Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-27

order To tide them ever.
L4te yesterday afternoon a horse be-.
longing to Upiyke & Nicholas was over
cone by the heat neAr tie corner OF
Twentieth street and Secn5d avenue and
fell upon tue pavement. Attempts were
made to bring him sroucd again. but
everything fa'lsd and he died shortly af-
ter
Aspeclsl meeting Of tie Rock Island
Building ass citation will be held next
Tuesday evening at toe new office in the
Mitchell & L7ne building. TO receive SUBJ
scriptiou to th Jew RES and to make
loans on the new rlln authorized by
recent act of The legislature. On this
plan the premium Is rot deducted but is
payable III iastalmpn's E H. Guyer,
secretary.
The Davenport Lumber company las
sold the saw mill and the niue acres of
ground about i, To Rock Island and Mo-
line parties,J 5 kestor, Chsrlee Hsn-
enwsy. Charles 4 Rose The lumber
now on hand will remain the property of
the old company. Toe new company b as
not vet decided as to how the mill shall
be operated.
The Rock Island Citizens Improvement
association has busy seasons work this
summer with the Columbian Fourta of
July demonstration. the silver brick pro D.
osition, the tnion depot and new court
house projects and the carnival subject.
Sill the Improvement association is
equal to all such emergencies. Il has
successfully engineered as many uuder>
tskiugs to a successful issue before. and
i: will this time
Seven little girls who show consider.
able talent IN tie l,Ie o: private ,heatri-
Gals. gave nDa'euC performance of
the Gamblers Wife a couple OF DAYS
ago IL oue of The large rooms in the sec
oI1 S,orY o: tie j2i, building to shout
one huutred spectators. The names of
ttose taking part were Eva Loug Anua
Deisenroth, Alta Hoppe, Fannie Ransom,
Ole Gordon. Lulu Harris and Susan
Gordon.
The suite of four rooms in Masonic
temple now occupied BY the}law firm CT
Jackson & Hurst and the insurance firm
of Hurst & Donaldson have heeu re-
modelled, reprinted and repapered aul
are now among the most inviting in the
city, being connected By electric bells
and arranged with view TO comfort and
convenience. In the reception room IS
George F. Roth, law clerk. while the Of
fees of Messrs. Jackson and Hurst open on
either side. Charles Buford has a desk in
Mr.. Hurst's room, while back of this is
the insurance Office and also the Office o.
the Home Building association, and here
may always be found Mr.. Donaldson.
Miss Stafford, steuo grapher, of the two
firms also has pleasant quarters.
Whew! how the truth does nettle the
Union. Allusion to its past record drives
it wild with indignation and il flies into
a rage over the reference made in THE
ARGUS of yesterday to its recent mode of
campaigning, By shouldering the respon-
sibility of its utterances as to anonymous
correspondents. and frothing at the
mouth, terms The ARGUS a "snivelng,
lying hypocrite, blatant 2ss" and an
"amoozin' little cuss." and lots of other
pretty little epithets. THE ARGUS rea-
Lies the danger OF aggravating the Union
during the hot season, especially on such
an extremely torrid day as yesterday, and
will not do it again Until the dog days
are over.
| The trolley wire Of the Davenport 6
Rock Island street railway company part
ed at the frog where the Fifteenth street
line switches off from Second avenue at
s O'Clock last evening, and the charged
wire fell to the street. The current was
Immediately shut of below the current
break on Twentieth street, and the COM
pany's experis soon had the wire spliced
and traffic resumed. No damage re-
suited, although there were number Of
| meddlesoma boys, such as are always on
hand at such = time, who were for exam
ming the wire. sni but for the frmness
Of Molormau Moody, whose car was
passing over tie switch when the break
occurred, aud who drove the boys of,
one of them might have received pain
fui reminder Of the dqoca- IF tarDeriro,
with what did not concern him