The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-16

smothered to death 10 the hopper of d
grain elevator. at Dixon, last Tuesday,.
The Polo excursionists patronized our
hotels quite literally yesterday. Over
two hundred Of them took supper at the
Rock Island House.
Thursday of last week terrific wind
storm passed over Lee County aud vicinity
blowing over grain stacks and breaking
trees in every direction.
"A young man who undertook to steal
ride on freight train from Sterling to
DeKalb few nights since, was robbed of
$75, in money, revolver and good suit
of clothes.
Mr.. Il. L. Postlewait. who is now in
Washington d, G. writes to friend in this
city. II think my bright star has risen
from its lethargy and am on the road
ito fortune and fame"
There will be 30 Services at the first
avenue NJ. =. church on Sunday-only the
Sunday School at q.l2 a. N. and class
meeting at 3 .. N. on account of the
camp meeting.
Justice Hayden, to-day, released
Thos. Kennedy, who was sent to Jail July
3Oth for thirty days, for beating his wife,
Kennedy is nearly dead with consumption.
and confinement was using him up rapidly.
The Socialists of St.Louis have incorpo-
rated 10 their platform clause demanding
restoration Of the famous social evil regu-
lations, They demand that all prostitutes
shall be registered. licensed, and regular
ly inspected by physicians.
Deputy Clerk Donaldson, 10 Cooks
Office, has camp-meeting scene in which
Assessor Haney occupied a prominent
place. 1t is an elegant picture and por
trays with startling truthfulness one of the
chief characteristics Of these meetings.
The Silver Wave with two barges
took an excursion party of over three hun
bred from Davenport to Muscatine last
? night and returned at o'clock this a. m.
: Blehl's band furnished music to which the
dancers kept time the greater part of the
night
Bernard Reiling, the fellow who ap-
{ parentIy tried to remember whether he
0 stole watch from Chas. Miller last Tues
y day, when on trial before Justice Halves
concluded yesterday that he must have
q done it, and so informed Judge Adams
who sentenced him to 60 days imprison
e meat in the Jail,
The fourth annual meeting aud pic
v MIC Of the Henry County Old Settlers AS
ir sociation was held at Kewanee. last Tues
Il day. Though not SO largely attended q
" at Cambridge and Geneseo, the represent
g. alton of the early pioneers from all part
Dr. of the country was good, and the occasion
n was one of much interest and pleasure.
Jared Irwin, farmer of Arlington
township, some eight miles southwest o
~ ~ Aledo, while returning home from tina
re place last night. was knocked from hi
lie horse and robbed of 81, OO0-moDey whicl
81 he had raised to make payment on hi
.. farm. He was badly beaten and bruised
Of lying senseless in the lane for a long tim
IS after tae assault. Officers are after tn
perpetrators.
The Nationals ia the Toledo (O.) dis
20 trict have just discovered that Henr
n. KahIo, their candidate for Congress, use
to manage national bank in Defanc'
nc and was in the habit Of playing Shylock
the tune Of IL and Is per cent. And ~
he is supposed to be "a Representative
es workingman." His antecedents are nearl
he as bad as those of the nominee of the sam
ST party for Governor of Pennsylvania
10 Fittsburg Dispatch.
is The Elgin Insane Asylum has latel
es received quite lift" Some years ae
ed Mr.. Jonathan Burr, wsalty citizen
ng Chicago, died and bequeathed betwee
in $4,000 and $50, 900, to any asylum whic
G; might subsequently be established in tn
ed state. A Circuit Judge of Cook count
so had given the property to the county, b,
e. the Supreme Court reversed the decision
awarded the property to the EIgin AS
lum.-Diron Sun.
In speaking of the game between I'll
na Peoria Reds and the Davenports, the PeC
ria Democrat says;
TO- The game was we'll attended, but IL
crowd, and the ladies as much as the me
was intensely hostile, and Kissed the
whenever opportunity offered. The uu
pire was one StockwelI, the tenth man
lth substitute of the Davenports. His decisio
we're fagrantly unjust to the Reds. f
called strikes on them when the balls
at c;sions nm close noints we're noticeable fa
orable to the home nine.