The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-21

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]. A slight blaze in the roof of Mr.. ]. W
Brackets house, No. 1108 First avenue
yesterday, was extinguished with few
pals of water without sounding al
4 alarm.
/ Mr.. Augustus G. Millar, city bill poster
is limping about with rheumatism. HI
saws he will never surrender and we hard
ly believe that he will There's nothing
like sand"
The crisis is not yet at hand in the cas-
of Peter Kale. the young man so shock
i ingly mangled while out cunning few
days ago, and il is as yet impossible tt
tell positively whether he will live or die
The knights Templar, headed by e. G
Montgomery, are hard at work making
! preparations for their elaborate Easter
services.
The killing of ownerless ours, large and
small, by our police officers has begun
and it is hoped will be continued until
the tribe shall be exterminated. The
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dogs, many of which seem to wonder. as
do our citizens generally, what they are
here for.
Unless a greater degree of interest is
mani tested in the Rock Island Business
Mems Association at its regular monthly
meetings hereafter, the institution is likely
to go to the wall
The antiquated structure between Hoff-
masters and David Don's on Second ave
nue., is being treated to a new covering
of shingles and is to be otherwise made to
present more creditable appearance than
for some time heretofore.
The work of preparing the, store next
to the Coss boot and shoe store for the
occupancy of Mr. ] T. Dixon, the m4r
morning by inserting large stay joists in
the front of the building in order to
demolish the lower front. When the
changes shall be fully completed Mr..
Dixon will have one of the neatest Little
stores on the avenue.
Passenger travel on the different lines
of railroad .centering here opens very
auspiciously for 1888 Already it is
known at many of the railroad general
Offices that the watering place travel foI
next summer will reach astonishingly
large proportions. manyof the largest hotels
having thus early resolved large number
of applications for rooms by southern peo-
pie who arc unusually apprehensive of a
cholera visitation.
AS the spring election draws near. it
can be more plainly seen how the land
lies, and the prospects now appC ar 10 be
very tiattering for the democrats-th is
if they gut up good men to fill the various
positions, which they undoubtedly will.
Their opponents are already becoming
nervous and fidgety. and are convinced
that they viii not have things all their
own way.
Locomotive No. 1873 of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific railroad. which
met with such strange accident on the
night of Feb. 9th some sixty miles west
of Davenport-the axles breaking, allow
ing the drive wheels to leave the track
has been fully repaired at the Davenport
shops and was brought out yesterday af-
ternoon.
A few of the new nickels have been re-
ceived here but being boarded as pocket
raia in ejaculation md
probably never will be. As the new die
will stamp the word cents within the Y
the coins first issued are likely to find
their way into numismatical collections
and individual pockets. there to remain.
Mrs. Green, fashionable dressmaker,
cutting and fitting a specially. All work
guaranteed. Par.ors, 2121 Third avenue,
between 21st and 22d streets. 21d2w
Mr.. Charlie Challberg, who has been
with Mr. Fred Appelquist about two
ginning on Friday or Saturday next.
Charlie has made host of friends in this
city, who will extend their best wishes for
the future, wherever he may be called.
w niIC WlHQ was DiON
this morning some graeeless fellow with
no care for consequences before him. d e.
liberately set fire to the leaves in one of
the ravines in Rodman's addition. What
the result would have been had the fire
not been discovered at an early hour and
extinguished, it would be hard to say.
Owing to the extremely combustible
nature of out of door wood work of every
description, because of the protracted
drought. spark may be sufficient to start
a fire of no small proportions. 1t will be
well, therefore, for every householder to
maintain sharp lookout about his prem
ises. One thing particularly should be
guarded against-the emptying.o of ashes in
close proximity to fences, ETC.. It's far
better to lock the barn door before the
horse has taken his departure.
Owing to the scarcity of seed corn this
wear, the Rock Island Sc Peoria railroad
has arranged to transport free of charge,
small losta of seed corn from any juno
ton on the G. r. /. & p r. r. original
ing in Kansas, Nebraska or Missouri. to
all points along its line. Farmers can
club together and order from the above
states, or see their grain dealers and order