The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-12-02
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Gen. Logan Monday evening, at Chicago
TOOK tho knights Templar degrees oil
Masonry
Miss Mary Lee, Gen. r e. Lees eldesi
daughter. is in Portugal
Governor Hubbard, Of Minnesota, has de-
cided not to call an extra session Of tho
| legislature.
Two hundred thousand copies OF the frs,
volume of the "Pe rsonal Memoirs of Gen.
U. y. Grant, were issued in New York
Tuesday morning
u. w. Sampson, who, with his wife and
three children, was murdered recently by
indians in Arizona, moved from Texas,
Mich, last spring
The Chicago Current has again changed
hands, james l.. Starbuck purchasing it for
GEORGE w. Wigg-, who will organize a
soock company to manage it.
The general store of Samuel Balscoer, at
Marshall, Dane county, Wis.,, has been
closed by the sheriff. He owes about
S'5'ooo in Chicago and Milwaukee.
An entire block of frame structures in
the business center of l. vingston NJ. T.,
was burned Monday evening, causing a
loss OF $4,000, with but SIS 900 insurance.
The Dartmouth college senior class took
al informal ballot NJ N lay for commence
ment orator, resulting: james G. Blaine.
Is Il. j. Butler B. AMI James Russell
Lowell, <
q man D.gma, according to letter to a
Rome Newspaper. is not deal. and that he
avenged the pr oners hanged in Abyssinia
by mas acreiIs all the people Of kassala,
Europeans inclu lei
Tom Chandler an Frank Glover fought
six rounds with small gloves at Battery d
armory, Chicago, Monday evening. 1t was
IpClaraI a a Ia lao oil ozI,,
the Lest of the fight
The franchise of the Providence base ball
club has been Iurcha ed by Mr.. Sodon, OF
Boston, but not fer the Boston club. Rad
bourn, the pitcner, has signed to play with
the Bostons KIT season.
1t is reported that Charles Miller, who in
1878 murdered Guy Marshal Enocn T. Hop.
kinS, of Morris III. is in Breckenridge Col,
and is willing to surrender, as he has known
no peace of mind since the decd was COM
mittei
William and Humphrey Best, minors,
were placed on trial at Louisville Monday
for the murder Of an inoffensive negro.
Their deceased father killed seven men
during his lifetime, ut was always &C.
1uittet.
More tlan 40 900 pounds st'rling year
is received ~ = cen V ctor.a from the
estates OF persons " die intestate and
without herr', ali Sue prop rty belonging
to her m1j',ty. in rig At of Ter royu. pre-
ogativ. 49,
From the Opening OF navigation to Nov.
30. til r. W re- ,hipnsl Ivy lake to Buffalo.
',Is3 55S barrels of four and 4S,0GY, 37l
bushels of grain tbs shipments from
Buffalo OF co"l, cement, and salt are largely
IN excess tins shipments last season.
Cue IS at a wedding in Salem, Ills were
iisappoint,i Sunlay night the couple
Miss Carrie Il. Bennett anl Mr.. Charlie, j.
Guth --announc.n,, WHOM the minister was
ready 10 proceed with tie ceremony, that
"tbeJ di!n't want to get married just yet"
Mis- l. ,ui o Mlthcr daughter of a
wealthy Cae,ter township Qndiana) farmer,
berrnie uddenlv i'll after retiring Sunday
mig It, IN diei i'll few minutes, the re.
mains inm sdnt,ly swelling to unnatural
Proportions. The eau o OF death has not
b4e:I 49, erta.nei
Tie ta'iu Of Norton. Wolff a. CO., of
Ut go AL il3nw,il. Mcn., has bad ap-
ps"rs!cH. " ia lu",' months they have
pIrchu-c So 90 worth of goods, while
tie pres Mt >'s.'.r Sit"I, j. valued at $2J
40. i >" RI Crg. cur lit ii u tn. firm have
cartel II go lor j.. their stock