The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-03-09
ROCK ISLAND, TUESDAY. MARCH 8. 1856.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

| Fire at Murphysboro, Ills, destroy red three
business houses, involving loss of $l5,o00
1t is stated that two Berlin firms are cir
culating thalers coined in Switzerland and
France
Arthur l.. Mackaye was granted divorce
from bis wife Maud Miller Mackay e. McCor-
mick, the daughter of Joaquin Miller.
Samuel Johnson, negro, was lynched at
Eatontown, n. j., for a brutal outrage upon
Miss Anna Herbert, the daughter of
farmer near that village
Nearly two thousand persons assembled at
| Rhinebeck, N, Y, TO witness the killing of
| famous fat hog and let on his weight
When dressed, be scored SsSls pounds
| In various parts of Indiana experiments
are in progress to determine whether or not
natural gas exist; under the surface, and, if
So whether Or not i'll paying quantities.
British imports during the month of
| February decreased E2, 5GO,O30, as compared
with those of the corresponding month last
| year, and the exports decreased e470,n
| At the Depot hotel in East Portland Ore,
| Charles Burgess shot and killed Mrs. Emma
Simons and then killed himself The cause
vas that the woman refused to marry him
| At Wabash, Ind, Lawson Story, 20 years
Of age, AMI Robert Early, young man of
30, became involved in a drunken quarrel
Story stabbed Early, inhicting fatal
| wounds
The Quincy, Missouri & Pacific road
| which formed part of tile Wabash system,
has been ordered sold under a decree of fore
| closure granite by Judge Treat of the United
states court
Joaquin Miliers mot;er, who two years
| ago married boy of 20 and was deserted
| by him, recently obtained a divorce from
him and was again married at Portland,
| Ore, to another young man named Kline.
As a result of the boycott against non
| union made cigars, the wholesale dealers of
St Louis are said to he receiving large lots
| of cigars returned from their customers,
who say they can not sell goods that have
| not the union label
Capt Gerstal, of the austrian army, was
| ried by a coult-martial at Vienna for a
slight offense and was convicted. As
matter of form IA light sentence was i'm
posed, whereapon he bowed respectfully to
| he court, drew a revolver and shot himself
twice throught the head, failing dead,
Suit has been commenced in the United
States court, at New York, by Alexander
Stewart, who claims t. be an heir of the
dead millionaire of the same name, to re
cover s2G0,00 from Judge Hilton, manager
of the Stewart estate. The claimant has
been adiudged insane by Vermont court
The policy Of the Chinese government to
| ward foreign railways and other enter
prises for internal development is undergo
ing change. Several English firms have
| been promised railway contracts with the
government, and special loan to be de-
voted to railway building in china will be
| negotiated with English bankers.
The five companies of state militia sent
| by Governor Knott, of Kentucky, to pro
| tect the convicts at the Greenwood mines,
| in Pulaski county, that state, arrived there
early Sunday morning. The miners say
| they will do nothing as long as the troops
| remain, but say the conyicts shall go Just
as soon as the soldiers are ordered away
| The delegation appointed at Cincinnati to
| visit Florida and report their conclusions as
| to the effect of the recent freeze on the
| orange industry say that the nnfavorable re-
| ports were largely the result of a panic
among nge-growers themselves, and aris-
| ing from insufficient information. Although
| the severe weather did some damage, it was
| not so great as reported.