The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-10

The county treasurer's safe at Apple
ton, Wis, was blown open on Tuesday
night and robbed.
The president of the board OF health
ia New Orleans. under date OF TUESDAY
last, says there !. a. ycNJw lever IN that
city
Jacob Norris still fingers in preca,,
.rious condition, with DR.. Iruesdale and
Gregg in attendance. His recovery is
doubtful
The Chicago Exposition was opened
Wednesday. 1t will continue TIL cold
weather. - and ought to be open on sun
day, same as other days
j. O. Wynkoop, Esqr., and family, OF
Cordova, were at the Harper House at
tea, Tuesday evening and left tor the east
on the night train, on visit to friends,
DIR. VIM. A. Hosford, Of Davenport,
died on Wednesday toreoon, aged So years:
He was native of Litchfeld, Conn, and
had been resident of Davenport since
1857.
Mr. Hawley must be the worst whipp-
ed man ever put up for office in this state,
There are no less than fourteen men III
this county who claim the belt tor person
ally doing that little job.
John I. Davenport, Mr. Grant chief
supervisor of elections, in New York, I'M
der the unconstitutional act of congress, and
also L. S commissioner, is under charges
of arbitrary partisan conduct at an election,
and will be tried in the L. S. Court
Judge Poland has written letter re
firing from further contest tor seat IN
congress, He declares that his course on
the salary grab, credit moblier and press
gag law will bear the closest scrutiny ana
he has no desire to change his record.
Decatur people brag that their high
school building has accommodated oo'
scholars, annually, for the last five years
without getting a scratch, or STAN, OF
naughty word on the whole wood work OF
plastering. How is it in Rock Island?
President Grant, Governor John ~.
Dix and Hon. Gideon Welles having each
in turn been invited and declined to delly
err the Grafton on the occasion OF the dedi
cation of the Lincoln monument, in Oal
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, October 10
Hon. Richard }. Oglesby has finally con
sented to perform the task. Dick Oglesby
is such learned and refined man that il
is wonder he had not been thought OF be
fore.
Whitley, the chief of the secret ser,
vice, has resigned to avoid being kicked
cut of Office. The investigations of Solici
tor Wilson show that Whitley not only
furnished the tools but the burglars VIII,
we're to rob the safe of the District boarc
of public works for the purpose of defeat
ing the congressional inquiry lie is als'
charged with promiscuous assortment o
of miscellaneous ylllainy
"A day or two before the Vermont cleo
ton the Republicans put it in this way
Judge Poland will be reelected in spit
of the disatfection in his district, Th
day after election they framed it thus
POLAND is probably beaten, but there i
still possibility that the towns not hear,
from may give him plurality over DENIM
SON" Two days after election they said
"Old Poland is beaten by considerabl
plurality" And now that they have ha
time to realize what the people NEAR, i
the premises, they state it in this untee
ing manner "Oldpoland, OF gag-law nc
teriety, has been repudiated by the peopl
of Vermont
About six o'clock Wednesday evening
officer Field arrested young German nan
ed Frederick Theodore Wilhelm Christian
sen, at the ferry landing in Davenport,
charge Of stealing clothing, and COMM
! ted him to jail in that city. He had been
r prison but short time before he toe
strychnine and died Somebody is /
!, fault for not examining him more careful
when he was committed, and taking tt
poison from him. He was about % yea
Of age; was a graduate of Schelswig, al
had certificates showing that he served
the Franco Prussian war--that he was h
roic at Gravelotte, Metz, Worth, Vionvill
S Orlean, St. Quentin. and Paris. Power
y was the cause of the poor fellows fall, al
4 he killed himself from shame at his dete