The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Rev. DIR. Walsh viii be consecrated in
Rome as archbishop of Dublin
Four thousand boxes of cheese were sold
at Buffalo, N ", Wednesday, at cents.
Since March l last, 2,475, 900 hogs were
packed In the west, of which number Chi
cago contributes l. 100000.
At MeKeesport, Pa, Black Bros, who
have been drilling for gas, struck oil
Wednesday at depth of ], 600 feet
In the White House the visiting cards are
saved and sold for waste paper In the
month of May there were 5000 cards.
Estimates of the coming Minnesota and
Dakota wheat crop place the same at "a,
00O, 900 and 10000 900 bushels respectively.
Bawditch, shilling s Co, wholesale mil
linery of Boston, failed Wednesday, and are
negotiating compromise with their credi-
tors.
At Boston, Charles T. Stevens was SON
fenced to four years and half In prison for
stealing 81, 900 in bonds from box in a de-
posit vault
The Hon. Reuben Ellwood, member of
congress from the Fifth Illinois district,
died at his residence in Sycamore of cancer,
Wednesday.
The legislatures which are to he elected
within the next year will elect twenty five
United States senators. and business. has
already commenced.
Lord Salisbury threatens to resign the
British premiership on the first signs of de-
liberate obstruction by the Radicals to the
necessary business of parliament
Dispatches from St Paul intimate that
the Chicago. Milwaukee & ST. Paul railroad
has absorbed the Fargo Southern railroad,
running from Fargo TO Ortonville.
Adolph B. SpreckelS, charged with assault
with attempt to murder NJ H. DeYoung
proprietor Of The San Francisco Chronicle,
was acquitted by jury Wednesday
Forest fires arc destroying valuable tract:
of timber in the great Egg Harbor swamp
in New Jersey. Two tobacco factories al
Liberty, Va, burned, with a loss of $35, QUO
The Able Batiffol has discovered in 9
church at Berat, Arabia, a manuscript Of
the gospels at st. Matthew and St Mark
written in uncials of silver OH purple vel
lum, of the date of the sixth century
The Cincinnati board of public work.
| Wednesday awarded to Coffin & Stanton
New York, 81 900, 900 of per cent bonds
ordered TO be is .uei for granite-block paw
| ing, at their bid OF 1926 per 81, 600 premium
Thomas j. Mulby, of Boston, has resigne,
| the position of superintendent of the Nortl
| End Industrial school to 90 To England am
look after tho Churchill estate, valued a
i5,0o0 900, of which he il ono of the eigh
heirs
Tho Mexican Central Railway compan,
has been officially notified by the govern
ment that 1t must comply strictly with til
terms OF its concessions, mu t not is ne spec
ial through rates from the United States
and must not cut under the Mexican tarii
freight
The breaking Of rope in Van Amherg'
circus at Albany, N. Y, Tuesday, precip
tated Lottie Weston, "the woman with th
iron jaw" and her cannon to the ground
Mrs Weston falling ON the gun, crushing i
her forehead, and receiving other sever
injuries.
The -four production of the Minneapoli
mills the past week was 1877, 500 barrels
against 80, 29S barrels for the precedin
week and los, 800 barrels for the correspond
ing period in 1884 All the mills are pre-
pairing to shut down. owing to the inaugurt
ton Of repairs to the canal
In the matter of the refusal Of Judg
Rowland to accept the rcceivership of th
Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis road, Nj
Quigley, chairman OF the bondholders' con
mittee, notifies the court that unless Nj
d. H. Conkling, of the Illinois indian
road, Is appointed he will abandon IL
prOperty