The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-28
rhe NEWS IN BRIEF.

Solomon l. Whitney, United States dis
trict Judge for the western district of Mich
igan, died Monday at San Diego, Cal, aged
til
Sixty Of the New York street car strikers
have leen indicted, and it is asserted that
the executive board of the strikers will be
arrested.
A company to build bridge across the
Mississippi at Nenice, III, was licensed
Monday. The capital stock is placed AT
s500,OU
Dates flour MILL ten miles north of Port
age, Wis, was turned Monday morning,
together with 200 barrels of -four and feed.
Loss, $1,000
The American schooner seized at Baddiek,
Capt Breton, for infraction of the fishery
laws, has been released by order of the Do
minion government
Levi d. Jarrard, who had been alderman,
postmaster, assemblyman, and state sena
tor, and who had embezzled $4,000
diel Monday in the state prison at Tren
ton, N. J.
An operator says the depression in the
coal trade OF the kanawha valley is UMPIRE
cedented and that unless business improves
many of tho coal producers will become
bankrupts
The visible supply of wheat and corn is
reported, respectively, as 45,549,bO and Is,
Isl, 6ll bushels Wheat has been reduced
1,225S, 525 bushels, while the decrease OF corr
is l,64l AS bushels
During a thunder storm at indianapolis
Monday night, the switchboard in the
Western Union Office was fired by elec
tIicity and destroyed seriously Gripping
telegraph facilities
The worlds bicycle record for fifty miles
was lowered nearly thirty minute; a
Gainesville, No, Monday, by George E
Weter, of Smithville, n. j., who GOV eret
the distance in h. : m 424s
Dispositions in the case of Brooks, alias
| Maxwell, in prison at St Louis for tn
murder of Preller, arrived from England
Monday. They are generally favorable t.
| the good character of the accused.
Fifty firms which manufacture brass ant
iron steam, gas, and water materials, anC
representing Sl0,004O01 invested in tool
and machinery, have formed a union TO
mutual protection against the aggression
| of labor organizations
| The issue of standard silver dollars iron
the mint during the Week ended April "
was 500. The issue during the CORE
spending period of last year was L., 99s
The shipments of fractional silver coin sine
| April l amount to $3.50, ii;;S.
The destruction by fire of the tunne
house of the Franklin tunnel, near st. Elmo
| Colo, Monday, shut oil the air supply iron
| h. ut bnJ F,.or
sutfocation, and five others, who wer
rescued in an unconscious condition, are no
| expected to recover
The executive committee Of the Bar
| Wire Manufacturers association hav
| reduced the price of arb wire - cents pc
| 100 The assertion is composed of firm
| who draw" their own wire, while there ar
| about fifty manufacturers who do not draw
their own wire; and it is reported that til
| plan of the organi alton which has mad
the reduction is to freeze out the men VIII
have no drawing plants in their factories
| The Mississippi river levee is reporte
broken in Cohoma county, Mississippi; a
the mouth of Harris bayou, and also tiv
miles south of Frar's point Portions c
Holmes and Washington counties, Missi.
| sippi, are inundated. The river at Helena
Ark, is higher than ever before known, an
the indications are that all the Sunfiowe
country Will be submerged The prospect
are exceedingly gloomy, and it is though
that the Nicksburg, Shreveport a Pacifi
division of the Queen y Crescent road wi
be compelled to supend operations 1t
believed the river will continue to rise unit
May :.