The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-08-25
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May Brothers offer an Ielegant sixteen
dollar chandelier, as a special premium
for the greatest variety Of flowers.
A young lady named Maggie Myers com
mitted suicide, near Ottumwa, Iowa. Oh
Wednesday by kindling the fire with kero-
sene.
The release of Satanic and Big Tree has
evidently been determined on. They will
probably be able to take the war-path
some time during the approaching autumn.
Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, has declined
an invitation to stump Ohio in favor OF the
Democratic ticket. He evidently wishes
fresher subject than the resolutions OF IS
Mrs. O'Nei, an old lady about SO, living
in the upper part of town, fell and broke
one of her hips so badly that she IS not eX-
pected to live. She is the mother OF Mrs
Blanding
VIM. F. Cropper and Barney Mc'ure
have both returned to Rock Island to I'VE.
We know of several other people who have
tried 10 live away from Rock Island, but
changed their minds and returned,
| Mr.. Amasa Walker, in his recently pub
Esbed letter to Mr.. Groesbeck, says that
a strictly revenue tariff is zone that does
not interfere with the industry of the
country-in other words free trade tariff
The latest collision reported occurred on
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail
road at Morris. One train came crashing
into another without the slightest excuse
or appareut reason. Fortunately no one
was injured.
/ Judge Calvin, in st. Louis, has decided
the social evil law unconstitutional, as 1t Is
special law, applicable only to st. Louis,
while the Missouri constitution provides
that the General Assembly shall pass no
special law in any ease for which provision
can be made by general law
\ Delaware man offered a young lady
5000 to marry hun without any prelimi-
nary cpurting. OF course the lady re
fused and served him right for it he was
willing to 90 themarryiug, most any young
fellow would have taken the counting of
his hands for nothing
4 Detroit boy stood an umbrella. with a
cord tied to itin a public doorway. Clever
persons thought that umbrella was theirs
and carried it with them the length of the
string. They then suddenly dropped il
and went off without once looking back OIL
stopping to pick it up again
The woman known As Kate Stoddara
who recently confessed having murderc,
Charles W Goodrich, in Brooklyn, \. y.
it /, now alleged was not his murderer
but mere decov in the hands Of the po
lice To relieve. Roscoe the probable nun
deryr. OF his fears, 50 that he would M
, leave the country Nowhere is Roscoe
r. \ bridge carpenter in the employ of tn
, C., L. /. n 2. met with terrible mistor
tune Saturday afternoon, near nowpey, lu
forty miles west Of this city He was on
freight and attempted 70 jump off and wa
thrown flat upon the ground at the side O
the track, Que of his legs crossing the raj
Several ears ran over the leg before III
, train was stopped, crushing it 10 a jelly b,
Z low the knee
, Saturday afternoon David 7. Lawrence
. foreman at Hershey and Angevines mil
p Mu,catine, fell into the gearing of the mi
and received fatal injuries. The i,wr
, SAYS he suffered "a di,locatiou Of the lei
a shoulder dowuwards, the head Of the bon
, tearing through the axilIa and promudin
L some distance his right elbow was crusl
I ed his head shows two long severe cut
q and other parts of his body were more
les, injured by cuts or bruises The III
toauunate man lives in South Muscatine,
about 81 years Of age and is married.