The Rock Island Argus., 1885-06-15
THE NEWS IN ae,ee

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The town of sikuch, in the eastern Can.
'asus' mas been wiped out by an EARTHQUAKE
Haec's European contract is made at inst
one-naif the figures for which she sanS IL,
this country. 's III
Inc hev. Dr. ]. Sullivan, Of Washington
aas oeen appointed by the pops bishop Of
the diocese Of Mobile
The Bloomington, ILL.,, Presbvtarv hoe
under consideration the purchase of Tho Pa
ton Collegiate Institute,
Inc steamer Joe Fleming, owned by a ST.
LOUIS brewing company, was burned at
Depue. ILL.,, Thursday night, the loss BEING
$50, 900. 0 'o'' oeiis
mrs James A. Garfield will be given a re-
csption , by the trustees and president of
Williams college, Williamstown, Mass.
June so. ''''
Inc hev. John Walton, Methodist min
ls1er, was convicted at Wadena, Minn.. Fri.
oay OF outraging the person of Hattie Web.
ster, l3 years old.
Clara Morris says that MIR. Tilden is tbs
pest conversationalist she has ever met In
her opinion he is far too lovable TO have re.
NAMED bachelor.
grand regatta, open to the world, will
se held at Pittsburg in July. Teemer is
making the arrangements, and the prizes
VIII aggregate $4,000.
The ravages of the Hessian fiy will cause
an estimated loss of 10000 bushels in the
wheat crop of Richard township, Kalama-
zoo county, Michigan.
Ihe Rev. Mr.. De La Matyre the ex-
Greenbacker, and the venerable Thomas
harrison the boy prea her." are holding
revival at Denver at cost of $50 day.
At Tarentum, Pa. Friday, the explosion
of car of petroleum, to which one of the
lads applied lighted match, fatally burned
the three sons--aged 2, 5, and 2-of Henry
| Altmeyer.
A young Japanese noble was graduated
J Friday from the Rutgers College Grammar
school, at New Brunswick, N j., receiving
the prlze for the best oration and another
for the cleverest work done in history dur
ing the past year.
| League ball games Friday resulted: Chi
cago 6, Detroit 4; New York 6, Boston 4;
Buffalo 2, st Louis 0. Games were played
as follows by American Association Clubs:
AT Baltimore-Pittsburg g. Baltimore 2; at
New k-Metropolitans II, st. Louis s.
5. +. Spencer, cashier for the firm of
| Grant & Ward, testified at New York Fri
day that loans by the concern often reached
| $1,000, 600; that they frequently paid more
for the use of money than they received on
loans; and that Fish drew on his private
funds to pay fictitious earl ings to depo3-
| itors.
The wife of William E. Montgomery
lMattie Palmer) began suit at Louisville
Friday to have their marriage set aside, al
lsging that she welded defendant thinking
that he was white man, but has disoov.
cred that African blood flows in his veins
She also petitions for the Gu tody of theil
children.
Miss Cleveland is the baby of the Cleve-
land family. She looks to be 35. She is q
medium sized woman, inclined to be petite
with square shoulders, a short neck, and 6
face sallow in its complexion but decidedly
intellectual in its features. From a higf
forehead little brown curls stand upward
and going backward cover her whole heaG
with innumerable ringlets.
James R. Osgood, the Boston publisher
has become connected with Harper 8
Brothers establishment, and, it is stated
will carry with him certain publication
business heretofore confldsd to Boston
notably MIR. HowelPs productions and tn
illustrated gift books originated by Mr.
Osgood, who it is believed, will reprcsen
the Harpers In England at salary o
200 per year.