The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-10-15
room for a number of orphans, but is un-
able to feed and elOthe them.

room for number OF orphans, but is un-
able to feed and elOthe them.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, October l4.-Colonel
i. G. Brown of Water Valley, Miss, was
severely kicked by his horse in that place
last "Wednesday He was kicked insensi-
bic. and would have been trampled to
death by the animal, but for the heroic
exertions of his daughter, Mrs Morgan. /
who heard noise at the stable and went |
to the rescue Of her father and succeeded /
in pulling him away.
A colored man named Henry Willis at
Thompson's Landing, Miss, accident /
ally shot himself last Wednesday, lie |
had been guarding cotton in the gin |
house, had his gun under pile Of cot /
ton, and when he went to get it, drew it
out by the barrel, which accidentally dis
charged the contents in his abdomen, caus-
ing his death in about three hours
The Catholic Church at Jackson, Tenn,
canght fire last Tuesday morning, from
the stove tipping over, but the flames
were extinguished before much damage
was done.
The mortuary report from noon yeSter-
dav to noon to-day shows forty-saven
deaths from all causes, and forty from yel-
low fever
GALENA, October 14.-August Dehner,
boy aged Y years while hunting on Sun
day and carelessly handling his gun, was
accidentally shot, the charge entering his
right eye and killing him Instantly
John Simpson, living few miles north
/ of here. came to Galena on Friday and at-
ter drinking freely, attempted to get into
wagon with friend to ride home. In
doing so he fell backward, his head striking
the pavement. He was lifted into the
wagon box, and when near home was dis
covered to be dead-his skull having been
fractured by the fall.
DEsMoINEs, Iowa, October IA few
days since Miss Ida Bolles, who wore her
hair loose while at work in a woolen-mill at
Marengo, was caught in the machinery by
her hair, and piece of her scalp, three
inches square, was torn OH
Prairie fires 10 Greene, kossuth, Boone
and Beuna Vista counties, during the past
week, have destroyed vast amount Oi
property. In some cases farmhouses, barns,
grain, hay, fences and everything c0mbus
tible have been swept away.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct IA man calling
himself Charles Stewart lno doubt an as
sumed namel came here from Chicago /
short time ago, aud obtained work in thu
Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine manu-
factory. Soon after he married disre
, putable character from the Long Branch
den and the pair lived together for severa
weeks. Last night he paid for a fine sui
of clothes by giving check on banl
where he had no funds. and left for CHI
cago to visit his first wife and children.
0 An employe of the Indianapolis, Clncln
matt and Lafayette railroad shot Rile.
Bowers, an engineer, inficting a woun
, that will prove fatal An old ieud wa
{ the cause.
Il New YORK, Oct 14.-While caua
I boat two was coming down the Hudso
d river yesterday, il came in collision with
d German bark, and the Captain Of one CT
|, nal-boat. his wife and two children wei
it swept into the river, and all, except OF
e child were drowned.
BATAVIA, H., Oct l4-Batavia has r
'e Gently erected city jail. The first prisol
e er-Tom Bird-was a man who helped I
D. build it. Bird showed his immediate CO.
tempt of the institution by taking a be-
:, post, last Saturday night, punching a no
- through the side of the building and cor
ing out.
t, George Northam, "a workman in Sperry
e foundry, yesterday had three fingers al
* the thumb of his right hand cut off by
u buzz saw.
Il Il MANCHESTER, \. H., Oct lit
dwelling and stable of D. NJ. Taggart,
- Goffstown, was burned last night, Z
/ stroying seventeen blooded horses, incIu
N ing Ned Hastings, an Abdallah stalhC
"' valued at $4,000 Abdallah was the OF
horse saved.
= NILES. Mich, Oct 1.-THE passeng
as m depot, eating house. ticket and telegra
; offices, water house and wood house. vi
be 500 cords of wood, belonging to the Mic
~ gan Central railroad at this place were
~ stroyed by fire last night. The freie
house and eastern watch house we're 5;
he ed Loss heavy and fully insured.
mt BosToN, Oct. 1.-THE car and dr.
en houses on the Eastern railroad bridge o'
the Charles river were burned this mo
m ing with five cars. The damage to I
bridge is severe and one track will have
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