The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-22
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

There is shortage ef lis, 900 900 spruce
logs in Maine this year.
Work upon the South Pennsylvania rail-
road has been ordered stopped for the
present
The assessed valuation of railroad prop
erty in Indiana this year reaches S54 9St513,
against $50. 159, 800 in 1884
In battle between the government forces
and revolutionists in Colombia 1000 men
are said to have been killed
A New Yorker left his spring overcoat
hanging out of the window. and a sparrow
made nest in one OF the pockets.
The iron mining business in the Mar
quette and Menomin ee ranges is reported as
very unsatisfactory, and no profits are be-
ing made.
Ida Kimball, aged H. shot and killed W
I. Giles, music dealer, at Bed ford, Iowa,
Monday Miss Kimball claims that Giles
betrayed her.
Joe Ninton, of Montreal, who has saved
thirty-two people from drowning, has been
presented with gold watch and chain by
Canadian officials,
League ball games Monday resulted:
Chicago, Z, Boston s. Buffalo, 5; Provi-
denco, 5.-New York, 5; St Louis 2-De-
troit, S; Philadelphia l.
Londe Shipley, II years old, fell asleep in
meadow near Montgomery lad, Monday
| and was run over by moving machine
| cutting him almost to pieces
The New York Tribune says that 9, 500
stores and shops in that city are now closed
on Saturday afternoons, and that rs a result
at least $4,000 persons enjoy weekly half
holiday
Near Douglass, Kan, Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Carman, the formers
mother, Mrs, James Carman, and Mr. and
Mrs. Koutz, were drowned while fording
the Walnut river in wagon
Quo warrant proceedings have been be-
gun before the Ohio supreme court against
the board of managers of tho penitentiary
to test the new law, empowering the man-
ayers to parole first-term prisoners.
| In the sculling race, three m.les, at Pitts
burg, Monday afternoon, e ludaur de-
| feated Teemer by a length in 1885, Leaf
ing the best record by 29h seconds Hos
mer, Hamm, Mckay, and Ten Eyck also
started.
| if'Fibh Np'i VIC ACiH uutb an ilti lJI oNel ut-
mand for their commodity wArh encour.
ages them to hope for a stepiy upward
movement Boston being the biggest WOO
market in the country, better tone there
is significant Of better business all around
The window-glass workers convention ad
journed Monday night at Pltt7burg after
having perfected federation of all the
window-glass workers in the world. jaime.
Campbell, of Pittsburg was elected presi
dent of the universal organization, the offic,
of which will lie at CLarleroi, Belgium
Barnum's elephant, Albert, which killed
his keeper last Saturday, was taker
to the Keene, n. H., suburbs Monday after
noon and shot, thirty three members of
militia company firing at the beast at tn
same tims. The remains will be sent to tn
Smithsonian institution at Washington.
Col. Joyce, of Philadelphia, has replied T.
the accusations of Ella Wheeler Wilcox re
lative to the alleged plagiarizei poem Low
and Laughter" and says: a wrote AM
composed the poem Love and Laughter
for the late George D. Prentice in the wine
room of the Gait house a; Louisville, KY.
in January, 1868, being then adjatant of tn
Twenty-fourth Kentucky