati Monday. aareed 70 o,, -
ton. Piouuo
Inc irult crop. with the single exception
u tne peaches, in the Hudson river valley
VIII be one of the largest and best in several
years 81 :"
senator voorhees,, of Indiana, has ar
cepted an invitation to deliver an addras,
before the Birmingham, Ala, public school.
in June. '0i,o'i'
The Soldiers and Sailors, assoc;at;on .,
southeastern Michigan will hold their AN.
nual encampment at Devils lake. Lenawee
county, beginning Aug. 90.
The Brooklyn Eagle urges the administra
'ion 70 publish the names of all office-seekers
anu also OF those recommending them. be.
lore any appointments are made.
DIS patches from various points in Ken.
lucky state that the tobacco crop is tbirtv
Gays behind and that this years crop will
% one OF the poorest ever known.
living to decreasing business the Pitts.
burg On exchange will close its doors and
divide the surplus in the treasury. At one
Time the stock of the concern sold at 50 5oC
per share ~N''''
Allen Bramm beat his sweetheart.
:, Uaonerine Bohan, with revolver fatally
tuesday afternoon at Wilkesbarre, and then
rushed to the river to drown himsslf and
has not been seen since.
Angus Bratt, a leading citizen. enterad q
room in an hotel at East Liverpool Ohio
tuesday night, and shot dead its occunant
Jef Z. Davis, of Youngstown, Ohio, whom
ne charged with slandering his daughter
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, arrived at
st Louis Tuesday, and in an intarview
stated that had he been nominated after
Morrison's withdraw wal he would have been
elected sene tor with the aid of some Repub.
ican votes.
League ball games resulted Tuesday: Chi
cago IL, Boston 10; Providence 8, Detroit 2
flames were played as follows by the Amer
lean association clubs: At Cincinnati-Cin-
cinnati TO- Athletics 5; at Pittsburg-Pitts-
burg 2, Baltimore /; at Louisville-Louis-
vile 5, Metropolitans d.
Charles ?. Boyd, who absconded from
Steubenville, Ohio, last fall, after commit.
tng torgerles to the amount of SO, 900 was
brought captive to Pittsburg Tuesday
night, having been arrested at Columbia. S.
T. 1t is said his forgeries aggregate
500, 600
In the professional double-scull race, three
miles, at New Orleans Tuesday, Hosmer and
Gandauer won in lS:49A, Mckay and
Parker second, and Plaisted and Teemsr
third. The amateur single-scull event, in
which representative of the Catlin club, of
Chicago, took part, was won by Morgan, of
the Eclipse club, of New Orleans.
Miss Blance Bucklis, of jamestown. Ohio.
was engaged to marry Mr.. Baldwin, of FIRE.
mont Neb., and the wedding was to have
taken place last Thursday evening. The
groom was received at the brides home with
open arms, and all went well until the hour
for the ceremony, when the. young lady alb
solutely refused to act as the bride. She
made no explanation and still refuses.
Medical experts from New York discoy-
cred that the plague at Plymouth Pa, was
caused by the discharge of patient stricken
with typhoid fever during the winter being
carried from vault by rain and thaw into
a ravine, though which the river flowed,
and thence into the reservoir supplying the
town, with the result of communicating the
disease to between 600 or 700 people. There
was one death Tuesday, and three new
cases.