The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-07-19
Rock Island, Illinois, Saturday, July


Wedel, while playing with an old pistol,
shot the younger through the brain, injur-
ing him fatally The boy still has life
enough to breathe, but death is expected
at every moment.
ST Louis, Mo-, July lS.-Henry Roche
and Henry Fox, while laboring in an ex-
cavation in the extreme lower part of the
city, last evening, were killed by an en-
bankment falling on them. Philip Mea
ser and Daniel Rookie were also badly in
jured.
A man supposed to be j. Schloss. of
Buffalo, n. Y, was run over yesterday in
Nodaway county, Mo-, by train Of the
Kansas City, st. Joseph and Council
| Bluffs Railroad. Circumstances indicate
that he was u commercial traveller, and
led to the suspicion that he had been mur
dered and placed on the railroad track.
DEsMoINEs, Iowa, July 18.-A horse
| thief was caught in Warren county, on
| Tuesday with two horses in his possession
which he had stolen in Mahaska county
| He has been looking about Marion county
| for some weeks, and says that he came
/ from Missouri He belongs to the gang of
whom three were arrested here few days
| since.
| A man who says his name is Edward
Wells, and whose home is in Adams coun-
ty, at Buchanan township, Page county, on
Sunday last seized girl II years of age,
who was looking for cows, and carried her
to some woods near by and attempted to
ravish her, but the girl screamed and
finally escaped and gave the alarm. The
villain was caught about four miles from
the scene of his crime and lodged in jail
at Clarinda
John Swanson, of Douglass township,
Page county, was killed by the falling of a
limb of a tree which was twisted off by the
wind few days since.
GREEN BAY, July lS-The two men
who Robbed Dickinson Co. and others at
| New London, were caught at Shawnee last
night. A vigilance committee of 60 ci,i-
zens took them from the Sheriff to the
nearest tree, put a moose around their
necks, and choked them till they confessed
where the goods and money were,
CINCINNATI, July 1S-Thos. Dudley,
first assistant at the Eastern Lunatic Asy-
lvm, Lexington, KY, committed suicide
this morning.
Boston, July lS.-Wilham B. Lincoln,
at the examination of his wife to-day, on
charge of shooting him, testified that she
did not fire the shot Notwithstanding
this she was held for trial in 81 800 bail
| WASHINGTON, July esterday a
driver of a city horse car, when about tc
cross First street, met locomotive bearing
down upon him. He Immediately whipped
up his horses and cleared the track, bui
one of his passengers Mrs. Lincoln A
Bell, with a child in her arms, jumped
from the car and fell, and the child was
run over and killed.
Fort WAYNE, July 1S.-As Mr.. Ste
phen Chase, constable of W Washington town
ship, was riding on horseback to his faith
er's last night, who lives about three
miles from this city, he had occasion Il
cross the track of the Grand Rapids Il In
diana Railroad, and discovered that a larg,
hickory tree had fallen directly across tn
track in the woods 1t was then abou
dark, and passenger train would be alOnj
in two hours. He rode to his father 5
nearly a quarter of a mile, procured al
axe, and had cut off one end of the ire
when the axe slipped and went into hi
left foot, cutting it half off He remount
ed the log, cut off the the other end an
rolled it on one side, leaving a clear pas
sage for the train He then Jumped o
> his horse and galloped home through til
: rain 20 look after his foot
2 Special Dispatch 10 the Evening Jourral.
: AURORA, Ill, July lS-Ex- Alderma
S O. \. Shedd, of Aurora, well and favora
e bly, known throughout this section. wa
t sued some time since by his wife for d
q vorce. Mr.. Shedd in turn summoned hi
S wife to appear at Geneva in the earl
l part of this week, to answer to the charg
! of insanity, and thereupon collected larg
e number of witness to prove that Mr.,
d Shedd was insane and Mrs. Shedd ha
e been in attendance at the Geneva coul
e with small army of witnesses to prov
= that MIR. Shedd is rascal, from whom sf
ought to have a divorce After a week
+ trial of the matter the jury last night faile
! to agree. Mr.. Shedd's attorneys, A. {
It McDole and A. E. Searles, have adde
, lawyer A. NJ. Harrington, of Geneva,
It their number, have summoned a lars
y force of additional witnesses, and will pr
/ ceed to try the case before a new iur
1t The second trial will probably continl
e through next week Whether Mrs. Shed
2, is insane or not, the writer of this is un
|, BILE TO state Public opinion, however,
very strongly II favor of the husban
'e The facts revealed by the testimony we
m that Mrs Shedd is a spirtualist, wi
d places great reliance upon the 'spir
le communication" that purport to con
y through Mrs. Messenger These 'spil
Of communications have revealed Il
y. fact to Mrs. Shedd that MIR. Shedd is n
a. what he ought to be, and hence the app
Or cation for divorce 1t is admitted on
IS hands that if there was no Mrs Mssscnge
Of with her ''spirit" influence, there would
ut no trouble in Mr.. Shedd's famil
Through this same Mrs. Messenger, al
rs her same spirit communications, Nj
Shedd commenced an onslaught on h
os husband character some years since, {
20 which she was adjudged insane, and plac
-. ~ in the asylum at Jacksonville. The pre-
90 90 ent case is but repetition of that in Il
~ ~ family few years ago The whole matt
:, ~ is a most unfortunate affair, the genel
n n regret being that it should occur in sucf
70 worthy family as that of Mr. O. n. Shed