The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-09
THE NEWSjN B9ls>.

A league is being formed to restore ths
temporal power of thu .lope.
Boston has thirty seven residents as.
sessei at over IL U00, 900 eaeh
TIE amount contributed to the Gar
field monument fml IS sI32, 399
Yearly interest on the public debt has
fallen from Sl43, 00o,oiJ in 1868 to s5S, 0e0,-
000
Ex-senator Conlling was invited to
taffy pulling by an Oneida ,eoaaty farmer
last week.
Senator Sewell, of New Jersey, is said
to use more iai i'll signing his name than any
man in chat branch of congress.
An Omaha paper can count 145 DELHI
crate murders watch have occurred in Kan
sas, Nebraska and Colorado since the lst Of
last August
William Churchill and four brothers,
resident Of Newfoundland, ara said to have
fallen heir to a fortune OF SO, 90 900, left
by a relative in England
In just one point the record of business
failures for 1884 i favorable The percent
age of the assets of bankrupts to their liabil-
Peter Frelich stabbed Gus Mundbrood to
death at Cedar Rapids, Nednes hay morning,
and while pursuing the murderer Police Capt
Mcdonald was run over by a train and
killei
Mr.. and Mrs Gillette, Of Canaan, Mass,
have just eel, brated their seventeen we'd
ding amtiv ersary i'll the house in which Mr.
Gillette was born and has lived for ninety
years
In December British imports decreased
'97, l6l poun4s sterling compared with De
cember last year The exports decreased
l, lSO, 800 pounds sterling compared with De-
cember, 1888.
An inventory of the real and personal
property OF tn, late john w Garrett, of
Baltimore, Snow, an aggregate of $50 0OJ, =
900, all Of which Is begueathed to his widow
and three children
Failures reported Wednesday were:
Stevens bazar, Elkhart; French q Choate,
stationers, New York; John Kelly, grocer,
Mattoon, Ills, and Ii. ". Woodruff q Co,
hat, caps an furs, C.ncin lati.
The will of the late Mrs Clarissa c.
Peck, wild W OF Plilan.ler Perk. was ad-
mitted to probate. Tn estat,- j. valued at
$500 900 OF this amount $50 go is divided
among the relatives AMI tn J rsainder is to
be used for the founding OF i home for in
curables.
The Berlin correspondent of The Lon
don Post safes thar thu active participation
of America IN the Berlin con- erence concern
ing the Congo country was favored by Bis
marck, AMI there is Il curiosity in diplomatic
circles to know If German American CO.
| operation threatens the British possessions in
America a well a, in Africa
AT the funeral services of the Rev Noah
Hunt Srhentk, a popular pastor of Brooklyn.
Wednesday, the church was decorated with
| ever Green's, and funeral draperies were no
| where visible Mr. Schenck had always
tau bit that death was not an event to be
incurred Tor, but som 'thing To be rejoiced
at, the soul having departed to a happier
| world
Claiming TO lie a descendant of Anneke
Jams MIS- Emma h. Nuillce OF Cincinnati
began suIt at New Norl. Wednesday against
| the Trinity church corporation for a divis
| ioa of the property She demands one
| thirteenth of the Jams estate and claims to,
| charter OF Trinity churrA, executed in 1881
is still in force, but has been violated by tn,
| church corporation.