Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-06
BRIEFLETS.

camping out on Big island.
Albert Weisler. of Trenton, Mo-, il
home on visit to relatives.
Capt. j. M. Beardsley and family have
delightful camp ON Big Island.
Edward A. Sweeney, of Fairbury,
Neb.. is visiting his father, E. D. Swee-
ney.
Messrs. Larkin & Stephens have com
menced their work of improving Unior
square
Mr. Fred Grindell. the night clerk at
the Rock Island house. is rusticating in
Wisconsin.
VIM. Meyers was acquitted of the
charge of the larceny of skiff by Magis
trate Wivill last evening
Mr.. G. E. Adams leaves for Chicago
this evening in the interest of Mosenfel.
der & Kohn's shoe department.
Before Justice Halves today John
Smith was fined IS and costs for using
language calculated to provoke breach
of the peace.
DR.. j. w. Stewart aad wife are ex-
pected home from their eastern trip in
about a week. They are at presen,
visiting at Emmetsburg. Md.
Young Anderson, who haszbeen pa.
tient at st. Luke's hospital for long
time. is reported very low, with no pros
poets of recovery.
First California Bartlett pears of the
season, nice yellow and red bananas
Florida oranges and fine lemons; al
Boro's, bank corner.
Prof. and Mrs. w. s. Mack, formerly
Of Moline, and now of Aurora, have a
son in their household. their children
now being girl and boy.
DR.. James Cozad and family. of Rey-
nolds, were in the city yesterday on their
way home from Fulton, where they spent
the Fourth among old friends.
Mr.. M. W. Battles is engaged in put
ting new floors in the two store rooms of
Mrs. G. Kerber on Second avenue be,
tween Nineteenth and Twentieth streets
The Rock Island Turner society has
decided to hold its postponed picnic at
Huber's Garden on July 90. the proceeds
to be donated to the Johnstown relief
fund.
Louis S. Bradley. a colored man, fell
in the lower end of town yesterday after
noon and cut deep cash in his upper
lip. DR.. Carter was called and stitched
up the wound.
There was pleasant lawn party at the
residence of Mr.. Meigs Wait, near Rey-
nolds, on Wednesday, given by Miss
Daisy Wait. Everybody enjoyed the
games, and especially the refreshments.
There was lively racket in Second
avenue boarding house last evening,
which finally eliminated in the arrest of
the head of the family, but the female
member failing to appear, the case was
dismissed.
Mr.. VIM. HUT, who has been visiting
in the city for ten days, leaves for his
home at New Albany, Ind, this evening.
His daughter. Miss Maggie, will spend
the summer and fall with her sister, Mrs D..
James Marsh.
Congressman Gest was in town this
morning and reports everything quiet
politically and otherwise at the seat of
government. He will probably have
some political revelations to make before
long, however.
Mr.. Tyler Robinson is adding some
new buildings to his Taylor Ridge prop
erty. Last fall Mr.. E G. Cavett built a
40x64 foot barn for him, and the same
gentleman is now putting up a barn
2Sx50 feet and a corn house 30xS0 feet
A dispatch to today's Oh: ,ago Meas
from Geneseo says that Joserh Debates,
a carpenter, suicided at Atkinson on the
Fourth and that his sweetheart, Mary
Soland. who had rejected him, is now al.
most crazed with grief and is in Moline
Mr.. Peter Fries received a cablegram
from Bremen this morri--
...s .omains of the late Henry Schmidt
had been shipped by the steamer Vera.
From this it is expected that the body
will arrive in Rock Island about the 18th
or 18th.
Last evening the Blackhawk Home
aggregating $10,350-S6, 800 at a pre-
MUM of 2Sa cents, and 81 $50 at 2s
cents per share. The annual meeting
for the election of officers and directors
occurs on July Is.
The Milwaukee Bridge company has
offered to build the proposed bridge al
Muscatine for $149, 900, and to have i,
completed by July 4. 1890. The bridge
company in Muscatine needs $13, 900 tC
S14 900 more money to tide it over til
the last of the bridge tax can be collected
in the fall of 1891. The supposition i:
that Rock Island county farmers will b.
called upon 10 help the Iowa project on
as usual
Mr.. Fred Appelqnist is highly pleased
with his trip to Washington. He wal
surprised at the magnitude of Seattle and
Tacoma and speaks in glowing terms o.
their possibilities and present business
capacities. Building sites are rated 81
high, however, that a man with ordinar,
capital is unable to invest, and rent i
correspondingly high. Mr.. Appelquis
was not so fsvorably impressed will
Spokane Falls. which is situated in
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