The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-17
NOrEs HERE AND THERE.

Park White has settled with Margaret
Thompson and is out OF Jail.
The passenger train on the Peoria
road left on time this morning.
The Rescue Hose Co. will give a ball
in Killers Hall on Wednesday evening.
Engineer Cramer, to-day, put in
private water gauge at the water works.
Mr.. James CORY had the misfortune
to lose horse. by drowning, in the river,
on Saturday.
-Weyerhauser & Denkman's saw mil!
shut down this morning, for couple OF
days, for repairs.
The Western Union R. r. was all
right Saturday. and through trains are
now running as usual,
Geo. w. Flickenger. of Moline. wants
the Republican nomination for sheriff. He
was formerly supervisor. Next.
The water raised one inch in the
slough last night. There is now a
difference of 8 inches between the water in
the river and that in the slough.
A beautiful little girl, about IL years
old, daughter of Mr. Raphael Cooper. OF
Long Grove, Scott county, Iowa, was
killed last week by a runaway team.
The G. r. l. & 2. R. R. trains were
on time this morning, both ways. The
blockade is broken. When land slide
occurs they lay a new track on top OF the
slidel
The factory at South Rock Island
(Sears) was burglarized last night to the
amount of about $50 worth of hams and
dry goods. Pete Haverlin is on the war
path.
A meeting of the city council is called
for this evening, to discuss the proprlety
of the city purchasing large pump, to be
used in keeping the water out of the
! slough.
BY the sudden rise in the river Adam
Brookman has sustained almost total loss
of his fine hot-beds, filled with young
plants, near the Peoria cmbankment in the
western part of the city,
The pay car of the Rockford, Rock
Island & st. Louis R. R., left this morn
ling to pay off the employees. Capt. Fl
Sanford Mott of the train
| Several fights occurred at a dance
given in Adam Brookman's new dance
house in the western part of the city
Saturday night, in which it is said severa
persons were injured. No arrests, as yet
The high winds have made the rive,
very rough for some days, and the waite
has washed out portion of the track o
the P. & r. r. r. near Weissker {
Taylors Rodman Mills. 1t will scon b.
: all right again.
1t is somewhat singular that Babcock
Boss Shepherd and Belknap are yer.
friendly with their tools and spies until tn
earthquake thunders, and then there ar
no boulders In the vocabulary of epithe
, too hot or too heavy to throw at them
Take Bell and Whitley as examples.
: The house of representatives will
, there is but little doubt, adopt the repor
of the committe on elections. and thus pu
Mr.. LeMoyne in the seat for the Thir
e Illinois district, to which the people elect
0 ed him. In partisan view, this action
Of no consequence, but it is matter {
, importance that the house shall no longe
be disgraced by the presence of ma
WHO, like Charley Farwell, confessed
e obtained his certificate by fraud -Hlino
State Register.
4 Amos FL. Leigh, the soldier who VIZ
. SO terribly injured on the 9th inst, viii
: driving out of one of the Rock Islam
Arsenal shops on load Of gun boxes, die
e at o'clock Saturday morning. III
d funeral occurred at Al clock in the afte
o noon. His comrades furnished ver
= handsome walnut cofip for his remain
g and officers and men marched from II
!, hospital to the cemetery, and buried hi
d with the honors that belong with Sc
4 dier's interment. He leaves wife, but I
= children.