The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-26
HE NEWS IN RRIEE.

Six comets are now visible to the tele
scopic observers
All the militia companies have been with
drawn from East st Louis
Secretary Manning will probably not re
sumo his official duties until next autumn.
Estimated by the number of names in the
new city directory soon to be issued Chi
cago now has population of $4,000
Harrison's chemical works at Philadelphia
were destroyed by fire. Monday morning,
creating loss OF nearly Sl00,0U0; fully in
sured
Dewitt Clinton Dimock, of the manu-
featuring firm of Dimock, Could a. Co, oil
Moline, Ill, expired Sunday night in his
10th year.
The planning mill proprietors of Chicago
having given the eight-hour plan a two
weeks trial, Monday returned to ten hours.
There was no trouble.
Miss Lizzie Hill Colquitt, daughter OIL
Senator Colquitt, and Capt William l.
Marshall, of Milwaukee, will be married al
Edgewood, Ga, June 2.
One of the floors of the Brunswick Bake
billiard-table mandatory at Milwaukee
collapsed Monday, also carrying down the
floors below, and causing loss of $1,000
Miss Lydia Miller, daughter of Justice
Miller, of the United States supreme court
and A. E Tou2alin, were married Monday
at the residence OF the brides father il
Washington
At Blackfoot, Idaho, Monday, twenty
five poly gamists were sentenced to yariou.
fines and terms of imprisonment Thirteen
of the convlcts go to the house of correction
at Detroit, Mich
The visible supply of wheat and corn is
respectively, 31,sl2,1i1 and !, Sl4, 800 bushels
Since last report wheat has been reduced
|, ai6,,.,1 bushels, and corn has fallen of
200, :.6l bushels
Dr. c. II. HELEN, of Minneapolis, who
was married Saturday evening, was ARRESTED
Sunday afternoon for sending obscene
literature through the mails, and held to tn,
nited States grand jury.
| The Turkish and Greek commanders il
an interview Monday completed an ii rec
meat for an arnistce The Greek losses a
| one point on the frontier We're llillet
and wounded, including six officers
Business appears to be- depressed at Racine
Wis The }. Case company has lail OF
80 men; The Mitchell a Lewis work, hav,
been elo3ed, and }. Miller Il Company
boot and shot factory is shut down
Three children of Michael Feehan, Ii yins
| near Mount Pleasant, Ia, while play in.
with oil Sunday morning, caused an explo
| sion and fire by which two of them wer,
roasted to death and tie third fatal,
| burned.
The remains of Julius Luther were in
TERED Monday at Wilmington, Ills Two
months ago he was relieved OF red snakt
eighteen inches in length, but h. never raj
lied. Friends refused to permit a post NOR
tenn examination of the body
The Mark Lane Express, in its review o
| the British grain trade, saws The for
| elgn wheat traie Is very depressed Seller
of American AMI Russian wheats are lower
lug thri demands American -four is be
| iGg offered ~ rates whirh are PERHAPS tn
| lowest els or,
League -aises piaye1 Monday were: A
Chicaso-fhiiadri hta -, Chicago ;; at De
troit w ashinston I. Detroit ., at kansa
Crty-Boston I, Kansas City ); at ST Loui
| New York IL, St. Louis s. American as
| sociation; At Baltimore-Lo3isvilI Il, Bal
timore ); at ihlalelph ia-Athletic TO- Gin
| cinnati l.
Saturday afternoon, in st Joseph town
ship, Champaign county, Illinois, Gran
Giasscock, young man, wounded Charlie
Milo Hatch on The head with a club, tn
blow causing the death of the victim Sun
day morning. Hatch had kept in his pos
session pigs belonging to the Glasscoc
family which had strayed into his premise
| and caused soma damage