The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-19
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

A meeting of this Millers' National asso-
citation is called for May IL and l3 at Mil
waukee
The city council of Minneapolis, Mimi,
Friday appropriated SIS 900 for the benefit
OF the cyclone sufferers.
1t Is expected that navigation will he
open at Duluth by April rs Recent warm
rains have rotted the Ice
Maj q. d. Smallwood. a veteran OF the
Blaek Hawk war, died, Friday, at his resi-
sience near Clinton, Ills, aged IL
The tobacco factory OF Robert Hamilton
at Covington, Ky, was burned Friday
morning, ,ntailing loss of st0o00
At Hearne Tex, wednesday night,
Thomas Hudson, in advancing to attack DIR.
| Bassett, was shot 10y Mrs. ba; sett and died
| few hours later
Switchmen in the yards of the Baltimore
& hio railroad In Chicago struck Friday
| because of the conrany's refu al to dis
| charge non union men
The state superintendent of pubic in
struction reports that there are in Illinois
| a,37a persons between the ages of l. and 81
| who can not Read or write
The governor OF Tennessee has appointed
the Hon. W. e. Whitthorpe to succeed Sen
ator Howell e. Jackson, recently appointed
TO a United States judgeshio
| At Merrick /. l., Thursday DR.. Thotisas
S. Tay lor, in attempting TO put bullet
through tomato can, placed on the head
of his coachman, Thaddeus Gretman, shot
the latter dead
Michael Eagan, a boy 10 years of age,
committed suicide by hanging at his home
in South Chicago Thursday night His
father wound not let him go with him to
call on neighbor
The defalcation of its cashier, j. T. Robin
son, to the extent of $50, ,O00, caused the sus-
pension OF the First National bank of An
geiica, n \. Robinson, who has gone to
tCanada, sIuandered the money in wheat.
Business failures throughout the country
for the week just ended we're l55 in the
United states and twenty seven in Canada,
as compared with total of 2l5 for the
week preceding and ia for the week before
that
A French fleet, in command of an ad.
miral, is said 10 be in tn South Pacific.
with the object of annexing the Leeward
islands 1t is said that some of the Society
islands will also De declared French terri
tory.
The majority report of the Payne inves
tlgating committee, recommending that the
evidence adduced he certified to the presi
dent of the United States senate, was Fri
day adopted by the Ohio house by strict
party vote-6l to 33
An agreement made by the district as
sembly with the International Cigarmakers
Union, OF Milwaukee, has b. en- re ected b,
the local assembly of the kni shts Of Labor
who have resolved to toycott the union an,
the firms of SegntL n Co, and l.. kindlins
A watchman and a policeman fired severa
shots at John b Murphy, foreman of th
st Paul yards, at Milwaukee Thurs la,
night, mistakmg him tor IA burglar On
bullet lodge,i In Il note book in Mr. Murphy
breast pocket, and another found restin,
place on the buckle of one of his suspendels
Mana ger W. T. Dawson, of the Macol
county Illinois, l'rote, tive Life Insurance AS
sociation has been using the mails to foste
lottery scheme ami will be looked aftel
by the postal authorities At mesting a
Decatur Friday the officers of the aSsocia
tion denounced lawson AMI demanded hi
immediate resi- nation
! o. W. Bair, IA lawyer, assaulted c. {
Frost, an e..itor at Huron, d. T., Friday
upon which Frost drew his revolver, hut i
3 the scnhe the weapon was turned agains
its owner, mnicting slight wound in hi
wrist After disengaging himself rnst tire
point iank at his opiouent. but missed hin
AMI was then thuinped by citizens for hi
p | rel Lleas shooting