Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-22

Mr.. p L. Mitchell and daughters ar,
taking in fashionable seashore life a
Saratoga.
| 900 grades of boys knee pants sellin.
at 81 at Simon & Mosenfelders specia
sale.
Sig. Verona CIV. V. WalD manager o
Robinson's floating palaces, was in thu
city today.
| The greatest remnant sale ever held il
this section takes place this week a
McCabe Bros.
| The advertisement of the Davenport
Beef company can be seen in anothe
part of the paper.
50-cent grade of boys pants selling a
% cents during special sale only at Simon
& Mosenfelders.
Col. T. G. Baylor and daughter, Mrs.
Perley, sail for Europe this week. Mrs
Baylor will not go to Europe.
Do not delay, but 60 at once and secure
bargains in boys knee pants and shir
waists at Simon & Mosenfeder's.
Engineer Rogers, of the spot on the
R. 1. & P. brought his two little girls ur
to spend the Sabbath with him here
Special sale
OF boys knee pants
And shirt waists commenced
Today at Simon & Mosenfelder's.
The annual picnic of the Christian
Chapel Sunday school was held at the
watch tower Saturday, and was grand
success.
The grocery clerks of this city are re-
quested to NEE. at No 1920 First avenue
at o'clock tomorrow evening to discuss
matters of Importance.
Poormaster Engel has an eleven
months old boy in his charge who he is
DESTROYS of having adopted, the mother
being unable to provide for him.
Misses Anna McCsniless, Annie Moore
and Lena Conrad, of Horton, Kan, are
visiting at the residence of DR.. A. Ii.
Ex-sldermsn Henry Schafer left for
Chicago Saturday night to meet his wife,
who, in company with Alderman Howard
and family, has been around the lakes.
Fancy parasols. formerly $21S to
50. 90, marked down to 81. Is; other lots
that were S. IS up TO IS so, all go at
Sl.9S, at the great closing out sale at
McCabe Bros.
Messrs. B. II. Hsnnsford and Z. NJ.
Willis. of Webster City, Iowa, are iu-
specting the Rock Island house with a
view OF opening negotiations for its
lease from the Messrs. Munger.
Remnant sale this week at McCabe
Bros. Starters at so to 60 cents on the
dollar, per cent additional discount on
Tuesday, 10 on Wednesday. IS on Thurs
day. go on Friday and 25 per cent off on
Saturday on all there is left.
Some vandal pulled plug out of the
boilers of the White Eagle at Davenport
Saturday night and yesterday the boilers
were found TO be burned out and the boat
unfit for service. The accident might,
had it not been discovered, have resulted
seriously.
A Pennsylvania editor has discovered
that everything in nature is playful. He
says: The lightning plays. the wind
whistles, the thunder rolls, the snow flies,
the waves leap. and the fields smile.
Even the trees shoot and the rivers and
streams run"
Inspired. it seems, by a wholesome re :
spect for our police patron, Mrs. Bresn.
ahan, the woman who deserted babe in
this city few days ago, has made her
appearance here from Rock Island and
taken the little one from Mrs. Karl, with
whom it was lodged. -Davenport Dem
ocrdt- Gazette.
Davenport defeated Peoria Saturday
by score of to /, the respective bat
teries being Rhines and Harrington and
Hoskins and Newman Yesterday 1900
people assembled to witness the second
game, which was called by rain at the
end of the fourth inning when the score
stood 3 to in favor of the visitors. IT
is being played today. The same teams
play again tomorrow.
The prospects are that Rock Island
county will soon have about twenty six
incurable insane patients on its hands.
The state was redistricted last week. and
Rock Island will now have to send
it's insane to the Elgin asylum.
while twentysix patients in the hos,
pitfalls at Jacksonville and Kankakee
will be returned. There's no no other
place to put them but at the county
farm, and there are no accommodations
there for them.
Supt. Schnitger, of the Holmes lines,
has returned from his business trip to
Chicago. He reports all the iron ordered
for the further extension and rebuilding
of the lines in the three cities, and says
that additional stock will be bought as
fast as possible, while the ord er for the
closed cars for winter service has been
placed with different company from the
one that turned out the summer cars.
Supt. Schnitger also states that the ex,
tension up Elm street to Fourteenth
avenue will be constructed this fall.
Robinson's grand moral shows on three