The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-03
THE CITY In BRIEF.

Election day tomorrow,
Vote for Neece for congress.
City council meeting this evening.
Vote for Peter Farrell for alderman in
the Second ward.
Yesterday was delightful day and last
night was beautiful.
Hoffmaster is offering discount of 10
per cent on all dress goods and silks.
There were three funerals in Rock ISL
and yesterday all at the same hour-2 p.
m.
Vote for Hurst for States attorney.
No lady can well afford to miss Hotf>
masters's special discount on dress goods
sale
Peter Farrell should receive the hearty
support Of the voters in the Second ward.
He will make an alderman the ward will
be proud Of
DIR. Il. T. Hawley, dentist, corner Sew
enteenth street and Sixth avenue.
The regular monthly meeting of Rescue
hose company, which is usually held on the
first Tuesday evening of each month has
been postponed to Tuesday evening Nov.
11th, on account of the election tomor~
row
B. D. Buford, ESQ., returned yesterday
from an extended trip in the eastern
states. In his travels he had a good OPP.
porlunity to arrive at the political senti-
merit, and whatever fears he may have
had in regard to Clcveland's election, are
now thoroughly set at rest
Dir. J. w Stark, Dentist, 1922 Second
avenue d1yr
City Attorney COrbett will address a
big mass meeting at Orion this evening
This of course will be his last address for
this campaign. He has been an earnest
and effective worker in the cause of the
democracy He is pretty we'll worn ont
and is glad, as doubtless hundreds of
other orators are, that the campaign has
closed.
Vote for Alhrecht for coroner.
There will be q special meeting of the
Wideawake hose company this evening
for the purpose of considering the resign.
alton of foreman p. NJ Belts. MIR. Belts
is an engineer on the c. B. & O. road
and his runs are both ways from Boards
town Sometimes to this city and some
times to St Louis. Mr. Belts finds that
his duties on the road prevents him from
deVoiing as much time to the hose COM
pany as he would like. The boys will all
be sorry to have him resign. The regular
monthly meeting of the Wideawakcs takes
place tomorrow evening
Vote for Henry for circuit clerk.
1t has been learned that Henry Wilson,
colored, who used to be q tough of tho
worst type in this city and Davenport
five or six years ago, recently died from
injuries received in an election riot IN
Cincinnati, Ohio. This thing was APP
pointed - United States marshal foul
years ago to bulldoze voters at The polls
He was powerful man and desperate
but unfortunately for him he was assigned
to duty in an Irish ward, where there
were men who were just as rough as he
was, and in the fight he received injuries
which finally caused his death
The daughter of a New York million
airc has just been refused by her fathers
coachman, to whom she proposed elope-
ment and marriage. He took a day tc
think about it, sized the matter all up, anG
came to the conclusion that he wanted a
wife who could take in washing and help
him around the stables when he wanted
4 day off No millionaire helplessness in
his domestic circle. Rock Island young
men should pattern after the good horse
sense of the coachman.
c. F. Perkins, of Albany, Whitesidc
county, writes to Coroner Halves asking
for description of the clothes worn by
the young man found drowned in the
river the latter part of September The
coroner is at loss to know why the Al
bany man should want the information
asked for The young man taken from
the river was a resident of Cordova, was
fully identified, and his remains were in
tered by his relatives.