The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-11
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The receipts Of wheat in Minneapolis has

The receipts Of wheat in Minneapolis hrst
week were 4S3, $50 bushels
William II English has resigned bank
presidency to compile legal history.
Myers, the Splinter, agaiE defeated
George at Madison Square Garden, New
York, Saturday.
Germany, Austria, England Prussia
and Italy have notified Greece that a
blockade of her ports has been ordered
Pension Office people whisper that Com
missioner black is soon to be transferred
to another post-possibIy the Austrian mis-
sion.
Tom Campbell, of Cincinnati, was are sted
Saturday for criminal libel by Comptroller
Esheiby. The medium was The Evening
Telegram.
Fifteen cases OF cholera and fifty four
deaths were reported during twenty four
hours at Venice, and ten new cases and
four deaths at Brindisi.
The Socialistic member of the German
reichsrag, William Liebnecht, will make
trip to ths United States in September to
agitate his views and raise collections
A test case is being made at talcna, Ill,
on the question of the right of the muni-
cipai authorities to levy 2-per-cent license
tax on the different insurance companies for
the benefit of the fire depai tment
At iIa2elton, Ohio, Sunday, Thomas
James, saloonkeeper, was probably fatally
shot by William Powers James attempted
to separate Powers and Burt Hinckston, who
were fighting, and Powers shot him.
In the event OF war between Turkey and
Greece it is probable that Russia will inter
vene as tue ally of Greece. Such interyen-
ton would pI obably be the commencement
of serious complications throughout Europe.
Philip Gasset, manager of the ,Iersey
tEnslandI bank, which failed under suspl.
cious circumstances lastJanuary, has been
sentenced to penal servitude for five years,
on con riction of having embezzled SlSj. O0O
OF public money.
Senator Sherman thinks that Ireland
should have |, cal legislature or paria-
ment which would make its autonomy cor.
respond to that OF the several states in the
United States, Irish repre- 'entation at West
minister to remain at present
There is story atioat in Washington
that Secretary Whitney has made considl-
cradle investment in newspaper property in
,
the entire change i'll the tone of The Ma
tional Republican on naval matters
The virulence of British newspaper at
tacks on the home rule question may be
surmised when it is stated that Mr. Tyndall
charges that Mr. Gladstone is guilty of a
reasonable surprise; that he is trying to
drug and debauch the nation The Specta.
tor, however, says that these over-excited
statesmen are not likely to fill the country
with confidence in the sagacity as polite
ians Of the writers.
The train known as the day express y
which left Chicago via the Fort Wayne
road Sunday afternoon, while passing the
little station of lnwood, six miles from
Plymouth, Ind, g O'Clock Sunday evening,
struck wagon containing John Wymer, a
young farmer, bis wife and two daughters
aged . and years respectively. John wy
mer and the oldest girl were instantly
killed, and the wife and remaining child
received injuries from which they will die
The wagon was a complete wreck and the
two horses attached TO it were instantly
killed