The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-19


was up before Squire Cropper this morn
ing on the charge of having been drunk
and disorderly. He was fined $5 and
costs
One of the puniest business men in
Second avenue shows his contempt for
cold weather by parading through the
streets in his shirt sleeves when more ro-
bust people are glad to get inside of over
coats One of these days he'll stop short
| never to go again"
The funeral services of Joseph I'll. Nc
Kee, only remaining son of DIR. Joseph Nc
Kee, who died Saturday afternoon after a
| lingering illness, will take place this even
| ing at o'clock. at the family residence
| corner of Seventh avenue and Twenty
Second street
This afternoon Moline epileptic, one
Frank Schwartzenburg, will be examined
before Judge Adams and jury prelimi-
nary. it is understood. to being sent to the
poorhouse, as the Jacksonville authorities
refuse to receive patients who have a
chronic ailment of an epileptic form.
The recapitulation in the estate figures
at the county clerks Office this afternoon,
is as follows: Face value of estate Jan %
18S3-Real estate, 81, 400; property men
toned in appraisement bill, 1874; promissory
notes, SAG, 1872. 10; cash on hand at time of
decease, $2,O70.55. Total value of estate,
$49, S9S07
d. NJ. Mabie, the old and well-known
book binder of Moline, announces in
another column with a card that he is pre-
pared to do all kinds of book binding. He
has engaged one of the best book binders
in the west and with his assistance he is
prepared to do as good work as can be
done by any similar establishment in the
west. Read his add.
Judge Adams overruled the motion to
auash the writ of citation in the
Almon 2. Fisk case, and made an order
for 10 o'clock next Thursday forenoon as
the time of such examination. Sweeney,
". r. Moore and Martin, Murphy d Lynch,
represented the creditors, and Sturgeon s.
Olson the assignor.
Said one of two young ladies who took
street car yesterday at a point just west of
Nineteenth street: "Pm on the verge of
freezation." And then the conversation
turned toward the Greeks and Troians, but
the young lady forgot to say whether
Helen of Troy was given to WORD coin
age
The latest conundrum from the Sunday
Democrat; Did you see the bright light in
Union Square last highland on the water
works building? Those were the new
lights ordered by the city, and, hereafter
the road across the Island and bridges will
be perfectly light" If the Democrat man
saw those new lights on Saturday night
he must have been "three sheets in the
wind" Because of the fact that the globes
had not arrived there were no lights that
night, save the old one in Union square.
About the most dismal looking establish
ment in town yesterday was the post
Office. A great many people having read
II oui iIotAiHS contemporary 1haI hoaNy
Chicago mail was received at the Moline
office late on the previous evening assumed
very correctly, that the same would be
true of this Office and when they came
down town and saw Mr.. Murdoch pacing
the walk on Seventeenth street backward
and forward, every bit as anxious To see
that mail as they were, their Indignation
knew no bounds. Unfortunately for every
body no mail did arrive here from the east
but one is expected to-day-the first since
last Thursday night. The effect of this
three days mail detention upon business
generally may be safely imagined but not
described. The loss to Rock Island county
alone will reach into the thousands