Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-02-16
CITY CHAT.


tomorrow night.
M. J. Murphy went to Chicago last
night on business.
Lieut.. Frederick Schwstka leaves for
Chicago tonight.
The c.. r. 1. & P. pay car. Gazelle.
will be here tomorrow.
The J. G. Swiss Gore 81 corsets SOC
at McCabe Bros corset sale.
&C. Dart and son Will left last night
on visit TO eastern cities.
Nice fancy bananas and sweet Mexican
oranges at A. Boro's, under the bank.
FL. D. Mack is absent from his office at
the c., B. & @, being i'll with touch of
la grippe.
Mrs. j. W. Herbert has returned from
weeks visit to her daughter, Mrs. Brown
at Beardstown.
Miss Eta Mcdonald from Rural town.
ship, is visiting Miss Lottie Schmid on
Twentieth street.
r. S. Silvis. the popular and wide
awake citizen of Carbon Cliff. was in the
city Friday on business.
The Misses Ella Swanson and Lulu
Johnson, of Galesburg, are visiting in the
city with Mrs. Lou West.
The winter crop of whiskers is already
beginning to diminish under the merciless
onslaught of the tonsorisl scythe.
A fair will be held at the South park
chapel on the evenings of April 10 and 90
for the benefit of the building fund.
Maj. G. W. Halves and 81. E. Cssteel
came down from Fulton and Sundayed
with their families in the city.
The family of the late Geo. W. Car er
desire to publicly thank the Order of
Railway Switchmen and other friends for
kindness in their late sorrow.
The gorge below the city gave way last
night and the ice started out Of the chan
mel. The river will be open in few days
and the season Of navigation res umed.
Nearly all the stores will close at $50
tonight, in order to give the proprie tors
and clerks yn opportunity to attend DR..
O'Leary's private lecture for men only.
Travel over the Rock Island bridge
yesterday amounted to the following:
Foot-nortb, 1,94S; south, 935; total
1883. Teams-north, sos; south, SIS;
total lib
81 J acres, two-thirds in fruit, balance
all cultivated, new house, good barn,
sheds, corn cribs, ETC., plenty of water,
about five miles from Milan. for sale
cheap by Geo. W. D. Harris.
l. Rosenfield, head of the extensive
wholesale liquor house of Rosenield
Bros. s. Co., of Minneapolis and Chicago,
is at the Harper. MIR. Roser field is an
old Rock Island boy. and is renewing old
acquaintance.
The farce comedy Town Lots" drew a
fair sized audience at Harper's theatre
Saturday night and gave great satisfac-
ton. Manager Montrose's next attrac-
ton will be J. G. Lewis ST Plunkett COM
edy company next Saturday night.
James Z. Dixon, of Milan, Will leave
March / for Nebraska on a prospecting
tour. If he finds any better farming
country than there is in Rock Island
county, he will locate there, but if he
don't he will return. The ARGUS be-
lieves he will return.
Supt. Willard, of the Thompson, Hous-
ton Electric company, Is unloading the
new cars at the end of the red line, hay,
ing constructed temporary track with
turn table for that purpose. To unload
the heavy cars in safety is DO small un-
dertaking.
Supt. John Hentzelmsn, of the Centr al
Electric railway, of Davenport, and John
Huutoon, of the Holmes lines, have de-
signed continuance which they think
will operate in checking and regulating
the speed of cars on steep grades. Itwas
tried on Brady street hill in Davenport
Friday afternoon, and the Democrat in a
long account of the experiment pro =
nounces 1t q great success.
Anyone wishing to take music lessons
of Mrs. Marshall will find her at her stu
dio, room AZ. Third and Brady block,
Davenport, from 10 to IL Il. m. In an
account of concert given by Prof.
Griffith at Moline, the Dispatch says
Mrs, Marshall's piano solo was very
fine indeed. This lady will hereafter be
in demand at Moline Concerts.
The farm house of the late Timothy
Buckley near Joslyn was completely de-
stroyed by fire early yesterday morning
with a loss of $500. The house was
insured in Rogers agency OF Port Byron
The fire is supposed to have originated
from O. cook stove in the kitchen in which