The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-11-14
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Very fine day.
The new gas works are in operation.
The Mendlesshon troupe TO- night
Peter Colscth will oblige us by calling
at our sanctum.
Booth of California is medium-sized
lion, and bachelor.
The personal estate of the late John
G. Heenan is valued at 100000.
See advertisement of Bayarian Band,
at Darts Hall tomorrow evening.
Justice Kaufman, of Davenport, fined
Cyrus Hopkins, colored, $50 with costs, for
whipping his wife.
The factories at Hornellsville, n Y,
have placed their hands on one quarter
time.
The Sacramento Union says fully
twice as many emigrants are coming TO
California this year at last.
-Clews lost the government only hun
dred thousand. But the loss Of Clews will
make it up.
The employees in the car and repair
shops at Lngansport quit work on last Sat
urday night because they had not received
their pay regularly
A lot of New York workmen, who
have been discharged from employment,
will hunt and trap in the Adriondacks this
winter.
Robert Mckee, lawyer, from Jasper
! county, Iowa, is in Jail, over the river, on a
charge of forging the county clerks name
to an official document
/ The imagination of Rock Island
newspaper reporter has made of an empty
shanty in that vicinity rendezvous fol
counterfeiters.-Ch Chicago Inter Ocean.
Tits a hopeful sign that there is very
little news in the financial world. Money
in New York is easy, and first-class Dor
e rowers are getting call loans at from
+ down to per cent
VIM. Edwards, of Putnam county
J. this State, having become idiotic from an
injury on the head, was cured at the Mer
cy Hospital, over the river, by a surgiea
! operation.
!. The books of Auffmardt & Co., sill
n importers, of New York, have been seizeC
on the charge that the firm have under
valued their importations to an extent es
timated at from $l50,000 to $200,0O0.
IS Dudley and Wales, who were indicted
10 for conspiracy against the Government
e, robbing the mails Of drafts and forging sig
r, natures thereto, have been found guilty, il
re the U. S. Court, at Pittsburg.
is Election frauds, sufficient to change tn
I. result on sheriff, in Mahaska county, Iowa
have been discovered, and j. ACOne, anti
le monopolist, will contest the election q
. james Hetherington, Republican.
ar The Hall OF the House of Representa-
in tives, at Desmoines, has been secured to
al the annual session of the State Grange {
y the Patrons of Husbandry, which con
menees December 9th.
Frank Mosby. a colored barber. left
90 wife and two children in Aurora; went I
i Peoria, set up shop got married again, an
lit out for Cambridge. Vile No.
~ hunted him up. and now he pines in Peori
ID, Jail waiting to be sent to Joliet for fiy
is, years.
Frank Stewart, of the Harper Hous
took quite a number Of travelling me
who were at the hotel last evening" U
to the Methodist Sociable, at Mrs. Cap
10. Henderson 5 and they were much please
M with the entertaiument--and left a te
rs stamps on the plate. Not bad idea
mo- eh2
IN - uC WIG VI IiUIIlS vi
raj lives on the ferry road opposite Muscatin
ire was found dead few mornings since
es- the house of Daniel McKillops, in Drury
ED Landing, where she was visiting. The CO
he oner' ; jury found verdict of death fro
ct the excessive use of chlorofOrm.
In the Circuit Court at Alton, III
State. William Huseman, of Marion, W
convicted of incest with his daughter al
a sentenced to twenty years in the Penite
ew tiary. James Eagan, was also found gu
i,y ", of the murder of George McMullen, la
~ May, and sentenced to thirty years in d
l'n Penitentiarv.
the "A daughter, II years old, of s
ght Phelps, of Pella, Iowa, while leading
are COW. had wrapped the rope around h
,av wrist. The COW was attacked by 9th
cows, causing her to run, which threw t
cit the child down. The COW became freigl
ing ened and stampeded, dragging the girl
me the arm until the rope broke, and the g
ere was left dead.