Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-09-04
CITY CHAT.
meaning.

Rev. j. ii. Kerr united in marriage to.
day, Geo. Mallett and Miss Sarah Sad
doris. of Davenport.
The ladies of the First Baptist church
will give a missionary tea in the parlors
of the church tomorrow evening at 8
o'clock.
Glenn's horse. Bob" by Negus' Rob
Roy" won the 2;45 race at Kewanee yes.
terday and will trot in the free.for- all
class at the Coe fair tomorrow.
Mrs. Darlington and children. who
have been visiting at the home of Capt
and Mis-. T. j. Buford during the sum-
mer, leave tonight for Fit. Riley.
At the Baptist parsonage on Tuesday
evening by Rev. c. E. Taylor. Mr.. T. NJ.
Sommervill, of Galena, and Mrs. Margar-
ct Smith, (nee GLASS; of Davenport. were
married.
Violet Angel Observation-Disclosures. of
Moline, today changed her name to Mrs
Ernest B. Co&dery. of Davenport, Magis
trate Wivill giving legal countenance to
the happy transformation.
Landlord Montrose. of the Harper
house, knows how to treat his permanent
guests. Today he had them all go to
Clemann & Salzmann's furniture store
and select their own carpets for the fur
nishing of their rooms.
Another mysterious fire occurred last
night. Some sheds on the premises of
John Meyers. in South Rock Island, were
destroyed. together with new wagon
and garden tools, with loss of 800,
and no insurance.
Mailing Clerk Brooks. at the postoffice,
says that it will greatly facilitate the mail
service if people directing letters to Da-
kOta will indicate for which of the new
states. North" or South" the matter is
intended. Here is what may prove val
liable pointer.
The city council met as a committee
of the whole last night to distribute the
low lights under the forthcoming con-
tract with the city. but when the alder
men got through. they found they had
located a good many more lights than
they intended to place. and adjourned to
future time to settle the question.
DR.. J. S. McCord, the old-time pastor
of the First Nj. E. church, is again in the
city. He returned with his family To Du.
bu9ue day or so ago from the health
| resorts where they have spent the sum-
mer, and left them at that place, and he
is Quartered with his old friend, Col
Henry Egbert. He is far better than
| when he left. He will continue his va
| cation till the conference of the state as
signs him to his new field of labor wher>
ever that may be.-Dsven port Democrat
T..
Geo. Battles, of the G., B. & Q engine
that ran into the hand car near Gait last
Saturday and killed three section men
called at the ARGUS Office last night to
state that their locomotive head light was
burning at the time of the collision and
that nj. FeDley, head brakeman, would
testify to that fact also. The engineer
says that he did not see the hand car I'M.
til within fifty feet of it, as he had his
head inside the cab as he was running
parallel with tie Northwestern track and
the trainmen on that road often pelt the
G., b d Q engineers with rocks and 9th
er missives since the strike.
The Union is having really pitiahle
time Of it downing that Spencer squaw. :"
Like "Banquo's Ghost" it will not down
This morning it cuddled up into the
bosom of j. II. Southwell, and again ap.
peared as large as life at the head of the
editorial columns. With the aim, no doubt,
of concealing his identity in the
part he had taken in such proceedings,
Mr.. Southwell is noted as from Book Is>
land" In reality there is nothing
Book" about this city at this time
of the year One book day in year
is enough for the average individual
though it does look as if there was some
one in the Union office who does not adj
here strictly to his idea of thinking.