The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-26
BREVITIES.


icker's. III
The hack sleighs continue to do good
twenty-five cent business between here
and Davenport.
Bottom prices at Carse g. Reticker's.
II
Thomas Hickey, the alleged ineorrigible
in the line of vagabondage, having just
finished bis sentence of twenty days in the
county Jail, is out again-for a while.
Many freight shipments to Rock Island
parties from both the east and the west,
are nearly week overdue.
People shoveling snow off of roofs
should exercise some degree of caution
lest they cover up unwary pedestrians.
This is wood day on Market Square and
quite a number of loads were sold at good
prices
A telegram has been received saying
that Mr. Frank M. and Mrs. Wheaton will
arrive in the city on the $50 train this
evening
On the Markesan branch of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul road there is a
grade of 145 feet between the former point
and Brandon
Many of our citizens whose cisterns
have about given out, have been compelled
to have ice hauled to their respective resi-
dences for laundry purposes, or else go
with untIdy linen.
Ex-Alderman J. I'll. Kerr, who started
fer Baltimore last night via the c. R. /. d
P, took his youngest daughter along for
company.
Several hats have been stolen of late
from the hallway of the High school, in
addition to the overcoat reported several
days ago.
Mr.. Louis ODlweiler has kept pace with
the march of Improvement" by granting,
harrisburg and otherwise improving the
interior of his pleasant place of business in
Third avenue.
There being some Indication, at last,
of a January thaw, the ice men are hard
at work from the earliest daw TO candle
lighting times," in order to finish all of
their ice house filling contracts.
Monthly meeting this evening of the
First Methodist church Literary Society at
the home of Miss Annie Anderson, No. 619
Eighteenth street. 1t will be an evening
with Victor Hugo.
Mr.. Louis W. Halsted of the Retailers
Mercantile Agency, is in the city estab-
fishing branch of their system. The
merchants are giving it universal support,
it being to them the BIadstreet of the day.
Owing to the dragging of the suit of
Wallace VS. the City of Moline in Circuit
Court, the jurors in the Whitney-Rock
Island case have been excused from farther |
attendance until next Mond ~ afternoon.
The Chicago, Milwaukee 81 St. Paul
company during the past season built 100
Tiffany refrigerator cars. These cars are of
the most improved kind, and are suitable
for both summer and winter use
Frank Williams Belgian by birth, was |
found last evening by Officer Bresnahan |
clinging to fence in the rear of the resi-
dence of Counselor Gest, in very demon
allied condition. This morning Squire |
Chopper thought that S5 and costs would |
constitute sufficient bracer
This morning Marshal Miller took Cir
cult Clerk Harson and Deputy Sheriff Ank-
rum out for sleighride, the excursionists
were observed hanging onto the back of
the sleigh when the procession was goiug
down Third avenue Il
Yesterday afternoon Henry Byers. alias
Smith, the alleged blanket thief had sec
ond examination before Squire Chopper on
the charge of having stolen Superintendent
SCOTS blanket. Bound over for trial in
the SUN of $3.50 on this charge, also.
The next entertainment booked for Har-
pers Theatre is one of the very funniest |
now being given. The name of the play
is Karl with Mr.. Charles A. Gardner in
the title role. AS Mr.. Gardner is known to |
be without an equal in the ranks of Dutch |
dialect comedians, not excepting Emmett,
and as the company supporting him is a
first-class one in every particular, we shall
look for a crowded house.
Mr.. John Given, superintendent of the |
Des Meines Valley branch of the c. r. /. |
s. P. road, has declined the position offered
him of secretary of the Southwestern Pas
senger Association, and the general pas |
senger agents are again looking around for
a man. If another selection Is not made |
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