Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-06
BRIEFLETS.
Fresh fish st Young's.

/. The tax collector gives notice else
where of the Importance of paying your
taxes before March 20.
The captain of the new ]. W. Morris
camp. Sons Of Veterans. is j. H. Ladders
instead Of j. b. Ladders.
Messrs. Otto Raible, of this city. and
John Ash, of Geneseo. left las: evening
for Hot Springs to be gone several weeks.
The time for active house cleaning and
repapering is drawing near. and the wall
paper dealers are preparing for the duties
before them.
| Mr.. J. W. Potter left for Chicago last
night. to attend q netting Of the demo>
cratic state central committee. of which
he is member.
Sadly bereaved indeed is Mr.. Henry
Nelson. q Moline grocer. whose entire
family, consisting of wife and two
daughters, have been claimed by diph.
iberia.
Mr.. Harvey Jones has formally entered
upon his duties as sheriff of Scott county
In pursuance of his appointment by the
county board. to fill out the unexpired
term of the late Nat Leonard.
Miss Fannie Knox has accepted a po-
sition 10 the Central telephone Office as
relief operator. Miss Knox is an amiable
young lady, and will be popular with
| those who have occasion to "helIol'
Messrs. Albert and Herman Wiesler
arrived from Trenton. Mo. their home,
this m morning, in response to telegram
from their brother. F. W. Wiesler. an
nouncing the death of their sister. Mrs.
Russell Barth.
The ladies' auxiliary of the Industrial
| Home association are requested to meet
at Norris hall, Saturday, March 9Th, at
$50 sharp. Business of Importance is
to be transacted All mothers, wives,
| daughters and all interested are requested
TO be present. By order Of the secretary.
President Yerkes, OF the North Chi
cago Railway company, has adopted
gas motor as the substitute for, and rival
OF the Cable road. 1t works on the same
general principal of the Holmes steam
motor. such as is likely to be adopted for
the lines in the three cities. The Chi
cago papers praise 1t highly.
The circuit court Of Wbiteside county
| will continue this week. Yesterday af-
ternoon Judge Brown heard arguments
on motion to appoint receiver in
charge of the business of the Modern
Woodmen of America. In place of j. G.
Root, head consul Papers have been
served on officials of the order at Fulton
| to appear at Morrison with all the books
and papers of the order.
At meeting of the Moline Business
Mems association last night committee
was appointed to look into the securing
OF an immense locomotive works which
is anxious to come west, 1t was reported,
and which employs 500 hands. We
don't know of any better object that the
cities of Rock Island and Moline could
JOIN hands in securing than this. The
Rock Island improvement association
should look into it.
The town hall at Rural was packed to
overlooking last evening, on the occasion
of literary, dramatic aud musical enter
taiument given under the auspices of the
pupils of school districts one and eight,
| and under the direction of the teachers,
Mr.. Will Bailey and Miss Annie Bailey
The programme included declamstions,
| songs, dialogues and charades, and the
entire performance merited the highest
praise-which it received.
The travelling theatrical and other show
companies have had hard season ana
now the interstate commerce commission
has given them another hard blow. The
latest decision ia to the effect that party
tickets are illegal. Before the result Of
| the test case was known the railroads of
their own accord gave parties of ten or
| more a special rate. but 1t was open to
oil uhn f1lioA with hn conditions
Instead of two cents a mile the show PEG
pie will have to pay three cents, and the
increased tax will be more than they can
bear.
Tom Baldwin, the aeronaut, has a
scheme for The worlds fair that beats
even the imitation of Kansas town lots
Toms scheme is captive balloon. His
idea Is to build mammoth air ship, ca
pable OF lifting 2. 600 pounds, which will
| be held captive. The balloon will repre-
sent the world, with true map of all the
countries painted upon the outside. A
| mining company out west has bee ONE in.
terested in the scheme and expects to en-
gage Mr. Baldwin to carry 1t out, with q
| view of advertising their mines and
taking passengers high into the air as
we'll
The case of Minnie King. arrested on
warrant taken out by her father,
came up before Magistrate O'Neill yes
terday afternoon. The charge was a Sc
we're one, and accused her of being a vag-
abond. a street walker, and of visiting
houses of ill-repute. The young woman
pleaded that she had never entered a
house of illfsme, and that the whole
charge was q lie. Several witnesses were
examined, and the trial resulted in the
girl being sentenced to the county Jail
for six months. Magistrate O'Nenl,
however, gave the girl one more chance
to reform, and said that IL she would
promise to go home and lead better life
he would allow her to do 80, but on the
| first complaint of bad behavior she would
be taken to Rock Island to serve the SEM
tence. The girl promised to do better,
and accordingly went home Moline
Republican.
There Is deal of political hustling In
connection with the meeting of the county
board this session. Supervisors L s.
Pearsoll, Thomas Campbell and p, f.
Cox, all candidates for county offices at
the hands Of the republican convention
Cox is after the treasurer's Office with
both feet. Campbell will simply turn up
his toes and die II he don't get the same
nomination, while Pearsoll is bound to
have the nomination for sheriff The
members of this over Jealous trio are not
new to each other. They have met be-
fore at county institutes this fall, and up
to date Cox has got the worst of
the manipulstions,a as Campbell and Pear.
soil have formed q geographical COM
bination to do him up. They ran the
entire institute away from him at the re-
cent meeting in Coe toWpabi 70 and he had