The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-11-23
STATE NEWS.


There are S51 inmates in the reform
school at Pontiac.
Real estate business is reported very
lively in Logan county.
The Logan county jail at present con-
tains but four prisoners
A new Congregational church is being
erected at Toulon, Stark county.
B. w. Gum, an old citizen of jackson
vile, died on Wednesday, of consumption.
The Lincoln journal wants the Young
ladies of that city to organize broom
brigade.
The Viola, small boat owned at Rock
Island, was burned at that city on Tues
day.
Senator David Davis is having consid-
cradle tile laid upon his farm lands north
of Normal
The Quincy Herald says that the gas
company would now like In compromise
with the city,
Cattle stealing has been carried on on
rather extensive scale on the river bottom
near Quincy.
The Montgomery agricultural society are
offering to sell $1,000 worth of stock at
SO per share.
Charles I'll. Bennett a well-known
printer, and foreman of the composing
rooms of the Chicago Times, died on
Thursday.
The store and residence of nj. G. Shee-
han, in Cairo, was destroyed by fire on
Tuesday night, the family barely escaping
with their lives.
j. nj. Kelcher. formerly agent of the
Rockford insurance company, now Ian
cuisines in the Macon county jail on several
charges of forgery.
The Hoopstown Chronicle reports that
a single farmer, living south of that town,
has lost fifty hogs from hog cholera within
the past month.
A twelve-year-old girl of Farmer City
has recovered damages to the amount of
81 200 for injuries sustained by falling
through defective sidewalk.
Another earthquake shock has been
experienced in the southern part of the
state, Fayette, Bond, Marion and several
other counties being shaken up quite
lively.
A negro at Quincy blew into the muz-
zle of his gun the other day, to see if it
was loaded. The gun went off and so did
the niger; but the gun is still in Quincy
and the niger isn't
James Ceiling, one of the pioneers of
Hancock county, died at La Harpe, last
Saturday. He gave the seminary which
bears his name to the Northern Illinois
Methodist conference.
A tramp proposed to walk 100 miles at
Massac without food or sleep, and after
the BOYS had loaded him with few nick
els and good deal of whisky he walked
off and was seen no more.
VIM. Dane, an aged farmer residing
near Macon, while leading heifer with
rope, became entanglcd in it. which fright
ened the animal and caused her to run,
dragging the old man to death.
A movement is on foot among the mer-
chants of Streater to build wagon bridge
across the Vermillion river near that city,
so that the farmers OF Reading and Long
Point may go there to purchase.
DR. NJ Glumphy, president of the Lin
coin university, has reimbursed the express
com pany for the burglary and larceny per-
petrated by his son at Lincoln on Sunday
night. and the young man has left the
country.
A dead newborn infant was found in
an clubhouse at Bloomington last Sunday.
Investigation showed it to be the offspring
of soldiers widow named Scott and that
it was still thus relieving the mother
of the charge of murder.
The Kewanee Independent says: 1.-THE
report of the surveyors of the Hennepin
canal seems to- create considerable bad IAN
guage in this portion of the state. Geneseo
S not satisfied because the quicksand com
pels it to 90 at least three miles north OF
hat CITY Rock Island and Moline feel
uncomfortable, as it comes out at CordOva,
some fifteen miles from anywhere, and
even the party paid by Henry county to
20 on and see about it seems to be on
he ragged edge. Well, it's not our fun
sral, anyway. Let the procession move
slowly on.