The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-24

Profess or Sumner, of Yale, is seriously
ILL.,
Peter B. Kissam, a well known lawyer.
died Friday at Marshall, Wis, in his Goth
year.
Father Abram J. Ryan, the "poct priest
of The SOUTH died at Lo iisvillc, Ky, Thurs
day night
Bishop Eedell and the city ministers of
Cleveland, Ohio, are preparing to boycott
the secular papers
John Northwood, of Saginaw Mich. was
Thursday elected department commander of
the Michigan G. A. r.
Galeote, the assassin of the bishop of Mad
rid, says he did the killing to avenge his
honor, and that God decreed the crime
Twenty two servant girls at Tarrytown,
N. Y, struck Thursday because their mis-
tresses refused to advance their wages
Mr. Grady, editor of The Atlanta Con
stitution, has been elected president Of the
National Poultry and Breeders association
Lord Churchill thinks the chances for the
land bill passing the British house of com
mons are better than people are willing TO
admit
At Laconia, n H, Tuesday, the ther-
| mometer registered 50 degrees above zero,
| with ice foot thick in the lnkes and snow
| in the valleys.
James Birge, member of the Greenv lille
| Qll1 militia company, died Thursday night
the result of exposure wlile on duty at
| East st Louis
| Florus b. Phmpton, who has been on thu
editorial -taT of The Commercial Gazette
since l>G1, died at Cincinnati, Thurs lay OF
| a complication OF diseaseS
An Unknown mrn wrecked train by
| placing a tie On tn tracr near Silver Creek,
| Ga, 1ues lay night, Gne man being killed
and another fatally Injured
The levee on the Mississippi, sixteen miles
below Helena, Ark, broke, Thur day after
noon, and it is expected that the bottom
lands for miles will he subm rgel 1t Is
feared that the losses will be very heavy.
Lucky" Baldwin says that of his entries
| Lucky B., Volante, Rapido, and Silver
Cloud the great Eclipse stake at St
Louis, he will certainly start one or more
conditioned upon his stable reaching St
Louis in good form.
Two men, recently from Chicago, giving
their names as Blake and Riley, who oper-
ated bogus lottery scheme at Milwaukee,
under the firm name of W. Huber & Co,
were arrested at that city Thursday by the
postal authorities for using the mails in
their swindling operations
| Lieutenant Governor Morris, who is act
| ing governor Of Missouri during Governor
! Marmaduke's a. sence in New y ork. has re-
| fused to issue IL warrant on Governor
| Oglesby's requisiton for the deputy sher-
ills who fired on the mob in East St Louis
Ills, two weess ago, and who are now con
fined at st Louis They will be held until
the charges against them for killing the
man Thompson on the bridge the same
day they fired on the mob ara disposed Of
The synodieal reports were read Thursday
at the session of the Presby terrain Women 5
Board Of Foreign Missions at indianapolis.
| For Illinois there were reported 49,
churches with membership Of 4s,0J0, bul
in only 100 Of the churches was there an
organized missionary effort Manager.
we're elected, and Mrs A. II. Hoge of Chi
cago, was chosen p esident emeritus Mira
| Benjs min Douglass, Of Chicago, was made
| president, and other officers and synodi,
| secretaries were selected The meeting CLOSED
with publie reception.