The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-05-26
THE NEWS IN 8 REF.

All the prizes this year awarded In the
university of Mississippi were carried of BY
young women
Ex-Ministsr Lowell states positively that
he will not accept the Merton professorship
at Oxford University.
Mr.. Blaine does not expect to leave Wash
ngton until early In June. He is putting
the finishing touches to his book.
1t is proposed to rapidly strengthen the
railway system Of India. No less than $50
)oo,0 is to be spent for the purpose
Ex-Governor William Pitt Kellogg has
gone to New Orleans to take steps to contest
the seat of E. j. Gay, congressman of the
Third Louisiana district
Posen and Silesia continues. and is attended
with much cruelty and hardship. The num-
Der to be expelled is 10000
Kanschen & Fayle's packing house, Brook
Ign, burned Saturday. One man was buried
under failed walls and killed Several other
persons were seriously injured.
Lulu West, a young girl of Laurens, s.
c., was stricken with paralysis two months
ago, and has not taken, particle Of
nourishmsnt for fifty eight days.
Rose Creole, l0s years old, living in Phila-
delphia, bud been blind for twenty years.
She has now her eyes opened, and has COM
msnced cutting a new set of teeth.
Queen Victoria celebrated her Goth birth
day Sunday But nine of the fifty five
sovereigns who have preceded her on the
throne have attained an equal age.
DR.. Taepen, principal of the Hamburg
school has been sentenced to three months
imprisonment for writing to newspaper as
serting that the Socialist Deputy Viereck is
natural son of Emperor William.
Riel, the half-bree rebel leader in the
northwest is in custody of the police at
Regina, the capital of the territory. Gen
Middleton deposed Bsariy and Okamassis,
chiefs Of the Duck Lake reserve, for par
ticipation in the rebellion.
The Yosemite stage, which left MADEIRA,
Cal, Friday morning, was robbed by high
waymen near Clark's crossing The passen-
gers comprised several members Of Ray.
mond's excursion party, who wers robbed OF
everything in the shape Of money and jew
els
The night express on tbs Mount Vernon
& Panhandle route was wrecked near Mount
Vernon, Ohio, early Sunday morning. The
smoker and one passenger coach lsft the
track and plunged into a small stream below.
OF twenty passengers no one was injured,
but the conductor was quite badly hurt
Vice President Hendricks has returned tc
indianapolis, and was serenaded by the
Democrats He made a speech, saying that
he had remained at Washington trying tc
help his friends to Office, aud that as the ad.
ministration was cautious about making re
movals of Republicans, they should be pa
| tent
The Rev. Arthur Richie. pastor Of st
| Ienatius church, New York, has introduced
several startling changes in the ritual and
services of his church, which has incurred
the displeasure Of many of his congregation
| and Of Bishop Potter. the lattsr going 30 fal
as TO refuse to administer confirmation II
the church.
| The Rev. Dr. Parkhurst of Grant Plac
| M. E. church, Chicago, took for the subjec
of his mornings discourse Sunday, ''Ha
| Every Man His Pricer' The remarks wer
instigatsd by the recent senatorial contes
| In this state. His conclusion was that ever,
man did not have his price, and that he VIII
thought differently had his own price.
A Chicago man has besn granted q patsn
for telephone based upon system radi
| cally different from that of the Bell tele
| phone. the current Of electricity, instea'
| of being continuous, as in the case with al
other telephones, is operated by an inter
mittent current on plan resembling th
| dots and dashes of a telegraph instrument