The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-11-28

is filed with floating ice, and at Stuyye-
SAINT is frozen over. The weather is quite
cold.
Several striking masons drove away
number of non society men from work on
building in Brooklyn to-day.
The employing plasterers of Brooklyn
would not accede to the demands of the
workmen for four dollars per day to be
guaranteed during the winter.
The case of Ingersoll and Harrington was
given the jury this afternoon, who rem
dered a verdict of guilty In a half hour.
Sentence was deferred till Friday.
An internal machine, filed with powder
balls and matches, was received by Comp
troller Green to day, but suspicion was
aroused by the package, which was carefully
opened without accident.
The Havana Bank robbers were SEN
fenced to two years in the penitentiary.
The Superintendent of the Produce Ex-
change received a telegram o-day from
the canal collector at Utica, stating that
canal navigation was closed at the place
and that five hundred boats were frozen
up.
BURLINGTON, Iowa, Nov o. At Cook $
shingle mill in this city. at half-past :
o'clock this morning, boiler exploded,
killing one Henry Provost, one of the
hands, and injuring seven or eight others,
two or three seriously but, it is thought
not fatally. Richard Lippincott,one of the
proprietors of the mill was knocked down
bruised and scalded, but was able TO assist
in the rescue of others The explosion was
caused by lack of water in the boiler
One man was blown fifty feet, through an
opening in the mill, upon pile of logs,
and another was blown still farther.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. 26.-WiIliam
Farley, formerly an inmate of the House
of Refuge, was arrested this morning,
charged with forging the signature of John
Prosser to several checks and obtaining
money on them at Fletcher & Sharpe 5
bank The money was found on his per
son, and he confessed his guilt.
CHICAGO, Nov. 26,-0ne Mclean, a re-
ported burglar was to-day arrested, charg-
ed with the murder of policeman Jacobs
last August
OMAHA, Nov. %. Brooks Kinney, we'll
known, lawyer, fell this morning from the
third story of the Grand Central to the
| first floor, severely injuring him,
n tefGlHc Wiuu sGoTH prevailed mere To-
| day.
| LITTLE Rock, Nov. 26.-At Fulton,
Ark. on Monday, one Pickett quarreled
over game Of cards with two brothers,
Cassibay, and shot one fatally, the other
seriously Pickett was arrested and while
the Sheriff was taking him to Washington
to Jail the prisoner was fred on from the
brush, fell and was lett for dead by the
officer, who went for assistance, and when
he returned found Pickett short distance
/ off, trying to escape.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, November 26.-In s
quarrel between two cartmen, James Nc
Hale and Martin Duffy, yesterday, the
latter was horribly cut and mangled by 8
knife in the hands of the former, and vii
undoubtedly die from his wounds.
ST. LOUIS, November 26.-J. P. Dunn
and young man named Clark called a
the house of man named Mercer abou
seven miles from Lexington, Mo, on Mon
day evening, aad commenced insultin.
the ladies OF the house Mercer and hi
son-in-law demonstrated and were assault
ed and badly beaten. In the melee Mer
Ger and his son-in-law obtained possession
of a musket and shot gun and fired upol
their assailants. Clark was killed almos
instantly, and Dunn died during the night
/ The ceroner's jury rendered verdict Q
justifable homicide.