The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-14
RepNew York oysters at Pierce Bros.

sspNew York oysters at Pierce Bros.
n9J, S. Buck is quite sick again and
was compelIed to close his store last eve
ming and go home
s@Jacob Kissell addressed the union
meeting last evening. In the inquiry
room more interest was manifested than |
at any time since the meetings began.
No more union meetings will be held this
week but announcements OF next week
programme will be made from the pulpits
Sunday. Young peoples meetings will be
held in the lecture rooms OF each OF the
churches tomorrow evening.
11eHuey has SO teams employed to-
day hauling ice to Wagner's ice house and
to Davenport. He also ordered the lum-
Der this morning for large ice house to
be erected on the bank Of the slough which
he purposes to ell and keep for next sum-
mer's trade. This will make five large
ice houses on Mud Island Hyde & Drake
have stopped loading for St. Lonis, the
ice being too spongy and easily broken.
@J oseph Fernbach and j. G. Mangold
made complaint this morning before Mag
istrate Swander against a man who works
for Kink, the milk man on Schlotfeldt's
| farm in South Moline, that he had made
an unprovoked assault upon two boys ID
and Is years of age, sons of the com
plainants. They state that the boys were
on their way to school and when passing
Kinks the hired man hailed them and
ordered them to get along away from in
front of the place. They made him some
irrelevant reply, whereupon he struck
Fernbach's boy with heavy club. Young
> in ohaL Of MI
mate and the fellow dealt him two or three
blows across the shoulder and face, making
some painful wounds. Magistrate Swander
, issued a warrant for the mans arrest,
whose only name complainants could fur
nish was Chris.
The Turkish Bath Rooms Busted
J About II o'clock last night officer Holt
met the three females on the street who
have been for the past few weeks the en-
tire stock in trade of DIR. Esterbrook, oil
) the Turkish bath house. They related to
/ him how Esterbrook had been drunk thai
evening, and abused them by striking one
, of them, and made use of language liable
( to create breach of the peace, and de
t sired that he might be arrested. Indeed
they were quite mad and disposed to give
. Esterbrook away to any extent the Office
might desire, provided they could do 81
O with safety to themselves. He promised
a them immunity from punishment if the,
q would make clean breast of the matter
appear before the court in the mornin,
/ and furnish sufficient evidence upon which
= to convict Esterbrook of keeping hous
a Of i'll fame. They agreed to the PROPOSE
= ton and after telling the officer how til
4 house was conducted, and giving him tn
Il names of about a dozen young men of Mo
line, who we're regular customers Of tn
institution, lthey were taken to the Pho
r nix House and furnished lodgings for tn
= night This morning Esterbrook was al
Is rested and taken before Magistrate Swan
, der on a charge of disturbance of th
peace, in which one of the girls giving th
name of Nellie Holmes, appeared and tes
ti6e6 that Esterbrook had struck her i
) the face. A fine of $40 aud costs was a!
S sessed for this offence, and he was imm,
,r diately arrested upon a charge Of keepin
- house of i'll fame The girls testimon
in this case was straight forward and I'm.
! quivocal, proving beyond a question thi
n Esterbrook is devoid of all principles
Is manhood. honor or decency. II was give
IN evidence that at one time, one of Il
girls, Celia Burns, had left his place ar
been received into a respectable famil
re with the hope that she might be reclaime
ct and that Esterbrook intercepted her
the street at different times, and at la
ID persuaded her to return to his vile d,
of again. His only defense was his own te
timony, which was, that he was innocet
10 The court said in sentencing him; 1T
us section of the law under which the col
a plant was made against you says, the e
at shall not be more than $50, nor less TIL
~ SO. Your fine iss $50 and costs, and
~ only regret that | cannot make
OF 800" He had no money and was INN
at diately escorted to the calaboose, whe
at he will remain as long as the law aIlo
the court to keep him.