The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-04-19
sa~A cry is going up for the street

EGaA cry is going up for the street
sprinkler these hot, windyidays.
n@Richards & Sohrbeck are furnishing
the Moline market with wall paper.
~The young LADIES' attire for exam
nation day is the principal topic of CONVEX
sation at the high school now days.
s9~A two and half year old son Of
James First's died last night of dyptheria.
He had been sick for ten days. DR.. Wes-
sci attended it. Funeral tomorrow, April
| 10th, at the family residence at 2 clock.
sB-The action of the council in giving
Rock River bridge to the Narrow Gauge
| Railroad Co. is occasioning considerable
comment among people in Moline and
across the river. 1t is urged that the
bridge was not built with the intention OF
| using it for railroad purposes and that 1t is
not of sufficient strength to bear the strain
of such usage; that it was feared at the
time it was bought and rebuilt by the city
that che piers were not perfectly safe, even
for ordinary travel of teams.
That bridge was bought and rebuilt with
the city's money at cost of $4,000, for
the purpose of providing an entrance to
the city of the farming community on the
other side of the river, which it was ex-
pected would more than repay the cost in
the additional trade it would bring to Mo-
| line. Now. if this railroad is going to use
the bridge and Yagon-road leading there
! from to the city for private enterprise,
let them pay the city for the bridge, as it
will be rendered practically useless for
wagon travel, and the railroad company
and not the city will be the benefited party.
Will the railroad company share with the
city in the expenses of keeping the bridge
in repair2 Certainly not. They will pay
their 122 cents per load, which will not
amount to one.half the sum the city will
lose in other travel.
Arrested on Peace Warrant.
Samuel Austin Lathrop was arrested
last evening by Officer l1apes and lodged
in the calaboose on a warrant issued by
Justice Cropper of Rock Island. The
warrant was sworn out ey woman who
was formerly his wife, now divorced, and
charges that Lathrop attacked her with a
razor and threatened to cut her throat.
An ARGUS reporter interviewed Lathrop
at the calaboose this morning and got
his side of the story, which is substantially
as follows:
Rare you the man, Lathrop, who is
accused Of attacking his wife with razor
i Ives, suppose there is some such
complaint against me.
R-1s it true that you attempted hel
life?
L-No, did not have a razor 10 my
hands at all. only put my arm around heI
neck and squeezed her.
l R-lsnt it strange that she should
evince so much disapprobation at this de
monstration of affection, or has she Away:
been that way? (Of course the reportorial
mind was staggered at this, it being SC
different from his observations IN early
life.)
L-Well, may be that / frightened up OF
her neck little too hard.
R-What was the cause of the quarrel
L-You know who | am and where
have been. | came home about the frs
Of January and, although she had obtained
a divorce from me, she requested me t
stay there and live with her. After re-
manning short time / discovered that sh
was keeping in the house woman | knew
to be prostitute. | demonstrated will
her about it and she spit in my face, thel
| checked her little and she ran to he
bureau, took out razor and ran out of tn
house with it, screaming and declaring tina
had tried to cut her throat. If she con
, tinues to prosecute NE | shall ventiIlatt
the whole matter.
For the information of those who do no
know who Lathrop is and where he ha
: been, it may be we'll TO add that he ha
been to the penitentiary for larceny an
has been out only about four months.