The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-03-02
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THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Merchants Insurance company OF
Bu-trr niil rctr' from III moss. sSSl
The total amount of funds in the Hi
pois state treasury Jan - last was s. l2l,
~ n
Bishop Taylor's missionary party to AT.
rica lave VITA t1aH one ton of oat meal,
one ton OF Gnnp ,w.ier, and one ton of shot,
Mrs. Goldman, of Theresa, Jefferson
county, n. Y, the aunt e ex-senator S. C.
Pomeroy, of kaaSa, las Just passed her l03d
birthday
Once in four years 100000 people
set to writing letters, said President-elect
Cleveland the other day, "and this time
an getting them"
Forty thousand brook trout destined
for streams il Grant county, Wisconsin.
were frozen to death whle in transit from
the state hatchery
Near tcntcrvillc Iowa Friday morning.
| a coach OF Wat.,sl passenger train was de
| raiiel, the seven occupant, teinG wounded.
four Of thom scEjou l..
Prohibition is evidently much desired
| by the iusiEa-s oea q, Athens, Ga, sixty
seven firms there having declared their in
tention Of closing on election day ana work
ing FOR it.
John Kelly says there is nothing the
matter VITA h,tu that :,.a uId cause anybody
| une&anass. He hati rlalar a. but The
| only trouble n0v is IA o.lHi1. I!o rides horse
back every day AMI seys Jc IS al right.
The inspe tor of factories and work.
| shop, in Neg. .ier>cl ,.rci..r'., tl.at s. per
cent. Of the children cniplscl il such
| places 'ncve" heard az tho Revolution, Abra
ham Lincoln, the civil war. OF President
| Garfield"
In Madison county, Illinois winter
| wheat "a, u.i,r,'t .yiIetsly rom tie lite e
cold o"s farmer renorts that 30 acres of
his CROP las teea killed In the district
| kuova as tic american I, tom" the blades
are said 81 look quite healthy
Near Farkcrsburg, W. Va, early Fri
| day morning. tAe train beariag Mr. Hem
! bricks t. Washington was in collision with
| another pass sngcr, iGli no person was in
| lured. Had it not been "a straight track,
| and the engineers saw that "a collision was
| imminent aud reversed the locomotives, the
result might have been different.
Mrs Margaret Miller, of Baltimore,
| gave or iii rTlIstih ~ littee mae Culufeu,
| all of whom were deiorlned, one being club
| footed, another armies, and the third of
| hideons shape They died in short time
Mrs. Miller, in her seven years of married
| life has borne eleven children. Her mother
who died aged IS, gave birth to twenty two
| children
Near Smiths Mills, Union county,
Kentucky, last Saturday, Nose Cation, aided
| by his sons, took ont hi, wife and hanged
her. A posse came 10 arrest the Cations, but
they resisted, when four of them were shot,
a son and daughter probably mortally. An
attempt was made TO take the five prisoners
from the posse but it failed. Tie opinion
was current, however, that all would be
| lynched.
The bears controlled the St Louis and
| milwaukee wheat In liIlets Friday, pressing
| down prices, resulting in great excitement.
At ST Louis Ben w. Lewis and L. M.
| Samuels q Son, grain operators, suspended
| payment, with, il is believed heavy liabiIi-
| ties. IN Milwaukee HUM 81 Eskuche and
| A. w. Belcher were forced to the wall. The
pressure to sell caused the trouble on both
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