The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-01
STATE NEWS.

A valuable coal mine has been opened
at Fairfield.
The Chenoa city council has decided on
a 5000 license fee.
Conrad Moar, a pioneer of Dallas City,
died last week, aged Sc
Twelve well defined cases of small -pox
are reported from Streator,
Prospects for an average peach crop in
Southern Illinois are excellent
The number of emigrants leaving Logan
county for Dakota to date exceeds 100
A Raritan farmer killed a gray wolf
measuring three feet in length and weigh
ing forty pounds.
Eighty tons of coal are taken from the
NATION mine each day The capacity is
to be increased
Coal digging has been reduced to 2
cents at Gillespie The miners at Ed
wardsville have struck for cents
A Morgan county farmer recently cap
tured eight Young wolves. The animals
had sought safety under haystack.
They Melted him So per head
Some Monmouth brutes gave little
3 year old girl sufficient whisky to make
her drunk, and the parents found it diff
cult to restore her TO consciousness.
Night providers at White Hall have
been defacing the monuments in the town
cemetery, tearing down the ratings about
the graves and injnribg the shrubbery
Chas. Holnback, of JerseyvilIe. dis
played recently four ycar-old Durham
beef, $50 pounds, reared upon the Ha
Zeldell stock farm belonging to Col w
Fulkerson.
A case of smallpox at Trenton cost the
county over $500, but that is cheap, and
the managers at Trenton deserve much
credit for the manner in which they
guarded the case,
Two strangers assaulted p. p Bower,
proprietor of the Kansas house, at Kan
sas, knocking him down, breaking two of
his ribs and otherwise producing inju
ries that may prove fatal. The criminals
were sent to Jail at Paris
Joe Skunk, a town constable at Havana,
night beat in shameful man
ner his paralyCc wife. He pulled her by
the hair from her bed and pounded her
face till it was black. He was taken be
fore police magistrate and fined.
A gambling den over the w0odbine
saloon in Clinton was ralded by the
police Thursday night and six inmates
captured. They were all fined and the
proprietor ordered to close the den. A
effort is being made to close
the gambling hellS in that place by the !
police,
DR.. II. F. Martin died at his residence /
in Greenfield at 8 O'Clock p. m. Thursday |
At the time of his death he was president /
elect Gf the Medical and Surgical society
Of Western Illinois, having served Il term
as vice president, attaining this cmincncei
1t the age of-30 years.
The Genital Democrat is authority for
he story that child was born there
little over pound 1t was.
lbout eight inches in length, and its
limbs were very near the thickness of a |
ead pencil. All the parts of the body /
were perfect, except that the head was
larger in proportion than other parts of |
the body. Ii died through. insufficient
care.
While the Nalingham family of Mat
loon, and few friends were haying II
lance Friday morning. the residence was
invaded by II gang OF drunken railroad I
men. A terrible fight cnsucd in which
pistols, knives and clubs were Indiscrim-
lately used Jack Heron, one of the in
5aders. received terrible blow on the
,ead with club and is seriously injured.
others received serious but not fatal
Wounds.