The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-06-30
ILLINOIS SOLDIERS ORPHANS
HOME.
The Management of the Institute

ihe Management OF the Institution. |
The following announcement by Rev. |
Mr.. Wines, secretary of the board of pub |
lie charities, should set at rest, for the
psesent az least, all the gossip as to the |
Soldiers Orphans Home:
STATE OF ILLINOIS,
BOARD OF PUBLIC CHARITIES. SEcY's OFFICE,
SPRINGFIELD, June 26, 1877. }
10 THE PUBLIC-The trustees of the
Illinois Soldiers Orphans Home, at Nor.
NAL, have presented to the Hon. Shelby
NJ. Cullom, governor, preliminary and
partial report touching the affairs of that
institution, in which they state, that after
a careful examination and investigation,
lasting for four days, from the 10Th to the
22d of June, they found the management
and present condition of the Home to be,
| so far as appears, entirely satisfactory, aud
] that no evidence TO the contrary was sub
mitted to them or offered for their cOnsid
Grafton.
The trustees have adjourned tbs inves-
tigaton until their next regular meeting,
on the second Tuesday in October, and re-
quest the governor to give public notice of
said meeting, and to invite and urge any
person or persons possessing Information
of any immortality, irregularity, fraud or
mismanagement on the part of any officer
or employe of the institution. to present
statement of the same, in writing, to their
secretary, Mr.. y. l., Gill, at Normal, ald
all such charges or allegations will be fully
and partially investigated by them at
| that meeting.
The trustees of the Home are Gen. j ohm
[. Riuaker, of Carlinville; Gen. John G.
Black, of Champaign, and Hon. ID. NJ.
Funk, of Bloomington.
Now. therefore. in accordance with the
l request of the trustees, and by direction of
i the governor, l make this announcement,
and call upon all persons who know of any
feature OF the management of the Home,
which deserves censure or demands ln-
vestigation to give to the trustees the
specific information which they desire, and
which is necessary in order to make
a thorough and satisfactory investigation
of any complaints which may have been
vaguely or Indefinitely made, in the public
press, or otherwise, so that the trustees
may take such action in reference thereto
as will protect the children in the Home,
who are the wards of the state, from the
consequences Of such mismanagement or
wrong doing, should any such exist.
BY order of the governor;
FRED, II. WINES,
Secretary of the B. 2, G,
This will be good news to the many
friends of Mrs. Ohr, the superintendent,
; in this vicinity, who have always thought
: that the charges Of Encouragement and
immortality were false.
Death of Fritz Coos, Of Davenport.
Fritz Coos, senior member of the late
e we'll known jewelry firm of Coos &
/. Krscher, and of the present firm of Coos
& Co., of Davenport, died at his residence
!, on Third street, between Harrison and
e Ripley streets, over, the river, about
/. o'clock this morning, from inflammation o.
= the brain, aged "a years.
Mr.. Coos was one Of the most enter
s prising business men in Davenport, and hi
e death will be mourned by large circle o
: friends both in Davenport and also in thi
city and Mnline, where he was wellknown
He was only sick about three days. Ii
q was a member of the Masonic fraternity
u the Odd Fellows, knights of Pythias, Tur
. ners, and the Davenport Shooting Society
u His funeral will take place from his lat
10 residence at 10 o'clock to morrow Sunday
70 morning and friends are invited.
70 His former partner, Kirscher, was los
IS at sea by the disaster Of the Steame
le Schiller Archie Corcoran, the remair
20 ing member of the frm, is son-in-law c
Mr.. Hilton of this city.
h THE PATHOLOGICAL TRANSACTIONS O
-, THE CHICAGO MED. SOCIETY: edited !
N I. N. DANFoRTH, NJ. d., Lecturer on P
I'd tsoloQy IN Rush Medical College; Patio
S og.st to the st, Lakes Hospital; consultin
10 Physician and Microrcopist to the ILlinO
~ Charitable eye and ear inf,msaay.
he The leading article, The anatomy
oh vllous cancer. is from the pen of the editt
himself, and like all his contributions
the medical profession is highly interestir
}. and scholarly. Experiments IN co 'or,
er skin grating. Encephaloid cancer of Ii
a Iiver: a case Of Leucocythaemia: Ne
=. ingeaI and pulmonary tuberculosis an q
ok adult and Scirrh1ts Of the common b,
u. duct, follow
rs They are all interesting topics, both
the medical and the general reader.
he Chic. Med. Press Assn 1873 Clark st.
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