Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-02-20
BRIEFLETS.

| rTeSn uSn AT oFOWutfe.
| Fresh river fish at Lloyd's.
Fresh fish at F. G.. Young's.
Bulk olives at F. g. Young's.
Lake fish at Lloyd's tomorrow.
Nice maple oranges at Browner's.
Lettuce and spinach at Browner's.
Dancing at Armory hall Saturday even
ing.
Bellfower and Jeniton apples at c. c..
| Truesdale's
Choice spinach, lettuce beets. ETC.. at
F. G Young's.
The cold wave came in earnest-down
to eight degrees above this morning.
Skating at the rink tomorrow night
Good music in attendance. Ladies free.
Mrs. NJ. Levy gave an elaborate recep.
ton this afternoon at her home, 834
| Eighteenth street.
The 99c store at Moline was closed this
afternoon by a constable on a chattel
mortgage of 81 geo.
In the county court today Tim Murphy
was appointed administrator OF the estate
of Miss Alice NJ. Weber.
Gen. w A. Schmitt delivered the adj
dress at the Buffalo. Iowa, Pythian ami
yerssry celebration last evening. which
was largely attended, and an enjoyable
| affair throughout
At her home, 902 Third avenue, Mrs
Margaret NJ Dean succumbed to blood
poisoning and cancer yesterday. Her
age was fifty seven years and she had
been sufferer for over year The re-
mains will be t ken to Aledo for inter-
ment.
City Editor Frank Giessler. Of the
Clinton Herald. who was accidentally
shot some time ago, is growing weaker,
and his friends fear is drifting toward
his death He is bright young man,
and the accident is lamented by many
! friends.
A horse attached to one of the red cars
got away at the corner of Twentieth street
| and Third avenue this morning, the coup,
ling pin pulling out, and dashed down
| Second avenue TO Fifteenth street, where
a bridge line driver stopped the animal.
| No damage was done.
The Rock Island and Dubuque line of
the C, B s. @ is doing fine passenger
business for these dull times. Fifteen
and eighteen Rock Island passengers out
of Dubuque is common spectacle and
travel is correspondinglv good the other
way Davenport Democrat
| There was smother illumination of the
southern and western heavens last night,
caused by the burning Of hay in Buffalo
Prairie township The blaze on the pre-
vious night was seen as far west as Cedar
Rapids. where people rushed down town,
thinking that the west part Of their city
was on fire. In Clinton they though,
| Muscatine was ablaze.
| Messrs W. B Ferguson and J. F
Robinson are In Indiana today on busi-
ness concerning the shear works formerly
located here. and which will probably be
moved back to Rock Island. There is
talk of consolidating the shear. plating
and novelty companies, buying more land
adjacent TO the corner of Fifth avenue
and Eighteenth street and extending the
building at present located there.
Davenport can't get over the extrava-
CANT mistake it made in the purchase of
its steam roller in order to get ahead of
Rock Island in paving improvements.
The Times of last evening says: Mature
has wisely arranged matters so that man
can neither pat his own back nor kick
himself If this wasn't thusly. some of
the aldermanic combine would he kicking
themselves to bed for paying out "a, 600
of the Taxpayers money for Jumbo, the
Harrisburg rolling fraud"
The funeral of the late Sheriff Nat
| Leonard, of Scott county, occurred this
afternoon from the court house at Dav-
| export and many from this city attended.
Messrs E E Cook and Geo. E Gould.
of the Scott county bar, delivered ora
| tons al the bier and the interment was in
ST. Mary's Catholic cemetery. The pail
bearers. all members of Davenport lodge
No 10. Knights of Pythias. were: W.
j. Birchsrd, D. A. McGugin. c. s Cam
eron. Henry Korn, Ed. Purse and Henry
Slrathmsn.
| Among the members of Sterling Di-
vision Uniform Rank Knights of Pythiss,
who attended the anniversary banquet al
Rock Island last night were the follow
ing: Col. W J. Watson. A. G. Coch.
rsne. Frank Allsbsugh. Robt Mcneil,
Sol M. Seely. Frank Walter, F. E
Keener and Geo. E. Hall. They re-
turned on the Q this morning. and re.
port having had most enjoyable time
A fine banquet was preceded by speech
making and followed by dancing, anC
throughout was an elegant affair.-Ster
ling Gazette.
There is a strong movement in Scot
county which is taking deep root in favor
of Deputy Sheriff Harvey Jones as the
successor of Nat Leonard, deceased. Act
ing Sheriff McCourtney has appointed
MIR Jones as his deputy and the county
board is likely to appoint him as sheriff
pending the election next fall. when 3
sheriff will be elected to I'LL out the unex'
pred term of Mr.. Leonard. Mr.. Jones
is thoroughly converssnt with the dutie.
of the Office. is capable and industrio u,
young man, a sound democrat and wouic
give Scott county an excellent admins
tration of the office of sheriff.