The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-23
The NEWS IN RRlEE.

John Roach, the ship-builder, is Il years
of age.
An explosion near Fort Littleton Pa,
Tuesday, killed three men and fatally
wounded two others
The Sandwich islanders have base bali
league, the champion club of which is the
Oceanic, of Honolulu.
The Great Eastern, the largest ship ever
built, has cost to date a, 703, sos and bank
rupted three companies.
The wife of Richard K Fox, well known
in sporting circles, was granted an absolute
divorce Tuesday at New York.
1t is alleged that the course near Pitts
burg on which Gaudaur made remarkably
fast time in a sculling race Monday, is $50
feet short
An engineer just escaped from Berber
states that Olivier Pain, who it was
recently stated had been killed by Arabs, is
not dead, but alive and we'll at Berber
The Rev A E. Wagner, pastor of the
Second Lutheran church, at Springfield,
Ohio. was held in $500 bail, Tuesday, on a
charge of seduction preferred by young
woman
A pair Of the finest black eyes did not
satisfy Miss Casey, of Iowa, and in trying
to turn them 10 a blue by means of chemi-
Gals she has ruined both their usefulness
and beauty
The Western Expert association decided
Tuesday TO become an incorporated body.
The committee appointed to arrange details
viii report at the meeting at the Grand
Pacific hotel, Chieago, Wednesday.
wealthy family 4 Kingston, Ca, disap-
| peaTed last Sunday, and was found in the
woods Tuesday unconscious. When she was
revived II was discovered that she had lost
| her reason.
Up to O'Clock p. m Tuesday the deaths
in New York for the preceding twenty -four
hours numbered $50, being four from sun
| stroke. and sixty nine from diarrhea;
ninety-two of the deaths were of children
under years.
| Tuesday afternoon, at Pittston, Pa, the
| Plttston mill, Swans hotel, Pittston cracker
| bakery, several frame structures, and two
| spans of the bridge crossing the Susque-
hanna were destroyed by fire, the loss
| reaching 100000.
| n A paper piano has been manufactured at
|
pressed and took a perfect polish, and the
| tone of the instrument, though not loud, was
very sweet-a soft, full, quasi-continuous
| sound, resembling somewhat that of the
| organ.
\ territorial writer in New Mexico est.
mates her area at rs, 100000 acres, and that
| 70,000,0O0 acres are fit only for pasturage,
and that %, 900, 900 Of this, by restitution Of
water, is available only for sheep This
leaves 5O,0OO,0O0 acres for cattle, but the
availability of this is greatly diminished by
the sparseness of springs and streams
The remains of Edward Gillian, wife-mur-
derer and suicide, were inferred, Tuesday
| in the Potter's field at Cleveland. Deceased
leaves an estate valued at $4,000, and wa
refused burial in the Catholic cemetery. Il
was even with difficulty that pail bearer.
could be secured, and the rich casket wa
deposited in pauper's grave, without serv.
ices of any description.
The statement of the land sales of thu
Union Pacific Railroad company for Junt
shows an aggregate Of 100, PAS acres, which
realized S4S2, 1914, a large decrease from Jun,
last year. For six months to June 30 tn,
total quantity of land sold was 65I, 100 acres
aud the total amount realized 81, 1872, 422,
decrease from the corresponding period O
last year Of l,605, 7o4 acres and $3,2lL 544
League bail games Tuesday resulted: Nev
York 5, Detroit ten innings; Philadel
phia 6, st. Louis o; Buffalo 6, Boston 8
Rain prevented the Chicago Providenc
game Games were played as follows b,
!; American Association clubs: At Cincin
nati-Baltimore Cincinnati ten innings
at Plttsburg -Pittsburg Z, Brooklyn Ceigh
innings, stopped by darkness; st Louis
ville-At1ist,cs T, Louisville .; at st. Loui
st. LOUIS ,, MetropJlitans l.