The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-09
ROCK ISLAND, FRIDAY. APRIL 8. 1856.
THE NEWS IN BRiES.

At Macon, Ga, Wednesday, the Chicago
defeated the local nine, to 4.
The crown princess of Germany thinks
Col. lngersol the greatest man in America.
A vote of 2s,0oo was polled at Milwaukee,
Tuesday, of which II were Prohibition bal
lots
W. W. Corcoran has sent $500 check to
the treasurer of the Hendricks monument
fund.
The National Tube Works "a. Metheson,
president will be moved from Middletown,
Pa, to Youngstown, / hio
Mrs Rose Gallhn1 Clemens weltknown
writer fer magazines, died Wednesday at
jacksonville, Fla, in her 2. tn year
Tive Montenegrin tattaIions attempted,
Wednesday, to occupy two Turkish frontier
villages but retreated after an exchange of
shots
Buenos Ayres advices are TO the effect
that the reyoiutionists have been completely
defeated and have terminated their cam
paigp.
The St Louis Fair association announces
that the race for the Eclipse stake for sl0,
100 Will be run on MONDAY, June :, entries
to close April l1
An Albany, Ga, lady says that during
the war she paid so for one spool of thread,
500 for pound of tea, and S4O0 for sim
| pie gingham dress.
Ii has been discovered that Ramsey
Gregory, young man of Bay City, Mich,
who, it was supposed had been murdered
| by robber one night last week, killed him
| self
| Sam Wah Chinaman of Chicago,
| Wednesday secured license to wed Ger
man girl named Augusta Miller A sister
of the prospective briie is already married
to a Mongolian
The -four production at Minneapolis last
week reached l2a oo0 barrels, against l23, 100
barrels the preceding week. The -four
market rules quiet, but there Is better feel
ing in the export trade
| W. T Mason, justice of the peace at
La Sale, His, dropped dead at the foot OF
a staircase in his house Thomas A.
| Thacher, an aged professor in Yale college,
was found dead in bed
Mrs Jane Toles, a colored woman claim
ing to be l30 years Old died at Ell Dorado
Ills, last Saturday. She was a slave for
seventy eight years, and her Oldest son, ii
| living, WOulu lie Il ceuIphafldn
| Senator Blair has introduced a bill in the
senate 10 provide that eight hours shall con.
stitute a day work for all letter carriers
| and that their salaries shall not be reduced
by reason of the decrease in the hours OF
| labor.
A coal famine prevails at Charleston. ".
| Va, on a count OF the food Hundreds OF
citizens in the submerged section OF tue
town have been aided by local committee,
who have distributed money, clothes, pro
| visions, and fuel.
Isaac J. Stein, preacher of bad reputa
ton, was arrested at indianapolis Wednes
day for vagrancy and sent to the work
house for ten days Among his effects were
found testimonials from various persons
including Professor David Swing, of Chi
cago
The Halifax schooner Beta was wrecked
on Plum island Tuesday night, three persons
being drowned Others cluag to the rigging
for hours and were rescued at daybreak A
party of these men, two women and a chill l.
who escaped from the wreck were found in
the vicinity half frozen
Mr. F. H. Collier, of Chicago, has pre-
sente1 a claim to the State Board of Live
Stock Commissioners at Springfield, I'LL, fol
payment for a number of horses killed by
the state veterinarian by order of tn,
board. on account of infection with gland
srs The allowance of the claim woult
establish a precedent which would pu
many thousands of dollars into the po ket
of people who have been Summarily de
prived of their horses without compen a
lion