The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

California has on hand surplus of 60.
oO0, 900 bushels Of wheat
Russia wants immediate action on the At
CHAN question in case England reopens the
discussion.
double white rose Towering on O red
crab apple tree is one of the sights OF South
birmingham, Mass
Governor Hoadly, of Ohio, says his sx-
penses as governor are annually at least
four times his salary.
Mount Hood, Ore. is to be illuminated on
the night Of July with red calcium lights,
visible all over Oregon.
Henry NJ. Stanley is disappointed in not
obtaining financial assistance from England
for the Congo company.
The marquis of Queensbury, now in San
Francisco, is about to publish letter in re-
ply to the arguments of Mgr. Capel
The London Atheneum raises a question
of doubt rs TO whether the poets Shelley's
heart really survived the cremation of the
body.
The Tooth anniversary of the battle of
Fort Moultrie was celebrated at Charleston,
s. c., Sunday with appr, pirate church
services.
Much damage was done to crops, fences
and buildings, and several lives lost in the
vicinity of Ashton, D. T., by n storm Thurs
day night.
At Barnesville, S c., Rebscca Samuels,
l2years old, WAS convicted of numbering an
infant whom she was nursing, by soaking
her in pot of I've.
so,f ToI ~ Eo.@r.
fifth infantry, the commanding officer al
Fort Smelling for year past died Sunday
evening of Bright's disease
1t is reported that close union between
England and the cabinets of Berlin, Vienna
and Rome would constitute the basis of the
British foreign prosromme
At Boston, Saturday, in the fifty mile
bicycle race, W. A. Rowe lowered the best
| fifty mile record from hours 81 minutes t.
8 hours IS minutes, % seconds
James Windle, superintendent of the Case
Manufacturing company, at Columbus
Ohio, died Sunday from the effects of NOR
phine taken with suicidal intent
Near Decatur, Ills, passenger. train OF
the Illinois Central ran into herd OF twenty
cattle belonging to Oliver Logan The trair
kept the track, but the locomotive was in
| jured.
Professor D. S. Baer. of Philadelphia, sue
cessfully performed the Cnsarian operation
upon lady 50 years old. who had been
afflicted for thirteen years with what wa
supposed to be tumor.
The following are the results Of the gene
played Saturday by clubs of <he associa
tions named: The National league: A
chicago-Chieago IL, Boston s; at Buffalo
Buffalo 8, Providence 4; at St Louis-St
Louis 0, Philadelphia l. The American as
sociation: At New York Metropolitan
IA, Brooklyn 5; at Pittsburg -Pittsburg 4
Louisville 3; at Cincinnati-St Louis 10
Cincinnati 2; at ladelphia-Athlstics
Baltimore l.
A hurricane at Dubuque Iowa, damage,
the railroad depot, blew down telegraph
wires, and felled trees The rainstorm q
Renfeld, d. T., blew down building, kille
a woman and injured several members o
the family of Mr.. Hadley. At Fort Atkin
son, Wis, the lightning struck severs
houses, injured barns and killed some stoch
At Frankfort D. T., John Blains house wa
blown to pieces; one man was killed, an
Jacob Hartley and others badly wounded
Recent heavy rains have injured the cor
crop In Iowa and around Champlain, nls
The heaviest rainstorm for fourteen year
visited Baltimore Sunday morning. tn
rainfall was 47-l0) inches, and the ds
struction was very considerable Upwar
of 200 Easements ami cellars we're h6od(
ON the line of Jone,' Falls, and In all the d,
pressed portions of the city the streets wer
Hooded