Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-04-10
BRIEFLETS.

tonight.
Red lettuce aud spinach at F. q.
Youngs.
Mays starter-S bars of "Our PEARL
soap for 25c.
Fine blood oranges and Washington
naval oranges at Boro's.
Short>band-evening school 30 per
month-1523 Second avenue.
Geo. Wagner's Atlantic brewery has q
splendid new wagon on the street.
Governor Fifer has designated April
Is as arbor day in the public schools.
Mr.. Horst Won Koekri,z has returned
from a brief business trip to Chicago.
Mr.. John Aster's bakery wagons have
been handsomely reprinted and lettered.
Mr. Ben T. Cable and family have re-
turned from their European trip. and are
now in New York.
The Sylvan boat club of Moline, is to
be rejuvenated at public meeting to be
held in Moline next Tuesday evening.
Mr.. Chas. j. Smith. of the Beck &
PAUL. Lithographing company. of Mil
waukee, is in the city on business mis-.
sion.
T. s. Fauntleroy. Esq. of Chicago, lis in
the city it connection with the Fassett
suit against the Moline Mslleable Iron
company.
The funeral of John II. Biehl will be
held from Mr.. and Mrs. Biehl's house.
1912 Seventh avenue. at 2 O'Clock toner.
row afternoon.
Tho .Galiforn;a on Wbaalon avh;h;t
has been moved from the Perry street
depot to the corner of Fifth and Harris
son, Davenport.
Holiday Lowry died at the home of his
brother. L. Lowry. at Port Byron. last
evening. He was single man. aged
seventy three years.
Marshal Miller has received a sample of
the new helmet which is to be adopted
by the Rock Island police force. 1t is of
dark blue felt, regulation shape. with gilt
cord and tassels.
In compliance with request from one
third of the members of the new county
board, County Clerk Donaldson has issued
notice for a meeting of that body on
April 16-nextWednesday.
There is a determined fight going on
all over the country against overhead
wires in the electric railway system. The
storage system will solve the difficulty
Muscatine Nsaos- TribnRe
A family of Wisconsin Indians were in
town today and sold number of musk
rat hides to J. & NJ Rosenfield. One
Old squaw tried to steal little Abe, but
Abe resisted-he wouldn't have it.
Steamboat Inspectors John Monaghan,
and Michael P. Chalk. of Duluth. are al
the Harper. They are looking after the
vessels in this district pending the con-
firnation of Capt. Burns and SCOTS sue
cessors.
The children and brother of Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Perry desire publicly to express
| their gratitude to their neighbors and
friends for kindness during the recent
| sickness and death of their mother and
sister
Augustus Peterson, ali Illinois City
farmer, while temporarily insane, vans
dered into the woods last Saturday, and
no trace could be found of him until yes>
terdoy, when he was discovered and re
turned to his home.
Mr. and Mrs J Weyerhauser will ex
tend their wedding trip to the old world.
They write from New York that they
| will sail from there on the steamer Um-
bria Saturday for Europe, expecting TO
be abroad three months.
The social to Le given by the ladies of
| the First NJ. f. church will be held. at
the residence of Mrs. VIM. Jackson to-
morrow evening instead of tonight as err
| rnnaAnolr
ciety meets at 1870 o'clock.
While cleaning the front windows of
her store, 1914 Third avenue, Tuesday
afternoon, Mrs. Mitsch slipped and fell
and her left arm caught on a hook in
such manner as to lscerate it and sever
two blood veins, and inflict a painful in
jury.
President Stoddard. of the Rock Is
land Il Milan road, is rebuilding the
track on the ascent TO Black Hawks
watch tower with iron from the former
slide on the east side of the hill. Cars
will be running to the summit of the
tower Sunday.
| One of the most attractive programmes
of the week drew a large audience to the
Industrial fair last evening. Mrs. Milton
Jones and her gifted little folks presented
q series of musical gems that brought
forth the most enthusiastic recognition of
merit Tonight the Orpheus Glee club of
Moline appears.
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Perry
was held from Trinity church at o'clock
yesterday afternoon, Rev. r. F. Sweet
officis ting. and a large attendance being
present. The pail bearers were Messrs
James Thompson, Robert Coyne. Robert
Knight, Chris. Haberlah. John Corken
and Andrew Engrem.
The spring gun is getting to be almost
as deadly as the toy pistol. and the gun
that wasn't loaded. Birds are being
killed off with them in the hands of
wicked boys, windows are broken, but
this is not all. Reckless boys have been
seen to aim deliberately at people. There
ought to he law forbidding the manu-
facture of toys that are not harmless.
The yearly subscriptions from April /,
1889 to April l, 1890. having expired, the
ladies of the Hospital Guild will soon
canvas the city for subscriptions for an
other year. 1t is hoped they will be met
in kindly and generous spirit. The
hospital has proved a success and ne
cessity, and the small claim it makes on
the citizens of Rock Island and Moline
should not be ignored.
A sensation was created in Moline last
night by the pulling by the police of a
house of ill-repute owned by Geo. Ap
pey. and of which Madame Mary
Smith was mistress. and the arrest OF
those in charge. as we'll as Kate Mitchell
and q fourteen uear.ald GIRL Jonathan