The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-08
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.

A new bank has been opened at Ash
land.
! The supreme court met at Ottawa yester
day,
The university at Champaign opens OF
| the 18th inst.
! Pike and Dewitt counties boast Of
! female horse thieves.
! The postofiice at Champaign was robbed
/ of 800 on Friday night.
| Litta sang at the First Methodist chur CT
IN Bloomington on Sunday.
Edward E. johnson was arrested at Mt
| Vernon for bigamy on Saturday.
The prisoners of War association viii
meet at Springfield, October 18th AND
18th
Mine Anes grain elevator at Secor was
burned 1t was filled to the roof with
grain.
The Universalist state convention
meets in Galesburg the last week in Sep
TENDER
Belleville's agitation for water supply
will probably take the shape of boring ar
tesian wells.
In the Bethany fire. last week, Mrs. N.
Freeland lost $500, which she had sewed
Mrs John Custer died Saturday at Pet
ersburg from burns received two weeks ago
by her clothes taking fire.
Lightning struck store at Weston and
tore one end out. 1t was occupied by W.
C. Purdy. The lightning also struck the
Catholic church in Chenoa, doing but little
damage.
The postoffice at GAINESVILLE, Montgomery
county, which has been in operation about
sixty years, has been discontinued. Mail
matter for that place should be addressed
to Atwater.
A fatal accident occurred at Sadonis, a
few miles west of Tolono on the Wabash
road, by which an old country mail car
r1er, named Daniel Click, was dashed to
death by train.
Several young ladies and gentlemen were
poisoned at Centralia on Friday by eating
boiled tongue at Sunday school picnic.
The microscope revealed a fungus growth
on pieces of the tongue. All recovered.
There are $40 students attending the
Normal school at Normal, of whom $40
are in the Normal department proper, and
191 in the model or pay department. This
is the largest attendance ever known at
the Normal.
Andrew Scoggin, lad IA years old, |
with some other boys, got up horse race
near Wapella, Dewitt county. His sad |
die girth broke, throwing him over his |
horses head, which fell upon him, causing
his death soon afterwards.
The skeleton, clothes, and paper of a |
German emigrant named Max Regel, were |
found Saturday morning in the woods near
Cairo. A bullet hole in the forehead and |
a rusty pistol with one barrel empty indi-
Gated suicide. He had been dead year.
The estate of the late Capt. Hail. of PEG |
ria, instead of being $50 to be divided
among seven heirs, proves to be less than
S22, 600 to be divided among fourteen heirs
The invalid wife of Bob Burdette, the hui
morist, is one of the heirs, and will get
only about 81 700 instead of $4,000.
Saturday night J. c. Koontz, farmer
living five miles west of Streator, got badly
nnder the influence of liquor, started home,
and when mile west, laid down on the
rack A freight train soon after ran over
him, cut the head completely off and
otherwise horribly mangled the body. He
caves a wife and six children. The cor
,ner's Jury exonerated the railroad from all
blame.
The drinking water of Peoria comes
chiefly from an immense sulphur spring,
coated on the high ground in the western
part or the city. The supply is quite am
,le for the use to which it is put To a.
person unaccustomed to drinking it the
aste of sulphur is somewhat too pronoun
ed; but after it has been used for month
II more, it is preferred to ordinary well or
pring water.
The Rutledge families and their connec !
ion will hold reunion at Maple Grove,
N the farm of Charles H. Rutledge. in
Downs township, Mclean county. four .
niles west of Leroy, on Thursday. Sept. is !
he Rutledge families are among the earli | /
st settlers of Illinois, and the connection Q
eng large one, there viii be quite q + /
lumber present. II
Mrs. Amanda Maiilard, who died at Avon
'ulton county, some days since, was born :
a France, of family in the service of the !,
and was in the household of :
oseph Bonaparte, as king Of Spain. and as !
xile at Bordetown. n. y. With her hus-
and and little children, she settled in 5
ulton county in Is41. and for the past )