The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-25
1HE NEWS IN BRIEF

When Ferdinand Ward heard of the death
OF Gen. Grant, he remarked; II am verv
sorry very sorry, indeed
The outlook for small grains in Iowa has
been rendered extremely discouraging by
recent heavy rains in that ftate.
Owing to nonpayment of taxes, nearly
300 corporations have been enioined from
transacting business in New Jersey.
John Splan, the driver, was arrested
Thursday at Exposition park, Pittsburg,
for cruelty using the whip in a race.
League ball games Thursday were: Chi.
cago l2, Boston 2; New York 15 St. Louis
3; Providence z, Buffalo 2; Philadelphia 10,
Detroit q
Count De Lesseps' Panama ship canal
will cost S5o09000, coo, instead of Sl20, 600,
OO0, as originally etimated, and cannot be
finished before 1857?
Evan Vaughan, the London auctioneer,
has failed, and absconded with liabilities OF
80, 600 pounds sterling. Extensive forgeries
are attributed to bin,
Steward & Eames elevator AMI Touring
mills at Carlyle, Ills, were destroyed by
fire Thursday morning, entailing loss OF
S63, 900, with in urance Of $50, 800.
Pan-slayist political societies are having
placardel in the large towns of Russia IN
famm9tory addresses abusing England
with the object Of making war agitation
possible,
Samuel H. Buck has been appointed post
master at New Orleans, and William FL
Dawley postmaster at Amigo, Wis The
resignation of William Bum as governor of
Idaho has been accepted.
Walt Whitman, the poet, was Frustrated
by the heat, Wednesday night. while sit
ling on the steps Of his residence in Camden
n, J. He was letter Thursday, but suffered
severely from paia n his head.
james Mcmillan, miner who was out
of work, returned TO his home at Austin.
! town, Ohio, Wednesday evening, sat down
and wepJ, next kissed his wife and children,
and drawing a revolver blew out his brains.
| Agger q Sanning, manufacturers of bed
| steads at Cincinnati, have assigned with
liabilities of sl25, 600 and assets of $50, 900.
| The Eau Claire Chilled Plow company, of
Eau Claire, Wis, has made an assignment.
1t is rumored at Milwaukee that the St.
! Paul road will extend its line from Merrill
north to Ashland, Wis, and that the North.
! WESTERN Will IehlNe tLe Quarter oI TIE ROAD
designed TO run between Milwaukee and
Beloit
! Wednesday, at Elgin, Ills, Mrs. H. Lee
| Borden was granted q divorce from her hus-
band with 50, 900 alimony and $500 attor.
ney's fees Mr.. Borden, who now resides in
California, was for a number Of years q
leading citizen of Elgin.
The Grant Monument association fled
articles Of incorporation Thursday at
Springfield, Ills, tue object being to con.
struct and maintain monument to Gen.
Grant Among the board Of directors are
Senator Culom and Ex-Governor Palmer
An unknown person placed dynamite in q
Shock of grain on Mr.. John Deardorff's
farm, near Wabash, Ind, Thursday, and
when ran through thrashing machine ar
/ explosion occurred, which fatally injured
! Mr. Dearborn and wounded seve raj other
persons.
The miN-ownsrs of East Saginaw and Bay
! City, Micn., Thursday resolved not to re-
sumo operations except on the terms origi-
nally Ctfe ed-e!even hours and full pay OF
ten hours and ;roQortionata reduction
Occa>i nal attempts at intimidation are
still ma !e. but many strikers are seeking
work a. tae IL terms ana the miil-cwner
are nlieuj o: -G-pees. The Pennsylvania
coal MINER . Il session at Plttsburx, re-
solved + rsteF lac question Of afi.istioa
with tna I>Wgugs OF Labor to the national
convention, wl.cd meets at Indianapolis
next month.