The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-02-24
THE NEWS IN RRlEF.


Samuel J. Tilden has contributed 500 to-
ward the fund for monument to Vice
President Hendricks
Los Angeles, Cal, rejoices in the posses
sion of a black Morocco grapevine which
has produced three crops of fruit since May
last
train ran OF the track near Mount
Morris, N. j., Monday morning, one car
being burned. Eighteen persons were more
or less injured
The vitality of widows astonishes the pen
sion bureau There are now on the rolls the
names Of l.,2l3 women, widows of soldiers
of the war of 1912.
Brakemen on the Illinois Central, between
Canton, Miss, and New Orleans, stru *
Monday for an advance in wages, and
freight traffic is entirely suspended
Col Sir Edmund Henderson, the head of
the London police force, has resigned, owing
to severe criticism on the conduct of the
police force during the recent riots
John B. Gilbert, of Van Horn, Iowa,
until recently a conductor on the st Paul
road has become violently insane because
he was discharged without an investiga-
ton
A London dispatch states that Morley,
chief secretary for Ireland, has so instructed
the police and military authorities as to rem
der it virtually impossible to effect evic-
tions.
There were 20, 12 persons employed in
the oyster interests i'll Maryland last season,
| and 100000 bushels were taken from the
waters, tae aggregate value of which was
| $2,250,000.
Mrs. r. ". Clark, wife of a ranchman at
| Billings, NJ. T., and mother of six children,
| eloped Monday with young man named
James Donaldson, who had been in her hus
| bands employ.
The soldiers memorial hall at Toledo
Ohio, was formally opened Monday, with
| patriotic speeches At night grand mill
tary promenade concert and ball were
| held IN the building
The extent to which steel rails are taking
| the place of iron rails is illustrated by the
| fact that the production of iron rails has
fallen in the United States from 500, 600 ton,
in 1880 to less than Is, 900 tons in 1885:
| The Marquis De Mores proposes to start
| retail shops III the tenement house district:
| of New York, where his company's beei
| will be sold to consumers at cheap rates, en-
| tirely cutting of the profits of the middle
| men.
| Henry johnson, a wealthy miser and her
| init, died at Norristown, Pa. He would moi
| allow himself the necessary comforts of life
| and during the recent cold weather his fee
were SO badly frozen that the soles mortified
and fell Off
| Circulars have been issued by the Wis
consin Anti Prohibition league advising it:
members to organize for the spring cam
| paign, and to see TO it that none but liberal
minded persons are elected as village, town
and city officers.
At Corunna, Mich, Monday, Charlie
Gage, his son-in-law, Henry Shafer, and tn
latter's wife, were arrested for putting poi
son in a well used by a neighbor nameC
Berry, whose family were taken i'll aftel
drinking the water.
David Bradley, aged Is, was removes
from school near Wabash, Ind, Monda,
afternoon, by a constable, Miss LAWN
Tibbs, about Is years, having charged Brad
ley with being the father of her unbor1
babe The boy was lodged In jail a
| Wabash.
Prince Bismarck is one of the cheapes
Statesmen in the world in the salary senst
His stipend amounts to but SlS,00 a veal
and he holds half dozen offices and admir-
isters the affairs of nearly 100 Mr.. Glat
stone gets S25, 600 per annum and his lor
chancellor gets $4,000