Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-27
CITY CHAT.

were in the eity Saturday.
BENJAMIN Perrin, of Waukegan, is WIS.,
iting with friends in the city.
William Gray. of Chicago. spent Sum
day with his parents in the city.
H. ]. Lowrey, of Chicago, is spending
the day in the city ou business.
L. A. Anderson, of Lansing. Iowa, is
in the city on a visit TO friends.
Holly Bollman and wife, of Fulton,
spent yesterday in the city with friends.
T. c. Jesperson and wife left this
morning on a few days visit to friends in
Joliet.
Six per cent loans by the Rock Island
Mutual Building Loan s. Saving asssocia-
ton Tuesday evening.
W. S. Steward, an aeronaut of Quincy
is in the city. He assisted Aeron aut
Gould in getting his balloon off yesterday.
Mrs. Charles Harding and Miss Dora
McGlenn, of Clinton, are the guests of 1 q.
D. Burgh and wife on Second avenue.
A missionary tea for the benefit of the
South Park chapel will be held Thursday
afternoon from to at the residence of
W. P. Qusyle.
The Davenport races open tomorrow.
The field Of entries gives promise of some
of the best equine contests that have ever
been seen in this locality.
P.W. Frederick and Miss Ida Krone,
Of Davenport. were married by Ma gis,
trate Wivill on Saturday evening. The
groom is an actor, connected with the
German theatre at Davenport.
Harry Sage today received message
from Manager G. H. Morton, of the
Rochester, N. Y, team, asking him to
wire his terms at once. This is the sec.
ond offer he has received from Manager
Morton this season,
Come up to the house tonight, and
bring girl and hammock" was the orig.
inal form of invitation issued by a young
society gentleman of Clinton TO his gen.
tleman friends. All who we're invited
went, including girls and hammocks.
The trailers attached to the bridge cleo.
trio cars were lighted by electricity for
the first time Saturday night and the mo-
tor car and trailer presented a brilliant
appearance. 1t would be hard to find a
prettier train than that which MIR. Lou>
derback is now running on the bridge line
branch of his system
Material is be ing distributed on Fifth
street and Fourth avenue By the Daven-
port & Rock Island railway company fol-
relayiDg the track on that system in
obedience TO Aid. Bladeps resolution,
thereby enabling the company to run
IS Second Avenue and Fourth avenue
cars through to the saw mill alternately
The Rock Island Plow works are pre-
pairing for the annual shutdown for re
pairs about August l. The works gen.
orally stop in the spring, but this seaso n
has been so busy as not to permit oil
time. The year has been one of the
most prosperous and active in the history
OF the company, full crews having beer
kept constantly busy
One of the Davenport open cars uset
as trailer on the Milan line, left tn,
track twice while coming down the hill
from the tower at O'Clock last evening
The passengers received little scare
but that was all-in falling over eacl
other trying to get away from the car
which was finally left alongside of tn
track to prevent any further mishaps.
An electric motor colIided with hors
car on Scott street in Davenport yester
day evening, iDjuring lady from Molin
and throwing Mrs. Capt. John O'Connor
of this city, in sech a position that sh
sustained severe sprain of her left ankle
A number of other passengers wer
thrown about IN reckless manner, bu
no others we're injured. The horse Cd
was pretty badly broken up.
Zach Einfeldt. the farmer on the rive
road east of Moline, had a peculiar ex
perience Friday. He discharged one o
his hands because the latter upset a los
of hay, whereupon the other three, rep
resenting the entire industrial force il
the field, threw down their pitchforks an
walked out" with their hands in thei
pockets. Zach repented and did hi
best to get them to return, but the
wouldn't do it, and as farm hands ar
just now about as scarce as hens teeth
Mr.. Einfeldt is in bad fix. The me
claim they were kept working too late q
night.
The horse cars have been taken off tn
Moline end of the Third avenue line @
the railway company and electric car
now run clear throu Oh with one transfe
in Moline. AS soon as the ouble trac
cop he com nlatad thu old rod limo will a.