The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-01-16
VOTES HERE AND THERE

in the Kansas legislature.
NJ. D. Merrill has gone to the Health
Institute, in Michigan, for repairs.
Mayor Murdoch, together with the fire
wardens of the Second ward have per
mitted the repair of the buildings recently
burned out on Illinois street.
The postofhce boxes for Moline have ar
rived and will be put up Immediately. 1t
Is expected that the new postoffice will be
opened on Monday, January 10th.
The masked ball to be given by the
Marksmen's Society comes off next Mon
day evening. No pains will be spared to
make it a first-class entertainment
A woman at Macon, GA, dared her hus-
band to commit suicide, and he had her ar
rested and placed in Jail for six months,
the Judge holding that her action was
grave offence
The line shaft which runs the principal
part of the machinery in the Buford Plow
Works, broke down, yesterday afternoon,
and business will have to be suspended for
week or so.
Supplanting the skilful, learned and
interchangeable Trumbull with the impracti-
cal, vulgar and clustering Oglesby, Is what
Radicals of the Oglesby school term weed
ing out loafers. -QHiHcy Herald
During the dense fog of yesterday morn
ing, drovers' car, standing on the track
near the old c., R. |. & P. passenger de-
pot, was run into by freight tram and
knocked into the middle of Madison street.
A new order has been issued u the
guards at the Government bridges, which
instructs them to arrest and take before
the commanding officer of the Island all
persons driving teams across said Ridges
faster than a walk
Six men, on a hand car, near the West
ern Union crossing, during the foggy morn
ing Of Wednesday, narrowly escaped
death from a Rockford train by Jumping
from the car. The hand car was Hretty
effectually used up.
Some idea Of the immense business do
ing by the c., r. l. 4 p. r. r. msy be
formed from the fact that Tuesday after
noon, between half past four and eight
o clock, no less than eight freight rains
passed through this city OF thess, 50
were cars loaded with stock, % ca-s Of
time freight from the L. ?. r. R. aad the
balance goods and merchandise.
Daniel Kelly. a laborer, residing OIL Canal
street between Beaver and Oue- was
found dead in his bed on Wednesday,
morning, by his wife, When sunmoning
him to breakfast The deceased vas sub
ject to epileptic fits, and a coroner .uryre-
turned a verdict to the effect thai r died
while under one Of these attacks
/ Speaking Of the bill for a militar prison
at Rock Island, the Union says, Senator
/ Logan has introduced this bill II he Sen
ate without amendment. Senatr Logan
did nothing of the kind 1t is House
bill, has passed the House, ana was re
ported in the Senate by the Clen, in the
I regular course Of business, etc.
/ Yesterday the 18th the strtas were
running down with water. Toiay 1.-THE
10th the mercury is at zero. Yesterday.
the small railroad bridges Over Case ;
creek, and Mil creek, between Milan and
Coal Valley, were submerged, an, no train
could safely pass. To-day the, are all
right and trains run as usual
Some time aga soldier deser,.d from
the Rock Island Arsenal, of witch fact
the police were notified. and the. kept Il
sharp lookout Tuesday Afternoon he
was captured by the Davenpor police,
after an exciting chase over the re. The
soldier was delivered up to a sera.ant, who
was t take him back to the Arsenal. But
when half way across the bridge the sol
der escaped from the sergeant and has
not been seen since
Liberty Billings President If the Flori-
da Senate by vote Of the Democrats, Is
himself Republican of old tim Ab1li-
ZIONIST antecedents, a native f Maine
and before the war. [ Unitarian cergyman
In the East and at Quincy, H. lie went
into the way a chaplain, and anne out
Colonel Of a colored regiment. His pres
ent political status is with those RepubH
cans in Florida who DO not pupose 10
worship the negro Baal or FLOW the
Washington BALKANS Mr.. Billings and
his associates hold the balance f power
in Florida. and will name the S.natar.-
perhaps Liberty Billings himself
. The recent terrific hurricane IF snow
attended by intense cold weather in the
Northwest, was most calamitou, in it,
effects throughout Minnesota. Scores Of
persons who were caught in the storm
were frozen to death All the railroad.
and the common roads in the State are
blocked with huge snow banks, rendering
transportation impossible The storm
broke upon the State, from the nartbward
very suddenly, and continued to rage fur
iously for over two days. The number q
deaths by freezing already heard of reaches
nearly one hundred, and this will no doub
be largely increased when the back couptr,
districts shall have been heard from