The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-21
iHE NEWS IN BRIEF.

| In the coke regions of Pennsylvania 2,77a
ovens are idle owing to the strike
A Louisville woman has complained to
the mayor that her two-story brick house
has been stolen and carried away
| In the county court at Chicago Tuesday
jury found that Miss Marion Leonard was
not insane Miss Leonard conducted her
| own case.
| The Fidelity Trust and Safety Deposit
| company of Cincinnati will in a few days
| become the Central National bank with
capital of sS0l9OG
| The Kansas legislature began a thirty
day extra session Tuesday. The principal
business will be the reapportionment of the
state into legislative districts
| The Duluth lake front suit, involving
property worth s500,000, was decided at st
Paul Tuesday against the Northern Pacific
and st. Paul and Duluth railways
J. W, Turlay, land agent of the Illinois
| Central, who had been missing for some
| time, is all right, He was passenger on
an ice-bound craft in the Mississippi.
The hog plague-measles or choiera-still
RACES in the vicinity of Beloit, Wis. Scores
die every day, &nd since the outbreak or the
uiSsdst idiH Hltio btNb ttot uedu
The lockout OF cigar-makers at New
York was begun Tuesday evening, the
employees OF fifteen factories being in
formed that there was no more stock"
Much uneasiness prevails at Mandaiay,
the capital of RGrmah, owning to the ac-
| tivity Of the rael princes, the forces under
them having dali increased in strength
Litigation il til case of the estate of vii.
bur +. Storey has begun again before Judge
Rogers at Chicago An Atempt is being
made TO de lie the validity of the will
executed i'll fsSj
Judge W. r Eowley. of Galena, who
was military secretary to Gen. Grant, and
i, the only sstFvtyor Of his original staff, lies
Dangerously il! at tho residence cf J. c.
Gl nat, at Chicago
William Porter and Mike Kurt. noted
era kstnen, who in 1854 rabl,ed jewelry
store at Troy, +. Y, OF &63,oo0 worth of
valuahl,s have been arrested. the former
in New York ana the latter at Jacksonville,
Fla
Congressman Beach, of New York, pro
poses that the eulogies upon deceased MEM
bers shall be delivered on Sundays, and save
all the week days Tor work. He proposes to
Introduce resolution to this effect in the
house
In the United States court at Keokuk
Tuesday judge Love said he had received a
decision from Judge Brewer to the effect
that the Iowa prohibition law was uncon-
stitutional as applied To breweries erected
before the law was passed
The Louisiana supreme court in the con
test regarding tie estate Of Myra Clark
Gaines has decided that the will by which
tie testatrix lefves all her property to her
grandchildren aud other relatives is the
only valid one in existence
The London Telegraph of Wednesday
| morning says: 1t is undeniable that Rus
sia is preparing foF a campaign in the Bal
kans for her own ends. The Bulgarian
government has replied to the powers that
Bulgaria VIII aisarm ii Servia will do like
wise
W. c. SEVERN & Bros jewelry store at
::''335 West Madison street, Chicago, was
robbed Of 81 500 worth of watches, rings and
trinkets Tuesday evening about O'Clock
Four men entered the place, and while two
Of them held revoivers at Mr. Severins
head, the others robbed the show cases
The box-cftice receipts at Central Music
hall. Chicago when Stephen A Douglas, son
of the great statesman and orator, Ice
tured Tuesday night on the subject of THE
Puritan and the Cavalier, were attached
for board bill of $3.50, which the lecturer
owes J. D. flaming, proprietor of the Re
yert, lDUea