The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-02
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The southern exposition at Louisville will
open Aug. Is.
The Rock Island ~car-shops at Trenton.
No, were destroyed by fire Tuesday morn
ing, the loss reaching $3.50, COO.
While digging cistern near Caledonia,
D. T.. last week the workmen struck frost
at distance Of five feet below the surface.
A Virginia negro who refused his wife
new pair of shoes Is behind the bars. She
told of murder he committed twenty years
ago.
The Wisconsin Central road is removing
the old rails ON their line between Milwaukee
and Ashland, and replacing them with steel
rails
Samuel J. Randall Is to contribute an arti-
Gle on the tariff to the first number Of an
Atlanta magazine called Dixie, to appear in
August.
The business failures in Canada for the
past six months numbered $40, against 752
for the same time in 1884 The decrease in
liabilities amounts to s., $4,000.
The Hon Washington Bushnell ex-at-
torney general Of the state, and a friend of
President Lincoln and Governor Yates, died
suddenly Tuesday evening at Ottawa, Ills
Able Dsvins of Des Moines Iowa, a stu
dent at Cornell, was accidentally knocked
from the bridge at Livermore Falls N. H.
Tuesday morning. ard, falling on the rocks
beneath, was killed instantly.
The body of Mrs Unger, who, it is sup
posed, had been murdered by tramp, was
found concealed in haymow at Dawson,
| o. T., Tuesday evening. The womsn's skull
had been beaten in with an iron wedge
In 1862, during the war of the rebellion,
Mr.. Charles H. Hooper, of Castine, Me. sent
| a letter home which his wife never received
until last Friday. Twenty three years were
occupied 10y the mizsive in coming from
| Washington to Castine.
Col. Dent, Gen. Grants brother-in-law
who is in Washington, said that he had @re
| ceived information from the family that
| the cancer had commenced to infiame the
| jugular vein, and that death was 6
question of but few days, in the opinion
| OF the physicians"
Loyal l.. Smith, the absconding dry good
| dealer Of Omaha, has been traced to Aurora
| Ills, at which point, or near there, h
quilted Burlington train. Fuller, Smith
cashier, is said to be Bartlett who, few
years ago, swindlei the Chicago, Burlington
| & Quincy road out of S31, 900 and fed t.
| Canada.
President Cleveland Tuesday appointed
the following named gentlemen govern
ment directors of tho Union Pacific rail
road: Francis Herman, of New York; Ed
ward +. Noyes, of Ohio; Gen. E. p Alex
ander, of Augusta, Ga; Franklin Mac
Veagh, of Illinois, and J. w. Savage o
| Nebraska.
At ST. Louis Tuesday morning Mr. Rock
woods roam gelding. Harry Parker, pacet
ten miles in % minutes 52s4 seconds, finish
ing in prime condition. The best trottinI
record for ten miles is 27:23A, and the opin
ion Of those who witnessed Parker'S expioi
is that, had he been pushed, he could easil.
have beaten the trotting time.
At the meeting of the Dane County Med
zeal society Tuesday at Madison, Wis,
young Norwegian named Iverson, who
suffering from leproSy, was placsd on exhi
bition and presented a horrid appearance
IversOn says the disease Is hereditary in hi
family, but, save In his case. had not ap
peared for several generations.
League ball games Tue-day resulted: CHI
cago Is, Bo,ton 9; New York |, Detroit
St Louis 8, Philadelphia 4; Providence II
Buffalo 9. Games were played as follows b
clubs belonging to the American association
At Pittsburg- PittShurg y, Cincinnati 4; q
| Philadelphia Athletics Is. Metropolitans
at Baltimore Baltimore IS Brooklyn IL; a
Bouisville-Louisville 3, St Louis ,