The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-07-30

to the evacuation Of the soil by German
/ troops now fast approaching completion.
makes grateful acknowledgements Of the
successful negotiations of President Theirs
to that end, and praises eastern depart
ments for their herOism, and the French peo-
pie for their patriotism and abnegati0n. in
| the protracted trial they have undergone
/ The country, he adds, will never cease to
| feel the sense of its dignity when it re
members what price it has paid for peace.
but noisy manifestations of joy over the
event should not be INDUCED in
PARIS. July 29.-Prince jerome Memo
leon has semi-0fficially asked for restora-
ton to his rank in the army as General Of
Division.
| MORRISON, H., July "a farmer
named g. r. Demiom was, this evening
killed by freight train while crossing the
| track
CINCINNATI, July 29.-Frank Titus. a
letter carrier in this city,was to-day arrest
ed for opening letters. A decoy letter de
tected him Search of his house discover
ed twenty letters in his possession. He
was held in 800 bail
| MEMPHIS, July % Esquire \. B. Hale
was shot through the heart and killed. in
I Cuba, in this county yesterday by Richard
Gay. An old feud existed between them
( for years. and, meeting at the village. it
shooting Hale, Gay jumped upon a horse
and escaped.
| SHERIDAN, LaSalle Co, ILL.,, July %
The people of Serena, a village a short
distance north Of Ottawa are justly indie
nant at a despicable burglary that occurred
in that place night before last. A donation
party having been held in the place in be-
! half of the Rev. Mr.. Gould. DIR. Brown Of
the village, was appointed the custodian of
/ the money until it could be presented in
I due form to the reverend gentlemen. Last
/ Sunday night some thief broke into the
doctor house and stole the entire dona-
ton fund. some $50 Not content with
4 this he entered the hotel Of the place.
rified bureau drawers, and finally deeamp-
/ ed with the landlord 5 pantaloons, which
contained $40
! DETROIT, Mich, July 29.-Lewis Peter
son, a railroad employee, was run over by
/ a construction train at Lansing, yesterday
and died five hours atterward.
/ PEORIA, ILL.,, July 29.--A young man
named Frank Ford. who has been teaching
school at Oak Hill, this county. died sud
denly of heart-disease on Sunday night
/ SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, July ga singular
and heinous crime is reported here this
morning, as having occurred at Loami. IN
this county 1t seems that Mr.. Samuel
Hall had been paying his addresses to Miss
Alice Mergle. both parties being highly
respectable. Miss Mergle had several
times refused to marry Hall Last Satur-
day he called and took her out buggy rid
ing, and while absent outraged her person.
He was arrested yesterday and confessed
the crime, and alleges as the reason for bis
crime, that he meant to ruin the girl and
thus force her to marry him. He was
bound over to court in a bond Of $500
which he has 50 far failed to give
/ MEMPHIS, July 29-On Monday last d
little daughter Of Col Bib. Of Corinth.
Miss, aged l. years was burned to death
by the explosion OF a can Of coal oil. with
which she was trying to kindle a fire in q
stove Her mother was severely buruei
III trying to save her child.
On the night OF the 9th George F. Calt
the book keeper at Chamberlain mills
Ninona, Miss. while intoxicated te.
asleep on the railroad track. and WIS rlu
over by pas seuger tram and instantly
killed, his body being tlFn to shreds
On the night OF the 18th instant lad
named Fitzpatrick, residing at Ripley
Tenn, was awakened from her sleep hy .
negrn named Chris Titus who presented
pistol at her head, threatning insfau
death ii she made mise He then oui
ragged her, and, being drunk, soon tei
asleep on the bed Mrs Fitzpatrick the
slipped from the house and went to a neigh
bors and told what had occurred Nj
Thompson, her neighbor. accompanied II
his two sons, proceeded to the house an,
found the brute still asleep. He was Sc
cured, and next morning. after a preEul
nary examinati n, Esquire Gloss granite,
a mitimus to the Memphis jail The pen
atty for his crime, is hanging. or imprison
ment in the penitentiary at the discretion
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