The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-31
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

All the Irish industries, except linsn
manufacture are in a deplorable condition
League tall games Wednesday resulted:
Chicago s, Providence fourteen innings;
Boston l, Buffalo five innings,
Natural gas was struck Tuesday in the
center of Ithaca, n Y. and oil operators
declare that petroleum. WI also be found
The Cuyaboga Falls roling-mll was sold
Wednesday evening by l. NJ Loziers. of
Youngstown, Ohio, to two skilled workmeu
who will start the works in few weeks.
An order for the closing of all postofioes
il the states ana territories between the
hours Of and 5 P. N. en- the day Of Gen
Grants funeral has been issued by the post
master general
The Hon. c. B. Stewart, one of the sign
ers of Texas declaration of independece,
was inferred at Montg omery, Tex, Wednes-
day, aged 81, But one signer of The declara
ton now survives.
1t is stated that after Gen. Grants funerL
President Cleveland, with few friends, will
60 on a fishing and hunting excursion in
northern New York, and that no appoint
ments VII be made until October
The Spanish authorities have prohibited
banquets or serenades in honor of Senior
CASTELAR,, the Republican leader, who is
making tour Of Galicia aud meeting with
enthusiastic receptions from the people,
John Kane and Kate Thurston, 10 and IS
years respectively, eloped from Rockford,
Ills. Tuesday evening, and Anna Smith,
daughter OF a weaIthy Pectatonica farmer,
fed TO Dakota with her fathers hired man.
The sheriffs Ct the counties in West Vir-
GINA, through which tie Chesapeake & ONO
railroad extends, have been enjoiued from
collecting unpaid taxes against the road for
the past ten years, now aggregating over
s2O0, $50
4 committee representing the lesSees O.
Cheyenne and Arapahoe grazing lands has
left Kansas City for Washington, 10 MAKE
another effort TO induce the president to
modify his recent order for the removal Of
cattle from the reservation.
The Fargo Argus states that Dakots
Democrat asked the president to appoin:
Mr.. Zeibach governor Of that territory, and
was assured that Governor Pierce would be
retained until his time expired so long as he
gave satisfaction as he now does.
In the senior fours race of the Northwest
Sfn Amateur regatta W e1neSQay at De-
troit the famou, Hillsdales were beaten by
the Ecorse boat rowei by tie four Monte
brothers. The Farraguts won the junior
race, Grand Lodge second ExceIsiors third.
The Looks Of ;1e Manufacturers and
Traders bank, Of Buffalo, show discrepan-
! lies. The assistant cashier, who died re-
Gently was a tr-fe short, AMI Thomas En-
erscn, the book-keeper, is defaulter and
has fed to Canada. The bank is reported
solid
Three brothers. Ell, Bob and Porter Haw-
kins, called upon Horace Mullins, in
Anderson county, Kentucky, and desired to
know if he had used foul language about
their sister The four men began firing at
once, two of the Hawkines falling dead at
the first shot, the third receiving slight
wounds at the second discharge. Mullins
escaped unhurt
At the State Agricultural college at
Ames, Iowa, recently, two students invaded
lady's bedroom in the building, read her
private letters, and masqueraded in her at
tire. For this they were expelled The
senior class demanded that the offenders be
reinstated, but the president refused to COM
| ply, and nearly all the members of the class
have withdrawn from the school