The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-21
THE NEWS IN oRIEF.


The EyrantV olante race was not run at
st Louis Friday, -Haggin, the owner of
Iyrant paying forfeit
Acting Secretary of the Treasury Fair.
child estimates the receipts for the next
fiscal year at about $3333, 0JO,00l
During the three years of its use the
brooklyn bridge has served 81, 557, t57 pas.
sengers and earned in toto 81 .64s,7I9.
Mr.. Anderson, of Kansas, presented a
resolution IN the house Friday providing for
the final adjournment of congress July J.
Twenty members of the Louisiana lesis
lature have Joined in protest to the gov
ernor against his signing the bill known as
the Sunday law.
Cholera has appeared at Cadigora, on the
20, eight miles from the Adriatic. Sixteen
new cases, on an average, are daily re-
ported at Venice
The arguments on the motion for a new
trial for Brooks, alias Maxwell, at st
Louis, were concluded Friday, the judge re-
serving his decision
Joseph Hart, aged II, nephew of Josh
Hart, manager of the Theater Comique at
New York, accidentally shot and killed
hiihset frludy morning.
The Michigan Lumber company, of
Greenvile, have sold their saw. mill, pine
lands and logs on hand to A p Brewer
and others of East Saginaw, for S,!50,Gt0
The Gallop- Degroot company, Wholesale
dealers in tailors' trimmings at st Paul,
Mimi, have failed for ST., 900, with assets of
$4,000 They owe three Chicago houses
ST, 100
Sixteen hundred reports received by a
Toledo firm from the six principal winter
wheat states give the prospects favorable,
except i'll Kansas and Michigan The indi-
cations are that the farmers will sell freely
Immediately after threshing.
| Fire in the Bosworth block at Elgin, lii
Friday morning, destroyed the militia
armory, and resulted in the deluging OF
the various offices and stores, causing d
total loss Of about S!S,0O1 The state loses
81 800, aud the militia company S3,00l
The Cincinnati Equirer published an arti
Gle Friday charging five members of the
! Cincinnati Base BAH club with throwing
games, and producing attidavits seriously
impuSulng the honesty of Tony Mullane
the pitcher. The latter states that the arti
Gle Is a mean, vile, and malicious attempt
TO injure hiuelf and other members of the
| team
Fridays games by the National league
showed the following scores: At Roston-
Philadelphia 5, Boston =; at New York
Washington 4, New York 10 American
association: At Pittsburg-L Louisville ., Ale
gheny 4; at Philadelphia-Ba Baltimore ;, Ath
letic 4; at st LouiS-Cincinnati o, st Loui
Il; at Brooklyn Metropolitan 3 Brook
lyna
Resistance to the arrest of an unruly
sailor on board the American bark Dol
Justo at Colon, United States of Columbia
resulted III the project bringing forward
squad of policemen and soldiers, who openei
fire on the vessel, which they next boarded
and began shooting down the hatchways
Four sailors were killed, and two probabl,
MORALLY wounded
Pasteur has treated over 100 patient
for hydrophobia His late American
patient, Miss Amalia Morosini, of New
York, returned in excellent health an,
spirits Pasteur is professor of biology il
the Institute of France, and so compensation
to the scientist goes properly in the form O
subscription to the institute. The PaSteu
fund is now over a million francs lie doe
not consider his theory Thoroughly proven
though results have been eminently salts
factory.