Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-09-30
CITY CHAT.


waits. See adv. today.
The Rock Island county circnit cour'
was adjourned today TO November 10.
i Manager j. Z. Montrose. of the Harper
left for Chicago last evening on business.
| DR.. and Mrs A Fl McCandless have
issued invitations for reception on next
Friday evening
Mr.. Henry Burgower is about to put
down brick walks in front of his Eigh-
teenth street property.
| Mr.. Fred Wslker, the extensive Dakot
stock farmer of Huron. e D.. is visiting
at tue residence at W. s. Fulmer
Mr.. Chas Spangler. of Presumption. has
taken position as clerk in the mill store.
de is an energetic and capable young
| man.
T. W. Grafton will speak this evening
| IN the Twenty-ninth street Christian
chapel upon THE Kingdom of Heaven;
am | Citizen of itG'
There is to be private party at the
Harper next Monday evening in honor Of
some of the guests of the Deere family for
the marriage of Miss Deere next week.
All signs point to the election of Mr..
c. b. Marshall as county superintendent
of schools. The people say Southws Il
has b, III the position long enough TO sat-
isfy them. if it has not him.
James Darnell was appoiJt,d police
msn by Marshsl Miller ist night to serve
with Louis Ohlweler and All Coyne as
extra policeman during the absence Of
Officers Long, Sexton and Hetter.
Miss Frida Koehler. daughter of City
Clerk Robert Koehler. entertained party
of her little friends ut her home, SAT
twenty first street. today in honor of her
fourteenth birthday.
Luther Pearsall came down from Port
Byron yesterday looking rather detected
aud care worn. The canvass is telling on
Nj Pesrsall. especially as all indications
point to Gordcn's election.
John Aims worth had his saloon license
transferred today from Ninth avenue and
Ninth street TO Fifteenth street and
Fourth avenue, having removed his
saloon to his new building at the last
named corner
The concert for the benefit of the build
ing fund of South Park chapel which is
to be held In the Sabbath school room of
Broadway will occur on Friday evening,
Oct. 10. instead OF next Friday evening,
as announced in last evenings ARGUS.
Locomotive 1854 of the c., B. & Q,
with Engineer Adams in the cab, ran into
an open switch at the foot of Seventeenth
street last night aud jumped the track
The ponderous machine was quickly
righted, however, without much damage
A wagon load of grain belonging to
Schaab & Walters dished wheel on
Second avenue below Fifteenth street
this afternoon, but beyond delaying a
street car no serious damage was done
The grain was loaded into another
wagon.
The first cases of diphtheris since the
abatement of the disease at the close of
school last June were reported to the
board of health today. They are in the
families of Jacob Bleuer, corner of Thirty
eighth street and Thirteenth avenue, and
VIM. Edwards, 2a22 Seventh avenue.
Reports from all sections of the county
are TO the effect that the democratic coun-
ty ticket suits the people much better
than the republican ticket does II is
composed of new and clean men no
chronic Office seekers or professl onsl
politicians. 1t should be elected from top
to bottom.
Mr.. L. Y. Eckhsrt this morning bought
the John Warner property on Seven
teenth street between Fourth and Fifth
avenues with a view to improving it and
putting it on the market. Louis is awake
to the advance the Hennepin canal is to
bring into Rock Island real estate.
Marse Boies, a resident of Davenport
since 1866 and an undertaken there since
1866, occupying pretty much the same re-
lation to the community that the late c.
b. Knox did to the people of Rock Island
county, died last evening aged sixty six
years. Ailments resulting from blood
poisoning caused his death.
Ex-Governor Dick Oglesby speaks in
Rock Island tomorrow by invitstion of
10 Haas of the republican congressional
committee. OF course Mr.. Haas will
forego the honors of the occasion which
should properly come to him and exercise
the good taste TO permit Mr.. j. j. Rel
mers to introduce the ex-governor.
The Davenport fair and exposition
cleared 81. 500 THE foundation of the
success. said Secretary Hirschl TO a Dem
Ocrn reporter, was chiefly the libersl.
and | may say msgnanimous, treatment
accorded us by some sixty newspapers
Scattered over the country within radi-
us of $50 miles of Davenport. they did a
great work in putting us before their
readers"
j. G. Root. head consul OF the NJ. W.
A., has written letter from Omaha to
the Minneapolis Tribune with reference
to the charges of fraud preferred against
him in the order. He declares that mo
evidence has vet been produced to show
that he is in default one penny or any
other sum-" He also says the defense
will "be presented. and will entirely dis
prove every charge and expose the con-
spiracy." He concludes the story of the
great expense he has been to in bis en-
desvors TO hunt down the perpetrators of
the Bernum fraud. Same old chestnut.