The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-11-11
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John A. Droegmeyer, the faulty
City Treasurer at Fort Wayne, Ind, has
resigned, and his resignation was accepted.
Criminal proceedings against him are now
proposed
John Cady. an assistant baggageman
in the employ of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy railroad, at Aurora, had both his
legs cut off on Monday last, by being run
over by switch engine.
During sermon in the chapel of the
Georgia State Prison. 500 convicts struck
up, We'll all drink stone blind, and they
had to be marched down stairs. They
didn't like the Chaplain.
The prisoner who was asked if he had
anything to say before he received SEN
tence, told the Judge he would like to have
sentence transposed, if it made no difference
to him, So he could receive ten cents, in
stead of sentence.
According to the New York Tribune.
there are about $4,000 workingmen out of
employment at Troy, n. Y, and vicinity.
Nearly all the manufacturing establish
ments thereabouts have greatly reduced
their operations.
"A dispatch from Lexington, Ky, re
ports a burglary there on Saturday night
by which 800 worth of watches were
stolen. The burglar, Theo Richardson,
was arrested and the articles stolen recov-
cred.
The little sneak, u. S. Com r, Dayen.
port, Grants tool in New York, appointed
ostensibly to prevent frauds at elections,
has been caught conniving at the Custom
House and Apollo parties frauds in the
late election.
j. J. Paul, a messenger of the Adams
Express Company, was arrested at st.
Louis on Saturday night for robbing that
company. Two thousand dollars were
found on his person, and it is supposed that
some $1,000 or $4,000 have been taken.
On Friday evening, one Strauss, a
farmer of jackson county, o., was MUIR
dered by man whose name is not given.
but who was engaged in stealing Strauss
potatoes. Strauss demonstrated with him.
when the thief killed him with hoe. The
murderer was arrested.
"A horse and buggy belonging to DR.. |.
Hardman, at Muscatine, was stolen from in
front of his office on Saturday evening.
| The journal says there is reason to suspect
! that the thief went in the direction of Dav-
export, having, It's thought, passed through
Buffalo on Sunday,
The Union says Bureau county has
elected the Democratic ticket, which is an
other Union misrepresentation. There
| was no Democratic ii ket in Bureau coun-
ty. The Farmers Anti Monopoly ticket
swept the county clean-as it will the Con
gressional District next fall
There never has been known so much
voting independent of party leaders as this
fall, The fact is, the elections show that
both existing parties are in bad repute
with the people If this feeling could be
crystalized nationally, as in California and
Wisconsin, the hope Of political reform
would be bright and powerful.
"A monopoly organ endeavors to con-
sole its fellows by saying that the reform.
ers have not succeeded so well in Illinois
as they expected to. How much better
than i've or six to one did the monopoly
organ expect them to do? Did it expect
them TO make hogs of themselves by COB
bling every county in the state?
The Madison Wis. Journal thinks that
the Retormers may even turn out 'OlC
Abe the state eagle, as they will proba
bly, displace the ''other veterans" about
the Capitol. The Lacrosse Liberal Dem
oerat replies that odd Abe, will be vel
come to stay around the capitol, but thai
there will be no two or three men paiC
$500 year out of the State Treasury u
feed the eagle
1t is revealed by a legal notice in tn,
Lawrence Kansas JoarHaL that Mrs. Isa
bel Sells, wife of Col. Elijah Sells, promi
nent in Iowa and Kansas politics, and for
merly Secretary of State in Iowa, is al
applicant for divorce. The Gazette init
mates that it may be for ''coRjugaL faith
fuLHess on the part of the husband. " w
don believe every wife could get divorc,
from her husband on that ground.
The season for buckwheat cakes arrived
long ago, but we have not heard of any il
Rock Island yet But out at Richmond
Ind, hired girl employed in a family
there, while frying some the other morn
, ing, stepped backward to a chair in which
reposed the batter, and deliberately sa
down in the pan. AS she subsequently re
fused to sit down on the stove, the break
fast was finish ed with bread
There appears to be a better feelinl
} in business and manufacturing circles a
the East. 1t is aleged-we hope will
truth-that many of the reports of the de
pressed condition OF the manufacturing in
, terests Of New England have been great,
exaggerated-that the situation is no
nearly as bad as has been represented b,
the press reports. Chicago journal, 10th
To account for the utter overthrow ant
route Of the late Republican party, tn
Chicago Journal, in one editorial article
says; Democratic political schemer
have wOrmed themselves into command o
the farmers movement" But another AM
different salt must also be accounted for
and So in another editorial, in the sam,
issue OF the same incoherent organ, it
readers are informed as follows: 9Th,
Democrats, instead of gobbling up tn,
|, grangers, have been knocked completel1
, over. The rational explanation of thes
results which so confuse the wits of tn
monopoly organs is very simple one TIL
, new opposition movement is an indepen
: dent movement, in no manner allied witt
any old party organization but standing il
and maintaining an attitude of antagonist
to both the old worn. out parties.
] h-dhua1 hloAuliG 1T - y CiDChs Uu Ill
Harrison street road, just north of tn
Davenport Fair Grounds, Mr.. Geo. Moth
, one Of the proprietors of the Pacific Brew
cry, was driving home wagon load o
empty beer kegs, when two men spran.
out from the shadow of a fence, one o
. whom seized his horses. while the othe
rushed up to the wagon with shout o
halt. Mr.. Moth halted-lifted keg, an,
dashed it full in the face of the neares
scoundrel with great force, sending tina
individual to grass, and then leaped iron
the wagon and went for the other fellow
: who rushed for a field and escaped. Mr.
! n. turned to make for the Keyed party
Z but he had taken to his feet and was fiyln
northward on the road The horses ha,
started by this time, but Mr. N. caught u
,, to them, and was soon in his wagon. drivin
homeward as eontentedly as could be. RI
had 5000 in money in his pockets.