Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-11-27
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the coming encampment of the G. A. R..
Miss Grace Velie has returned home
from Chicago. She is not yet well enough
TO leave the house.
Mr. and Mrs J. W. Harzsll, after
spending Thanksgiving at Peoria, have
returned home.
Hi Wood and Louis Evans are to play
a game of checkers for the championship
of Moline.
VIM. A. Nourse, il is said, is performs
ing marvellous cures by the laying on of
hands. In a few minutes he has cured
cases beyond the power of medicine.
1t WAS about 1900 the late republican
candidate for sheriff received as donation
from friends They decided not to give
it to the press The presentation was
made several days ago.
Mr.. Brown, the mill-wright, who it
was rumored was shot at Des Moines, is
alive and well attending to his business
at Ia Crosse. This is welcome news to
his many friends.
The Stewartville congress will try to
pass free trade bill on Friday evening
The leaders on both sides are men of ma
tionsl fame, and the pros and cons shal II
be eloquently elucidated.
A dog belonging TO Lawrence Ecklund
has bitten boy of John Ohlines, and the
dog still lives The harborng of fero-
cious animals ought to be made a pen
itentiary offense.
Yesterday afternoon the switch engine
on the c., b & @, raj a car off the track
and into the Moline PlOw companys
warehouse near Sixteenth street. 1t
made quite large hole in the side of the
| building.
Mr.. Roberts, from Philadelphia, here
10 nut the motors of the Union Street
Car line in working order, is at present
confined to his room Al Peals hotel bv
sickness This further delays the use of
the motors on the road.
H. d Hatch, formerly principal of one
of the school buildings here, was married
on Thanksgiving day at Chicago, to Miss
Mary B. Cutter The bride was also a
teacher here during the term Mr.. Hatch
was principal.
| The committee appointed to distribute
the donations made for distribution TO
the needy Thanksgiving, report the poor
| OF this city in much better circumstances
than last year or for many former years,
and that all their present demands are
satisfied.
1t cost this city 81 800 to clean the
alleys of garbage last summer 5000
more than the appropriation. One bun>
bred barrels of refuse matter was moved
each day at cost of seven cents per bar.
rel, and the city is in proper condi
ton, says Marshal Kittelson.
The J S. kestor passed to Muscaline
with half its raft, the other half being
aground at Campbelfs island. They are
trying 10 get it afloat today; the boat was
tied up there during Tuesdays storm. and
the wind fioated the raft on a shoal
Ex-Postmaster Hemenwav left for
Des lhoines Thursday accompanied
by his son, c. F. Hemenway. He has re
covered sufficiently so as to be able to
travel 10y railroad, but is far from being
as well as he was before the accident Oc-
CURED.
1t was amusing to see a man the other
night trying to drive home seven or eight
live turkeys, ducks and geese. he had
won At some rattle. They were strung to
gether, and though they did not get
away, gave the gentleman much trouble
He compromised the matter by gong
ahead and dragging them after him. crea
ting babel of sounds from the unfortu-
nate fowls.
About thirty of Mr. August Herkert s
friends from Rock Island, called on him
on November 14th, the anniversary of
his birth, and presented him with a
beautiful solid gold oakleaf badge, suit
ably engraved. The presentation was
quietly made, and not until last evening
was the writer informed of the sffair, the
HOdesty of the manager of the opera
house preventing publicity unli} this late
date poeticai eifusion IN the German
language, the composition of Rock ISL
and gentleman, was read, in which Mr.. II
figures as the Hera This, translated in.
TO English, may soon appear in the Argus