The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-31
THE. NEWS IN 9Nlsp.
Rock Island, ILL.,. July -. 1886


Gold commands premium Of over per
cent IN buenos Ayre-
Prince Fushmi of Japan was presented
TO tue president Thursday.
Twenty Greenhacksrs met Thursday at
Essex junction, t., aud nominated a state
ticket, heated by I. = smith, for gov.
ernor.
George Moore colorcdl was executed at
Charlotte, " C., Thursday for assaultins
his daughter He protested hls innocence
10 the last
Gleason q McColvities agricultural Im
pemeut warehouse, ut Dod5eviile WIS, was
destroyed by fire Wednesday, eutai!Ins u
loss OF $1,000
During gale Wednesday evening a sail
boat containing two men capslled oil Mar
uette, Mich. The craft was wrecked and
,uuk, and the men persisted.
the task of writiu. the life OF Charlie,
Darwin has been conl,ded to the third Of his
I've sons, Francs Darwin, who as'is;a his
father Ia the researches which occupied his
later yours
Chinese pirates recently attacked Dutch
steamship boudd tor Penang, killing the
captain iirst mate, and chief engineer For
those who were taken prisoners the pirates
demand a ransom of SiJ,uOj-
A favorable report was made to the SEN
ate Thursday Of the house bill providing
that manufactured tobacco, snuff, and
cigars may be removed for export to a for
eign country without pay ment oil tax under
prescribed regulations.
Edward Cole, an old soldier living near
Brodhead, Wis. was robbed a few days
ago Of 81 $50 pension money, winch no had
hidden in MS bed. The thof secretsi him.
self under the bed and cut through springs
and mattress thus securing the treasure.
NJ De l.esseps presented voluIninous re-
port at tho annual meetin,s Of the Panama
canal shareholder, held III faIls Thur aIay
VI winch DO reiterated the views hitherto
expressed by MIN rs TO the ultimate success
OF the enterprise, and that ia the near fu-
ture
In 1851 Orrln Sperry, treasurer OF Chau-
tauqua county, New York, disappeared
with $1,000. a man supposed to De Sperry
was found begging Thursday night in Ale
gheny county, Pennsy wanna, and upon
being arrested, So GOD in bonds and large
amount OF money were discovered on his
person.
ical seminaries in this country, with libra
ries aggregating 20, $50 volumes eighteen
Catholic with $4,000 ten Congregational
with $3.50, fourteen Baptist with 5000
twelve EpiScopa. with oj,oUj, thirteen Luth
eran with jz,u00, one Reformed Dutch with
$1,000, and six Methodist with $500.
George W. Childs and A. j. Drexel hay,
completed arrangements for the erection o.
tablet to zen. Grants memory in tht
Episcopal church at Elberon The me
mortal will be Of brass, similar in design t.
the one erected in the same church to tht
memory OF President Garfield. 1t will III
placed above tue paw occupied by Cen
Grant when at Elberon
The .,ational league played tho following
games Thursday: At Washiagton-De
troit I3-eioven in the fourth inning Wash
ington at Boston -CucaSo o. Boston >
seven innings, rain; AT New Gork-St LOU,
s. New YORK 4 at Philadelphia - kansa
City Il, Philadelphia Il. American as
ISOLATION: At Baltimore Louisville d
Baltimore o; at New York -Pittsburg L,
Metropolitan y; ut Brookiyn-C Cincinnati 4
Brooklyn q; at Philadelphia Athletic 3
St Louis TO-