Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-08
BRIEFLETS.

Cdul uuc, VI SuituSo, 10 ~ euS
city on q visit to relatives.
Mr. Leopold Simon has returned from
business trip to Chicago.
Feund-A horse. Enquire of A. F.
Schmidt. S21 Twentieth street.
Division Supt. w. B. Throop. of the
G. B. & @, was in the city today.
J. E. Chandler. of Bushnell. the Barr
| dolph paving brick man. is in the city
today.
Mrs DR.. A. McCandless is reported
somewhat improved today. but still very
| low.
Remember Prof. BANDS lecture on
"Chalk Talk" at Harper's theatre next
Tuesday night.
The remodeled Trinity church will be
reopened tomorrow. Bishop Burgess is
| expected to be present
w. s. McCaull, city editor of the Du-
buque Herald. has been made manager of
the base oall club of that city.
A stranger giving his name as 8. NJ.
Brown. was run in by Officer Mulqueen
| last evening for intoxication.
Clemanu & Sa'zmann have just fu-
ished Competing Trinity church. 1t took
| three hundred yards of carpet.
The various boards of registry for the
coming municipal election sit at the differ
ent ward voting places next Tuesday.
Clemann & Salzmann are In receipt of
an elegant line of lace curtains. which
they invite the ladies TO call and examine.
Fred G. Ehleb. the butcher, has filled
his ice house with plenty of channel ice.
ranging from ten to twelve inches 10
thickness.
In the parlors of the Rock Island house
last evening Justice Halves united in mar
rage w. w. Burns, of Atkinson. and
Miss Mary Downs. of Geneseo.
The Woodmen are now singing new
refrain which is something of departure
from the thread-ba 'McGinty" refec-
ton. 1t is Down Went Mckinney"
The ice pool is completely busted" and
any "freezeouts" thai may have been con-
templated for next summer are off. There
will be plenty of freezing material for all.
Capt. West Rambo. the newly elected
mayor of LeClaire, and wife, who have
been the guests OF Capt. OConnor and
family for several days, returned home
this afternoon.
Local Ticket Agent Shelton has re-
ceived notice of another cut on the Rock
Island, taking effect Monday, of SIS on
second rate tickets to the Missouri river,
and so to Denver.
The ladies of the First nj E church
have arranged as one of the musical fea-
lures of the church fairlin May Cradle
Song of Nations" one of the most popu-
lar amateur entertainments that has yet
been arranged.
A petition is being circulated and nu
merously signed by liver men, asking In,
spector j. d. Sloan to appoint Capt. L
A. Day, of LeClaire, as local inspector of
steam vessels in place of Thomas Burns,
who died this week
At Harper's theatre tomorrow night
Rev G w. Cue will preach sermon In
reply to the resolutions of the Rock Isl
and Liquor Dealers association bearing
on his former sermon on the saloon
traffic of the city.
Lost, on the Milan road between Rock
Island and Searstown,a satchel, containing
a pocket case of instruments and other
arti les. with IT. s. Butler, " s." in
scribed on case. Return to DR.. Ruther-
ford al Rock Island house.
According to the election notice ap-
peariHg elwbere the city and township
election occurs three weeks from next
Tuesday-April /. 1t is time for the pre-
liminsry skirmishing 10 cease and the &C.
tive politics TO begin. Calls for the
| ward csucuses and conventions ought TO
be forthcoming
Geo. f. Roth entered complaint before
Magistrate Wivill today against Col. H
B Burgh and Mr.. P. L. Mitchell, chsrg-
ing them with tapping a private sewer
owned by himself and others on Eleventh
| street without pursuing the course out
| lined in the ordinances.
The friends of Congressman Gest are
soon to be astonished by the announce
ment that Mr.. c. H. Deere, of Moline, is
a candidate for congressional honors
Mr. Deere is expected home from the
west soon, when it is reported he will at
once enter the field and have an estimate
taken of his strength before the conven-
| tion
March is making vigorous record as
a winter month The almanac states
that spring will begin at 1898 q m,
March 90, so we will have two weeks of
winter before US The almapacs are
more reliable than weather prophets. By
the way. what has become of the weather
prophets who all prophesied severe wins
ter and induced the corn husks and goose>
| bones to coincide in their guess work.
Pat Grove. alias Joseph Kahe, of DAYS
NJ =
last night by running smuck through
the streets, wounding two policemen and
bystander by deliberate and reckless
shooting. The ferocious fellows right
name is Grove, and his wife Is at present
in Davenport. He has been employed in
Omaha recently. Details of the affair
| appear elsewhere.
| Constable Eckhart arrested James
Ralston, of Davenport, today charged by
Justice s. F. Cooke with o6taining money
under false pretenses. Ralston obtained
| Squire Cooks signature to promissory
note under representation that by the
time of the expiration of the note he
would have fat hogs enough to pay the
amount. When the note became due
Ralston had no hogs, hence the arrest.
Justice Halves sent him to jail in default
of $500 bail
The Adams Wall Paper Co. have
thrown two stores into one by large
archway. and have without doubt the I'm
est wall paper stores ever seen in this
part OF the west. They have very elabo
rately frescoed the ceilings by their own
fresco artist and papered the walls with
Lincrusta Walton. Their stock will In
clude all of the finest papers from twenty
different factories. II you want to see
fine papers they are the people to go and
see.