The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-07
NorEs HRRE Avn rHERE.

-Barnum' s circus in Davenport to-day.
The heating apparatus at the Jail and
court house was tested to-day.
On Thursday, 1916 teams, containing
from two to six persons. and $500 foot pas
sengers crossed Rock Island and Sylvan
water bridges.
Minnie. a two-year old daughter of
John M. Minton, .of Cambridge, died few
DAYS ago from the effects of swallowing the |
phosphorus from matches.
1T is said that little Sammy Crompton
is irving to catch the workipgmen by tell |
ing them that he has been hard working |
fiddler. That won't do, Sam.
Each and every one of the republican
candidates claim that their opponents be-
fore the republican convention are resort
ing to all kinds OF personalities and back
biting.
WIN. Mill made affidavit before the
county clerk this forenoon that Worthlug-
ton Cain had killed full grown wolf in
Coe township on the Sd inst. The bounty
is IS.
The Cambridge Chronicle says that
"Delmore Faulker, of Rock Island was
brought up during the fair) for pocket
picking, but was discharged for want of
evidence"
David Don, representing the Rock
| Island Stove Co.'S stoves, received all the
premiums at the Scott county fair. The
Rock Island Business College also carried
off the first premium for pen drawing. 4
In speaking Of the Henry county fair,
the Cambridge Chronicle says: 1T. j.
Howell. formerly of Glover and now of
Rock Island, exhibited very valuable
horses and captured SCI in premiums"
The politest of all darkies lives near
Newark. When be meets gentleman of
his own color by moonlight he says:-"Mr.
Sam, do you know any place ID de neigh
borhood whar gemmen might borrow a
chicken?"
i 1t is said that John Y. Cook, in or
der to get the republican nomination again,
is using the argument that i takes a
fellow alb ou-t t-h.r years
before he G cts his h an d in
don't it D-o,c?"
On Thursday evening of last week,
while large portion of the fire companies
of the state were iunkcting at Galesburg,
an unoccupied house on North Cherry
SlEccI bOOk nE0 duu WItNOuC
single stream of water being thrown.
: On Monday, Abel Cottrell, of Andover,
was brought before Esquire Rishel, at
Cambridge, charged with committing rape,
on Mrs. Nancy N, Terbell, wife of Albert
|. NJ. TERRELL. of Andover, and on examina-
ton he was held to bail for appearance at
, the circuit court, in the sum of $500.
Phil. Helm has been studying the
patent laws of Greece and has discovered
! that they did not have any car-couplers,
but 10 that classic country it is known by
the way a woman wears her hair whether
! she is married or not. In America it is
known that man is married if he doesn't
wear any hair at all.
An old man died in Minnesota the
, other day who confessed to the murder of
woman and child in 10 Daviess county,
this state, in the spring of $780, AS that
county then extended down the Mississippi
to this city, it is hard to tell where the
! murder was committed The old man tells
terrible story OF his suffering and wan
behring's on account of remorse.
: The track of the Peoria & Rock Island
e road is in much better condition than a
= year ago. Much OF it has been relaid, and
VIC HOtiSC Ntsdt thiOdkA OutS OGInCCH
. Cambridge and Utah, as well as in other
3 places, neatly finished bitches, of capacity
. enough to carry off all the surface water,
' have been dug beside the track.-GdlUd
r Journal
S DIR. Gait says that John Siegrist'
q death was caused by apoplexy, and that
the rumor that his neck was broken by his
fall down stairs is untrue His whole left
f side was paralyzed, and the doctor thinks
it was the paralytic attack which caused
him to fall, as he could discover no injuries
8 upon his person which would be liable tc
cause paralysis.
The freight train on the Peoria &
= Rock Island, which arrives at Wyoming
= from Peoria at 9 o'clock in the evening,
K with passenger coach attached. met bull
t: on the track last Wednesday evening, near
a Dunlap station, which disputed the trains
= right of way. The bull succeeded in
4 ditching the train in some way. and the
4 passengers saved their bacon, those belong
a Jog at Wyoming arriving at o clock in the
e morning The bovine with the stumpy
j horn got the worst Of it after all. for ht
q was hashed on the track
e On last Saturday morning, Seth Gates
e a commissioner of highways in Arlington
township, Mercer county, who was super
|. intending the building of bridge ovsl
n Pope creek at Glancey's old mill, fell from
:, wagon loaded with stone, striking heavil!
o on his neck and shoulders and, appar
: entity, from some injury to the spinal cord
1t the lower part of his body, from the waist
It was paralyzed and wholly insensible. TIL,
,e load of stone was furnished with spring
t. seat on top, and the great height and tn,
ID sudden obstruction of the wheel. caused
Of the violence of the fall. He died on Mon
le day afternoon at clock,
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