The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-14
MOLINE.

A special meeting of the council will be
held soon when it is expected that the
side walk question and other matters Of in
terest will be discussed.
About o'clock Friday morning, Mar
shall Wells arrested one John Flanagan
for drunk and disorderly and locked him
up. A night in Jail and SIS and costs
taught him the foolishness of drunken
spree.
Burglars entered Mr.. Y. E. McClendon's
house, on the bluffs, last week Tuesday
night, and transferred his; gun from the
sleeping room to another, and took away |
new pair of boots and some jewelry. The |
same night they stepped into Mr.. Fo- |
ley's house, add took what little change he |
had.
Our circuit court Judge Pleasantslhav-
ing decided that the proceedings of our
commissioners of highways in regard to
the road through the laud of Persis W.
;, Hunt, Johu Deere and others were regu.
lar, it is hoped that the road will be open
ed without delay. The road is public
necessity, and all along its line will be any
number of beautiful residence sites.
| On Tuesday of last week, man named
Herman Venhopff came to the farm of
Erie Erickson and threatened the life of
Mrs. f. who was at work in the fields Mr.
Erickson, who was at work on his farm at
the time, demonstrated with Venhopff and
they finally succeededin soaring him off,
Saturday morning Erickson came to town
z aud sWore out a warrant against Venhopff,
5 before Justice Mapes. An old feud rela-
tive to fence built by Erickson, is said to
be the cause of the disturbance
Burning of Mill in Moline.
+ At half past o'clock this (Monday)
v morning the engine whistle at Dimock,
e Gould & Co.'S saw mill, on the bank of the
q river. just above their tub and pail works
Is sounded an alarm of fire. The mill and
r. engine house were destroyed. Loss es
timated at $40,000-insurance $4,000.
The origin of the fire is unknown, but i:
q supposed to be the work of an inceudiary
;, or to have been caused by lightning. The
5 thunderstorm had passed over us som,
u two hours before the fire was discovered
= and if it was caused by lightning the fir,
II must have smouldered unbeknown to tn
III watchmen for some time. With steam
always up, two watchmen always on duty
re and plenty of steam pumps, and hose t
I. reach all the buildings, it seems that if tn
as watchmen were doing their duty the fir
., should have been quenched at the start
II, The I. S. fire engine Uncle Sam
~ from Rock Island Arsenal, and also Hop,
" Hose Co.from Rock Island were on han,
though not until the mill was nearly burne,
of The guard at our bridge denied passage t
v messenger to ask aid from Col Flagler
ne and he had to go to Rock Island and reacl
y. headquarters via Sylvan Water bridge a
lie Arsenal street, which caused much delay
he The Hope Hose boys from Rock Islam,
st. brought up the steamer Rescue, draw
ed by four horses, coming in on run, au
N getting here only few minutes behind tn
Uncle Sam.
Ter The citizens were out in force and a
lat hands worked hard to save the building
IL: The flames caught in the northeast corne
er- of the saw mill and spread rapidly destroy
af ing the mill and engine room This wi
ice throw $50 men out of employment Th
By tub and pail factory was saved but the 10:
be of the machinery will prevent its operatio
of at present. Dmock, Gould & Co. al
it among our most enterprising firms an
,st will go to work at once to rebuild the burr
ON district But for the heavy rains durin
the early part of the night general CO.
e fagration might have been the result I'll
oil "Uucle Sam did not throw any water
gu the destruction of the building was certa
~ y when she arrived. The Rescue did goC
~ work 10 throwing water on the ruins al
90 aS' preventing spread of the fire.
IN. Messrs. Dimock, Gould & Co., wish
by thank the fireman from the Arsenal, an
The from Rock Island, for their zeal aud d
the termination to do all that could be done
ads save their property. The Rock Islar
! a boys we're taken to Recess hotel to brea
rial fast and treated handsomely, which thu
duly appreciated
,,,o The following are the companies havll
p a. risks and the amount of each: