The Rock Island Argus., 1881-08-06

BkEHlTkES
Have we a Board Of Health?

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Moline is sending a goodly number OF
boarders to the county jail.
The Land League will hold meeting at
Norris Hall. tomorrow at Q p. m.
Fires in. Davenport are getting to be a
thing of daily occurrence.
Next Thursday, the camp meeting opens
at Milan, continuing one week.
Moline Lodge, q. A. o. T., had picnic
to day at McEnery's Grove, near Osborn.
There is talk of having a grand shooting
tournament here, sometime in September.
The Rock Island gun club appear to
have got scooped at Chicago by their old
competitors, Geneseo
| The loss on the Frysinger buildings, at
Milan, will, we understand, be adjusted
shortly.
Moline has number of cases of malar-
ial typhus fever. The season has been an
unusually unhealthy one for the town.
The present season win be one of the
heaviest in many years at the saw mills,
and still the demand is in many places in
excess of the supply.
| Dancing by moonlight to night.
Drury is agitated over an alleged scandal
involving one of the prominent men of
up, and the opinion is that he viii succeed.
| The police are after the bathers who fail
to comply with the city ordinance, requir-
ing them not to battle in public places un-
| til after sundown.
Mark Ashdown was here to-day from
Port Byron and reports crops fair, except
corn which is badly parched on account of
the severe drouth.
| At the sportsmen's tournament at Chi
cago, Mr.. A. Bruner, made the best score
for the Rock Island gun club, killing IA
birds out of apostolic To-
Grapes at Gilbertown, across the river
from Moline, are not as abundant this
year as last and some of the best varieties
are nearly a failure.
. The executive committee of the Rock
Island county agricultural society will
meet on Saturday next at Hillsdale to
make final arrangements for the fair to be
held Sept g, z, and s.
Last evening Mr.. Schroeder, while try
ing to cross the slough at Fifth avenue and
Thirteenth street, got stuck in the mud,
one of the horses getting in up above the
knees. 1t required about two hours work
and half a dozen men to get the team to
terra frma.
The police of Davenport are trying to-
| nf
who congregate on the corners at evening
to the inconvenience of passers-by and
make themselves especially disagreeable to
ladies'
Everybody is going this eve, not some
other eve"
Two hard-looking customers were PROV
ling about the city to-day, but Marshal
Miller tracked them SO closely that they
had to skip. They met another hard case
near the bridge and all three then went
across.
Thornton Snyder, of Orion, has rented
his farm and purchased the property of
Robert Taylor, on the Milan road, and
and viii remove there shortly to live.
Thomas Wynn aud John King had a
row at the brick yards, Moline, and the
former was arrested by Officer Henderson,
on the charge of assaulting King. At a |
hearing before Magistrate Grover he was
fined SIS, so, and refusing to pay went to
Jail for twenty days. King was fined S5
and costs for being concerned in the row
and paid his fine.
Geo. Appleton was prostrated by the
heat in Moline, yesterday, near the gas
works. DIR. Morey applied the necessary
restoratives, and he was sent to this city,
where he lives.
Wesley Martin, the eolored razor slash
er, could not furnish bail for $500, and
was remanded to jail to await the action
of the grand jury
Robert Coyne planted a patch of corn
in the lot formerly used as lumber yard
by Henry Burgrover, and it was doing well
until about ten days ago. when the heated
term began. Now it is completely ruined;
| the hot weather parched it out.
1t was stated this afternoon that race
would occur at or near the fair grounds
between horse owned by Mr.. Welch, and
one by MIR. Crockett. If they speeded, the
time was not given nor the amount of
stakes, if any they trotted for.
The Chicago Journal copies from THE
ARGUS portion of the mention made
some time since of Buford's new building
and then adds, This is one of the most
enterprising concerns in the state, and now
has capacity for 500 plows per day"
Two boys while in bathing near Dimock's
mills, Moline, on Thursday night came
near drowning. They were pushing log
when one lost his hold, hit his head against
the log and went down. The other boy
was nearly drowned trying to rescue him,
and both were exhausted when rescued,
III. I'll. DeSanto's place in Andalusia,
which was raided about week ago by bur-
glars, was again visited on Thursday night,
and a number of articles of wearing ap-
parel and some jewelry stolen. The thieves
are supposed to have come from Muscatine
in skiff. and made their escape in the |
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