The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-17

is they are yet so green that they will not
rlpen. Corn was lodged somewhat, but
that will come up again.
Parties from Mendoza, forty miles west,
this morning, report no rain there what
ever. The probability is, therefore, that
the storm did not extend over a large
range of country.
GAINESVILLE, Wis, July 16.-During
the progress of gale of wind last night
the tin roof Of the cotton factory was torn
from its fastenirgs and one-third of the
building was unroofed. No other damage
ensued.
Crops of all kinds in Rock county are the
finest of many years.
MoKENA, Ill.,, July l6.-A terrific wind
and rain storm visited this vicinity last
night. 1t bent the oats aud corn fat to
the ground, shook houses aud tore down
chimneys, The rain fell in torrents ac-
companied by heavy thunder and jncessant
lightning. The damage to crops will be
great
BALTIMORE, Md, July 16.-A heavy
rain storm last night caused an overflow OF
Chatsworth and Shroder's runs, flooding
the cellars of a large number of private
dwellings, and wholesale houses. The
track OF the Washington branch of the
Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad was flooded in
several places. The Philadelphia and
New York express train, leaving Washing
ton last night, on reaching Bladensburg
was thrown from the track. None of the
passengers were injured. Wrecking trains
were Immediately sent out, and this morn
ing trains are running on time.
LODI. Wis, July 16.-This quiet little
town was thrown into state of excitement
yesterday evening by the shooting of two
men who had broken into saloon kept by
man named William Trayis. Nearly $50
were taken from the money drawer, while
| the owner was at a supper After making
the discovery of the theft he followed the
| thieves, overtaking them in some brush,
about quarter of a mile north of town,
near the railroad track Travis says they
attacked him when he ordered them to
surrender. They not doing so, he was
compelled to fire, shooting first one through
the temple, and at the other shooting him
in his right shoulder. The first one shot
was not dead at last accounts, bat he has
not spoken since being shot, and he will
probably die as his brains are coming out.
The other one was able to walk to town,
but he thinks he will not live, as he can
feel the ball in his stomach, Both are
strangers here and haye been hanging
around town for the last two or three days
with four or five more of the same class
The one that is yet conscious says they are
brothers and from St. Louis, and that he
thinks Travis did right in shooting them
They had the money concealed in theil
boots.
ANN ARBoR, Mich, July l5,-At las
the divorce suit of DR.. VIM. Levitt VS.
Adelaide Levitt has got before the circuit
court, and bids fair to be the sensation O
this vicinity for some days. The high
standing of the parties directly concerned
in the suit, as we'll as of those persons
more or less indirectly involved, makes tn,
case matter of considerable interes
his wife with cruelty to himself and als(
with threatening to kill him at various
times. He further charged her with having
had illicit sexual intercourse with motor
ious character of this place named Alvi,
W. Cole; also, with Charles w. Goodwin
medical student. who resided at the doc
tors house, and also with man nance
Brown, now living in Detroit, and formerl
, a clothing merchant here. Mrs. Levitt
denies the charges, and accuses her hus
band of adultery with Mrs. Ellen Perkins
of the village of Delhi. The case prom
ises some interesting developments, Their
are two sons, one of whom swears agains
his father, and the other against hi
mother, Tie testimony of three witnesse
, for the complainant has so far been heard
A seryant-girl named Kate Lane testlfe
that she had seen Mrs. Levitt fondled b
the student Goodwin; that when the latte
was rooming in the house she had gone t
Mrs. Lewitt's room and found that lad
absent, but her clothes left behind in he
room; also, that Mrs. Levitt sometime
! pretended to leave the house and the
. locked herself up in Goodwin's room.
q son, Frank, testifes as to his mothers il
! timacy with DR.. A. W. Cole, he havin
y found her alone in a room with Co
e dressed in gentleman's clothes, not belong
: ing to his father.