The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-07
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NOTES.

/ Inc GfanQ Lodge Oh 1OOu AcHlpialS VIII
meet at Springfield on the 18TH
Gallon win be hung at Cambridge on
the 10th of the present month.
| There are 100 saloons in Peoria, and
they pay an annual license of $4,000.
No company of the Sth regiment will
attend the encampment at Bloomington.
| Somebody is scattering poison abroad in
Avon, and the authorities have offered $15
reward for the guilty one.
There are over 100 claims against the G.
s. A. for damages for fire originating on
| account of the excessive drouth.
Belleville's agitation for water supply
| will probably take the shape of boring ar
tesian wells.
A farm of $50 acres in Menard county,
near the Sangamon line, has lately been
sold for $4,000
There is very considerable amount of
typhoid fever in Springfield and the coun-
try round about.
Farmers in central Illinois are losing
large numbers of cattle, which suddenly
take sick and die few moments after.
The city of Bloomington has expended
SEQ, 900 in fitting up their fair grounds
for the reunion, which begins on the 18th
inst
The lakes and sloughs along the Illinois
river are alive with young wood-ducks.
and hunters are Staying them by thous-
ands.
The Springfield school board has more
than $4,000 on hand, and does not owe a
dollar. The expenditures last year were
$50, 1s1.
A new street car company for Chicago
has been incorporated at Springfield, with
copital of $500, 900. 1t is to make through
connection with the three divisions of the
city.
At the Riverton distillery the capacity
is to be reduced one-half and hereafter it
will only be run during the day. Arrang
ments are to be made for the finishing"
of the goods.
Some fatal disease is creating havoc
among hogs in the vicinit of Wilmington,
A farmer named Wooley has lost $4,000
worth of hogs buring the present week.
The long continued dry weather is thought
to be the cause.
The Illinois Marriage Association of
Maroa, Macon county, H. the object of
which is the encouragement and promotion
ton Friday in the office of the Secretary
Of state
The other day a venturesome chap mar
ried the widow Conschack, of La Sale, and
took her and her nineteen children to his
roof tree in Champaign county.
Mrs. Anna Cary, of Belleville, has been
fined So and costs for beating Mrs. Jane
Farris, whom she charged with trying to
gain the affections of her husband.
Report has it that Bishop Spalding is
quietly making preparations to erect
magnificent cathedral on his property on
Madison and Fulton streets, Peoria.
A new congregational church has been
organized at Streator by those who with
drew from the Independent church because
Of the fight against secret societies.
The daughter of David Black, living at
Green Valley, Tazewen county, was acct
dentally shot the other day, while stand
ing in the doorway, by DR.. Wildmann, who
aimed at q chicken. One of the large shot
glanced striking her in the breast, just
below the nipple. DIR. Wildmann probed
and obtained the ball.
The Nip and Tuck hook and ladder com
pany was met at the depot in Monmouth
on their return from the Quincy tourna-
ment by large crowd of citizens, number
ing about 1000 The city authorities in
carriages, band, fire department, and com
pany G, Fifth regiment, l. n. G., headed
by the victorious ladder company, marched
to the square, where J. Ross Hanna in a
speech congratulated the boys on making
the best time on record.