The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Rev. Miner T. Chew, a pioneer
treecher Of Illinois, died at Decatur Thurs
day, aged g.
The 2-year- old son of j. W. Brown, OF
Mansfield, Ohio, drunk the contents of a
camphor bottle Thursday, and died in few
hours.
The carriage and sleigh mandatory of
j. L. Spencer u Co, at Oneida, N. Y, was
destroyed by fire Thursday, with a loss of
s5U,0tA
The Kansas Republican state executive
committee appointed thirtysix delegates
Thursday to attend the anti-saloOn conven-
lion in Chicago
The July fire record in the United States
and Canada shows a loss OF property valued
at $lO,00J,U0l That is 70 per cent
greater than the average loss for twenty
years.
Judge J ". Halett, who shot himself at
Aberdeen, D. T., Wedn esday, died Thurs
day without giving any cause for bis action
He WAS an able lawer, and had the respect
OF his townSpeopie.
The grain production of the state of
Kansas is estimated as follows: Winter
wheat l-,%5d,J 80 bushels; spring wheat,
corn, l3O0ti bushels
From Omaha comes the information that
| farmers are satisfied at the prospects as
they are at present There viii be a fair
average of all kinds of gram, AMI root
| products are i'll good condition.
| The internal revenue reports for the iis-
| ,.al year ending June 30 show the eoria
district as producing 5000 gallons per
Lushel, the Cincinnati district / l6-io0 gal
Ions PER bushel, and the Chicago district
4 Us-l,V bushels per bushels
| Professor Sumner, of Yale college,
addressed the Monona Lake assembly
| Thursday on the subject of labor and cap.
| tai He held that every man had right
to strike for the highest pay he could get,
and that employers had right to hire
labor at the lowest prices,
Indians in the vicinity of Mandan, Nor
ton county, d. T., are causing the settlers
| great uueasInes5 by their depredations The
reds are entering the cabins OF the whites
and taking whatever they fancy. The
proposed abandonment of Fort Lincoln has
made the Indians bold, it is said
The walls of the new English Luthern
| church in course OF erection at Decatur
His, we're blown dewn by a swift gale t, al
swept that town Thursday afternoon
other buildings were wrecked, and fruit
and shade trees were leyeled The tota
| damage will amount to a large sum
Ths railroad assess ulent for the state o
Indiana was competed at lndianapoli
Thursday. The aggregate Is 50, so, a
against s.4,!SS,,.l@ last year, an increase o
but $50 5J,. Sixty hye lnlie- 81 ma in track
ami thirty miles q sldeaack were bull
during the year, and tie rolling stock o
the companies was inceased.
The harness OF tue trotting horse Georg
Throop Iecame displaced and fell TO Tia
ground during a race at Wilkesbarre, Pa
Thursday. only the bride aud reins re
manned, ami to the latter the driver clun
Tor his lie, lie succeeded in keeping hi
horse in tbA shafts until the wire wa
passed, wbe, the crowed stopped the an
NAL
a call has been issued from Indianapol
for National convention of Knights {
Labor Changers, National Greenbacker
Farmers Alliance, Anti Mouopolists an
ell other organizations which may harmon
ize outside tho old parties, for th
purpose of organizing new party. II
convention will meet Sept | at lndianaI
| oils.
At Laporte, Ind, Thursday, Higday Fo
dict shot his wife and then committed su
, eide. Mrs. Fosdict for the past five yea
, resided in Ravenswool, Ills, the pair havir
separated short time after their weddin
, She was going to be married to a Chicagoa
, and had gone to Laporte to get her hu
, bands signature to papers for divorc
The murderer was insane