Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-19

was A0ie yesterday 10 SIT up ior WnHe'
DR.. Truesdsle. the attending physician
furnishes the happy announcement that
Mr.. O,sen's malady is not typhoid fever
although it was feared in it's early stages
it would prove that disease.
At the Burtis opera house, Davenport.
this evening will be eeen the new
farce comedy. "Ap American Boy. which is
ali attraction rich with new songs and
!aughabIe situations. Tomorrow even
| ing at the Bnrtis will be presented, "a
Straight Tip" one of the most successful
and popular plays on the road.
The conductors on the two lines to Mo-
line stay. So said Manager Luderback
this morriug. 1--WE feel the need Of cuts
ting down expenses as far as possible. !"
Mr. Louderback continued, but We cam
not get along with any degree of satis-
| faction to ourselves or the public without
our present force. We have taken off
one conductor on each line. leaving seven
in all and these will be kept right along"
The Edison electric drills that were
tested in the Moline pool have not proven
as satisfactory as was desired. Now the
Thomson Houston drills are to be tried.
Electrician Frank P. Badt, of that
company. was there the other day. and
arranged for the trial of his company's
machines. He will be back from Chicago
in a few days to put them in operation.
Mr.. Badt will be remembered by many
people in Moline az having put in their
arst electric light plant.
ALI members of the Redpsth company
which is to appear at Hsrper's theatre on
Thursday evening are well.known artists
Of the highest rank; all specialists in
their several departments and are sure to
give an entertainment of unusual variety
and interest. The enterprise and public
spirit of having this excellent and refined
! series those of entertainments in charge
will surely be rewarded by large
and spprecistive audience.
Extensive improvements are being
made at the car houses Of the Rock ISL
and & Milan road on Eleventh street. in
order to provide accommodations for the
compsny's immense number of trailers.
its new motor cars. etc. Supt. Huntoon
IS having portion of the track beyond
the Watch tower junction and toward
Mi an relaid. the line to the tower having
BEEN put in first class condition in its
entirety.
As THE ARGUS has remarked before, the
boys reared in Rock Island invariably get
to the front. Especially is this noticeable
among railroad inen. Patrick McHugh
well known to many here as being train
dispatcher at the G B. s Q. for NUNS
Der Of years and later occupying a SINH
lar position for the same company at
Beardstown, has been promoted 20 chief
train dispatcher of the Jacksonville &
Southeastern with headquarters at Jack
sonville. Thomas Quirk. also of Rock
Island has been appointed his first assis-
tant.
Messrs. Clarence Buckingham. j. f.
Gillett and W. Dickinson. of the tri-city
street railway syndicate, are in the three
cities today, and Manager Louderbsck
is showing them over their possessions
here. Mr.. Buckingham has been here
several times before, and is one Of the
heaviest stockholders in the company
which has done so much for Rock Island.
Moline and Davenport. This is the first
visit of the other gentlemen, and they sp-
peared to be much pleased with the
phantom this side of the river at any
rate. They surely ought to be proud of
it
The jumping match between Jack Ba-
ker, the all around athlete who defeated
Bentley Sutton in sparing contest for
scientific points few days ago. and
Jimmy o 'Brieu, of Davenport. which oc-
Cured at the Davenport base ball park
yesterday afternoon, resulted in Baker
winning the second and third jump and
lO'Briep the first jump contest. Baker
then tried to arrange q match with Tom
Robinson, of Moline. who also claims to
be omething of an all around man, but
the latter took the bluff. Baker signifies
his willingness to run, jump. wrestle or
spar any msn in the tri-clties, for any,
thing from gate receipts to $50 side.
Castoria is truly marvellous thing for
children Doctors prescribe it. medical