The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-30

j. L. BrodeEick, of EIkhart, Ind. is n
the city on business.
Usual services at the Baptist church to
morrow, the pastor occupying the pulni,
The hack load that went out to JsLo
Warren's from here last evening. to a,
tend the dance, report having had good
time.
Lafrance & Walters, is the name If ,ho
new firm that succeeds Robert Ellis in tho
Second ward meat market
Dimock, Gould & Co are now mov;no,
into their new office. ON Main street
1t is Geo. Wagner who closed the Sbroo
der dry goods store on foreclosed NOR,
gage
The hose race between the Minuebab.s
and NJ. p. hose companies set for half mas,
five O'Clock today has been postponed on
account of the muddy condition of OH,
streets.
Joe Harricks. local reporter of the No.
line Dispatch, sewers his connection with
that paper to-day. John Morton, of Dav.
export will probably succeed him.
The circus billed for this city will pitch
its tent on the water power company.
ground, near the old quilt factory.
DIR. Cook proposes to start prohibition
newspaper in this city, entitled the Nso
Age. The first copy will be published
next week
Station agent A. G. Grout, returned this
morning from his trip to Vermont after
an absence of over month, which he saws
was spent in having a jolly good time in
the home of his BIRTH
VIM. Shrceder's dry goods store was
4'closed for repairs, yesterday. or some.
thing else. Il is rumored that he was
closed up by creditors. They had card
out yesterday saying that they would be
opened to-day but this forenoon they were
sti'l closed.
There was a fair attendance at the
.'Social Hop" oftbe Grocery clerks social
club, In SINNERS hall last evening, and an
who went report having a very enjoyable
tine
Poormaster Stevens desires to have
adopted by some good family here in Mo
line the illegitimate child of the late Miss
Josephine Halgreen, who died of puerperal
fever in this city some time ago. Better
find place for it in some orphans home
Chas. Bergstrom, employed by the wag.
on company, has adopted one of tine five
orphan children which came all the way
from Perry, Missouri, in search of their
Uncle, who was finally found his name
being John Vermire. He found homes for
all of the children except the youngest,
boy of two years, with family here in
Moline. This one he thought he would
keep himself, but changed his mind after
seeing that this child could not get along
with his little girl. hence Mr. Bergstrom
adopted it, and in his family the child will
have a good home.
Dr. Dunn, Secretary of the Board of
Health, makes the following mortuary re-
port for the month of September:
Child of J. Johnson, consumption,
years, Sept. Sth.
Hans VIM. StotteraR, marasmus, ?
AAOheNc, ~ ~. AVSAs
Z John Runners, commissions, 6 days, Sept.
18th
Anna vonde Gest, Group years, Sept
22d.
Harriet B. Richards, ovarian tumor, "a
years, Sept. Goth.
There was only one death in the city
during the past week.
The month of September was an un-
usually quiet month in police circles, as
will be seen by the accompanying report
of City Marshal Henderson:
Arrests. city cases-drunk, 3; drunk and
1; disorderly conduct, ?, refus-
ing to abate nuisance. 1; assault and bat
terry, 3-total, 10.
State cases assault and battery, I; sell
ing intoxicating liquors, total, Q; grand
total arrests. 10.
Fines collected for city, $67.94; sidewalk
bills collected for city, $45; gutter bills
for city, 5000; dog tax collected
for city, $23; total collected for city,
1886. 90; fines collected for state, 1915;
grand total collected, $195.6S.
Tramps furnished lodgings, 10; cows
25.