Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-24
BRIEFLETS.

at Lloyd s. Stewards.
Call and see Lloyd & Stewards neglig'
shirts in silk. flannel, madras and cheviot
The funeral of Annie L. Routsong viii
: be held at Sears at 2 80 p. m. tomorrow
Capt. Lyon, the new officer on the isl.
and, has formally entered upon his du
ties.
Strawberries from Chicago on thu
evening train at Truesdale's this eve
ming.
Il If you care anything about the quality
of the milk you use. buy of Strayer's mil
feed dairy.
Mrs. DR.. McGavren. of Missouri Valley
is visiting her parents, Maj. and Mrs. Il
| G. Connolly.
| Now is the time, and Clemsnn Il Salz'
mann's is the place to buy fine bedroom
suite, cheap.
Head Consul Root of the Modern
Woodmen. will be the orator of the day
at Dubuque on Memorial day.
| Tonight the democratic caucuses are tc
be held to select delegates to the demo
cratic county convention next Thursday
l q.
coined daughter this morning, and Louis
has realized the happiest moment of his
life.
| Judge Smith altered his decree in the
Schmid divorce case this morning, stipu
lating Mrs. Schmid's alimony at $25 pei
month.
| At Trinity church, Rev. r. F. Sweet
rector. Services tomorrow, Whitsun
| Day. at and 10:45 a. m. and 80 p. m
At the chapel at $50 p. m.
Miss Bessie Battles entertained cons
| pany of her young friends in a pleasant
manner at the home of her parents on
| Seventeenth street last evening.
The funeral of the late DIR. Samuel X d.
| Sharpe will be held from the residence uf
Capt. J. b. Davis, SIS Twenty third
| street tomorrow afternoon at 2 O'Clock.
| A change for the better has occurred
in the condition of Mrs. w. A. Thomp-
son, and her physicians are now very
| hopeful that the crisis in her illness has
passed.
| At the Broadway Presbyterian. services
morning and evening. with sermon by
Rev Thornton of Geneseo. Sabbath
school and young peoples meeting as
| usual.
Secretaries of the democratic caucuses
| to be held tonight, both in and out of
| town. will kindly send the list of dele
gates selected TO the ARGUS office as soon
| after the meeting as practicable.
l. d. Nudge, of Taylor Ridge. was 10
the city today. Mr.. Nudge desires that
| the report ihst he is a candidate for sher
if be denied. He says there are enough
candidates for Office in ihe lower end.
The ARGUS has an excellent commuui-
cation from correspondent signed IN, "
| and would like exceedingly to publish
| it, if the name of the writer will be sent
| in for the personal use of the editor.
Messrs J B. thinner and Henry Tre-
man left for the east this morning on
| their way to Europe. They will visit
| hart Raible and Chris. Letter leave To
morrow morning and the four sail on the
Augusta Victoria next Thursday.
Supt John A Murrin, of the Rock Isl,
| and Waterworks, returned this morning
| from Chicago where he has been in at
| tendance upon four days session of the
| American Waterworks Superintendent
| association. There were about zoo super
| intendents present from the United
States and Canada.
The Union continues TO have it's treas
| ury replenished by the announcement of
the candidacy Of ambitious republicans.
| Its list Of aspirants amounts to almost a
| colrmn, and il it keeps on increasing the
Union will begin 10 think politics pays
pretty we'll even if it gives nothing in res
| turn.
Messrs Harry Hodges and Olof Atkin
| son, of this city, have received notice of
| their appointment as census enumerators.
! the fermer between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth streets and from the river
front back TO the limits. and the latter
between Twenty-second and Twenty
| fourth streets.
A colt attached to road cart belong
ing to John A. Carlson, of Andalusis
got away near the glass works this
morning and came up town on a jump
The frisky animal fell on First avenue
| between Nineteenth and Twentieth
streets aud a number of citizens extri-
Gated it, when it started of again again
and was finally caught near the Peoria
depot and taken to tricks livery stable
Such beautiful line of carpets was
| never before seen west of Chicago as car
now be seen at Clemann & SalZmann's
and they are receiving new goods every
day. Anyone in need of fine chamber
suite can buy them now at Clemann &
l Sa1y or mol de-
they are purchasing the goods by the car
load. Every few DAYS they receive fresh
car load of those fine oak suites which
are being sold very rapidly.
A new time card coes into effect OF
the c., b. & Q. tomorrow at noon, afte
which time the st. Louis express viii
leave at TAO p. m. instead of $50
and arrive at 7:15 instead of $40
The St. Paul express will leave a
5:55 p. m, instead of 2 and tn,
Beardstown passenger will arrive a
1890 a. m. instead of 1105; the Ster
ling passenger will arrive at Gas p. n
instead of ESQ. and the Dubuque pas
senger arrives at 9 instead of $40 p. m
The Sterling freight will leave at II 81
!, a. m instead of 11:30p. III.
The immense hay barn on the farm o
]. O. Taylor. at Taylor Ridge. was strucl
by lightning during Thursday afternoon
storm and completely demolished by tn
flames that ensued, notwithstanding tn
beating rain that was falling at the time
The barn contained about eighty tons O
/ hay. one thousand bushels of corn ant
, twenty-five brood sows with pigs. Tn
loss is about $4,000. with about 81 so
insurance in the Home. Of New York. Ir
Vsndeveer, agent. Farmers gathers