Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-21
BRIEFLETS.

Nice bananas at F. q. Young's.
New potatoes at F. G. Young's.
Spring chickens at F. G. Young's.
Fresh Strawberries at F. G. Young's.
N. w. Cheney. of Rural, was IN the
city today.
A telephone was placed today in Whee>
Ian Bros. grocery.
j. Elder. master mechanic of the Il. l..
Il P. road, was in the city yesterday.
Get your awnings and tents of G III.
Young, 1T Main street. Davenport, Iowa
All kinds of vegetables and nice or
anges and bananas at Browner's Elm
street grocery.
A new canning factory is among the
industries talked of for Rock Island the
coming season.
Mrs. Ann Burial and her grand daugh.
ter, Miss Grace Frysinger, have returned
from Hot Springs. Ark.
Contractor Schel commenced tear
ing down Mitchell & Lynde's abandoned
bank building this morning.
DR.. Geo. A. Virgins, of Milan, has
been appointed county physician at the
poor farm by the commissioners in
charge.
Lieut., J. F. Bell, U. S army, and wife,
from Fort Riley, Kan. also Mrs. E A.
Darlington with her two children, are in
the city visiting the ladies' parents, Capt.
and Mrs. T. j. Buford.
Mr.. NJ A. Patterson. assistant general
freight agent of the r. l. & p, is con.
sidering plans for handsome new home
on a lot recently purchased by him on
Ninteenth street. between Seventh and
Eighth avenues.
Richard Sibley, representing r. l..
Polk & Co, publishers of the Illinois
State Gazetteer, is in the city for the pnr
pose of revising the material pertaining &c
Rock Island preparatory to the issGipg
of the seventh edition of the work. Any
changes from those given the former So
licitors of the Gazetteer may be left at the
ARGUS office.
Prof. Southwell is satisfied that the
small artesian well which developed in
the court at the Rock Island house yes
terday was due to the displacement OF
the packing in the artesian well on Mitch
ell & Lynde's premises which caused the
water to force itself through a fissure un
til it struck an abandoned well depth OF
| thirty-one feet. The packing was re.
moved and the water in the branch well
rapidly receded.
Messrs. Chris LEATHER Henry freeman,
j. B. thinner and Gephardt Raible, The
latter of the brewery firm of Raible s
| Stengle, will leave the city Sunday
for four months visit to Europe. They
| will board the good steamship Augusta
Victoria. May 90. The first three go fol
| health and pleasure, while Mr.. Raible will
combine pleasure with business. When
on his travels he will make note of the
| brewery business of Europe.
r. w. O'Meara, the city editor of the
| Davenport Times, who has been wagins
an insincere war on the Davenport po'
| lice for year and q half under the mis-
| representation that he was conducting q
crusade in the interests of morality, has
been discharged by the Times company
for repeated disgraceful conduct, i'm
morality and dissipation to such an ex'
| tent as to bring his paper into disrepute
He has been succeeded by W. d. Pearne
who will endeavor to give a better tone
of refinement to the Times local columns
The editor of the Union made an ener.
getic canvass among the candidates fol
county offices during the county commit.
tee meeting yesterday and gave IL out in
a manner not to be misinterpreted. thai
unless he was ''seen" by the various as
pirants for political honors. the Union
would not acknowledge the candidacy OF
any failing so to provide. The conse-
quence was that the Unions exchequel
was replenished this morning to the ex-
tent of sos, and the names of d. j. Chinn,
Ed. Kittleson, VIM. Atkinson and w. j
Rsmskill. by the public annou ncement OF
which the Unions pile might have been
S15 more, are diligently ignored.