The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-05
The NEWS IN BRIEF


British postal savings banks have ssaa
eOS, s65 on deposits. tStFtF
The earnings of the st. Paul road for Nav
quo" comparative decrease Of SIl0, 767.
Cnerries recently sent from California to
Caicago arrived in prime order, and further
shipments will be made.
President Cleveland has caused If r. ha
known that he will accept no invitations +,
college commencements.
The supreme court of Oregon recently de-
cfded that women should not be admitted ~
the practice of law in that state.
Miss Ella +. Ridd, of Keene. Ky, has
Just completed crazy quilt which contains
loo,ooo pieces and 94S, 6SS stitches.
Two hundred thousand bushels of WHEAT
We're taken to Toledo Tuesday for shipment
TO New York, by lake and canal, at 81
cents. "Ns
The Republican state central committee
oil Iowa, decided, Monday, to hold the next
state convention Aug. 26 and 81 at Des
Moines
Mrs. Mark Hopkins, wife of the million
are OF st. Clair, Mich. obtained a divorce
from her husband Wednesday on account
OF cruel treatment
Maud 5. trotted at Philadelphia Wednes.
day in 2:l3A the best record for this SEASON
of the year. The last quarter, up hill, was
covered in SlI seconds.
League ball games Wednesday resulted:
New York s, Philadelphia Z eleven
inningS); Buffalo IL, st. Louis 0; Proyi-
dence 4, Boston l. Rain prevented the Chi.
cago-Detroit game.
The flour output at Minneapolis for the
week was %, 100 barrels, against 1O7 sly the
previous week, Millers state that, prac-
tically, there is no MARKET but they are not
anxious TO sell at ruling prices.
Under suspension of the rules the Illinois
senate Wednesday adopted resolution pro-
vldlng for reprinting the adjutant generals
report containing Che record of Illinois sol
diers The joint resolution for adjournment
sine die June l6 was amended to read June
70, and then adopted.
Emory Clark, armed with two pistols,
forced his way into a church at Dalton, Ga.
Tuesday night and, elbowing his way
through the assemblage, MORALLY shot Sam
Watkins and then fired five shots at ran
| dom. Watkins offense was that he had
taken Clark girl out riding.
Secretary Whitney has received a de-
tailed statement of the present indebtedness
of the Worlds fair at New Orleans The
total amount of claims against the exposi-
ton is 1897 SlS, Of which $685., 900 is pro-
vided for by the appropriation-leaving a
balance on the wrong side of the account of
| S62,3lS
August Schiller (hrother-in-law of Carl
Schnrz and Edmund Jusssn, of Chicago,
| grain and general merchant, elevator pro-
| prietor, and private banker at Monee, Ills,
has been missing since Saturday, and
| Wedne day creditors seizsd his property
on executions He is also township treas
urer, and the trustee of funds for farmers
and citizens.
Judge Laport, of Huntington, Pa, is of
the same stnH the ancients found in their
heroes His son, accused of numbering q
friend, fled to his father for refuge, and
there confessed to the killing The old
judge told the boy he had sworn to obey
the constitution and enforce the law, and
taking him in his buggy to the county seat
he delivered him over to justice.
Consul Mackey, who raised disturbances
at Rio Grande de Sui Brazil, by shooting ar
editor who slandered him, is now on trial
His mother has sent him Bible with bel
prayers, and his father put in pair o.
Colts revoIvers and 100 cartridges, revised
edition. with the caution that while reading
the Bidle and saying his prayers he should
not forget to see that the pistols are properly
| luadal