Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-12
CITY CHAT.

California pears. peaches. egg plums
and grapes, at Mays.
Mr.. Carl Helpenstell has gone to Des
Moines to attend the Woodmen meeting.
Mr.. Louis Bowman. of Chicago. ar
rived last night for weeks visit with
relatives in his old home.
Mr d. 8. Schureman left for Greens
vile yesterday with the remains of his
late wife for interment.
R. r. Wilhelm and wife leave for St.
Paul and Duluth in the morning and will
be absent four or five weeks.
Sister Payne. of Yuma. was in the city
today administering soothing syrup to
Boss Wells and The other Gestiles.
The second subscription concert of the
second series at the Elm Street Concert
Garden will be given Thursday evening.
Thomas Johnson, OF Milan. arrived last
night from California with his father,
James B. johnson, who is in very fee
BILE condition.
Mr.. ]. T. Kenworthy is moving bis
Office effects into the rooms of the Citi-
zeps' Improvement association in Har-
per's theatre building.
Messrs Lothar Harms and G. F. Gaet-
jer and Prof. Alfred Beck are a happy
trio who went down the river on a pisca>
torial expedition this morning.
City Marshal Phil Miller had the di-
lapidated walk in front of the Coyne es-
tate on Market square, torn up yesterday
and the space is being filled to grade
preparatory to the laying of a new and
more substantial walk.
Supervisor John A. Wilson, of Rural,
left for Des Moines last evening to at
| tend the head camp meeting of the Mod
ern Woodmen. f. II. Harris. of Milan.
| also left for the Iowa capital on the same
mission
Supt. Schnitger, of the Holmes lines,
returned from Chicago this morning and
| says that Mr.. Holmes is determined to
| substitute electricity for horses as soon as
| the transfer can be made The tronble
| as to track rights on Second street in
Davenport was admirably adjusted.
Miss Katherine HAYES is undergoing
| an affiiction In very painful ailment to
| her right arm. II is feared she has been
poisoned at some time while in camp at
Vandruff's island. A surgical operation
was performed this morning. but Miss
Halves is still able to be about.
A prohibition conference was held in
Moline last evening and twenty-one dele
gates elected to the prohibition county
convention TO be held in Moline next Fri
day, and committee appointed to pre-
pare a remonstrance against the location
of the proposed brewery in Moline.
Mr.. Henry Lamp, of the watch tower
pavilion, has bad cut under the lower
| lip caused by piece of flying glass from
a pop bottle which exploded while he was
putting it in the ice chest yesterday. The
injury is of such nature and in such a
place as to cause him great inconvenience
Mr.. Ben T. Cable the coming congress-
man from this district. returned from his
flying trip to Europe last night. his fami-
| ly stopping at Rye Beach. N. H., for a
short time yet. Mr.. Cable will at once
| enter vigorously upon the campaign.
| which is to result in grand democratic
triumph next November. He is at the
Harper, where numerous friends have
| already called to extend congratulations
| and assurances OF every possible effort
| that can be contributed to his success.
Hon. Jerry n. Murphy, the great Hem
| nepin canal advocate. has turned his at
| tention to the Lake Washington canal,
| in Washington near Seattle. From the
Seattle Post Intelligence it is learned that
| Mr.. Murphy is in Seattle and purchasing
property there and in the event of the
bill passing company will be organized
| to improve various real estate owned by
Mr.. Murphy and Mr. Griffith, and Mr..
Denny. of Seattle.
The Pullman Car company has issued
| the following order to ticket sellers:
Hereafter in selling birth to be occu-
pied by woman or girl, you will be par
ticulsr to indicate that fact by writing
| the word lady in the space assigned on
the diagram. and 80 far as practicable the
| upper berths of the section. whose lowers
are thus assigned and designated. should
be reserved for other ladies. the intention
being to separate the sexes so far as can
| be consistently done"
| It was a crushing blow that awaited
Walter Scott, one OF the best known and
| most popular travelling men who come
| to Rock Island on his arrival at the Har.
| per last evening A telegram had come
during the afternoon to Chief Clerk Will
lerton to break the news to him of his
wifes sudden death at the sea shore
Mr.. Scott was greatly stunned. and al
most completely overcome by the grievous
intelligence. as he had no intimstion
that his wife was at all ill. He left fol
his home at Philadelphia with heavy
heart by the first east-b0und train.