The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Senator Allison, Of Iowa, sailed from New
York for Europe Friday
The entombed miners in the Philadelphia
,olliery, near Durham, England, were
inally reached Sunday, but all were dead.
1t is persistently reported that Victor
Hugo before he died begged that priest
might be sent for, but that his relatives
1atly declined.
The hat factory of Beckente & Co.. at
0anbury, Conn, was burned Saturday. The
.oss amounts to 100000 on which there
was an insuranceof s9O,0
The present political outlook in Ohio Is
thought to be unfavorable for the nominal
ion by the Republicans of either Foraker OF
Beatty for the governorship Of that state.
A farmer living at Curran, near Spring
iold, Ill. found over 300 letters concealed
Inder haystack. They were dated April
s. and are undoubtedly the remains of mail
-obbery.
d. Smith Battermore, n B. Harding,
and Jesse Smith were arrested Saturday at
ConnellSville, Pa. on the charge of having
raudulently obsainsd Sl2, 900 from the state
treasurer.
At Tracy City, Tenn, Sunday, John Man
1ing was shot and instantly killed by des-
perado named Frank Taylor. The sheriff
attempted to arrest Taylor who resisted, and
was shot dead by the officer.
Lord Randolph Churchill, speaking at Cam
bridge, denounced the increase Of the duties
IN liquor. To tax beer he said, Is virtually
to tax hariey. The present is not the proper
moment to impress fresh burdens upon agri-
,ul,ure
A tribe of Indians in Nebraska postponed
the national medicine dance until an agent
came east 60 buy a buffalo for the core
mony. The herds of buffalo on the plains
have disappeared before the march of civil
ization.
Russia finds herself confronted with new
trouble on her northern frontier. The peas
ant tenantry of the Baltic provinces Is in
clinel to rebel against the oppression Of the
landlords. Agrarian outrages are frequent,
and stern measures of repression have been
decided upon.
The crop prospects in Iowa are reported
excellent In some parts of Illinois corn
promises exceedingly we'll, while in Others
it is doing badly. In Wisconsin and Min
nesota chinch-bugs have made their appear
| ance, and in Indiana and Arkansas the sew
enteen year locusts have come in swarms.
The railway postal clerks, on lines Out
Of Chicago anticipating that their remova
will be demanded by Democatio Congress
men, have organized for protection, and t.
protest against an order which requires al
of them to pass civil-service examination
before being continued in office. This latte
step, they believe, is but a ruse to secure
their removal
| Sunday racing was inaugurated at thu
Chicago Driving park Sunday afternoon
the programme being made up mostly Of
chariot races. About 5 1000 people were II
attendance. DR.. Kittredge, Of the Third
Presbyterian church, who has declared wal
upon the dissertation, at the close of the
morning service called for volunteers te
visit the park and thorodghfares leading
thereto in search Of information that Is &C
tionable in the courts.
A strong syndicate is being formed Il
London to carry out in purely commercial
and speculative way Cardinal Manning
scheme to use the Gen. Gordon memoria
fund to found Cord IN free state, whicl
shall preserve the Nile for the worlds com
MERGE The syndicate viii form compan,
under the charter from the crown, and vii
soon organize series OF public meeting
throughout England to boom the enterpris
as national project to form a new basi
for the extension of British commerce an
the suppression Of the African slave trade.
Record of the Ball Players.
CHICAGO, June s.-The Chicago club no'
runs the New York club very close in th
base ball schedule, and Providence Is thir
in position The record Is Is follows: Ne,
York-games won 20. games lost s; Chicag
won 10, lost 6: Providence-won 10. lest
Philadelphia-won Is, lost II; St Louis
won 9, lost Is, Boston won 7, lost Is; Bui
falo--won Z. lost II; Detroit--won 4, lost Il