The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-23
TIE NEW5lN S2ic>.

Miss Eva Mackay and Prince Colonna
viii be marie il Paris On Feb. IL
A little View Jersey baby died in laugh,
ing hystalics. The pays ciaus were power.
less TO help e.
Miss Rcbccca Thomas, o. MiGdleIcro,
Vt. was barn in the lrst hour 81 the drsi
year Of the ajneteralb century,
A New Orleans woman. with an eve to
thrift, uas l,t '..i uer rooms onj O., Stepping
on majttn sine lla.ag-room talla
C. W. LAWS, aged 90, one Of the
maniaes removed FROM tie burning structure
at Kanka3.le diet Wednesday from tn,
shock.
Its rumored that Governor PatGson,
of pennsy will enter the Methodist
Episcopal ministry at the close OF ais ts.m
OF office
A trade Journal asserts that manufac-
turin-, has so improved within few waeks
thar about IN 900 persons have been given
employment
But one female practitioner has hus far
taken aIyantaye of the L,w pass "A by the
Massachusetts Medical society admitting
women to membership
An epidemic Of scarlet fever prevails At
Dixon, Ills, r,Auitn il a number Of deaths,
The school on the south side OF The r;v er
were closed We lnesiay.
The Northern Illinois Horticultural as,
ISOLATION has adopted resolutions recommend
ing the Hon. Norman J. Coleman, Of ST
Louis, for commits ioner OF agriculture mler
| President Cleveland
The report that Sullivan and Ryan, the
pugiiists, lad al encounter Tuesday in the
Coleman house, at New York is false. Tho
net proceeds of Mon lay nights moeting
! $4,000, We're divided evenly.
| The town of ChaTicstown, w. Va,
| Is the only American city pavcI with bricks
| the middle Of the sire ,ts-hriclls turna l
endwise and set on wool They last we'll
and have been known pa years in Holland
John Cowdron, o tramp, died in the in
Urinary at Springfield, OhiS, last Sunday
| and a doctor has taken off the skin, which j:
decorated with a series of remarkable setch.
ings. tattood in colors, Z, preserve as a curl
| oSity.
Fire in a tenement house at Baltimore
Wednesday night created panic :
woman jumped from window and was ia
tally hurt, ana two children will die OF ex
posure. Tie remaining occupants hal mar
| row escapes.
The Hon James O. Broadhcad, Of Mis-
| souri,, who Is q caudi tate for a cabinet pc
sition, and has Just returned to his home u
st. Louis from Washington, is of the opinion
that Mr.. Cleveland has not yet made up
slate for appointments
After an appeal by Director Genera
Burke, Wednesday, members of the NeN
Orleans cotton exchange subscribed 500, 90
to meet current expenses of the Worlds ex
hibition. An additional $50, 900 will be co
lected, and the loan Is to be paid III tw
months
The DEVON house two stores, and
dwelling, all frame structures. IS Waupaca
Wis, were burned early Kein ss,iay morn
inS. Some persons in the hotel had yer
narrow escapes. The wind at the time va
blowing gale, and the mercury registere
II degrees below zero.
A Wisconsin farmer who Luried $50
in an oyster can mas tasea the unrecugniz;
BILE pulp that remain 70 Washington, to TT
and have it redeemed. The treasury exper
; were unable to identify any of the notes, an
the farmer viii have to appeal to congre
ard exercise more iudgme.t in future.
The National league of base ball club
at its annual meeting Wednesday at Ne
2 York, appointed committee of three, vii
full powers to fiji vacancies and receive Al
plications for membership. The decisio
relieves the question of the admission ,
Lucas St Louis club 81 none Of It's ental