The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-09-22
Tns NEWS M sssEf.

Over s13, coo, 600 in geld coin has recsntly
esSn shipped from San Francisco to New
York
Heavy rains throughout Louisiana have
materially injured the cotton and rice
crops
Lord Carnarvon desires an imperial loan
of 5000 pounds sterling to revive the Irish
fisheries
The Mexican National Railway company
is negotiating loan of So, 0OO, 900 in Lon
don and Paris.
A committee on investigation discovered
Al, 900 bushels of weevily wheat in the
Union elevator at St Louis
The Cologne Gazstte says that Germany
is willing to have Pope Leo act as arbitrator
in the Caroline islands dispute.
The Illinois conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, in session at RushviIle,
decided to meet at Urbana next year.
United States Minister Cox and Consul
General Heap have succeeded in obtaining a
revocation of Turkeys order expelling
American jew from Jerusalem
William Bedford, of Evansville, Ind.
we'll known in sporting circles throughout
the UnIon. was terribly injured Sunday by
mad ball. and will probably die
At Marion, Ind, Saturday night, a family
quarrel resulted in the death of Andrew
Owings One of the sons accuses his
brother Ira, agel 10, of the murder.
The effect OF Mr.. Gladstone'S manifesto
has been to unite Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain,
Lord Harrington and Sir William Vernon
Harcourt, the leaders in the Liberal party.
An invitation has been extended by Mr..
Parnel to all priests in ireland, whether
members of the National league or not to
attend the nominating convention of the
Nationalist.
The conservation of the Rsv. Jeremiah
O'Sullivan pastor of St Peters Catholic
church Of Washington City, aS bishop of
the diocese of Mobile, Ala, took place at
tine national capital Sunday.
Recent statistics demonstrate that Eng
land has 10 square miles of colony to the
square mile of her own area; Holland 81;
Portugal 10; Denmark, $50; France, l.9l,
and Spain. 0.S6 quare miles
Ga the steamship Etruria, of the Cunari
line arriving in New York Sunday the fol-
| lowing were among the passengers: The
Hon scae Conkliug the Rsv. DR. John
Hall, AMI the Hon. Abram s Hewitt
A row occurred between differing factions
| oi the ST Hedweig's POLISH church society
| Of Milwaukee Sunday, in which number
were cut with knives, wounded with stones
and clubs, or seriously injured in other ways.
A writer in the Bulletin Generate de
| Thera peutique says that refrigeration OF
the lobe of the car will stop hiccough, what
ever its cause may be- Very slight re-
lrlgeration, such as II drop of cold water, is
said TO be sufficient
The medical department of the Yves tern
Reserve university, at Cleveland o., has
| refused to admit women to the privileges OF
| the school after the announcements had
been made that both sexes would be taught
together The young lady applicants feI
admission talk OF bringing suit for damages.
In France a manufacturer named Mey
nard has died without relatives, leaving his
house to be maintained in the state in which
| it : as left, and "all the living animals IL
itn cared for until they die. His body wa
cemented into a block of granite to be
come a conversions for free picture gal
lery.
Land Commissioner Sparks addressed {
lstter to Secretary Lamar, recommending
that the proclamation Of President Hayes
of March It, 1877, defining the boundarie
Of the Zuni reservation, and also proclama
tlun OF President Arthur TO the same effect
be affirmed, tine object being to renssve al
color Of claim made by certain parties t,
the Nutria springs.