The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-14
THE NEWS IN Brief.

A great emigration from Italy to America
is expected as the result Of the recent cholera
epidemic
There was an earthquake Sunday in Anda-
lusia, Spain. Several houses fell, but no
body was injured
fostmaster QsRaral Villas is negotiating
for lca q of ). S. Cox's house in Dupont
circle, Washington.
Gen. Wo!~eley says he has no idea of
aband 3ning his intention TO rocapture Khar-
toum in the autumn.
1t is said that thsro are moro than 40 900
persons in New York city who depend upon
gambling fOT living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes carries a horse
chestnut in his pocket in full faith that it
prevents rheumatism.
James Ellis * Co, flour merchants at
Bradford Pa, f,iIad, with Liabilities
amounting to S3JgUj1.
The strike at tie Mccormick Reaper
works has ended, tho prlpriatovs acceding to
the demand, OF the strikers.
The steam saw-mili of Eldred e. Co. at
Blnffton, Mich, burned Sunday morning.
Loss, $40, 900; insurance, so 900
Henry Daam, prominent in the leather
business in Cincinnati, suddenly left the city
owing $1,000 to various parties,
Thomas j. Finney, Chicago agent of the
United States Lie Insurance company, has
been arrested for embezzling 1000 or more.
Three days quarantine has been ordered
at Marseilies France, ON account of the sus-
pected prevalence of cholera at the Spanish
port.
Buffalo" Miller, the pre- ,ident of the
western WHISKY pool is of opinion that high
license hos proved beneficial TO the whisky
trade.
At Less Summit. twenty-five miles from
Kansas City, tweatv-eisht buildings were
destroyed by fire Sunday, en,aling loss of
100000
Diplomatic gossip, in Washington assert
that an intrigue IS On foot to cedc to France
the strip of country through which the Pan
anna canal runs.
/, The proposed corn tax which was intended
to keep American corn AMI -four ont of Aus
tria has been abandoned, it having been de-
cIded to keep the tariff question in allegiance.
F. NJ Blackwell, a postal clerk on the
the Wabash railroad between ST. Louis and
Kansas city, was arrested at the Union
depot in st, Louis Sunday for robbing the
mails.
The French government has decided to
form two divisions, 10 be under the com
mand of Gen. Courey, for service in Ton
quin. Another division will remain in tile
soutE of France ready to embark at any
moment
Keefe and Fillio, charged with stealing the
ballot box of the Third precinct of the Third
ward were taken before Judge Halves on
bench warrants Bail was fixed at s., 900
Keefe was released on giving satisfactory
bond, and Fillio, being unable to give bond,
was remanded to jail.
About two days ago the child of Mrs
William Russell, OF Cleveland, was taken in
AMI died. After death the body turned
black Saturday a second child died of the
same disease, and its body also turned black
The symptoms manifested were purging
vomiting and irritation
Unfavorable exhibits are stu bsing re-
ported at the prominent clearing houses
The volume OF business last week shows a
decrease Of 20 OF per cent. as compared with
the corresponding wsak Of last year. Out
side Of New York the decrease was but 81
per cent The mfavorable report is made
more noticeable 10y the fact that six days
of 1885 are compared with but five days of
1884, Good Friday having interviewed last
year. In Chicago the decrease was 17.2 Der
cent