The Rock Island Argus., 1885-05-15
Asss
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

"a Ehe National w Weoi-growers' convention
will assemble at St Louis on the 9TH inst
Sewing machines of English and Ameri-
can makers retail in Georgetown, British
Guiana, at only slS each.
Mr. Lowell will not come home until July.
He is going to stay in London and do the
social honors toward his successor
The propeller S F. Hodge, the first boat
through from Duluth, reached Detroit at
p m. Wednesday and reports encountsring
but little ice.
Mrs. Elizabeth Granger, of Pittsfeld,
Mass, who has been a widow seventy five
years, celebrated her Tooth birthday ami
versary last Saturday.
The American Rural Home, from ad
vices received, states the wheat yield
throughout the country this year will be but
62 per cent. of full crop.
Cubans in New York say that general
uprising will take place in Cuba in a few
months, which will obliterate the Madrid
domination and make the country indepen-
dent
Twenty-Five years ago gentleman in Up
son county, Georgia, buried 5000 half-dol-
lars in silver, where it remained until few
days ago when it was exhume1 and put into
circulation.
For the week ended May the -four pro-
duction of the Minneapolis mills reached
e53 ia barrels the heaviest weeks work on
record Two mills have shut down and
others intend to stop work, owing to fall
ing off in orders.
The house which Philadelphia citizsns
presented to Gen. Grant in 1855 Is adver-
tised for sale at public auction June 2 The
committee paid S33 600 for the house, and
Gen. Grant has not lived in it since he was
elected president
The emperor of Germany has conferred
upon Minnie Hauk the honorary title OF
'imperial chamber singer" a distinction
shared by only three other foreign prima
donnas, Adelina Patti, Jennie Lind Gold
schmidt and Artot- -Padilla.
Capt Lord, OF the seamer Critic, which
arrived at New York Tuesday night, re-
ports encountering miles of solid ice, with
numerous iceburgs 200 to 800 feet high, and
as large as islands In the captains expert
ence he never met such quantities of ice be-
| fore.
League ball games Wednesday we're: Chi
cago9. Philadelphia b New York 10, De
| troit Z; st, Louis s, Providence 9; Buffalo q
Boston 8. The following games were played
| by clubs of the American association: Al
Pittsburg-Broolllyn g. Pittsburg 2; at Gin
cinnati-C Cincinnati IA, Metropolitans 10; al
| Louisville g. Athletics L; at st
| Louis-St. Louis IL, Baltimore 3.
| A riot began in Trafalgar square, Lon
don, Wednesday afternoon during the
progress of a meeting which had been called
| to make demonstration against the gov
ernment's budget proposals to increase ths
duty on spirits and beer. The police were
routed, and the mob, which originally gath
cred about the Nelson monument, made al
attack on the National club and took pos
session Of Northumberland avenue. Th,
disturbance was not quelled until quite lat
| in the evening
| The treasury department employees ar
agitated at the threatened removal of al
division chiefs, Appointment Clerk Hig
| gins was recently called upon for list o
treasury employees Of all classes not pro
tected by civil service reform rules anC
subject to removal at the pleasure of th
secretary. Higgins responded by preparing
schedule which embraced more thai
seventy chiefs of divisions, all the deput,
chiefs of divisions all chief clerks in tn
departments, boOkkeepers, and disbursinl
clerks.