The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-18
MOLINE.
Meeting of the Moline Musical Socisty
this evening at the Congregational church.

Meeting of the Moline Musical Soeisty
this evening at the Congregational church.
Rock Islanders frequently come to Mo-
line expecting to find flats, but invariably
get pretty we'll fiattened, as was the case
last evening with couple of brilliant
aspirants for pool honors. Our boys
take defeat good naturally. but don't pro-
pose to allow their neighbors to "purioln
the balls-as was the case last evening.
HUFF is immense as detective.
Wednesday afternoon the August
Grant, property was sold at auction by
order of the assignee, Eugene Lewis, Esq.
The Main street property sold for $4.S75
and was purchased by George AdelmaD.
of Rock Island; the Pease property was
bought for $3.50 by Samuel Bowles
Jacob Raisley was the autioneer. The
property sold for less than Grantz paid
for it four years ago.
The Moline Council adj Special
Meeting.
An adjourned special meeting of the
council was held on Wednesday evening
Nov. 18th; present, the Mayor, and AID
ermen Okerberg. White, Whipple, Wit
tick, Wheelock, Gault, Grautz and Tuff1ey.
On motion of Aid. White. sidewalk bills
were allowed amounting in the aggregate
to $l,O16.72.
On motion, the clerk was instructed to
issue duplicate der to q. H. Deere for
$l00.S0 issued Dec. 5th 1874, the original
order beinp lost.
The petition of Albert johnson, for sa-
loon license for six months. for 800, was
read, and on motion of Aid. White was laid
on the table.
The council then adjourned.
S. /. WALKER, City Clerk
A Drunken Wife Beaten Punished,
Hans Larson was arrested Wednesday
evening by Officer Olsen for being crazy
drunk and abusing his family; he also at
tempted to poison himself by eating of
| the sulphurous end of a lot of matches Ii
appeared from the evidence that Larson
has negected his family for long while
that he has been in the habit OF spending
all his wages for drink, and when his wife
demonstrated with him he abused her aud
the children shamefully. Police Magis
trate Swander, after weighing the cyi
dence, gave the prisoner scathing lee
ture, no doubt wasted on the heartlesS
wretch however, and remanded him to thu
calaboose for ten days, He got off lucky
and will hardly fare as we'll if he APP
pears before Magistrate Swander again
When man so forgets his manhood, ant
descends to the level of brute, he is un
worthy Of clemency, and need not exDec
ard will he receive sympathy. There ar
a number Gf cases in this town that nect
unearthing by the proper authorities, an,
are being watcheu by our officers LIE
the law in its most stringent bearing b
administered to this class of culprits. 4
few examples may prove warning and
benefit to that class who Temploy thei
leisure time in seeing how far down in tn
3regs they can get, \ man who vii
abuse his wife and family as Larson ha
been in the habit of doing is devoid tn
slightest vestige of manhood and unfit t
. miugle with decent people.
The Moline School District Ir,broglio
The misunderstanding between the trus
: tees of School Districts Nos. | and is a
t far from an amicable settlement as ever
the trustees of District No. still refusin
, to act.
The ground taken by the petitioner!
: they claim, is in accordance with Law
] having the names of over two thirds Of til
legal voters of District No. praying to b
annexed TO No ..
When the petition was presented to ii
, trustees of District No. they unanimous
4 accepted it, but the trustees of No. | pos
q tlvey refused to act. Messrs. John Stew
art and John 5. Smith claiming that th
law did not give them authority to &C
E This, however, the petitioners claim,
e only a ruSe for delaying the anneXion pra
: ed for;that the only reason that Stewa
remains obstinate is because he and Smi1
v are working in the interests of few o
residents of the district who have very fe
children to educate; while the new res
dents, who are the petitioners, outnumbt
o them four to one and have large numbt
n of children to educate; that at present Il
residents of the east end have to walk ov
T. a mile to the present school house OF Di
), trict No |; that in bad weather the 70;
d is almost impossible, and that the truste
:, If No. l are acting obstinately in the ma
ter and are working to secure person
!, ends rather than the public good.
y, Mr. Stewart, the trustee, and John
lie Smith, director of No. l. in defense
+ their course take the following groun
4 Sec. 33, defining the duties Of trustee
= gives them power to change district lin
u lat any regular meeting, upon the folio
at ing conditions and not OtherlciSe 7
f, above are the words of the law. One
H. the conditions is found in subdivision 3,
;: Sec. SO, and forbids any such change VIII
Il the district has a bonded debt, or VIII
SIS the new district line will be brought ne;
er than one mile to any school house.
The district has bonded debt, and t
new district line would pass on IA line
nv the school house lot, when the law says
IS shall not be within a mile. These les
" objections, Mr.. Stewart says, are an effe
W ual bar.
y, Mr.. Stewart also claims that the distr
D. had already hired teachers for the wintt
r. aud that the change asked for would lea
-' No. without school house and yet bou
ar to pay the teachers hired and having
es place to keep school. He also claims til
le the part of No left would require t
no building of school house over near t
y. y, Heck farm, and that many of the schol;
III now accommodated at No. school hou
lis would be obliged to walk past the prese
school house and over long road to ne
the Heck place, as no road could be bU
east across the almost impossible canyC
between them and the road leading p;
20 the Heck place, without great expense.
lis Mr.. Chas. I. Hemenway and Prof.
1t. H. Grover, two of the petitioners fol-
el division, to satisfy themselves that thu
rs, was no legal bar to the action they askt