The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-03-29
MOLINE.

LAST CALL
Pay your taxes before April Cd.
A. 4. LoFGREN.
Mrs. W. B. Samuels presented her hus-
band with daughter last Saturday
night.
Mrs. White and Miss May Todd, of
Aurora, are visiting at the residence of
Prof. W. S. Mack
Judge Gould says the Dimock, Gould
& Co. saw mill will not start this week;
may next Monday, but they can not tell SO
far ahead.
The highway commissioners of South
Moline met on Saturday afternoon to set
tie with the overseers of highways The
board of town auditors will meet March
80, at p. m.
On account of the railroad strike, Rev
j. c. Hartzell could not get here on Sat>
urday, as he expected He arrived this
morning and left to fill other engage
ments at o'clock his afternoon.
Rev. A. M. Judy preached highly in
teresting sermon. showing much study
and research last evening. The congre>
CATION have decided to have it printed in
pamphlet form.
DR.. Piper has the old dispensation is
sued to the Mississippi Valley Grove
Druids on their first organization. The
doctor will present the paper to the sec
rotary of the recognized Grove
Martin Van Hook, who participated
over year ago in a row in Smiths sa,
loon on the bluff, and for whom war.
rant was in the hands of the sheriff since
was arrested on Saturday by the police
here, who notified officers in Rock Island
who came up and took him to Jail.
Two ladies of easy virtue were gobblet
on Saturday evening on the charge of be
ing public street walkers, to which they
pleaded guilty and paid $40 fine ant
costs This may be a warning to other,
who have played their avecation in too
public a manner for some time past
Marshal Kittleson says he will have n,
more mercy for them or their families.
There was row on Second avenue las
night after 8 O'Clock, occasioned by
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ladies who were passing. A brother o
one of the girls intcrferred and was at
tackled by the gang, when boarder a
the Bridge house came to his assistance
and knocked the leader down in thu
street, dispensing the mob. A larg
/ crowd gathered, attracted by the noise
which was heard over two blocks away
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for prosecution.
Republican nominations Saturday ev
ening:
First ward: Nels Pierce for alderman
Geo. 0ldefast, ward committeeman.
Second ward: Alderman Peal for al
derman; Levi Cralle, ward committee
4 man.
Third ward: Alderman Vessel for a
! derman; n. r. Zeigler, ward committee
man.
Fourth ward: Phil Keene for alder
man; E. II. Sleight. ward committeeman
Fifth ward: F. A. johnson for alder
, man; j. B. Oskleaf. ward committeeman
There will be another ticket in the feel
on which perhaps some of the abov
names will be accepted.
General Turchin. after leaving tn
academy of ST. Petersburg, entered tt
personal staff of the Grand Duke Alexi
. afterward Gar Alexander II, and at Ii
beginning of the Crimesu war he wa
colonel and senior staff officer in the &C
tive corps of the Guards, commissioned
= reconnoitre the south shore of the Gu
of Finland between St Petersburg an
the Narva, to determine the bes
/, position for intrenching the Ru
sian army to repel the enem
a if an attempt was made to invade St. Pc
! ersburg. The result of his work WI
q highly satisfactory. and the measures re,
, commended by him was afterward SUI
cessfully carried out. Col Turchin VS.
7 then sent to Poland with go, 900 men I
f guard the Polish frontier from invasio
q by Austria, and remained until peace wa
= declared in 1856, when he was ordered t
/, Moscow. to be present at the coronatio
4 of the car. Shortly after this the colon.
f decided to leave Russia and come to th
United States, being dissatisfied with tn
tyranny and despotic rule of the land {
n his birth, and arrived in New York hal
r Dor in August. 1856.