The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Belgian chamber of deputies has re-
iected the bill to tax imports of grain and
cattle
1t is not generally known that Washing
ton was tie inventor of plow which was
considered marvel Of ingenuity at tho
time.
Minister Foster has suspended the negotia-
lions with Spain concerning the proposed
lew commercial treaty with the United
States.
League bali games Friday resulted: Prov
ionce 5, Chicago 2; New York 3. St Louis
:; Philadelphia H. Detroit l; Boston IS,
Buffalo 6
MIR. Lowell has excited surprise in some
quarters by his failure to pay an official
visit to the president since his return to the
United States
Oil has been struck at a depth of 100 feet
N Saratoga county, New York, the drill
having passed through a stratum of salt and
vein of gas.
revolver was accidentally discharged in
gun shop at Bloomington, HIS, Friday,
5he bullet probably fatally wouniing B. F.
Kerr, a prominent farmer.
| The Chicago base ball club has secured
the services of Mr.. James Mccormick, one
Of tho best pitchers in tlFe country, and for
seven years q member of the Cleveland
club
| Hundreds OF acres of cranberry bog in
Burlington county, New Jersey, have been
burned over, and the fires are still raging.
| Thousands of dollars worth OF berries have
boen destroyed
The National Council of Education, with
EmsrSon Z, White in the chair, ssembled
Friday at Saratoga. A committee to draft
plan for a teachers union, for mutual
protection, was appointed.
Joseph Tulvab chief clerk in the New
York custom house. although a Democrat,
has held his Office, continuou ly for thirty
two years AMI has survived twelve changes
Of collectors His salary is $4,000 per year.
Mr. Brahnm, OF Jamestown, d. T., on
her way east, pa-Rad through Sparta, Wis,
Wedne stay night while the tornado was
blowing, and became so frightened that
when she reached Milwaukee size lost her
reason.
President Colby, of tbs WiscGn sin Central
ailway, states that it was not his road that
was recently granted articles of incorpora-
zion at Springfield, Ills, and that he knows
nothing of the concern which secured such
papars.
Statements puhlIshel in Chicago and else
where that Mrs. Grant and Mark Twain ara
sharers in the proceeds of bust of Gen.
Grant Karl GerharJt being the sculptor,
are fal,e, and have cauei pain TO the
generals family.
The Supreme Temple, Patrarchal circle,
adjourned Friday ut st Paul, after having
decided to make the order military one,
and also determined to adopt a system OF
insurance, the plan of which a special com.
mittee is to formulate.
The June wheat report OF the national
agricultural department estimates the ag.
gregate yield at sos. 900, 900 bushels The
condition of corn is higher than in any year
since 1880 1883 excepted, and cotton has
materially improved.
Touching the projected sale of Mexican
territory to the United States, A. K. Coney
Mexican consul at San Francisco, stated
Friday that the plan would be in opposition
to the wishes of the people, and further
more, that it was proh blted by the Mexican
constitution
Ex-President Hayes has written letter
to the mother of r. T. Odlum, who recently
was killed III jumping from the Brooklyn
bridge, expressing the regrets of himself
! Mrs. Hayes and the children Odlum laugh
the Hayes children, and the eK-presidsn
/, says he was q most excellent teacher t.
, whom the children were warmly attached