The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-08
MLOLINT II.


g1y~Pay your poli-tax.
s1~The infant child Of Ed Kuells is
dead.
BGg~Subscriptions for THE ARGUS are
daily increasing here.
nSFARGUs at Morey's or at Turn"
Young in the post Office.
glFThe tramp excitement is subsiding
81 in the calaboose last night
n1@Charles II Deere and DIR. Oliver
Lester returned from the Centennial this
morning.
EY Yesterday, Supervisor Reid. sent
the child CT Brita Nelson, the Rapids City
murderess, TO the poor house in care Of
Pete Munger
EsgnSince the Fourth Magistrate Swan
der has given up the idea Of recording
the names of all tramps sheltered by the
city-it is too big job.
s@-The petitions for the putting
through Of the new Pleasant Valley road
have been posted up-this time, it is
hoped, according to law"
HSg~Finest stock of cigars, tobacco and
smokers articles in the city at H. Hen
necke's tobacco store on Main street, sec
aGg~A good many of our people con
1emn the hasty and rough treatment by
Special Officer Wormly of the tramp8 1t
is said that be would provoke them to be
| saucy and impertinent, and then abuse
them-knoWiDg that if he got into trouble
thereby our citizens would help him out.
B15@ Mr.. Andrew Frlberg, of the Moline
| pl0w Co, writes from Liverpool that be
arrived there on the evening of the 18th OF
June, all safe and sound, and after very
| pleasant voyage. He says he will 90 i'm
mediately to London, then TO Paris and
| Berlin. and then to Gutenberg. Sweden,
his native place.
ng-It is said that one of the Moline
Rifles aud a brakeman on the old Rockford
.r0ad assaulted a tramp in this city yes
terday and broke three Of his ribs with
the stock OF q gun and gave him hare
blow over the head with Il revolver, and
then pitched him head first into a box cal
and that he was taken to Rock Island.
Geg"A man named John Strolee, belong
ing to the Moline Nitles, is disgrace tt
the company and should be expelled Il
was standing guard at the engine hous
last night in a very drunken condition, aus
Insulting all who came near him. He wa
reported to Cant Calent2ky who imnedi
ately removed him iiom duty. and sen
HIM hone.
BaFA gentleman says that out Of th
y tramps in the city council room las
night only ta0o were born in the souther
states, and they left there when they wer,
boys, and only returned last March-an,
still our Intelligent marshal says the.
are ''all ex-rebels" who have come VI
here to make the people Of the north sup
t port them without working.
G@E@Geo. ID. Gould, of this city, gu
circuit clerk, starts this evening for Man
quette, Wis, where he goes for the beuef
Of his health, which is at present yer
poor, owing u oycrwork- not in the cfcu
clerk 5 cfhce He will be accompanied b
Capt. W. u. Morris, an old friend, as ia
as Chicago and probably to the end of b
IjouTney,lt he IS not strong enough to tray'
alone. Mr.. Gould expects TO be absel
about four months. and his many frienC
hope TO see him return entirely recovere,
r E@s At the dedication Of the new Swel
.l ish Lutheran church in this city to morroy
a the following will he the order Of exc
ciseS.
At10A NJ Service in the Swedish largna.
. with preaching If Rev. J. SjoUoist. of GGle.hur
A o'clock 2; NJ Services IN tn%lt=h Preachii
| by Rev. c, Anderson. \. VI principal Of Ausgs
college ana seminary at Knoxville. NJ, ami Pro
L. +. Higsc, Carthage, III.
In the evening, services al O'Clock, in the &c
man language. Preaching by Rev. Prof. Z
4, Gcise. of Carthage tOiit Ge, H.
Music hy the Swedish brass band, Mr. Ch;
n Hubbard. presiding at the organ
: Ali oar Swedish. American aud German frieu
r, are most cordially invited to be present
!. Gss@ Moline is noted for having the nc
i ignorant and worthless city marshal in t
i state. But he considers himself the nc
intelligent, shrewl, and, in fact the be
70 officer in the country. As specimen
,r his Intelligence, the following occurred
h front Of Mayor Wheelock's bakery, |;
, evening: Qnite a crowd had congregat,
around the store and all we're talking abo
ia the tramp nuisance" when our Inte
- gent marshal, James q. Wells, remark,
n that in running over the city after the
- tvamHs he had barely escaped being su
ar struck. lie then said, Il really belle
X that niue tenths Of these tramps are
rebels who have come up here to live
y The people Of the north without wor
n ing. He was asked his reason for belle
n ing this, and he replied that he formed /
Of opinions from what he had heard t
Il rebels had said during the late war-''ti
at the north had ruined the people in t
+ south and by Cd the north would ha
n to keep them after this That is t
of ridiculous remark made by man VI
pretends to be an intelligent citizen a
,h wEo holds the Office of city marshal
~ Moline. After our Intelligent" h
III walked on one gentleman remarked Il
he wasn't surprised now that Wells "
90 sun struck, while the crowd laughed
1n their sleeves, ard the matter is now talk
he about all eyer the city-and our ''inte
of gent is the laughing stock of every boo
n.
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