The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-29
NErGHBoRHoop NOTES.


Burlington contractors are offered more
| work than they can take.
| Work has commenced on the new hote
at Sulphur Springs in Knox county.
| Mechanics were never harder to get il
Edna, Mo-, than at the present time.
A Marshalltown lady cut out and made
dress and put it on in two hours from
the start.
FL. Telpe and wife, living near Gales
burg, H., were killed in bed by lightning
A babe sleeping between the two was I'm
hurt.
No less than seventy-five horses of the
West Division railway of Chicago are in
capacitated for work by sore throat and
high fever
Josephine Beck, a twelve year old cir
at Belleville, fell into a forty foot well on
Tuesday, but escaped with only a broken
collar bone.
| Trotting and pacing entries for the
Kansas City exposition have closed. The
stables of running horses are the best ever
got together on the western circuit
Dependency, owing to his inability to
obtain employment, caused Ben Barnes, a
well-known young man of Bloomington, to
commit suicice by taking arsenic.
On Thursday 211 Norman horses arrived
at New York, consigned to III. W. Dun
ham, of Wayne H. This shipment was OF
considerable interest to horsemen.
On the 10Th of July an unknown Swede
was murdered and robbed near Alton.
The governor has offered reward of $500
for the apprehension of his unknown
murderer.
For the past three months all the banks
in Bloomington have been selling exchange
at par, at an actual loss to themselves,
which occurred through a misunderstood
ing.
Streator has stratum of rock resem-
bling sandstone, that really is very valu-
able 1t contains large quantities of bisul-
phide of iron, which might be used WITH
advantage as sulphuric acid.
Thomas Fl. Thompson, John P Mill
gan, Edward D. Wigdone and Joseph
Aulbert have been jailed at Bonneville,
Mo, for using false weights and measures.
They were running threshing machine
and altered their half bushel measure by
putting in a false bottom
John n. Redden, at one time Il respected
citizen Of Keokuk, but who of late years
became addicted to drink, received 81 900
in pension money short time ago After
paying few debts, he proceeded to DELHI
erately drink himself to death. He was
buried in a paupers grave, leaving his wife
and children starving in a single room of a
tenement house.
The people of Sullivan, Ills, have a
practical way of showing their christianity.
A few days ago Mrs. Allison. poor
widow with family of five children, had
the misfortune to lose one of her horses
while in town, when one of the big-hearted
citizens of that place started out with q
paper and soon raised enough
to buy the lady another horse.
The Chicago, Rock Island 81 Pacific
passenger depot at Trenton, burned Thurs
day morning. Three cars of lumber were
also burned. The fire is supposed to have
originated in the lamp room. iSone money
and all the books of the agent were des-
troyed. The surrounding buildings were
saved with difficulty. Considerable
freight in the depot was destroyed.
Watermelons sell three for five cents, and
are down to $15 car at Charleston. The
season at Bertrand is D early over; 175 cars
were shipped, and the shippers realized at
east $50 per Car.