The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-02-02

and the boiler burst, carrying Shields with
terrific force against pile of lumber
nearly 200 feet away. He was crushed
into an unshapeless mass, and the lumber
for yards around bespattered with blood
and entrails. Strange to say, no one else
was hurt except Scanlon, whole injuries will
not prove fatal.
BURLINGTON, Vt. Jan. 3l.-While the
new iron bridge over the Winooski River,
near Waterbury, was being tested this af-
ternoon by Gov Smith and the railroad
officials, the western span fell into the riv-
er, distance of thirty feet, carrying with
it four cars loaded with iron, weighing 2l3
tons. Two laborers went down, but were
not seriously hurt. The accident was due
to the breaking of the lower chord of the
span, supposed from defect in the iron.
The loss, which is heavy, falls upon the
contractor.
LoUDoN, Clinton Co., Iowa, Jan. 81
| Our village was the scene of a terrible ac-
cident on Thursday night, resulting from
an attempt to kindle fire with kerosene
| oil. On the evening in question. a Mrs.
Beetle, lady residing on the edge of the
village, attempted to hasten the fire in her
parlor stove by pouring oil upon it from a
can. The fire reached to the can, which
exploded with terrific force, scattering the
oil in all directions, and setting on fire the
clothes of Mrs. Beetle and her little girl
The mother and daughter were terribly
burned, and the injuries sustained by Mrs.
Beetle were so fearful that she died yes
terday in great agony. The little girl is
lingering along in great suffering, and her
death is constantly eXpected
ST. LOUIS, JAM 31.--A most daring and
successful robbery was committed this eve
ming on the Iron Mountain Railroad. AS
the train which left here at 945 A. NJ. came
in sight of Gad's Hill station, l20 miles be-
low here, at 4:30 P. NJ, it was signaled to
stop. The switch was turned, and the
train run on side track AS the train
stopped, Conductor Afford stepped off to
ascertain what the matter was, when he
was confronted by man in a mask, pis-
tol placed to his head, and he marched of
under guard The engineer, fireman, mail
agent, express-messenge and other train
men were then seized by FIVE masked, heav-
The robbers then went through the entire
train, took from the passengers about 81.
900 and large amount OF jewelry, from
loco, and rifed the mail. The robbers
then left in southerly direction and after
the release of the train men the train start
ed southwark. They offered no violence tC
any one on the train, and did no harm tC
the train men.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 3I.-The iewelry store
of Bemis, Speyer 4 Co was robbed las
night of its entire stock of unset diamon
f worth about $4,000. The person who il
supposed to have taken them is a clerl
named Pyle, who has disappeared with th'
f combination and key of the safe. Pyle cam,
from Richmond, Va, and was Methods
: clergyman and temperance lecturer unit
about five years ago.
From the San Francisco Chronicle
, Marshal Martin, the accomplice of tn
, woman Elizabeth Eischler in the murde
= of her husband, Valentine Eischler, nea
Antioch. in November, 1872, suffered th
+ extreme penalty of the law yesterday il
= the jail yard at MARTINEZ The body sho
straight downward The rope stretche
q with a sudden, elastic-like spring, tn
o black cap flew into the air at least eigh
q feet, and spattering the blood in grea
+ spots over the rope, the whitewashed wal
9 the trap, the chair in which the doomed
. man sat and the sheriff S boots, and role
a away in one corner of the inclosure. Th
! body of the poor man fell to the groun
: with great thud, and two red geyser-lik
~ jets spurted up from the neck and fe
= :, down on the ground in torrents. A close
: look, and then the horror stricken face
n showed the awful nature of the occurrenc
q which had burst upon them. The poe
e old mans head had actually been jerke
corner