The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-08
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mrs. Mason, once the wife Of Charles Sum.
Ter, has taken up permanent residence in
Rome.
Florida beasts that with the aid of Cali
ornia she will drive foreign oranges out of
'ur market
Recent rains insure good average crops
throughout California, excepting the San
/ 'oaquin valley.
\ fire at Toxic, Japan, last month de-
troyei 100 buildings. rendering 1000
families homeless
A skillet full of old Spanish coins was dug
Up Monday near the entrance to Harvard
,riiege. Cambridge.
The Pennsylvania company has restored
| passenger rates on all its lines, includjng
hose OF emigrants.
At NJ time within score of wears has
here been war progressing in SO many parts
If the world as now
The great-grandnieces of President Madi-
son are conducting a little private school
lear Orange Court House, Va.
In Lake Michigan, to the north and east of
Ahnapee, there is a solid field of ice sixty
niles square and nearly three feet thick.
Charles Remley, indicted with his mother
for numbering his father, was found guilty
Monday at DodgeviIle, Wis, and sentenced
or life.
A Gordon of Canadian police has been es-
tablished along the northwestern boundary
to prevent the escape of Riel and his men
into Montana.
, Reports for the year 1888 show that more
han 100 persons were killed and wounded in
New York and Brooklyn by the horse cars
in one year. About forty were killed
The governor of Wisconsin has vetoed the
bill providing for the punishment of va
grants by dieting them with bread and
water, claiming that it is unconstitutional.
The United States court at San Francisco
sent Sarah Althea Hill to jail for one day
for contempt in refusing to produce her
! marriage contract with ex-senator Sharon.
l The first big strike in Dubuque for years
occurred in the extensive overall factory of
, L. B. Glover & Co. Monday, over 200 girls
quitting work, the firm receding from an
= agreement previously made.
a, During March the losses by fire reached
a 50, 900, 900, and for the first three months OF
2 1885 the loss is S27, 900. The average
>. fire waste for March i'll the past ten year:
y nas Leen less than 100000.
q Toms Butterworth. an old AMI infiuen
d tial ciiizon of Rockford, Ill, died in NORTH
q Carolina If heart disease. Judge John d
r Robert ON, "a years Of age, relative o
Gen. Winfield Scott, passed away at Sout!
ic Bend, Ind.
ID At Dubois, Pa, last week, during tn
d work of repairs upon an old restaurant,
" bunch of rats eighteen in number, wer
&c killed. Thee rats had, by twisting an
k plating their tails together, become S
le firmly united that it was with some difficult
es That they we're separated. How eightee
m rats coull tie themselves so firmly togethe
IL ~ tueir tails is a mystery which the oldes
lp inhabitants has not ventured to explain.
Sc AT tlIe stock-growers convention at CheN
by ene the secretary reported that the Wyon
s. iag association holds property valued {
SlUO, 900, 900; that cattle from Texas al
ri dangerous only for sixty days from the tin
ii OF le;.v,ng their native ranges; that the +
il iuction in freight rates secured from ii
Il Union and Northern Pacific roads benefi
or tie ASSOCIATION 10 the amount Of So p
"a annum, AMI that grain can never be raise
on about 81 per cent of the public lands no
grazsd upon.