The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-08
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The oleomargarine bill is in the senate,
and viii not be taken up until the return OF |
Senator Miller from New York.
The wheat in store in St Paul and Min
neapolis, and throughout Minnesota and Da- |
kota, amounts to IA, Si2, 900 bushels
Capt. Murdoch, of the Sixth Infantry,
while crossing Grand River with part of |
his command Sunday, was drowned.
Maddux, Hobart g. Co, Cincinnati
whisky firm, are charged with creokedness,
in filling up barrels that the gauger had
stamped.
M. Goldbaum, a merchant, was murdered
| Saturday by Apaches near Benson, A I.
A miner named thomas Stunt was killed by
the savages near Harshaw, A. I.
| 1t is rumored that an interview between
Emperor William and the car will take place
in August This is accepted as proof of the
restoration of friendship between Germany
and Russia
James Dacey, who murdered Alderman
Gaynor in Chicago, and who has been play
ing the insane racket at Woodstock, set fire
to his bed in the Jail Saturday. He did not
burn up, however.
| An attempt 10 take census OF Paris is
proving a failure, because the people fear
The lists are submitted to private detective
agencies and improper use made OF the IN
formation thus obtained.
Charles label, who was shot by his
brother Frank at Reading, Pa, died Sunday
evening, having married his sweetheart
| while on his deathbed. Frank has at
tempted suicide, and may not survive.
The British Columbia Express company's
stage was stopped Sunday on the Cariboo
road by highway msn, who carried OF the
treasure. LoS, containing a large amount,
but overlooked a package containing $l0,-
00p
The Louisville opera festival will open
June in the new music hail, the changes
in which have been fully completed. The
stage is seventy five deep and ninety five
= wide, and the proseenium curtain VIII be
fifty two feet avross
The report Saturday that Henry Ward
!, Beecher was dead was the result of dis
:, | patch anent the street ear troubles, thai
the Bleecker street. strike Is dead Tbs
Il operator mixed the letters up, and "Beechei
is dead" was the result
=. The league ball games Of Saturday leave:
a the clubs as follows: Detroit first, Chicago
/ second New oril third. Detroit is only
II one game ahead OF Chicago, and has played
IS one game more. in the American associa
ton St Louis leads, Pittsburg second
IN Athletics third
ID Floods have destroyed the antique churcl
oi of st Francis at Santa Domingo Pueblo, N
lie NJ, and have swept away nearly all tn
b. bridges of the Santa Fe road crossing tn
lis Rio Grande. 1t will take week at leas
lg for the company to make repairs. The Hi
Or Grande in many places is two miles wide
IN An Orange Catholic riot took place a
al Belfast Sunday during the funeral of Cur
is ran The Orangemen pelted stones AT tn
al procession, and the Catholics in retaliation
he made an assault on the Orangemen an
~ drove them away. One man was Stable
Ms and several were cut in the head.
&C The French people are greatly excite
Us over the proposed expulsion of the royt
'h families from France The Due d Roch,
81 faucauld made plea in favor of the princt
III during the debate in the chambers tt
10 shopkeepers want the princes to remain b
IL cause they spend their money freely.
The condition of spring wheat in II
ne northwest has very much improved sins
- May 50, rain having fallen in four tfths
~ ~ the area and stopped the operations of u
- chinchbugs. The oats crop has suifert
~ seriously from drought, rain falling tx
an late in Southern Minnesota and Northel
Of Iowa to save many fields
Ar. Chicago detectives captured in Sta
rec street store Saturday progressing Won't
ed who attempted to conceal Jersey on b
on person In her room at a leading hotel W
of found on er 500 worth of silks and 5ewelr
The evidently stolen sincs her arrival la
On Wednesday evening. She finally gave b
name as Mrs. Henry Lennox, of Nalparais
So Ind.
an The United States grand jury, at Seatt
ro W r., has convicted number of men
participating in the Chinese riots there, a
put also claims to have unearthed a treasonai
organization which exists throughout
tho country, the iect Of which is arson, IL
hia berry and murder. The name OF the orga
ill, zation is THE Red American Information
Workingmen's association
Ill; One hundred and seventeen convicts
the Joliet penitentiary who have apparent
his resolved upon abandoning evil ways We
and Sunday admitted to the Catholic chur,
no the rite of confirmation being Performed
'ers Archbishop Feehan, assisted by seyel
priests 1t was the first event of its III
oil that ever took place within the prison wa
the Among tho men confirmed were few
OH terious Chicago crooks Some of the c.
4 to verts signed a pledge to abstain from
for use of strong drink for five years
ria THE MARKETS.