The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-04-05

to the boys all day-aud all because It's |
III pound boy. He says he's glad it didn'
occur on the lst.
F. G. Smith, cashier of the G. B. Il @. |
road. gave County Treasurer Porter check |
for the taxes of the St. Louis road yester-
day afternoon, the amount being Sl,95O5 81.
An inceudary fire about 8 o'clock last
evening destroyed a small barn belonging
to Alderman Davis, in the lower part of
the city. A horse and two dogs were
burned Loss about 5000. insured.
John McDonough. young man IS years
Of age. was run over by the ears at Kewa
nee. last Saturday, and had one of his legs
terribly mangled He died shortly after
the leg was ampu;ated The accident oc
Cured by his attempting to ''catch ride,
and slipping.
"A coal miner by the name of David
| Holmes was thrown off a coal train on
Thursday of last week, at kewanee. and
fell SO near the the track that the ends of
his fingers on one hand were caught by
the trucks and cut off He was not other
wise injured-but he had narrow escape
from death.
w ednesday, according to the figures
reported to US Mr. Samuel A. Taylor was
beaten only votes, but the official vote
published to-day, shows l3 against him.
His majority in the lst ward. where he
lives, was SO, which was very creditable
to him as competent man and a good
citizen.
He is in railway business again, is the
indefatigable j. Meredith Davies. He
has leased the Brady street liue for term
of years, and now it is proposed to build
the projected road from Brady street,
!. along 18th street and through East Dav-
enport to Mississippi avenue.-DdU Gdz
The examination of Tod Tyner for
robbery, took place before Justice kauf-
! uanu in Davenport, yesterday. The as
jsault and robbery which occurred Monday
Afternoon were fully detailed in Tuesday s
a ARGUS. the victim was present, and
testified positively that Tyner was one
Of the robbers. The Justice held Tyner
10 the som of 81 500 for appearance at
the May term OF the District Court.
r Mr. Harper has made contract for
frescoing the hotel Office of the Harper
9 House, and the gentlemen's parlor, aud
j the reading room, in oil. Ali the wood
=, work is also to be painted gloss white. The
q fre coingIis also to be lighter than at pre-
= sent The rooms will thus be made cheer.
4 ful and bright. No house in the country
is kept in such fine repair and so clean in
levery part as the Harper House.
C They have good, dear, Christian wo-
men in Kewanee. On Sunday night al
So incendiary attempt was made to burn
81 building used for a saloon in that place
40 but the fire was extinguished before muct
81 damage was done. The kewanee hide
iSS pendent, of the 4th says: I'VE are told tha
81 a jealous Temperance lady OF our tow
6S when she heard that the fire of Sunda
52 night was on Whisky Row." erie,
GLORY to God!" not realizing probabl
10 that fire started on whisky Row
81 might spread to such an extent as t
81 sweep off her own possessions
"a Oh Tuesday, the people of Kewane
~ elected the entire citizens townshi
81 ticket James X. Biish, young lawyer
DO and the man the Henry county democrat
81 run for the legislature last fall was electe
supervisor over 4. NJ Vail, straight repu
lican. Blish received 1923 votes, and Va
203 vOtes-a majority Of 100 for Bis
81 There was no contest except on supervis
! IS and assessor. The Kewanee Independe
says: while the election of Mr.. Blish
- not in any sense Democratic victory, it
defeat of the thick aud thin" Repub
Of cans who tried to draw the party lines
&c the interest of their candidate, and but +
their partisan spirit there would have be-
% no contest
William Fl. Seward had Damon al
% Pythias sort of friendship with Jud
20 Sacket of Central New York. After t
q expiration of Mr. Stewards term as &C
'' ernor, he was in great pecuniary distre
90 and likely to lose all his possessions.
"a struggled with the perseverance, charact
istic of the man to relieve himself, but I
go successfully He must raise $25, 900 or
.'7s to the wall. He applied to many of
=, fair weather friends, but was met by
: - fiat refusal, or cold indifference, till
IA called on Judge Sackett, who said, "
know have little or no money, but {
furnish you with something from VIII
you can realize the needed sum-" and
As forthwith executed mortgage on
farm, and on this was raised the $25,
which saved his fortune, and he soon aft
3-"l wards relieved his friend from all anxi
that anything disastrous should grow
e- of his action. He said, in substar
3 There is no service which | can ren
this man, small or great, which should
e 4 or will be, refused" and such service
this might we'll make grateful and
voted fried of its recipient