The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-12
The NEWS IN BRIEF


The Boston pool-rooms var. r.,a.a
wednesday, and persons found en1ae oi. =
selling pools arrested.
A heavy frost fell Thursday night a,ony
the eaStern portion of the Iowa division OF
Tue Illinois Central road.
Inc Iowa state board of health has nro.
hiolted public funerals of persons who AZ
from smallpox, scarlet-fever or dipbtbs.
ria PA'no
League ball games yesterday rasu,taa
Cnlcago IL, st. Louis l.; Providence Nav
York |; Buffalo Z, Detroit 5; PhiladsIpbia 4
Boston 2
uainDlers from chicago and other points
having crowded Pittsburg, the mayor of the
I T town closed all the gambling houses
wednesday night
narrow Spencer & Co., grain dealers at
oc Louis, made an assignment Wednesday.
Win liabilities Of 100000 and assets est.
mated at SlO5, 900
Edward, "alias "Dutchy," OKeefe was
sentenced Wednesday in Judge Moran's
court In Chicago to one year in the peniten-
tiary Tor stealing the Third ward ballots.
Inc marquis of Lansdowne, governor gen
eral OF Canada, and President Cleveland
are expected to attend the opening of the
Niagara Falls International park on July
Is
George W. Childs has presented to the
new Ashbury Methodist church, of Phila-
delphia, memorial window to the late
Bishop Simpson. The cost Of the window
was 81, 500
The condition of the tobacco plant in New
England, Pennsylvania, New York, and
wisconsin is considered favorable, but the
acreage is from Is to 20 per cent. below that
last year
Charles IL. Lewis, the colored barber at
the White House from the beginning Of
President Grants administration till the
close of Arthur's, was admitted to the bar
in Washington Monday.
The -four production for the week ended
June by the Minneapolis mills was 81, 400
barrels, against 81, 760 for the preceding
week, There are mora liberal inquiries for
flour, and the market has stronger tone
The Sisco family, of Hackensack, N. j.,
have great deal of pride, but are inclined
to show it in peculiar way. When San.
ford Sisco was hanged for murder last Fri
day his old father stood outside the jail and
offered to bot $50 that his son would die
game.
A letter from England states that the
real name of Maxwell, who killed PreIier in
the Southern hotel at st. Louis, is H. NJ
Brooks; that his father is a schoolmaster.
and that after forging the lattsr's name he
left for America taking with him severa
articles belonging to other persons
The Rev. Henry D. Jardine, rector of st
Mary's Episcopal church at Kansas City
having sued The Times, of that city, 70,
! $500 for libel in making charges of i'm
morality, The Times Wednesday morning
stated that Jardine, when II years of age
served two years in New York penitenti
airy for the burglary of relatives farm.
The National Agricultural department
from present conditions, estimates the whea
| yield of the county at $50, 900 900 bushels
| The cotton area has been increased about
per cent, the plant being healthy and hi
| stand good. Rye, oats, and barley are II
the acreage Of corn will be increased.
Directors and stockholders of the Chicago
Milwaukee & St Paul railroad held thei
annual meeting Wednesday at Milwaukee
President Mitchail and other officers bein;
reelected, and Phil d. Armour, of Chicago
chosen to fill the vacancy in the director
caused by the death of S. S. Merrill Tn
road will build new depot at Milwaukee
this summer.