The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-09
LOCAL LAC0NICs.

a marriage license yesterday.
+ w. p. Bissell took yesterdays morning
train for the west.
The Eclectic Club at Unitarian church
iparlors Tomorrow night.
Swords, whose arrest was chronicled in
Sundays edition. was discharged yester-
day on payment of costs.
Misses Maggie and Lizzie Laux left
yesterday for an extended trip through
Europe.
] Miss Francis Willard addressed meet
ing in the First Presbyterian CHURCH Sun
day afternoon.
Barlow. Wilson, Primrose s. Vests
Ministries. thirty three people, are at. the
Kinball.
James Stretch the gentlemanly day
clerk at the Kimball, Is nursing a trouble
some felon.
Capt. WrenshaH. former superintendent
of bridges and buildings on the c., RI I. 81
p, is in the city.
| Two lazy and inhuman brutes are MAX
ing dimes in Davenport exhibiting train
| ed bear on the streets
The railroad meeting will be held at the
court house to night Every one is in
vited to be in attendance aud hear the mat
ter explaided.
Subscribers in Davenport who fail to re
ceive their paper promptly will confer a
favor by notifying us at 122 West Second
street.
The kilograms in the ARGUS of Sunday
morning caused considerable excitement,
especially that portion which related to the
Irish assassinations Make note of it
that the ARGUS is the only paper delivered
in Davenport Sunday mornings giving the
Saturday night dispatches
DR.. Dauson, of Canon City, Colorado,
visited Mercy Hospital yesterday in GEM
| pany with Dr. w. T. Middleton. DR.. Dau-
son is visiting the penal and charitable in
stitutions of the country to obtain infor-
nation as to their working, by authority of
the state of Colorado.
Emanuel Franklin. a well-known colored
resident of Davenport, formerly proprietor
of livery stable on Commercial Alley,
and later on Fourth Street, and for long
time janitor of the Library Hall, died at
the Mt. Pleasant Hospital for the Insane
Saturday. He was respected by all who
knew him and was quite intelligent.
BOX and Cox" with Ell, C. Fulton, Har-
ry Smith and Miss Sophie Billion in the
cast, and Poor Pillitoddy," with H c.
Fulton, George Lauman, Miss Weston and
Miss Rees sustaining the characters, will
be given in Library hall Thursday night.
by Trinity Dramatic club.
Charles Pierce, clerk of the steamer Sill
yer Wave, is missing. He went ashore at
Starch Mills point, near Gilbertown, Fri
day evening. and has not been heard of
since. The supposition is that in crossing
the raft which the boat had in tow, he fell
between the logs and was drowned The
missing man was twenty-orre years of age
His parents live in Kansas City.
The Davenport National banks petition,
that the assessment against its sharehold-
ers should be stricken from the assessors
rolls, was rejected by the Board of Trustees
for the township of Davenport yesterday
The petition was referred to County Attor-
ney Bills for an opinion, and the board
took Mr.. Bills view of the matter, that
the Board would not be justified in grant |
ing the request.
Frank Lew, son of Michael Lew, resid- |
ing on Eleventh, between Iowa and Lee |
Claire, while watching a game of ball in
the vacant lot, corner of Twelfth and Iowa |
streets, yesterday afternoon, was struck |
grasp of player. The blow Frustrated
him, and rendered him senseless for |
time. Several teethIwere knocked out, and |
his face and lips were badly cut. He will |
be laid up for few weeks from the af-
fects of the wrap
The raft steamer Isaac Staples, while +
dropping raft through the bridge Sunday
morning. at four O'Clock, had narrow
escape from what might have been a seri-
Gus disaster. Holding on to her tow too
force, tearing off the guards and shaking
the craft with a vengeance. Fortunately
she recovered in time to back out, and
proceeded on her way
Sandy Smith and Nelson Fredericks
were before Justice Finger yesterday on a
charge of disturbing the peace. Thursday
night they were engaged in fight among
the colored.employees on c., r. 1. s. p.
dining car, in which one of the eombatants
received blow from club which sent
portion of his teeth flyino down his thraat |
They were gathered in by Officers Ray and
Tillebein. and assessed $500 and costs,
which they paid and were discharged
Mike Malone was up for disturbing the
peace, paid $500 and costs and departed.