Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-18

The American $40 overcoats would be
called bargains at SIS in some folks ad.
vertisem ents. None are urged to buy.
but all are cordially invited to look
through the Americans suits and over
coats.
Mary Florence. the 3 months old
daughter of John Grogan and wife, died
a. its parents home. 1910 Second avenue.
at 4:55 this morning of brochitis The
funeral will occur from the parents ONE
tomorrow morning at 0 O'Clock.
A bright little girl was born last even
ng to F. l. Burger and wife on Second
avenue and Twenty-third street, and the
happy father has been remembering his
friends most generously today in honor
of the little ones advent.
S lit has been filed by the old employ est
of the Allen lines against the Davenpo r
Central Street Railway and the Davenport
Electric Railway. Light s. Power COM
pauies for back wages amounting in all to
nearly $500.
The department was called out early
last evening TO suppress a little blsze
caused by defective fac in the residence
of j. u. Taylor on Fourth avenue be-
tween Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets
The fire was subdued before any damage
was done.
| n1a III hot ha child IF
an actor would become accustomed to
the ways OF the stage, at least the novelty
of it would lose its charm and amuse
ment to it, but not always so. !. A little
boy belong ne 10 a couple in the City
Directory" company sat in the front row
at the opera house last night and laughed
as rerrily a: the pranks of his father and
mother as i he had never been in the
atre before.
Capt Whitney is still Juggling away,
endeavoring to raise his sunken name.
sake on the rapids ist below LeClaire.
Maj. Macker zie snd his clerk, F. B. Mar
tin. returned this morning from up river
points, where they slowed away the up
river government fleets. MAJ Mckenzie
and Capt. Durham have no APP
prehensions now about getting the dredee
aud other boats near Moline into places
of safety.
The Daven port papers are bowling be-
cause there are no stoves in the street
cars over there. The spprecistive pa
irons of the street cars on this side of
the river have been enjoying the comforts
| of stoves since the cold weather COM
menced. The expense of running so
many superfuous lines in Davenport is
no doubt so great that the syndicate is
cutting every corner possible. All that
it can save in fuel will be tina. much off
what Rock Island and Moline have to
contribute monthly to the operating ex.
penses on the Iowa sides.
Thirty-two aiherents of Rev. J. H. c.
Read, former psstor of the Moline Baptist
church, but who has since been expelled
from the denomination, met at the resi-
dence of that gentleman last evening and
formally withdrew from the church and
will organize an independent church.
There are other sympathizers with Mr..
Read in the con aggregation which has 800
members, who, however, will remain in
the church. Pastor Young states that
the Baptist conference under whose juris-
diction the church is, will not recognize
the new branch of the denomination at
Moline.
Every newspaper man, says an exchange,
has at some tine or other in his BUSH
ness experience, met the man who now
takes more papers than he can read" He
was in town last week. He wiped his
nose on the awning, tired to blow out the
electric light at the hotel. failed to light
his cigar on it. paid o5 cents for an al.
msnac, put nickel in the slot at the
postofice and kicked because the mail
did not appear. wanted TO lick the cash.
Ter because he closed at 8 o'clock, and
wato he'd the CLOCK sign in front of some
jewelry store, waiting for it to strike, and
still he takes more papers than he can
read.
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