The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-10
The NEWS IN aRlsE

Locusts have appeared in immense n,,m.
GERS In the vicinity Of Alton, Ills
Many horses in Gloucester county Naw
Jersey, are dying of mysterious disease.
Editor Reuter-, of The Beobachtor. Will,
bathing on Sunday at Streator, Ills, was
drowned,
Postmaster General Villas denies that anv
approximations are entertained of A strita
among the railway clerks.
The Joliet Ills, city council Monday in
regular session, sustained the $1,000 liquor
license for the ensuing year.
League ball games Monday were. Chi
Cages D. 81 Louis Stem innings; Provi-
dence i Philadelphia Q, Detroit /, Buffalo5
ihe other day two prisoners stripped stark
naked, lathered themselves with soap, and
slipped through the bars of the Birmingham,
Ala, prison.
The judgments against Mrs Della Parnell
have been paid by New York friends, and
her estate at Bordentown, N. j., will not be
sold as advertised.
The sudden change of temperature in
Chicago since Sunday is unusual. From 50
degrees on Sunday the Thermometer fell to
AZ Monday morning.
The horse which Gen. Grant rode the day
Lee surrendered is owned in Vernon Oneida
county, N. Y. and marched in the pro-
eession on Decoration Day this year.
A crown of fragrant roses is cast away
ana one OF native thorns clasped to her
breast by the woman who takes the vows
of the order of Sisters of st Dominic.
The bursting of a water-spout near Logos,
Mexico Sunday evening, devastated the
surrounding valleys and plains for miles,
and caused the death, it is believed, of 100
| persons.
In the fourth race Monday at st LOU,
the horse AL Robertson was crushed against
the fence and so badly injured that he had
to be destroyed. His rider had his left ankle
diSlocatei
| The issue of religious works of all kinds by
the Presby terrain board of publication last
: year reached over %, O00, 900 copies and by
the Baptist society during the same time
I y 9S6,0l6 copies.
Excitement was caused at Minneapoli,
Monday evening by the announcement thai
10000 gallons of water per minute were es
Gaping from the st. Anthony's Falls power
from unknown causes.
| Two more indictments were returned
Monoay against Ferdinand Ward ant
James d. Fish for grand larceny in the frs
degree Ward has entered Il plea of no
guilty to the indictments.
The three Oldest reigning European mon
archs are the emperor of Germany, who i
IS years of age; the king Of the Netherlands
is years, and the king of Denmark, 81 years
Queen Victoria is IS years old.
Portions of Dane, Columbia and Saul
counties, Wisconsin, were swept by a stern
Sunday evening, barns, tobacco sheds an,
other buildings being wrecked, window
smashed, and titled lands washed out Til
hailstoueS ranged in size from marble to
base ball, but one was picked up measuring
nine inches in circumference.
In the case at Baltimore of Henry james
the millionaire, to restrain Robert Garrett
president of the Baltimore & Ohio road
from erecting portico in front Of his t1al
rett'sl house, the lawyer for Jones closed HI
opening statement Monday occupying fv
full days in its delivery. In closing, one G
the counsel for the prosecutor expects to o,
: cupy full week, while CARROTS lawyer wi
take up nine or ten days.