The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-06
ROCK ISLAND, THURSDAY. MAY 6. 1885,
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Lachine and Rideau canals are ope
| for navigation.
The second volume of Gen Grants bool
will be issued next Monday.
Robert Harding, assistant postmaster a
Cleveland, Ohio, committed suicide Tuesda,
morning by shooting.
MIR. Arthur has received from Mr.. Cleve
land bouquet of choice flowers from th
| White House conservatory
Jay Gould is good amateur photo
| grapher and on his yachting Journey
| carries his camera with him
A block of residences at Texarkana, Ark.
| was destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon
The loss is $50,000; with insurance of s36.
| 000
The American Medical association begar
its seventh annual convention, Tuesday, a
st Louis with very large atten lance o.
| delegates
The survivors Of ths Thirteenth Illinois
Infantry will hold reunion at Dixon, Ma,
~, the anniv ersary of its muster into ser
vice in 1861.
Herr Most offers to surrender himself a
New York on condition that he be tried il
some court other than that in which Re
corder Smyth resides
Joseph Whitman, one of the best known
engineers on the lakes, was cut to pieces by
locomotive Tuesday at Toledo Ohio. He
was 90 years of age
The Iowa Soldiers 1me has been located
at Marshalltown, the twenty fourth ballot
oil the commission standing 6 for Marshall
towa and for Dubuque.
A north wind dispersed the ice in Duluth
harbor and opened navigation Tuesday
morning. A number Of vessels arrived and
cleared during the day.
The night he introduced the home rule
measure Mr.. Gladstone wore a rose and
shamroeks In his button hole The sham
rocks were the gilt OF Mr. Parnell
The trackmen in the various railway
yards at Kansas City, with the exception OF
the Missouri Pacific, went on general strike
tuesday, for an advance of % cents per day.
Public trials will be given at Champaign,
Ills, June 10 and II, under the auspices of
the state board of agricultural, of machines
for opening bitches for drain tile and of
machines for the excavation of canals. Two
gold medals are offered as prizes
An auction sale of the trotters bred and
owned by Leland Stanford, of California,
was held Tuesday at New York. The prices
realized aggregated Si6, S55, an average of
nearly 81 900 per head All the animals sold
were sired by the famous Electioneer
The powers have instructed their minis
tiers at Athens to remain at their posts 1t
is believed that the powers will accent a
guaranty from France that she will secure
the disarmament of Greece and they will
not fix an actual period for its accomplish
ment
Thirteen boys in an Arcola (Ills) school
went on strike one day last week and re-
fused to resume their studies The princi-
pal summoned thirteen of the biggest girls
in the school and ordered tham to proceed to
the play ground and each bring in n boy
The order was promptly obeyed and the
strike ended.
The league base ball games played Tues
day resulted as follows: At Philadelnhia-
New York 4, Philadelphia ll-eight innings
at Washington-Brooklyn s, Washington
at st Louis-Chicago 5, St Louis G. Amer
lean association: At -Alleghaney
I, st Louis "a, at Brooklyn-Athletic ].
Brooklyn ); at Staten Island Metropolitan
), Baltimore 10; at Cincinnati-Louisy .
Cincinnati s.
The Rev. William Hammond, recently
pastor OF the Baptist church at Franklin
n. H., who robbed his wife, restored the
money, and then eloped to Canada, is sus-
pected of having murdered his first wife.
and of having burned his house at Wolf
Lake, Ind, to get the insurance 1t is known
that he was warned to quit Ligonier, Ind,
and that he bore an unsavory reputation as
a travelling quack