The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-18
ROCK ISLAND, MONDAY, JANUARY Is. 1856.
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The pedestal for the Bartholdi statue will
be ready for the goddess about April l.
The Illinois Press association will hold its
annual convention at Centralia Feb % -225.
M. Sagola, banker of Calais, has sus-
pended, with liabilities amounting to s., 900,
900.
The Gilbert Cured Tobacco company at
Fulton, Mo, made an assignment Friday,
owing $4,000
Twenty -four persons persisted in Kansas
by the recent blizzard, and others are be-
heved to be missing
The failure of Brown q Anderton brok,
ers, at Broad street, New York, is an
nounced WITH liabilities of S12s,4
The third game in the chess tournament
at New York was won Friday by DR.
Zukertort in hours and 80 minutes.
The official records of San Bernardind
county, Cal, do not show a single birth or
death in the county during the year 1885.
Charles l.. Pratt's boot and shoe store at
Charlotte, Mich, was closed Friday on a
chattel mortgage His liabilities are sl4, :
DO0.
John Magee, convicted of writing threat
ening letters to the prince Of Wales, has
been sentenced to seven years penal seryi-
tude
Greece offers to demobilize Ter forces on
condition that her claims for extension of
territory will be cons ilered by the Balkan
conference.
Professor Fowler, the well known phren-
ologist, was arrested at Buffalo, N Y, Fri
day, on charge Of practicing medicine
without license
Owing to the adverse ruling of Secretary
Lamar, Bell telephone stock at Boston FRI
day dropped from 1-2 10 l6l, with 100 bid,
but later rallied 70 l'l3.
The Hersey house, Blolgctt block and
half dozen stores at Hersey, Mich, were
burned Thursday night, creating loss of
S35, ,0O9, with insurance OF S20,01a
The committee ON invalid pensions of the
house of representatives has agreed 10 re
port favorably ON tie bill to increase the
pensions of widows from $ to $l2 month.
The South Pennsy s suit against the
Pennsylvania Railroad company was de
cided against the latter at Harrisburg
Thursday. the injunction being continued.
The remains of fodr men, who had been
frozen to death, We're found Friday near
Benkelman, Neb In the district Of Arkon,
Colo, several persons perished by the storm.
The Rev William Jones IcolorctD for the
murder of his mistress, WAS hanged Friday
at New Providence La The rope tore open
his neck, and the blood squirting forth,
drenched some of the spectators standing
near the scatfold
AT Erie, Pa, Thursday, Minnie McCarty
who had been discharged, as domestic, by
Ma jor $ Y. Holiday, attempted to burn his
dwelling by building a fire against the outer
wall The flames We're extinguishea and
the woman was locked up,
Business failures, according to Dun's re-
port, are exceptionally numerous in the
western, southern and Pacific states, which
three sections of The country furnish more
than two-thirdS of the number reported.
bered 3S2
During the performance at the opera
house in Philadelphia Friday night burn
ing candle fell from a table on the stage,
setting fire to the tablecloth, but Miss Mary
Anderson hastily extinsuished the flames
amid tumultuOus applause
1t is reported at Halifax, n. S, that
Robin 6 Co. a firm of fish merchants,
which has branches all over the world, are
involved by the Bank of jersey English
Channel island The firm has done busi-
hess in Nova Scotia for over 100 years.