The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-22
ROCK ISLAND, FRIDAY. JANUARY %. 1886.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mrs. Hendricks is arranging the papers Of
the late vice president
A tramp hung himself near Annapolis,
Md, last week, to escape being frozen to
death
?. S. Yeager, a shoemaker at Waddam's
Grove, Ills, claims to have discovered per
pe:ual motion.
Herman Koehler & Co S brewery at New
York was damaged $50, 90 by fire Wednes-
day afternoon
Mr.. Stuart Robson's mother, 50 years of
age, made the journey from Annapolis to
Baltimore TO see him act Dromio
Gen Simon Cameron will celebrate his
81 birthday at his home in Pennsylvania
next month He is still hale and hearty.
The Illinois Tile Makers association
Wednesday adopted resolutions favoring the
use of drain tile in the Improvement of pub,
lie roads
The Illinois Central road will pay semi
annual dividend of per cent. March next.
The Pacific Mail directors have decided upon
a quarterly dividend of 4 per cant
The fifth and last game of the chess tour
nament at New York was won, Wednesday,
by Dr. Zukei'tort in three and half hours.
The next games will be played at St Louis,
beginning Jan %
Three oil warehouses at Philadelphia were
guttei by fire Wednesday night, entailing a
loss of s23,0Jo Oae man was seriously
burned, another persisted in the flames, and
two young women had narrow escapes.
The report that Mr. Turlay land agent
Of the Illinois Central, had turned up, hav-
ing been passenger on aa ice-bound Loaf,
is premature. No word has been received
from him, and his friends are more anxious
than ever.
Eastern capitalists have been purchasing
in the Chippewa ;Wisl district large tracts
timbered with black birch, which wood will,
it is claimed, in the near future, take the
place of other material for insida finish and
| tine furniture
The Iowa State Temperance Alliance re-
ceive1 reports at Des Moines Wednesday
showing that the prohibitive law was gen
| orally enforced Seven hundred and one
| saloons have been closed, and $50, 900 has
been collected in fines.
Orders for drafts for the Omaha National
| bank, on letters signed Richard Philpot &
| Co, Laporte, Ind, have been sent out, but
the Omaha bank has knowledge of the
| drawers, inclnes to the belief that fraud is
intended, and warns bankers, merchants,
| and Others.
Miss Minnie Bowman, a nun in Mime
| apolis convent, who is daughter of the
ex-mayor of East St Louis, who was re-
| Gently assaSsinated, has fled bill in court
| citing her brother and mother-in-law to pro
duce her fathers will, so that the estate
| which is said to be worth S5090t0, may be
divided according to its terms 1t is claimed
| that no will was found among the effects OF
the deceased, but the petitioner inclines tc
| tho belief that one exists, but is kept con
cealed for some parposa.
The Pullman company and the Chicago
| st. Louis & Pittsburg road are defendant:
| at Decatur, Ill, in suit for S50,0o0 dam
| ages instituted by George Brown Tbs
| latter's wife died last May and the remain:
| were taken 10 Ohio for interment For somt
| reason the casket was removed from tht
| train at indianapolis, and Brown and hi:
| friends, who occupied seeping-car, kept OF
| their way ignorant of the fact that the re
mains had been taken from the train A
| delay of twelve hours was occasioned and
| the body had to be hurlidly inferred, beine
in no condition to be viewed by relatives
| Hence the above suit