The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-24
Port Byron Items

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Last Thursday night the saloon of Char q
lev Grey was entered by burglars and 2 '
boxes Of cigars, about Sc in money, mostly
coin, and several other things were taken.
The burglars entered by taking out the d
back window.
On Friday night the smoke house of Mr..
George Woodward, two miles above here, q
was broken into and all the meat in it car I
ried off-l2 hams and shoulders. The I
thieves were tracked to the river bank s
where they probably took to a skitt.,
A couple of men arrived here early Fri
day morning, last week, IN SKIN heavily
loaded with the hides of cattle. One of
our citizens remarked that they had a pref
tv heavy load. and one Of the men replied
| that it was meat for raft they were on,
and that they bought it at Lyons. Iowa.
They then proceeded on their way down
the river. About o'clock in the morning
a dispatch was received from othcers at
Lyons requesting our constable to keep
watch for two men in boat, with hides,
saying they were stolen from butcher ID
that town. Word was sent to towns De-
low here, but whether they have been
caught or not Is not known here. i
There is a''gunboat" tied up at an island
lust below this place and the citizens have
a suspicion that there is where most OF the
stolen goods go. There is said to be live
girls connected with the place, and, to judge
/ from the skiffs going to and coming from
their boat, they have large number OF
visitors. The fiddler employed on the boat
was discharged on Friday and his fiddle
l oyercoat, all his clothes, and money which
e he had earned were refused him, and he
: was afraid to have the Madame" arrested.
9 He told some pretty hard stories about the
.. boat. He left on the train for Savanna
- Saturday morning, swearing he would have
+ revenge on the party.
Mr.. Taylor Williams paid out about ST.,
loco to the coal miners in his employ, at
g RAPIDS City last Friday, and Gilchrist q
e Jones about $4,000 on Saturday. The
l. lime companies in this vicinity pay about
$1,000 per week to their men.
Devore & Cone have one Of the finest
stores in the county, outside OF Rock Is
lie land and Moline Mr.. Devore has bank
a. connected with the store, and all the coal,
20 lime, and lumber companies do their bus
mess at his bank. He has lately put IN
Il large burglar and fire proof safe. made tt
h, order by Diebold, Norris 4 Co., Canton,O.
tn costing 5 200, and weighing 1850 pounds
re It Is beauty, and burglars would have
l. hard time opening IL.
~ Mr.. f. Shelly has recently purchased ;
CT lot in the lower end OF town and propose
ce to erect large lime kiln on it. He ha
III also purchased lot opposite Albrecht'
- saloon and will erect warehouse shortly.
on Mr.. J. w. Simonson also proposes t
he erect fine large residence here this sum
Get mer. Port Byron people pride themselve
mi on having more handsome residences tina
-, apv other town In Illinois, of the same pop
.'n ulation.
In A good many farmers were in town Sa
urday, after groceries They have bee
,;s- busy for the last two weeks, planting corr
and most Of them now have all their croI
w. in.
gs, Supervisor Trent says the newspapers
ion Rock Island have not treated him right
Mt referring to him personally and not as 81
pervisor. He says he never reads the p
pers, but one of his neighbors told hi
about it. When it was, or VIII
ave about he could not tell, on
war that they had lied about hin
in Perhaps Mr. Trent has reference to Il
die. criticism of The ARGUS upon his action
voting against licensing a man to Sc
was liquor in his town when majority OF ;
non the voters in the town had petitlOned tn
y of he be licensed. THE ARGUS held tn
hey Mr. Trent misrepresented his town, a
a.. should have either voted for the license
io'i resigned. THE ARGUS has made no p
ever sondt allusion to Mr.. Trent, Personal
With we have nothing to say about him. .
600 an officer he did not properly represent
s,on constituents. 1t would probably bene
nian Mr.. Trent to read the newspapers.
the The mqn drowned in Davenport Ia
avis, week was Aaron Manual. and his part1
ad- was known as Timber jim" They be
war worked in Taylor Williams's coal mines
g.. Rapids City. On Tuesday they got OF
io u, drinking spree with man named Woo
ould from Erie, who was at Rapids City OF
'ame visit. In the course OF the fun Llm'
Mr. jim. in a Joke, took Woods's hat and pu
rtly VI ms V WIZ meau nt ~ port Rvron and
out a warrant for the arrest of Manu-
When this was known to the manager
the mines he discharged the men-Man
and Jim, on Wednesday morning. Ii
oil oi did not wish to be at the trouble of
~ suit and avoided the constable by takin
LII III skiff and pulling out into the river. III
'ne, landed at Davenport and the result '
Io a"iI the drowning of Manual, as previou
oa stated All speak of the unfortunate Il
I ma as very kind hearted well-meaning m
~ Epstein & West, OF your city, have re
0 on5 ed store here and are putting it in or
:. @ nno for music and jewelry store This on
M NJ to be good town for that business.
e has 1t was shown Id Fort byron on oa1
ldical day, that the cItlzens MISS the lager WI
ebts; the keg runs dry. "en,the keg run
is of on FRIDAY afternoon ana IL WAS not IN,
Iadel- O'Clock on Saturday that wagner
/ him wagon, from Rock Island, drove into to
* in And then quite crowd of anxious citi2
for a rushed to the saloons to Stake tt
nable thirst 1t was perfectly astonishing,
mon way that beer disappeared. One cit
I 500 sent two little boys to Rapids City, to hr
, and up the wagon, he was SO dry' n Ore"
fuses would pay well here'
No use in paying $45 for suit mad