The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
There are 700 Chinese scholars in twenty.


There are 700 Chinese scholars in twenty.
nine New York Sunday schools. -
The title Of Miss Cleveland's Forthcoming
book is "George Eliot and Other Studies"
East-bound passenger rates have been re-
duced on the basis OF SIT Chicago to New
York
Up to lat Saturday 90 sS8 people had
contributed to the New York Worlds Bar
tholdi pedestal fund
The Hon. John H. Oberly, Indian inspec-
tor, was at Lawrence, Kan. Monday, look
ing over the affairs of Haskell's institute.
Drs j. L. Million, J. L. Wilcox, and John
W. Reilly have been appointed medical ex-
amners for the pension department at
Springfield Ills
At Upper Cro-s Roads, Nd, Sunday after
| noon, lighting killed Mrs. Elenore Caldwell
| and her 7-month,'old babe, whom she was
, nursing at the time.
| notiea OF reduction in the mining rate
| to 40 cents has been posted by the Sunday
Creek company, operating in the Ohio Gen.
trail railway region
The second prize in political science at the
Columbia law school was awarded to John
| III. Ward, one of the best professional base
| ball players In the country.
| Fortinin, the French cook Of the White
| House, recently dismissed, was paid salary
of 81, 800. The eolored cook who now does
up plain discs gets 81 Is day
| Perry Davis the originator of the medi-
cine known as the pain Killer has been in
the Mercer county (Pennsylvania) aims
house for the past fifteen years.
Mrs. j. W. VIM "a widow and her three
children and Mrs. Tony Stefano were
| drowned at Leke's iland, twenty-five miles
below Wilmington, N. c., Monday.
Postmaster Reagan, of Terre Haute, Ind,
says that the story that Bayless w. Hanna
lthe new minister to PERSIA accepted 5000
| from Reagan for pushing his claims at
We shington, is without foundation.
1t is now stated that the shortage in the
accounts Of the Shackamaxon bank, of
Philadelphia, will reach $685. and that
the accounts are greatly confused The in
dications are that there will not be sufficient
funds to pay the depositors.
| Paris is cleared OF rats by her municipal
| council offering premium for their skins
Two years ago the premium was So per
1000, but it has recently been raised to $40
per LOO, III order to get the city cleared of
the pests. The kid-glove makers utilize the
skins buying them from the city.
At the judicial election at Lincoln Mon
day, "Old Man" Burns, father of Zura
| Burns, worked at the polls against the re-
election of Judge Lacy, WHO presided at
Carpenters trial for the girls murder
Persons who believed Carpenter should have
been convicted scratched Judge Lacy's
name
On the beach at Digby, N. s., Monday
morning was found a sealed bottle contain
ing message to the effect that on the morn
ing of May % the Norwegian bark Hesse-
stein, from Cardiff for Halifax, was cut in
two and the boats smashed by an unknown
vessel during fog. The name "A. NJ. Lat
ninann, commander" was signed to the
message.
League ball games Monday; Chicago Q,
Detroit 0; Buffalo s. St Louis 4; New Yorb
s. Philadelphia 2. Other games; At Balti
more-St. Louis TO- Baltimore 4; at Phila
elphia-Athletics 8, Cincinnati 4 at Brook.
lyn-Brooklyn 8, Louisville Z; at Toledo
Milwaukee s, Toledo Z; at Ithica, n. Y
Cornell 10, Columbia 4; at Indianapolis-In
dianapolis l., Cleveland l.