The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-26
MOLINE,

Mr. Cram left for Council Bluffs again
this morning.
Arthur Wheelock has accepted the APP
pointment for supervisor and has taken
the necessary oath of office.
City Clerk Mcpherson left for Sterling
yesterday, called by telegram To the sick
bed of his sister.
Mayor Schillinger refused TO approve
of the license to sell liquors gwen to John
Bohart. John is going on alarm.
Phil McLareen is the proudest man in
Illinois since noon on Saturday, when
Mrs. Nc. made him the fond parent of a
bouncing boy.
1t is limited that the offer made by
Hon. John Deere of the market place
can not be consummated on account of
some defect in the title deeds of the
property.
E. C. Nicholson is the only hquor dealer
in Moline who has paid license for year.
and Sc O4S has been put in the city treas
ury so far from seventeen applicants,
DR.. r. II. Trevor has opened veterin-
airy, sale, exchange. farmers feed and
boarding stable on Second avenue near
the opera house.
John Bohart, of the Half way,
was fined Sl3 on Saturday for disorderly
conduct, in trying to protect himself from
the ferocity of his better-hslf.
Louis Mueller, an employee of Dimock
Gould & Co, had his leg broken on Fri>
| day by barrel of resin falling on it
Swan Hanson is in attendance.
A band saw mill will cut about thirty
five thousand feet on an average. A
double rotary with a gang will cut from
ninety to one hundred and twenty thou
sand feet.
THE Joust" operetta will be repeated
on May LIST for the benefit of the public
library by the same company of home
musicians. There will be matinee for
children in the afternoon
A. Weldon, aged nineteen years, died
on Thursday of consumption. The flu
neral took place on Saturday from the
house in East Moline, and was well at
tended by mourning friends.
L. B. Piper. Jr., long an employe Of
Dimock, Gould & Co, leaves soon foi
Filzwillisms. N. H., to take charge of a
grain mill. He has worked for the above
company for nearly twenty-six years in
their pail factory.
The board of education at a special
meeting the other evening decided to par
tition the west ward school house with
brick, have slate foot with iron cornice
and the Rutter system of heating and
ventilation.
Thieves have been plundering the shop
of the Moline Pump company, breaking
open desks and tool chests, betting moths
ing of much value. 1t is believed to
have been local miscreants on Journey
to the penitentiary, though not far on the
way yet.
J. P. Warren and Tom Haire received
transportation and are now at the seat OF
war. Capt. HARDWOOD, of the U. s. N.
went down also to take observations ant
give advice if called on. We hope nj
fatal accident may happen to the captain
until he has chance TO publish that bool
on Three weeks in the navy. or the rec
objections Of sore,eyed sailor"
On Saturday afternoon Mrs. DAME
J Haines and her teamster. from Coaltown
were returning nome in wagon and hat
reached Stewartville. when the horse
took fright, turned toward town again
upsetiing the wagon and throwing tn
: driver and Mrs. Haines to the ground
] who were not much hurt. The team con
: tinued to run in furious manner dowr
Fifteenth street, almost running into
, street Car, kept on and ran plump agains
a moving freight train on Fourth avenue
Strange to say the horses were but littl'
the worse from their escapade. The
were caught near II. Winds shop. OF
r Fourteenth street The wagon was badl,
: demolished.
, GRINDERS STRIKE.
, Thirty of the thirty-six grinders in thu
! employ of Deere & Company struck thi
! morning Their grievance, as near as cal
be ascertained, is thatln 1884 reduction
i in the scale OF prices paid them, wa
made, and few days ago they asked TO
o restoration of these prices The matte
!, was taken under consideration by tn
company, and the grinders expecte
a reply this morning, which they did no
| receive and hence the strike The com