The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-24
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

An incsndiary fire wiped out the village OF
Perry vile on the Tennessee river.
Mrs. Garfield will spend five weeks at
Williamstown, Mass, this summer
The mills at Minneapolis turned out 1919,
000 barrels of -four last week, against 1872,
200 the previous week.
John W. Burst has been appointed by the
Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission
register of grain receipts
In the third game of the balk-line tourna-
mont at New York Wednesday evening Sex
ton defeated Dion-5o0 to 344.
Twenty-fom years ago last Monday Robert
E. Lee resigned from the United States army
to become Confederate general
Frosts have killed the entire wheat crop
along the lake shore in Pennsylvania, and
farmers are blowing the lads for other crops.
In Buffalo piano was stolen from one OF
the churches Monday and one night last
week in Massachusetts church and all in it
was hauled Off
The race Wednesday for the Tennessee
Derby at Memphis for 8 year olds, II miles,
was won by Joe Cotton in 2:4s24, Freeman
second, aud CELSIUS third But three ran.
1t appears that President Barrios, OF
Guatemala, was killed by a Salvadoriar
sharpshooter as he was in the act of leading
a regiment which had refused to march un
der distasteful colonel
Patrick and Fannie O'Brien, the giant:
familiar tC dime museums, had fifteen
pound baby horn to them Wednesday al
Peoria. This is the first giant child from
giant parents born i'll this country.
Margaret Coleman died recently at Bonus
His, having tasted forty-five days, and fol
| five days preceding her death refrained from
taking water. She had been stricken will
paralysis, but the cause of her wonderful alb
| stinence is unknown.
Secretary Whitney has directed the com
mander of the Mare island navy yard t.
| discharge foremen concerned in coercing
votes at tie several elections, and has given
| notice that such work will net be permitted
| in the interest of any party.
President Cleveland says he cannot bt
supposed to indorse the announcement by
Minnesota Democratic politicians that ap
| plications for state offices should be for
warded through their hands to receive at
| tention at the White House.
! n IRE at onaT psDuTg, IA, near IIJUSpufS
ragged for an hour and half Thursda,
morning before any water was thrown upol
it, there being no fire apparatus in the town
| At the end of that time an engine arrives
from Allegheny City and soon got control
At one time it was feared the whole tow
would be destroyed. The loss was 5000.
Lewis Webster, aged p, who in Decembe
last at Geneva, while on a burglarious ex
petition, killed Farmer Harrington and sho
his wife twice, was found guilty at Jeffer
son, Ohio Wednesday of murder in tn
first degree. While in Harrington's hous
Webster's mask fell Off, and upon tn
woman exclaiming that she recognized hir
he perpetrated the murder. Mrs. Harring
ton was the principal witness against him.
An English newspaper correspondent noN
at Baku is authority for the statement tina
| the Russian car has determined to procee
to Samarkand, there to be crowned as en-
peror of Central Asia. 1t is said that til
coronation ceremony and the incidental fes
tivities will last for many days, and will b
on a scale calculated to dazzle the Asiati
kahns and chieftainS The pageant wi
taks place in the ancient palace of Tan
erlane