The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-05

Sundayed at the heatOr.
The Moline road cart company is the
latest addition to the telephone list.
The Swedish concert company appeared
to good audience at Wagner's opera house
on Saturday evening.
DR.. L, d. Dunn, who has been confined
to the bouse for several days, was out upon
our streets again to-day.
Several loads of hogs wendell their
way down Main street to-day on their way
| to J. s. Gilmore, the pork packer at Rock
| Island.
/ Two hundred and ten seats were reserv
| ed inside of two hours this morning for
the Spanish Students"
George Gamble, who has been suffering
| from the effects of severe cold for sew
| eral days, is so as TO be around again.
DR.. Truesdale. of Rock Island, has been
attending to DIR. Dunn's patients during
his Illness.
City council meeting to night, which
| promises to be very interesting in view of
the large amount of business that is to GENE
| up for consideration.
C. f. Grautz, treasurer. will make a
| final report of the collections for the
Rhine sufferers at the meeting of the Tur
ncr society on Wednesday evening next.
The half dozen loads of produce which
found their Sav to the market to day were
quickly purchased by COZ lmers in
consequence of the scarcity of late.
G. W. Dahms, who a short tims ago
was hurt in railroad accident at Clinton,
is in the city visiting with his brother
Edward for couple of days.
Mr.. Henry Hall, who lives on Wells
street is 10 a critical condition from cancer
of the stomach, his death is momentarily
expected
Mrs. Annie Thulin wife of Gus. Thulin,
died on Saturday of puerperal fever aged
"a years funeral occurs at 2 O'Clock to-day
from the Swede Lutheran church.
The Minnehaha hose company give a
ball at Wagners Opera house on the even
ing of March 30th. Straussers' orchestra
will furnish the music.
Prof. Cummings of Hedding college
Arlington H., and "a years ago pastor of
the NJ. E. church of this city, preached an
excellent sermon at the church last even
ing.
There was no school at the central school
building to-day, in consequence of the
steam pipes bursting during last night.
They hope to have everything in readi
ness for school tomorrow.
Several parties holding time checks
against Skelsey s. Co. are now offering
Here's chance for speculation, and at the
same time it shows what rascals that firm
have proven to be.
Capt. w. G. Morris returned from Chi
cago. to attend the meeting of the Grand
Lodge A o. u. w at Rock Island, to-
morrow after which he viii probably en-
bark in the drug business at the Garden
City. /
Last night was another of the cold ones |
of the season. Richard Schorbeck's Their
mometer registered II below, while the |
temperature at the Government bridge
sank to 16O below and at Porter's photo |
graph gallery it sank as low as 20 below |
A letter was received in this city from |
Mitchell, Dakota, in which the temperature |
of the weather was given as four degrees |
warmer in that town than at this peint. re-
ports of the extensive cold weather in that |
section of the country, to the contrary,
Sale of seats for the Spanish Students" |
the fifth of the library boards course of |
commenced this morning
at s o'clock, and within an hour nearly all |
of the seats in the balcony were taken, in |
suring good house for the greatest of |
musical novelties. and all who 60 are sure |
to be pleased as ''Wearer of the Ivory |
Spoons" is both unique and novel
The varirloid patients at the pest house |
are all reported as doing well. The quar-
antined boarders, seventeen in number at
the American House, as yet show no signs
of that dread disease and the prospects are
that we have seen the worst of the disease
Clyde Young is the only one at the Ameri-
can House who is now sick, but what his
aliment is we were unable to learn though
not serious, we are assured.
Mrs Isaac Dawson breathed her last