The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-31
MOLINE DEPARTMENT.


the city Yesterday.
Geo. Heck's dog bit Peter Schlenter n,
the leg yesterday. The marshal should 60.
that the dog gently fades away.
A large derrick for Velie & Mason w.
erected at the boat landing this mornina
for the purpose of unloading s,ono
brought from the LeClaire quarrles
The newsgathering is up hill cuisines,
to-day, everybody being out of town M
police cases, and every thing is as dull q.
greenback convention.
The Rafter City, of Moline, came in va.
terday bringing raft for Dmock. GoulJ
& Co. They report low water in manv
places.
Who was it that said that George Walk,
and wife caught over numbered fish 3,
Lake Minnetonka last Saturday! VIII,
was it?
The city clerk says that any petition,
or bills that are not presented to him IN
the Saturday previous to the regular
monthly meeting will not be read nor
audited.
The Stars of Rock Island and the Boys
in Blue of Moline played match game Of
base ball this afternoon at ESQ O'Clock (o,
so side and gate money.
An excursion of the Mendoza part of
the Grandy Army of the Republic from
Mendoza, passed through the town mi,
morning, the Island being the chief at
traction bringing them this way
The party who went fishing YESTERDAY
say it is an unqualified no such thing that
any of the party was badly bitten bya
fish. for they assert boldly that nary bite
did they get
Many of our play going citizens visited
Rock Island TO hear John Dillon in his new
play of the States Attorney The play
being new to the company it rather drag.
ged, but an enjoyable evening was had for
all of that
Another accident at Rock River bridge
by which Ferdinand Schuelke, of Geneseo
got his left leg broken in two places Dr.
VESSEL attended him. Another man wa,
injured at the same time. This make,
three men who have been injured since the
commencement of the rebuilding Of the
bridge.
The weather being cool and cloudy many
of our citizens went over to the Daven-
port fair. The usual luck attends the fair.
Farmers hurry up their haying and harvest
their crops when Scott county issues their
posters for fair. Vennor and MsnslI
hold that that particular fair will produce
rain when all other resources fail.
The jury on the Mead & johnson case
say that Oliver Ray. the foreman, made
eloquent speech before the jury. bringing
tears to the eyes of many of them, especi
ally Constable Mays. Ray would make
splendid stumper for the greenback party,
Our factors were busy at work now
getting out some fine goods for exhibition
at the different fairs. Our pumps our
plows, our mill machinery, our malleabs
iron works and our organs haySa world
wilde reputation and one can hardly tra7el
in this western country without meeting
some of the travelling men from Moline.
Some laundering fool, thinking himself
smart, has been breaking off the corners Of
the bricks on the west side of the Firsi
National Bank and other ways trying to
deface the building. Whoever it was
ought to be caught and sent to join the
striped gang at Joliet.
The case of Mead VS.. johnson drew its
way through the forenoon and part of the
afternoon much to the disgust of the jury
and witnesses. Hill for the prosecution and
Moore for the defence. The jury consist
ed of Warren Cole, ]. Boutwell, 9. T. Guy
VIM. Lawrence, j. Temple and Oliver Ray
who brought in verdict of not gailty.
Charlie Wheeler, brother-in law of Henry
HARDWOOD, returned from up north last
evening on the steamer J. S. Keator, he
says he had good time in Minnesota and
Wisconsin visiting George Hubble, oil
Nealsville, Wisconsin. Many will remem-
Der Geo. Hubble, that witty, jovial, George'
and will be pleased to learn of his snccess
away up among the pitch pine savages
Wheeler says. the electric light on the
steamer J. S. Keator, is not a success.
The ARGUS job office has just laid in
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