The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-27
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


"A white woman at New Lisbon. Ohio
eioped with negro because he had red hair
The bill to concentrate all the Ohio hang
ings at tue penitentiary in Columbus has be-
come a law
The Mormon bishop, Hiram j. Cawson.
was arrested Friday at Salt Lake City for
unlawful cohabitation.
IN the filth game OF the New York hall.
line tournament Schaefer defeated Saxtor
Fri lay evening, 500 to 265, making the best
average thus far
The fra;t crop OF Tennessee is said to he
more than usually promising, while further
south, in Georgia and South Carolina thu
frost has done serious damage.
John X. Mclean, editor of The Cincinnati
Enquirer has been interviewed, and denies
most emphatically that he will be a cand-
date Tor United States senator.
Signor CARDINAL, the handsome tenor of
the Mapieson Opera company, it is an
nounced, will marry daughter of Judge
Sanderson, of California, in June
Gen. B. +. Butler has presented to the
Essex Bar association, Boston, a fine Dor
trait OF the late distinguished lawyer.
Rufus Choate, painted from life by Joseph
Ames
the Cincinnati and Pittsburg clubs PLAYED
remarkable game of ball Sixteen innings,
at Cincinnati Friday, Pittsburg winning, z
to 9. But eleven errors were made during
the contest
Business failures for the week number Igs.
against l96 last week and 1874 in the corrs;
ponding period in 1884 More than two
| thirds ~ ba fafInraS ov,
southern, western, and Pacific states.
Noar Lewiston, Idaho Friday the bodies
OF Peter Brazil and James Flynn, stock
ranchers, were found near each other with
pistols and clubs by their sides The supEo
sition is that in fight they killed each
| other
| The last session of the board of trade Of
Chicago in the old building will be ap
| proprlately cpmmemorated Tuesday by q
special entertainment at the close of the
afternoons trading. The new building viii
be dedicated Wednesday.
The story comes from st. Louis that Will
lam ID. Winter an officer of the Bank o.
Commerce, and Bernard P. Bogy, secretary
OF the wire company, settled persona
matter by ring-fght in barn in PM
street. The police appeared on the fourth
round.
large bowlder. weighing about 10, 00
tons, was looSened from the top Of Shelte
Hill Rock near Bethel, Conn.,, by the fros
ami rolled down the mountain side the othe
day, sweeping large trees and everything
before it, The shock was felt for twenty
mics around.
In the delirium of typhoid fever, Marti,
Perkins, Baltimore citizen, got out Of hi
room Friday morning, crept to the roof o
his residence, and, hanging by cornice, at
tempted to gain entrance to an upper room
by smashing window. He fell sixty fee
to the ground, and was killed.
Health officers from seaboari citias held
conference Friday at New York, ami de
cided upon the establishment Of rigid rule
to prevent the introduction OF cholera Ra
cargoes will be closely quarantined unit
they are either boiled or steamed, the sui
phur process being voted a failure.
Among the settlers on the Dakota land
opened by President Arthur and closed h.
his successor great activity prevails. Meei
ings are being held, societies organized, an
funds secured to test the validity of th
governments position in the courts. In til
| Whuie uIsLrIcJ III ulspuIe, III Is clalInsu, thei
are about 800 Ind ians, while the number {
settlers is placed at 6,000.
At New Orleans Saturday morning, Mr.;
Amelia Evans, a clairvoyant, the wife of
policeman, and Casper Wenger, an unmal
ried man, were founi dead in bed together
with bullet holes in their heads TIL
wuman's husband Is in prison under suspi,
ion that, entering his house, he found I'll
guilty pair under the circumstances aboy
mentioned, ami killed them