The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-12
rEroHBoRHooD NOTES.

1 musical normal school.
Brass band music has got so cheap in
Quincy that the musicians blow for almost
nothing.
The Dixon, H.. hose company, will at
tend the tournament at Morrison on Sep
TENDER It'll
The Grand Lodge of the United Order of
Temp1ars, win be in session at Amboy, III.
on the nth inst
: The o'Brien wagon factory, Kewanee, is
offered for sale. the present owners intend
ing to locate in Tiffin, Ohio.
On account of a scarcity of labor in Peo-
ria. a number of contractors in the city are
behind with their work.
Edgington complains because the resi-
dents have but three mails per week, while
Andalusia, Hamlet and Buffalo Prairie have
mail daily.
| Judge Glenn opened court at Aledo
Mercer county. on Monday. The court is
cult Clerks Office.
sGalesburg is alarmed at the possibility
of small pox infection. Two cases exist,
and great care is being taken to prevent
f! the disease from spreading
Cable is to have grand celebration on
Sept II, to rejoice over the recovery Of
President Garfield A monster programme
| of fun and music viii be arranged.
| Harvest is about over in the lower end
of the county, and the yield will be below
expectations. Rye is very light. and oats
thrash out about 16 bushels to the acre.
| Five men were killed and three wounded
by the explosion of the boiler of steam
| threshiag machine on a farm near Center
vile, ST. Clair county, Ill.,, Tuesday
| Frank Brant, aged IL years, living three
miles from Kewanee, was killed by falling
from wagon on Saturday last. In the
fall his neck was broken. killing bin in
stantly
Amos Horton, while at work on the farm
of Fred Bollman, in South Dixon, was
| overcome with the heat on Friday last and
fell from load of hay, breaking his neck
1t costs Oregon, H., for her system OF
| water works $13, 600. This includes reser-
voir, two miles of mains, steam engine, two
hose carts and one thousand feet of hose.
Ignatius Woolner, the owner of the i'll
fated distillery at Peoria, had an insurance
of So, 400 on his life. That, with the prop
erty he left, will leave his widow in com
Portable circumstances
Peoria has public fountain which is
supplied with ice, and thirsty residents can
regale themselves at any hour of the day
or night. The Womans Christian Tenn
perance Union are the benefactors.
Decaturs aldermen are divided on the
sewer and license question so that two
anti-temperance members voted against
an application for saloon license, and
one temperance Alderman voted in favor
of it.
A few nights ago some one laid a heavy
plank across the r. / 81 p. track, about
twenty five yards east of the Galva depot.
1t was undoubtedly put there for the pur-
pose of throwing the train off the track.
But, luckily, the 1850 train cut through it
without any damage, other than fearful
noise.
Galesburg, at least the sporting element
of the community, is all agog over the
anticipated Graeco- Roman wrestling
match. that occurs Saturday between Pro-
fessors Chrystol of Quincy and Mons
Joseph of Galesburg The home sports
are putting up their money on Joseph
Henry Moore, an old resident of Knox
county, and marshal of Galesburg during
1S60-61, and once chief of detectives on
the c., B. s. Q. railroad, died on Monday,
of dropsy of the heart. aged go years. He
has relatives living in Rock Island, Henry
and Lee counties.
A party of young ladies are encamped
ON Andrus Island, near Dixon. They
have eleven tents two cooks and all the
paraphernalia needed to make camp life
pleasant. In honor of Mrs. Parsons, the
only married lady in the party, they have
named the camp Camp Parsons.
Con. Harrington, fireman at Barker's
distillery, Peoria, went to sleep under
freight car on the track and was rudely
awakened by the switching of the car
uuucT WHICH Ut was pcstcoIu4AS iSPoSiAS5*
He escaped with few bruises, but would
undoubtedly have been killed had not the
car that he was under been without brake
and the engineer Stacked up after this car
had passed over him. He was lying
under the centre of the car.
A very sharp sharper is now visiting
some parts of the country and swindling
the farmers by selling them package
guaranteed to kill potato bugs. The direc-
tions are not to open the package until
the contents are to be used, by which time
the seller has skipped. On opening the
package it is found to contain two blocks
of wood with directions to place bug on
one block and mash it with the other. He
took in few in Bureau County and came
IN Putnam county recently.
MOLINE WATER woEKs