The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-01-30

,all at Reese's Hall tonight

flag through Central Africa in search OF
Livingstone and stay there.
A Peoria saloon was entered on Satur-
day by the end of a railroad box car com
polling it to keep open on Sunday.
Thermometer at Geo. l.. Davenports
residence, over the river, marked 80 he
low, at sunrise Wednesday morning.
The grand annual bal atasqgc Of the
German ITALIA Society, over the river,
comes off Mt Turner Hall, Saturday eve
ming.
MIR w. II. Imndy has started a branch
auction store in Moline in the room form
erly occupied by the Rerie'r office on Wells
street.
The Rock Island House AMI Bellows
Farmers Hotel have both been very much
crowded with guests for the past two
weeks
4 correspondent of the Boston Coo'"'er-
ciR BuH5jiA says a ring has been Formed
in New York to send e. 4 |. 4 T. stock
to $50.
Tim Babcock, firm Of Babc2ck 4
Bready, who has been confined 90 his
house by sickness. is now able to attend to
business again.
The numerous friends Of Hon. Thomas
&. Cabeen, Of Keirhsburg, will be sorry
to hear that he is confined to his house by
severe sickness.
Every reader of THE Argus is request
ed to carefully peruSe the article IN this
paper from the y. Y. World, headed The
/ Credit Mobiher
About dusk Saturday evening, six men
attempted to cross the river at Evansville,
Ind. in a skif, and got entangled in the
ice and were all drowned
The sale of the Sagetown distillery, seiz-
ed by the Government for nnn-payment Of
taxes, advertised for sale on the DIST Of
Jan is adjourned for twenty days.
\ baggage car was hurled from an en-
hankment at Burlington last week Friday
by broken rail, and landed on the ice OF
the Mississippi No one was injured.
The dwelling house of James Kelsey, il
Princeton township, Iowa, about foul
miles from the village of Princeton wa,
destroyed by fire, on Monday morning.
The new railroad bridge over the Mis-
sissippi river. AT Rock Island, Is about Il
be delineated on wood in the highest styl,
of art. by the C., K. J. 4 F. Il. Il. Co.
Before the war the Chicago, Rock
Island q Pacific Railroad had 4 capital Of
$6.0oO,O00; now its capital amounts t,
/ 2i.u00,0 900, and its stock sells at T.
! Salisbury 4 Keator Of Moline, have SOLD
/ 100000 brick to the government for build
ing purposes on the Island, and are en-
gagged in hauling them 10 the several point
where needed
\ man named Alexander Ames. O
Rockford, was frozen to death about tou
miles from that place last week W ednesday
On the same day J F. Dean lost 81 hea
of cattle by freezing
The open channel in the river, extend
ing above and below the new railroa
bridge, over tine Mississippi river at Roc
Island, was frozen over Tuesday night, f.
= the first time thi, winter
, Mr. Francis Bailey Of Coal Valley
p brother Of the late Judge Bailey, has bee
very low with the lung fever for som
time. but is now in q fair way 70 recover
He is attended by Dir IIuyett, of Milan.
The number of convicts in the Michiea
penitentiary is COS, Of whom six are VI
r men, and nearly fifty are sentenced fJ
life. Work is done on the contract syi
TEN, and the institution is sclf-sustaininl
, On and after February first the Yves
, ern Union Telegraph Company propose t
reduce their rates. The highest tariff tC
, a ten VOID message to any part of IL
] Western Union line will not exceed s.. 81
1 Now it is over $500.
Wednesday of last week the eastwar
bound freight train on the Desmoines Va
b ley road was thrown from the track
y Comstock' >, ditching the locomotive al
nine cars. The accident occurred on lev
ground SO the damages We're comparative
Y slight.
. The Freeport mystery is solved 4 bC
o descending into the well put his foot {
D the cold, frozen face Of the dead ma
4 The coroner was summoned in haste,
Z large crowd collected, and the man draw
2 up. And now Freeport merchant know
what became Of his Indian tobacco sig
] The sale. at auction, Of the distillery
: Rock Island, known as the Blackhav
n Distillery, seized by the Internal Revenr
d Department of the United States for no
e payment Of special taxes, has been a,
l. journed to Tuesday, the fourth day
l. February, 3 clock in the afternoon.
, When they arrested Harry L. Seylnol
/ IN Decatur for illegal business operation
k Harry found it convenient to become i
y sane and now tries to make the jail
# think he is dead by refusing to eat an
}, thing. He also claims to have been a CT
y onel in the army
Mr. Kleimer, of Cincinnati, the exte
sive and wellknown brewer, who was he
on the excursion last summer, died on Tue
day night from disease of the heart, fro
a which he had been suffering for sever
: days Mr. Kleimer was President of Il
"a Fat Mems Convention, held at Putin b
last summer.
% Throughout the State people are tryil
, to compel the railroads to carry passe
gers at the rates established by the Ra
>. road Commissioners, by refusing to pt
=, full fare and being put off the train Sc
= eral suits growing out of such elections a
pending against the T., W. & w. and
i c. railroads
% The magnificent private residence, ereC
,e ed in Springfield some sixteen years a.
rs by Gov. Matteson, and owned by his son i
tv law, r, F. Goodell, Esq, was burned ,
IS Tuesday night. Loss $l20,0OO-insur,
for only $40 ooo Tho MANI, fr;ord,