The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-05


B9Mrs. Annie Keller has lodged com
plant with Magistrate Swander against
Mrs. Nye, charging her with assault and |
battery. The facts, iD the case are sub
stantially as follows: Annals husband Fred |
Keller. has been living with Mrs. Nye at
the yellow brick for the past 8 i
months, having entirely renounced
Anna and repeatedly asked her to |
allow him to get divorce. On Sunday
last as Anna was onsher way to church she |
met Fred and tried to persuade him to |
abandon his disreputable associations and |
again come and live with her and be man. |
During the conversation Mrs Nye came |
upon the scene and took offence at the |
reference Anna made to disreputable as
sociations and, as Anna says, struck her in |
the face. The case will have hearing |
this evening or tomorrow, when some in |
teresting developments will probably be |
made.
B9 Having sold large amount of old
stock, enabling me to buy large stock of |
fancy goods and notions at greatly reduced |
prices, am giving my customers advanta- |
ges not to be found elsewhere in the three
cities a. P. FISK.
R9H John Denton filled up with bad
whiskey yesterday and started out for a |
time. He first went to his boarding house, |
over Jacoby' saloon and announced his in |
tention of removing to some other hash |
house. The landlady Mrs. Bourne, objec. |
ted to the proceeding and sent for an off
Ger, She felt that she could not afford to
| lose as good boarder as John, who, it
seems, had that popularity SO much ad-
mired by boarding house keepers, of never
missing meal or paying cent" She
demurred to the removal of Johns bag
gage, claiming that he owed her $50 for
board. Another inmate OF the house also
brought powerful argument in shape of
tears against his severing his connection
with them. John finally tired ofthis sport
and remembering that he had an old score
to settle with Nick Zeiger, be braceG up
his courage with another glass of ''tangle-
leg" and proceeded to Mr.. Zeigler's shop
and opened an argument with him. Zeigier
asked him if he had called for the purpose
o. having quarrel, and John assured him
that he had surmized correctly; that he
called for that especial purpose. Zeigler
then requested him to leave the shop, to
which John replied that he would do SO
when he got ready and not before. a
second Invitation was given with pretty
much the same result and the next seen of
Denton he was Oh the ground in front of
the shop and Zeigler was assisting him to
lie still. The next scene Was located in the
citys home for the friendless. where Den
! ton had been kindly admitted by the Mar
! shall. The next scene was in Magistrate
Swanders court this morning, where Den
: ton was charged $40 for a licence to per
form in the city. No money and went tC
the calaboose,
e Regular Meeting of the City Council :
t Official Proceedings.
! Council met Monday evening, Feb. 4th
the mayor and all the aldermen being
? present.
l. The street and alley committee reported
:, as follows on matters referred to them al
- the last meeting: On petition for side
6 walk on Ann street, adversely; petition O
- Wittick, Alday and others, advise that i
- be granted aud that the street superin
!, teudent be ordered to notify the prope
- authorities of the O., 4. l. d L. r. Z. ant
! c., B. & Q. r. R. to remove their culver
. east far enough to meet the water comln
down on the west side of the street, mex
west of Oakland street, running north an
south, to meet said water course as no1
D. on petition of w. FL. Fairclough to ope
es alley in rear of his premises. 1t is th
8 opinion of the committee that said alley i
al not clearly and definitely enough plated
n dedicated and of record to warrant the cit
t. in forcibly opening the same at this tim
1f and would therefore refer the matter bac
S. to the council for future action, ther
being several legal points in the matte
/ oI 81, Al
10 out further legal advice, recommend an
ID action. On motion the reports were ac
II cepted.
ID The monthly reports of the police magis
D. trate, city marshal and bridge tender wer
le Tread and ordered filed.
rs A petition from a large number of cit
is zens of the First ward, asking that Dol
u ton of Second street and Oakland stree
be macadamized, was, on motinn of Alder
man Ainsworth, received and filed fc
future action.
~ A petition from j. B. Peterson an
,t Henry Anderson asking permission {
erect frame ice house on the south sid
of block l6 was, on motion of Alderma
[E Barnard, laid on the table.
N A petition signed by John Hausler an
e others asking that. in case OF vacancy O
s. the police force, Z. L. Sherman DE az
e pointed, was, on motion of Aiderma
II Grantz, laid on the table.
al A communication from w. W. Ratt
7. burn was read regarding taxes said to
v due on lot s, block in John Deere's add
er ton to Moline; said lot belonging to th
/ city. On motion it was referred to th
er city attorney, e
of City Attorney Lewis presented con
of munication from Judge Murphy of Daver
t. port 10 reference to injuries received by
De colored lady by falling into one of the cit
as water main trenches. On motion th
Ill matter was referred to the city attorne!
us Bills approved by the finance committe
1t were allowed. classified as follows:
er Street and alley .$l29.2 2
es Fire 247.3
to Police 300.9
% General 45.O
lie Sidewalk. k................... &c