Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-06-28
CITY CHAT.
Attend your caucus tonight.
Democratic primaries tonight.

Dung tnls evening.
There will I've car leave the watch tower
every evening at $50.
The latest in straw hats is the green
shade at Lloyd & Stewards.
Remember the late cars to the watch
tower and Spring Cove tonight.
Another new line of straw hats just re-
ceived at Lloyd & Stewards.
Another new line of those black straw
hats just in at Lloyd & Stewards.
Negeligee. Madrus and cheviot shirts
made to order at Lloyd & Stewards.
Those bedroom suites are still going
at great rush at Clemann g. Salzmann's.
Have your shirts made to order and
they will not shrink. Lloyd & Stewards
is the place.
Miss Maggy Grady. who has taught
the spring term at the Rural school. has
returned home for her vacation.
The democratic caucuses are to be held
tonight to select delegates to the county
convention to be held next Tuesday.
Jacob Ohlweier is tearing up bis
comparatively good sidewalk, and laying
new one with the brick set on edge.
That Car load of chamber suites just
received are handsome. and sell at aston>
ishingly low prices, at a. F. Corde's, 1923
Second avenue
The Sunday school of the First M. E.
church has gone up the river on the Lib
bic Conger this morning to have day of
it 10 the vicinity of Port Byron.
The families of Geo. E. Bailey aud
Capt. Jas. M. Beardsley go into camp
near the toll gate Monday morning.
This will be first of the season.
Mr.. H. F. Hartman will have a grand
rattle of horse and phaeton. at the
Rock Island Lumber company's hose
house. at O'Clock this evening.
E c. Csvett of Edgington. was in the
city today. He is the contractor for the
new store which Addison Rush is erect
ing on the ruins of Marshall Davis store
Clemaun & Salzmann have just re-
ceived the contract to furnish the First
NJ. E. and Broadway churches, with
| new carpet. The M. E. church take:
about one thousand yards.
Mr.. F. G. Young the grocer. says the
Union has made an error as to there
being no Strawberries in the market. He
has had strawberries every day this week
| and will have plenty this evening.
Secretaries of the democratic pri
maries throughout the county tonight
| will confer favor by sending to ihi,
Office either tonight or Monday morning
| a list of delegates with instructions, etc
The street and alley committee has
located the standpipe tsken away from
Second and Nineteenth on Third av.
enue, between Eighteenth and Nine.
| teenth, for the use of Street Sprinkler
| Hardin.
The Tri>city Ministerial Union vii
| hold its regular quarterly meeting a
Black Hawks tower Monday. Rev. J
| II Kerr will read a paper on the "Th,
Value of the New Testament" and ,
discus sion will follow.
The case of Cool VS.. Cool, which ha.
! been on trial before the county court TO
several days, has been continued unit
Tuesday awaiting witnesses. and at tn,
same time to give the court and attor,
| neys an opportunity to cool off. Strang,
| to say, therefore, they dismissed the Coo
proceedings temporarily.
VIM Risbon, who was implicated in
| the Wideawake hose company disgrace
was tried before Justice Halves
to whom a change had been taken
from Magistrate Wivill yesterday after.
noon. and held 10 bonds of 800 fol-
| Jail in default.
| Mr. Geo. B. Mckinney. of Pbiladel-
phia. will play at the Christian chapel or
gan tomorrow morning. He is the or.
gaDist in the church of the Evangelist il
| the Quaker city. His special selections
will be the offeratory and the closing
piece. Mr.. Mckinney is cousin of Miss
Sallie Thompson. whom he is visiting.
Supt. Schnitger r, of the Holmes syndi
cate, began at 10 O'Clock last night to Il
| in runover track at the corner of Sec
| ond avenue and Seventeenth street, con-
| Meeting the two sides of the double
track. The switch, which is to form
| the connection, is double action
affair so that cars may be run
from either track onto the other.
An adiuster for the Phoenix Fire In.
surance company, of Brooklyn, of which
Loosely g. Knowlton hold the agency
| arrived yesterday. and was driven out &c
the farm of Mr.. Robert Champion. il
Black Hawk township. and the adiustel
promptly made Mr. Champion out a check
| for the amount of his claim against the
| companv-a little over $500.
The Standard Theatre Company pre-
| sented "Ten Nights in Bar-room" al
Harper's Theatre last night. This after.
| noon Kathleen Mavoureene" was given
as successful matinee and tonight the
company closes its excellent engagement
| in "Only an Actor" A COW will bt
given away The company has struck
bad week here. the weather being sc
oppressively hot that people had nc
desire to go to the theatre.
| 1t is learned on good authority that II
Fl. Hills, for many years local agent or
the Rock Island road at this point, has
rendered his resignation TO take effect a,
some date near at hand Mr.. Hills him
self was not to be found where he W as
sought yesterday. but the report comes
| from source that gives it the stamp oil
reliability. and it is generally credited
among the railroad men. though none of
them are prepared to say that the resig-
nation has been made.-Davenport Dem
ocrdt.
When the new scales were put in OF
Market square the Fairbanks company
sent man named Fred L. Meyer dowr
from Chicago to oversee the work. Meyel
| was given to excessive drink and as
consequence the company lost considera'
BILE time and money. Subsequently
Meyer was recalled and now it is learned
that in fit of remorse occasioned by the