The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-14
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

At Momence, MS, sixty persons were
poisoned by eating canned beef.
A Boston woman who invented a corset
has made $50 900 in three years
The Buffalo Express dominates Miss Clsye-
land for president of Vassar college.
Charles Francis Adams invested $40, 900
in Kama City real estate last week.
Adolph Kruse, of Milwaukee, bitten by q
dog three years ago is suffering from hydro
phobia
Peter j. Schultz, paying teller of Michi-
gan Savings bank, Detroit, is dsfaulter to
the amount of So, 4o0
The yield Of melons in the single county
of Narnwell, South Carolina. this year, will
reach ,000, 600 worth $50, 0O0
Lower & Wood. grain and produce deal.
ers at Alliance, Ohio. made an assignment
Saturday, their liabilities being $4,000.
The pope's communications with China
have been so friendly that it is probable,
that papal nuncio will be sent to Pekin.
Judge Powers, recently appointed, sem
fenced two Mormons of Ogden, Utah to six
months imprisonment and to pay fine OF
$3.50 each.
Charles Harding and James Townsend
| fought six rounds on Green island In the
Ohio river, for the hand of young lady.
| Harding came out victor.
Bishop MCNAMARA, of che Independent
| Catholic church. was arrested in Brooklyn
the other day for hitting man on the nose
who disturbed his meeting.
Admiral Jouett has been ordered north
with the Tennessee and Yantic, which were
/ saut IN, pauama Mt tha haCi of ha ra-
| cent troubles on the isthmus
Charles Dyer, boss coal miner of Shen-
andoah, Pa, who had three wives, killed
himself Sunday because one of them threat
ened prosecution for bigamy.
! Charles Dean, of Louisville young mar
ried man, attempted to elope with Miss
Pittman, of Oxford, Ind, and being frus-
tratsd shot and killed himself
| Laborers ON the Pisheen railway in India
are DESERVING by the hundred, on account Of
the ravages by cholera in the sections
through which the road il building.
James Joliff, an aged and respectable citi
zen of Carmichaels, Pa, fatally shot his SON.
in-law, Samuel Hathaway, Sunday, because
he had traduced his wife, from whom he ID
separated.
In the absence of the cashier of the Fourth
National bank Of Pittsburg last Friday the
clerk in charge was called to see mythical
man at the door, and In his absence the
thieves got away with 5000.
The contest over the will Of the late
Charles w. Durant, the millionaire pres
ident of the Chicago & Rock Island road,
was anicably settled Saturday, at New
York, and the case withdrawn
At the North Lincolnshire special parlia.
mentary election Atkinson, the Tory candi
date, was successful The result has
strengthened the hopes of the Conservative:
in the coming general elections.
| At Ems Sunday while Emperor William
was taking drive, vagrant threw 9
flower-po at his carriage, sxclaiming "Thui
will the empire break" The man, who il
supposed to be insane, was arrested.
| Unknown parties at Milwaukee drilled
holes in the firewood used by a white woman
who had married negro, and filed thu
crevices with powder. When she lightst
her fire Sunday afternoon terrific explosion
occurred, but little damage resulted
/ Byron A. Bryner, state agent for indiana
of the Etna Insurance company, was ar
i rested at Indianapolis Sunday night on
telegram from Peoria, Iils., on o charge o
embezzling 81, 900 Of the company's money
Bryner's family move in the best society
and he himself is a member of the Presby
terrain church.