Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-05
BRIEFLETS,

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; Go to Beecher's commission store fol
your butter and eggs.
Good cooking butter three pounds for
25 cents at Beecher's.
Mr.. H. w. Smy,he. the restaurateur.
Ia on the sick list.
: Chas. ERIN Werner. in 'Shamus
|. O'Brien." at the theatre tonight.
!. Hon. W. F. Crawford and son, OF
Edgington. were in the city today.
John Remer. the ferry pilot, goes to
Jacksonville tomorrow to visit his wife
The East End Progressive euchre club
met with the Misses Buford last evening
Cambria muslin SIC yard at McCabe
Bros. muslin sale. Sheeting muslin i2ac
yard.
Fine seedless oranges. bananas, Malaga
grapes and Winter Nellis pears at A
Boro's
| Come for them quick. Cashmere ON
bres 1S1 cents; choice styles go first
McCabe Bros.
The new dress fabric-cashmere ON
bres-1Sa cents yard. Choice styles at
McCabe Bros.
Torchon and medici linen laces-new
at McCabe Bros.
Lost-A sky terrier. Reward will be
paid for his return to DR.. q. l.. Eyster,
11O9 Second avenue.
Squire Halves last evening united in
marriage Geo. H. Osborn and Miss Lydia
N. Shirley, both of Davenport.
Mr.. Louis Bowman leaves for Chicago
in the morning to enter upon his duties
IN the state Office of the \. M. G. A.
The Moline Y. N. G. A. has elected
Mr.. c. ID. Jordan. of Cedar Rapids, sec
rotary in place of N. W Woodford, re-
signed.
| Kohn s. Adler and their force of good
looking assistants feel happy in their new
quarters in the Pfoh building, on Market
square.
The remodeled Trinity church will be
reopened next Sunday with appropriate
services. Bishop Burgess will be in at
tendance.
Tomorrow bleached muslin 2tc yard,
for one day only, at McCabe Bros. Spe-
cial values in ble4ched muslins at &c.
6tc. 6sc. 73c and SIC.
Found-A large black Newfoundland
dog. Owner may have the same BY call
ing at J. W. Jones second hand store, on
| Second avenue and paying charges.
Mrs. ]. II. Wilson left last night for
| Greerville, Pa, having been summoned
to the bedside of her father, who is very
| i'll. Her son. Marvin Case, accompanied
her.
The city council of Clinton, Iowa, for.
mally inaugurated its paid fire department
| Monday. Rock Island will not be far
behind its enterprising Iowa contempo>
rary.
A sleighing party came down from
Fort Byron last night and made Miss
Emma Simmons the subject of a pleasant
visit at her home on Fourth avenue be-
tween Nineteenth and Twentieth streets
MIR. ] W. Jones has purchased of Mr..
| Bowker, the secondhand store at No.
1912 Second avenue and will try and fur
nish the public with new and second
hand goods of every description at
reasonable prices.
A pound socisble aud dance will he
given at Armory hall this evening by the
Womens Relief Corps of Buford Post.
G. A. r. The object of this entertain,
ment is to raise funds for the furtherance
of charitable obJ Cts by the ladies' who
have enlisted themselves in the commend
| able work. and who need and deserve the
| support of their friends. Admission only
20 cents: supper extra.
Messrs Carse Il Ohlweier are busy
getting ready for their spring and sum-
mer business. This establishment has
every convenience for facilitating the bot
ting business and is recognized as one
of the leading bottling houses in the
country. Neatuess and cleanliness per-
vades every part of this establishment
Consequently anyone can drink the
liquids bottled there and know that they
are clean.
Detective Garland and Captain Mar
tens made an important arrest in Daven-
port last evening of three monte men
named Con. Gleason. Paul Busch and
James Sanford, who had fieeced trave ler
out OF $50. All of the prisoners wore
geld watches and were we'll supplied with
money. Sanford had $121 10 his posses
sion, Busch S47 and Gleason S45. The
name of the man whom they fieeced is
not known.
Mr.. A. G. Man. late manager of the
Burtis opera house at Davenport, has
made proposition for the lease of Har
per's theatre for term of years at the
expiration Of Manager Steel's lease. and
it is likely that lease will be consum>
mated. The improvements to the thea
tire, heretofore stated in the ARGUS, will
he made the coming season whether q
change Is made In the management or
not.
Mr.. Matthew Schsfer, of yuma, was in
the city today. He came down for the
purpose of getting the WEEKLY ARGUS
prize wagon which he won the past win>
ter, and after attaching his team to it
drove down from the Moline Wagon
company's works that his friends might
see it, The wagon is one of the best
turned out Of the Moline Wagon compa.
| ny's works. and the inscription, ARGUS
Prize Wagon" has been added to the
letter characterization on the sides of the
box. Mr.. Schsfer says the wagon will
last him twenty years.
| Mr.. VIM. McEniry witnessed an anus
ing outcome of the "McGinty gag" while
IL New Orleans. A prominent citizen
there by the name of McGiuty died, and
when the undertaken was telephoned for
he refused to respond several messages
were sent for him, but to all he replied
that be could not be sold this year Fins
ally. however, be sent representative
out to investigate and he found that Nc
Ginty's corpse was actually in New Or
leans. The funeral cortege proved to be
one Of tine largest ever held in the gulf
city and as 1t passed along the streets and
numerous inquiries as to whose it was