The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-15
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

John c. Barley, coffee dealer at BaltL
more, failed Monday for sl39, 900.
In South mountain, near Sheridan, Pa, a
rich deposit of mica, worth So to 50 a pound,
has been discovered.
Professor Charles Kendall Adams, of
Michigan university, was Monday elected
president of Cornell university.
The Northern Pacific Railroad company
carried 8, 735, 00J pounds Of wool out of the
territory of Montana last year.
The reunion of tho Tri- State Old Settlers
association, of Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa,
will be held at Keokuk, Iowa, Sept 20.
A cyclone passet over Rock Doll, MINI.
Monday evening, destroying farm buildings,
crops and other property No lives are re-
ported lost
League bsll games Monday resulted:
Chicago T. Buffalo a; Providence 4, New
York .; Detroit ., ST. Louis 5; Philadel-
phia :, Boston l.
The Worlds exposition plant, buildings
and machinery st New Orleans were sold at
auction Monday for SIS, 900 The purchaser
was the new company.
Lightning struck Chinese restaurant in
Helena, Nj. T., and Ong Ong Jonk's face
was changed from copper color to black,
but he was otherwise uninju~ed
They are talking about introducing the
electric light on the farms in Algeria, so
that the harvest can be gathered at night,
the heat in tie daytime being too intense
for the farmers to work.
Buffalo BilIs Wild West show was at.
tached Monday at Norwalk, Conn. on at
tachments for S2G 900 at the instance of DR..
Carver, for breaking up his show and caus-
ing his malicious arrest.
After quarreling with and pouring boiling
coffee on her, at their home near Woodsfeld,
Ohio Sunday evening, David Cogan struck
off his wife's right arm with an ak and then
beat out her brains. He is in jail and
threatened with lynchiny.
Governor Oglesby Monday appointed 81
live stock commissioners John NJ Pearson,
of Madison county, ILL.,, for the term of three
years; Dewitt C. Smith, of Sangamon
county, for two years, and Hiram McChes-
ney, of Cook county, for a term of one
year
The Rev. J. S. Wood, an accomplished
Engl sh naturalist, advises tho introduction
of the English blue titmouse. He will eat
worms and caterpillars, which the sparrow
wont do, and is q match for the sparrow
The sparrow is no more fitted to kill worms
he says, than a rabbit is TO kill rats
The three electric light companies of Bos-
ton. comprising the British Electric com
pany, the New England Weston Electric
company, and the Merchants Electric Light
company, have consolidated, and will b.
known as the Union Electric Light and
Power company of Boston, with capital o.
$500 900.
| 1t is stated that President Cleveland ex
| poets to visit Saranac lake about Aug
He will be accompanied by several mem
| hers of his cabinet Mis- Cleveland vii
| spend q part of the summer at her home
| Col Lamont will take the opportunity O
the preSi tents absence from Washington tc
| visit friends in Cortland
Flood rock, an extension of several acre
below the tide level of He'll Gate, New Yorl
harbor, has been undermined, and its gal
leries will lie stored with 225, 900 pounds o
"rackarock," the new explo i've, and rs, 90
| pounds Of dynamite. The mined gallerie
will then DO flooded, and when the explosion
takes place the pillars viii be demolished
the roofs of the galleries shattered and tn
entire rock will sink 10 the bottom of tn
river huge mass of debris, which vii
afterward be removed piecemsal by dredges