The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-02
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

1t cost tue city Of New York about d, 900
10 prove Jaehne's rascality.
Tho Very Rev. Frederick Kalzsr has been
appointed by the pope bishop of the Green
Bay, Wis, diocese
The state university Of Wisconsin has
won the base ball championship of the
northwestern college league
o. r. Schelrer, wagon manufacturer at
Rice Lake, Wis, has made an assignment
for the benefit of his creditors
The French chamber of deputies has
voted l01, 900 francs to the funds for the es-
Establishment of the Pasteur institute
Courtney and Hosmer rowed single
scull race Monday, resulting in dead heat !;
and Teemer defeated Ross by length at
Oak Point
The National Line steamer American
bound from Liverpool to New York, broke
O piston rod at sea and was forced to return
to Liverpool
There is a cabinet crisis in Austria, the
Taaffe ministry being divided on the ques-
tion of the duty to be placed on petroleum
importations
Near Goose lake, Iowa Monday morning,
. train raS over three men who had gone to
sleep on the track. Two were killed, but
tho third escaped with slight injuries
United States Judges Pardee and Billings
rendered decision at New Orleans Monday
In favor OF the Bell company in its suits
against the National Improved Telephone
company.
Stock raisers in Montana have leased ex-
tsnsive cattle ranges from the Dominion
~
and are driving great herds of cattle across
the border into northwest territory.
A useful citizen has been William Balm of
Blossburg, Pa He has worked in the coal
mines there for nearly 81 years, and is now
rs years OF age. He has buried eleven chill
dren, but has twenty four still living.
Up to noon Monday the receipts by lake
ct Buffalo for the season were 6GG, 900 bar
rels of flour and is, :ss4 800 bushels of grain,
against 196, 900 barrels Of -four and 9, $50 600
bushels OF grain for the corresponding time
last year.
The Presby terrain general assembly, be-
fore its adjournment in Minneapolis Mon
day, adopted a resolution criticising Chris
tians for using and advertising in Sunday
newspapers Omaha was selected as the
next place OF meeting
The educational bill submitted by Repre-
sentative Miller, of Texas, provides for an
annual appropriation of s., COG, 900 for ten
years, the money to be distributed among
the states on the ratio OF their illiteracy a,
shown by the census reports.
Unfavorable crop reports come from cht
northwest In Minnesota and Dakota bu,
little rain has fallen since April As q re
suit grain Is not st0oling out Chinch-bug.
have also made their appearance In some
sections. and are doing considerable damage
Although nothing is known of the matter
at Washington, dispatch from Melbourne
asserts that the American consul at Samos
has given the protection OF his government
TO King Malictoa, while the German au
thoritiss uphold the claims OF King Tomas
ga
Count Paul Vasili says the czar is in pub
lie and in private honest, frank, and
straightforward He is hard working and
rssoluts, and intensely patriotic. But he Il
unable to make rapid decisions, is bouno
about with bureaucratic tape, and is so shu
away from the people that he Is ignorant oil
thsir nseda
League base ball games Monday resulted
AT Boston--St. Louis 4, Boston tmorning)
st. Louis !, Boston 10 afternoon; at New
York-Detrolt 8, New York morningJ
Detroit 4, New York lafternoon); ct Phila
delphis-Chicago 4, Philadelphia & Their
were 26,0O0 spectators at the Afternoon
game between New York and Detroit
American association: At New York
Metropolitan II, Louisville s; at Brooklyn
Cinclnnati H. BROOKLYN 8. at New York