The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-08-28
vHs NEWS IN asIEs.


At harvey's lake, near Wiikesbarrs. Pa.
sho" fei at intervals during Wednesday.
The Losses by Tuesdays cyclone at
Charleston. s C., are placed at 81, 1913, 900.
Reports from Minneapolis say -four is duh
and prices have declined during the last
week.
Mrs. Morton. the widow of the famous
oliver p. Morton, Is visiting in San Fran
cisco.
The Salvation Army is threatened with
prosecution in Boston for profanity because
It gives three cheers for Jesus"
The Thirty-fourth general assembly OF
Illinois cost the state directly SG6, 900 more
than its immediate predecessor.
The wheat surplus Of Oregon and Wash
ington will bs $50, 900 ton. The Northern
Pacific will carry ii east at IS psr ton.
Grand Army mon in Pennsylvania and
other states are said to be taking steps fol-
the erection of a monument 10 Gen Grant
at Galena, Ills.
At Sturgis, ID t., Wednesday night. Cor
poral Ross Hollis, of the Tweuty-ftth in
tantry, who assassinated Dr. H. p Lynch,
was hanged by the citizens
A man named Bemis plead guilty at
Greenfield, Mass, Wednesday, to incest
with his two daughters, and was sent to
states prison for twelve years
Edward Everett Hale is to be the editor
of a now magazine watch will be is,ued
very So in Boston, and which will be the
orenn Of the phianthropists in that ectiou
The Louisville a. Nashville Railroad COM
Inns iDpPaaSaI snto = H.
American Exposition company from $IS,-
100 TO $25,0OO. The available space of the
| exposition is being rapidly taken up.
Such anxiety was felt by farmers in the
Belolt, Wis, section Tuesday night regard
ing frost that many did not 60 to bed until
| the thermometer as ,nred them that there
was no danger. Ii frdst had fallen the loss
| to earn aud tobacco would have been meal
| culable.
A conference of the Amalgamated asso-
| clatL"n and sheet-iron manufacturers
Wednesday,, at Pitt burg, failed to settle
the rollers scale difficulty; and the union
notified manufacturers that strike will bt
ordered If the scale is not signed by the 18th
inst.
The Lafayette, Newtown s Wabash
| EliNtT Tdtuudu was incorporated Ne0neS
day, the capital being placed at 81, 00s,0O0
! The line is to run between Lafayette and
Terre Haute The president says an Eng
fish company has purchased the bonds, and
| that the contracts for construction have
| been lot
Richard Harris and wife, Mrs. Frank
| Bicknell, Mr. William Ball, and DIR. A
| Jones were arrested at Cenralia Wednes
| nay night and taken t. Salem, Ills, being
| charged with causing the death of Lille
| May Harris, II child OF Is, who was on
| ciente, by malpractice. The arrests canseG
| intense Excitement at CentralIa AS the par
ties are of come prominence.
| League ball gamer Wednesday resulted
Chicago 5, Detroit 2; New York T. Provi
dence D.; Philadelphia 5, Boston l. Butfal
association played as follow: At Cincin
nati-St. LOUIS ,, Cincinnati /; at Pitts
burg -titlsourg z, Louisville /; at Phila
delphia- Brooklyn IL, Athletics z; at New
YorK-- Metropoltans $ Baltimore D.
A boy ol III and u glrl of Is years RAJ
away from Waterbury, Conn, recently an,
were found living IN u brush shanty nea
Blue Mountain lake In the AdirOndacks
They said they had heard about Prssidsn
Cleveland stopping III the Adirondack, an
al7o read about Il by and girl runnin
away and camping in the woods, an
thought 1t would De Romantic to follow thel
example.