The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-10-18


R9The workingmen are going to have
a mass meeting Saturday evening iD Mo-
line.
RaThose French and English suitings
just received by Gould Il Co., are i'm
mense. l7-d3t
EThere is some talk among the un-
official members of the NJ E. church about
selling the seats for the ensuing year.
B1-Joseph Smith was arrested yester-
day by Officer Olson for being drunk.
Magistrate Swander fiued him $5 and
COSTS Let off on promise to pay IN few
days.
Ra-Some of the street crossings are in
a dangerous condition in consequence os
the settling of the water pipe trenches, and
all of them need more or less cleaning and
repairing.
nG~ Binding Of every description done
at close figures at The ARGUS bindery.
All kinds of printing cheaper than else
where in the three cities. First class work
guaranteed. If
H9~A stranger was amusing himself
yesterday afternoon kicking Dwight Ben
hams dog, when Benham dealt him full
hand under the ear. This occasloned quite
spirited discussion, but no further vic
lence was committed.
RIrEdWard Moy, an employe of the
Carbon Cliff pottery, and friend of mis-
named Charles Pugh, came down here to
have time with the boys yesterday.
Moy took on too much tangle foot and
when the G. L. l. & 2. accommodation
came along he boarded it and started for
home. but that whisky was altogether too
active and communicative, and for the
peace of other passengers the train was
stopped near Rodman avenue and he was
dumped. This stirred up his Irish and
he raved around the G. B. & Q. depot un-
til the train on that road went east, when
he boarded that train, first trying to get
into the baggage and then the express
car, the windows in the door of which he
entirely demolished Station Agent
Hyde came within his reach and was un-
tremendously put to one side. Frank
| Hyde dealt him one e,and things we're lively
for several minuteF, at the end of which
time Moy was IN the calaboose where his
friend Pugh soon followed him. This
morning they were taken before Magis-
trate Swauder who fined Moy SlU and
costs and discharged Pugh. They raised
the money and departed.
Not as Bad as Rumored.
There has been number of lrresponsi
BILE rgmors on our streets this week about
Milton Brown, young man who left here
for the east a few days since The story
is that be had abscouded with from one
to three hundred dollars belonging to Mr.
Salisbury, which he had collected as Sails
| bury's agent and failed to account for; and
that two employees Of Barnard & Lees
were losers of $50 each, borrowed money
besides several other smaller matters.
These things have been stated to the re
porter for this paper in a disconnected anO
unreliable manner, and the question asked
why there has been nothing 10 the paper
about it?" and 'ifhe was afraid to tackle
Mr., Brown because he moved in the upper
circlesi" The ARGUS wishes it dis.
tinctly understood that it-makes no dis
tinction as regards position, politics, or re
igion in the denunciation of vice; but the
facts must known, and be Sufficient tt
Justify it before any attack will be made
upon any one, be they high or low.
The facts in this case as furnished your
reporter By Mr. Salisbury are as follows:
Mr., Milton Brown had some three or foul
hundred dollars worth of bills which Mr.
/ Salisbury gave him to collect and wher
he went away neglected to return them tt
r Mr.. Salisbury, who upon hearing tha
{ Milton bad gone away started out to See i
the bills had been collected, and found tha
, one of the lot, but one bill amounting t,
81, had been paid to him By this it vii
be seen that the two or three hundred
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probable that the other matters will resul
iD a like manner if closely investigated
Al any rate, the money borrowed at th
: shop was business transaction and in
wolves 20 degree of guilt