The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

H. H. Richardson, the famous architect,
died at Boston Tuesday night
The Republican state convention of K an
sas will be held at Topeka. July Z.
Secretary Manning was able to take a
long ride about Washington Wednesday.
Mr. Brooks, of Phelps, N. Y, has discov
cred new comet in the constellation CASH
opeia
The servant girls at Milwaukee are organ
izing union for the purpose Of securing bet
ter wages.
The Rev. William C. Smith, popular
minister of the NJ T. church, die1 Tuesday
evening at Frankfort, Ind, aged u.
The Evening Republic, of Buffalo, N. Y,
made its last appearance Wednesday eve-
ming. A boycott led to its suspension.
Indians are reported to have attacked
ranch twenty miles southwest of Pantano,
A. T., Wednesday morning, and killed eight
persons
At Washington Wednesday the American
Surgical so iety began Its annual meeting,
the president Dr. Moses Gum, of Chicago
in the chair.
The body of j. L. Platt, stock buyer,
was found near Jessup, Iowa, Wednesday
morning with bullet-hole in his head
Murder is suspected.
Mr.. Stuart Brown and Miss Kate l.. IL
Hay, only daughter of the Hon. Milton Hay,
were united in marriage at Springfield, Ills.
Wednesday evening
The Rev. Lewis A Kemper, d. D., of Oc-
onomowoc, Wis who was professor in the
theological seminary at Nashotah, died sud
denly Tuesday night
Percy Perkins, John klingel, Charles
O'Connell, and Policeman tassenbrodt
who were bitten by a mad dog at Pullman
will go to Paris for treatment Wy pasteur
The f,onr output of Minneapolis last wee&
reached los 80 barrels, against LII, 500 bar
rels the pr eceding week. The market rules
sluggish, the unsettled condition of wheat
tending to this result
The explosion of a lard-tank demolished a
portion Of Toby Il Eooth's packing house,
at the corner of Eighteenth and Groove
streets, Chicago, instantly killing one man,
James Sanford, and il, uring several others
The racs for the 1908 guineas at New.
market, England, wednesday, was won by
the duke of Westninsrer's Ormond, Minting
second, and Mephisto third. The favorite,
Saraband, ridden by Archer, failed to get a
place.
Near Brandt Station, Pa, Thursday
night freight train was wrecked, the en-
,ine and thirteen cars tumbling down ar
rmbsnkment The fireman, Peter Rouse,
was caught under the locomotive, and
roasted to death
Base Fall games played Wednesday were
| as follows: At New Iork-Brooklyn 4,
Metropoltans &; at Philadelphia-Phi
phia "A, Buffalo 4; at Baltimore Athletics
| s, Baltimore Z; at Louisvie-Louisville =,
| Pittsburg /, at St Louis-St Louis Z, Gin
| cinnati i.
1t is reported that through arrangements
| by the Citizens committee of st Louis with
| the knights OF Labor general board the
| strike on the Missouri Pacific viii lie de
clared oil in few days, and that efforts
will he made to secure for the strikers their
old positions
AT O'Clock Wednesday evening William
| E. Withers, IA non-union switchman in the
employ of the St Louis Bridge 4 Tunne
| company, was assaulted while going to hi,
room In self defense, as he claims, he shot
and killed one of his assailants He was
with difficulty rescued from the mob and
taken to the station
Several hundred feet of the levee a mile
below Austin, Miss, has been swept away
increasing the inundation in Tunica and
Coahoma counties A general breakup il
the Arkansas levees is reported, the gap
ranging from 100 feet to half mile in ex
tent 1t is believed that every acre of lant
between Helena, Ark, and Laeonia subject
to the floods, will b. inundated