The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-26
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Chicago is overrun with counterfeit
silver dollars.
During July 3',S5S immigrants arrived
States
An oil well at Spanapin, Pa, sixteen
miles from Pittsburg, flows at the rate CT
I5b barrels per hour,
The Wolf log-drive ga, 100000 feet is be-
ing run into the boom at Oshkosh. Wis
and all the saw mills will be soon in opera
ton
Thrashers in Minnesota and Dakota re-
port an average yield of fourteen to six
teen bushels of wheat per acre, uotwith-
standing the drought
funnel-cloud, accompanied by hal!
swept over San Antonio, Texas Tuesday
evening, wrecking number of buildings
including the Southern hotel
Near Galena, Ills, Monday evening, John
Gear, on horseback, forded the Mississippi
river, which at the point crossed is ordi-
narily three quarters Of u mile wide
The release of Cutting by the Maxicaus
will have no effect upon the mission Of Mr..
Sedgewick, who has orders to investigate
the affair aud return To Washington.
Mrs. Gilbert Babh, living near Adair-
vile, Ky, whose parents had killed them.
selves, and whose sister Is an inmate of a
lunatic asy lum, hanged herself Tuesday
morning.
At Dutch Hollow, Grant county, Wis,
a deposit OF lead of great depth. and ex-
tending probably two miles, has been dis
covered Nearly 500 pounds are being
mined daily.
The Reg. A. '. Nepper, momber of the
Milwaukee dis trict conference OF the Meth
odlst Episcopal church, has been expelled
from the ministry for unchristian conduct
and misapprupriation OF funds
Jack Dempsey expresses a willingness to
fight Burke eight rounds at San Francisco
prior to oct /, the winner to take all the
gate money Dempsey intends to embark
in business about the beginning of o tober
Early Tuesday morning at Whitesville,
Ind. NJ. B Fisher surprised a burglar in
his store The robber ran into the street,
and was captured by a citizen who was
passing. Fisher then shot the burglar
dead.
Capt William Moore, his wife and five
children, and Dolph Moore brother of the
caI tain, his wife and three children, who
left lndianola. Tex, last Thursday evening
in the sIoop Dauntless, persisted in the great
storm of Friday.
In tenement in East Eighteenth street.
New York, Tuesday morning. Kate Stab,
nurse, set fire to her bed, upon which she
had placed her newly born babe, whom she
had previously killed When the fire was
discovered the child's body had been half
consumed. The woman was locked up.
Harris Gunter, a we'll known citizen Ct
Montgomery, Ala, entered police head
quarters in that city early Tuesday morn
ing. attired only in his night clothes, and
shot dead Officer Montgomery Gunter in
rested him a few hours previously for
drunkenness.
\ case of Wholesale poisoning by eating
diseased or poisoned pressed beef is reported
from the town of Lake, suburb of Chi
ago Half dozen families purchased and
eat quantity of beef of this description
from Samuel Clough, who runs a butcher
shop. All who ate 1T became violently ill
and narrowly escaped fearful death
The remains of Martin Brass, who disap-
peared June ~ from Norwich, Mich were
found Tuesday in Il root cellar near his
former dwelling. Mrs. Brass and her para
mour, James Crofts, are awaiting trial for
his murder; and as the discovery of the
body has caused great excitement, the pris-
oners have been removed TO Cadillac for
safe keeping
The following base ball games were play ed
10y League clubs Tuesday: AT Detroit
Philadelphia 10, Detroit :; at Chicago
II
New York |, Kansas City I; at s. Louis
Washington I, St Louis S. American
association: At Louisville Allegheny Z,
Louisville J; at Cincinnati-St Louis 4,
Cincinnati 0: at New York Metropolitan
5, Broo2iyn :i--seven innings; at Philadel-
phia-Athietic 3, Baltimore o.