The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-09-18
THE NEWS Il BRIEF.

Opium sales have increased in Georgia az
g consequence of prohibition.
The.o were 81, 900 elephants killed in Africa
shiPpei
Tue number OF Poles expelled from Posen,
Prussia. up to tie present time is estimated
at 81 0UU
The Detroit lsse ball club Wednesday
purcha ed the franchise of the Buffalo tea m
for 5000.
A trottlns race for $4,000 between
Phallas and Wilkes will take place at Cleve-
land Oct %.
The Dywer Bros, the famous turfmen,
announce that they are tired OF horse-rac-
ing and will sell out to the highest bidder
A panic prevailed in the London silver
market Wednesday, and prices dropped to
the lowest point touched in the present
century,
Hugh Blaney, Dublin wine merchant
who has just died at the age of SO, used to
boast that he had Worn the same coat for
sixty years.
Fox & Co.'S glass works at Durhamville,
N. y, covering three acres, we're burned
Wednesday nigat, causing a loss of $50,
OO0 The insurance is about $70,O00.
A hailstorm some of the stones being ten
inches in circumference, devastsd the coun.
try south Of Granite Falls, Mimi, Wednes
day night Drifts of bail three feet in depth
were found.
A Richmond q DanYiIle freight train fell
through a bridge near Charlotts, N. c.,
Wednesday, twenty -thres box-ca being
wrecked, two men killed, and two other
dangerously burned
Wednesday was Chicago day" at the
| Illinois state fair Public offices and prom
inent business houses were closed in tn,
afternoon in that city. The attendance wa.
estimated at 35, 900.
| The mill buildings and 100000 feet o.
| lumber owned by the Southern Pump com
| pany, at Nashville, Tenn, we're burned
| Wednesday forenoon, entailing loss O
! S2OO 900, with 500, 900 in urance.
| The order Of Cincinnatus gave a stree
| pageant at Cincinnati Wednesday night
consi ting of scenes from Moore's "Lallal
Rookh." borne on twenty-five cars 1t i
| estimated thai half OF tue city's population
witnessed the procession.
| The Irish people of Chicago rendered ;
reception to Mrs Daniel Curlsy, widow o
the lrishman hung for completely in assassi
mating Lord Caveniish, Wednesday even
| ing at Wet Twelfth Street Turner hall
| There were l, so people present Spssche
were made by the Hon. John r. Finsrt,
and Others
As the result of a family feud, Thoma
Hale, son of DR.. I. F. Hale, cowhided tn
Hon. 4. n. Yancy at Bunker Hill, Ills
Wedne day morning. Both msn drew pis
tolls, but Hale "got the drop" on his oppo
nent, compelled him to discard his weapon
and then. after giving Yancy . tsrribl
blow in the eve, beat him with a raw hide
League ball games Wednesday resulted
Chicago 10, Bo'ton A; Detroit 6, New Yor
| 3; St Louis 8, Providsnce4; Philadelphia I
Buffalo 3 The following games were playe
by the American association Wednesday
At Brooklyn Brooklyn s, Louisville 5; a
New York Metropolitans 5, Pitt burg ]
at Phlalelphia-A Athletics & st. Louis Is
at Baltimore Cincinnati TO- Baltimore Q.
A man calling himself Jehn Smith jumps
through a window of the banking house c
j. H Leomis & Co, at Utica N Y
Wednesday, and struck down the osshie
with club, also firing shot at him as b
lay PROSTATE The robber then ritied th
money drawer, but before he could essap
was arrested the postmaster rushing in No
overpoweriug him.