The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-07-17
NOTES HIRE AND THERE.

The steam WHISTLE uuiSahOO CIV
5 to be abated.
Watermelons, peaches, and green APp'eS
AVE begun to assistin increasing the uea'n
ate in Boston.
Mr.. Thomas, of the P. & R. ] H. n
saws there was 500 persons in the picnic
70 Big Island, on Monday. >.
An Ohio man who was riding 70 pay us
taxes was struck by lightning the other
iay and killed. Is not there moral IN
this?
A little girl named Mary Freshman nv
ing at Dubuque, was bitten by rat and
died in three days afterwards, f"m the eff
fects of the bite.
Mrs. David Moffat, an old and well
known citizen of Adel, Dallas comfy Iowa,
was killed by lightning while wsAlng In the
garden on Sunday,
At New Hampton, Iowa, on the l4th,
James Lester, a shoemaker, q years OF
age, committed suicide by lttlng his
throat Family troubles were he cause
A man named David b. McEnlay, who
was wounded in the head at Douque' on
the Fourth of July, while frig small
cannon, died with the lockjaw, tier suffer.
ing excruciating agony.
The draw engine on the pVernment
bridge has not been repaired IT. and the
draw is still turned by the use crabs and
strong arms. A neat tool anc'tore house
has been built on the draw spa.
A Burlington, Iowa, youth no stopped
over TO see if his gunpowder oleano was
going to be success, was eoFlnced that
it was, and it will be some maths before
he can examine another volcao.
John Shea and Hannah HIS have been
found guilty by the coroner 'slury of the
murder of Dennis Hays, at Aeokuk, on
Saturday last. This killing as the result
of domestic free fight, indced by poor
whisky
An immigrant team stopped under a
tree near lndianola, Iowa, uring re-
cent storm, when the wind venched off &
large limb which in fallin crushed t.
death small child, and sepusly injured
three others
Two of the models for Il Faragut sta
, tue are already designated the foreman
4 of fire. company tied to chimney, ant
calling to the boys to let no'dy take thei
water, and anaged gentlean with bal
!. ance pole about to walk ,pe.
Frank Masina, who was rested in Ce
dar Rapids some few days nee for shame
fully abusing his own child-nd whose wifi
was so mysteriously murded two month
since, has been arrested a charge {
'e numbering his wife.
10 A correspondent of the wv Y ork Wort
Is certi6es to the character otOhn L. Drew
the man who saw Cakes mes draw tn
l. money on the s c. or beer check, 1
a. a., person who, unlike AmC draws check
n on banks where he has nornds, and wit
I'd the proceeds neglects to }ay his tailor
II. bills.
" The Freeport Bulletin eeded ne
ID sign, so concluded to have le name of ii
paper painted across the frt of the bull
ing The painter compiled the wol
n Freeport, and four letters dhe word Blu
n etin, when some of his friels invited hi
to BeHziHe majae, wherhe became :
IL crazix nit der head th he could n
u" finish the sign for three tys He can
II near realizing the words of le poet: L
died but made no sign.
'rt An editor discussing 'olleges' me
u tons an instance where a t'-seeing pare
proposed 20 make a gre, information
IF lawyer of his son, and at Harvard a
Heidelberg his whole atteron was turn
T. in that direction. He stucd law in /
n rope and America, gradated with
in highest honors aud is nova wealthy a
X successful machinist, and rays the ore
ne i in church every Sunday--ae one val
he bic reminder of his German schooling
Of The fellow who robbed Mr. Fayle, Of
, Ogilvie house, Muscatine,G 30 sovereic
~ ~ is reported to have gone u to Wilton ;
or exchanged % of them fr greenbac
took the latter to the exprss Office
ID. left them to be carried to rs wife in +
kuk then the City Marsha ordered
package TO be held-and he Musca
es Marshal telegraphed to Kokuk to /
on the fellow arrested at a pla.e at which
ia telegraphed his wife to met him.
,ck thief gave his name as Gorlon.
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