The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-05
OCk ISLAND. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER ), 1855.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,

1t is rumored that John r. Mclean will
buy The St Louis Republican.
A reduction of ~ cents per pound on
sugar was made Tuesday by the California
Sugar refinery.
The Ohio supreme court Tuesday denied
the motion for rehearing of the Scott law
refundng casea
The supreme court Of Texas has decided
that will scrawled on a candls-box is a
legal instrument
Adam Werst, town treasurer at Franks
yillo, Wis, is missing, and his bonismsn
iave attached his property.
A German clergy man and an English girl
With romantic ideas married on an iceberg
n the Arctic ocean recently.
Within a short period 5000 hogs have
lied OF choleN in Logan county, Illinois,
nd the disea'e shows no signs Of abating.
Tlona, A. Ell on's father, an old gentle
man OF 81. living in Michigan, will go to
Europe this week for the first time in his
life.
Maj Stanley, New York bookkeeper,
who embezzed 81, 800. has fled to Canada
With married woman who met him at
Buffalo
The Chicago a. Western Indiana and the
Belt Line roads have decided to refuse
the Wisconsin Central an entrace into
Chicago.
An assignment was made Tuesday by
Isaac Hamilton. farmer of Madison
county. Ohio. Hi, assets and liabilities. re-
spectively, are about $4,000.
Miss Fannie Mills, of SanIusky, Ohio,
wears No. 80 shoes, and they cost SIS a
pair. She is making fortune exhibiting
her foet in New York museum.
A woman's colony is to be located in the
q al, ~ 4 H. Al u
lists will engage in raising small fruits AMI
domestic animals. No men will be admit
ted.
Capt. Alfred Taylor, of Westport, Conn.,,
and his wife will celebrate their diamond
wedding Thanksgiving week if they should
live until then. They have one son II
years old.
Emil Kiesewetter. Ohio's state auditor,
has sued The Cincinnati Times-Star for
$50, 900 for libel He was charged by the
paper with being implicated in the recent
election frauds.
Fields monument to Maj Andre ths
British officer executed for completely in
Benedict Arnold's treason), at Tappan,. N.
Y, was destroyed Tuesday night by afex-
plosion of dynamite.
Early Monday morning, at Wabash. Ind,
Mrs. G. Jelli,on, aged 2i, burst a blood ves-
sol, ana ulei instantly. Inc DOuy SWeiieu
to enormous proportions began to decay,
and had to be inferred in great haste.
Capt Cook, tha Yale athlete and oars
man, whose skull was frightfully fractured
by a hatchet in the hands of negro at
Philadelphia the other day, is getting bet.
ter. He sleeps like child, eats all that is
given him. AMI has no fever.
Undor promise of marriage Miss Annie
Reichert, n deaf mute, secured from Ell p.
Herr, also II deaf-mute a farm and other
property near Louisville. worth $4,000.
Annie I'd on the lanl and removed to
Chicago, and Herr began suit to recover at
Louisville Tuesday.
Near Morrisonvlle, Ills. Tuesday fore.
noon, COW partially wrecked a Wabash
passenger train, the locomotive falling ON
its sie the mail-car being wrecked, and the
baggage and smoker being derailei. The
engineer and fireman were badly hurt, but
tho passengers escaped with a severe shak-
ing.
A suit was filed at Owensboro, KY, Tues
day against Richard Monarch, John Gala.
CHAN, and the Davisss County Distilling
company by Simon q. Flanagan and wife
and others, who are partners of Monarch
Tho petition sets forth that Monarch has
practicel gross frauds, and has cheated the
complaiuant5 out of thousands of dollars in
various ways. which are specified in the
papers filed They desire an accounting
and settlement of partnership.