Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-04-04

re indexing the county records. 1t will
be long task, AID it is thought will take
in the neighborhood of three years.
Miss Mahon. of New York City. will be
at McIa,ire Bros. Monday. Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week for the purpose
of explaining the merits of the celebrated
princes of Wales Corse,s." All cor
sets fitted.
R. G. Lloyd will triumph in the Third
ward tomorrow if the democrats of that
ward do their duty and sustain their past
reputation. The banner ward will not
60 back on its record tomorrow, you can
count on that.
J.H. Kerr made an excellent record
while in The council and his election to-
morrow % his ole seat is assured, Dem
ocrats Of the Seventh ward. stand by
your ticket tomorrow and elect as your
alderman, Joe Kerr
O. II. PARROT, representing the Holly
Manufacturing company, Of Lockport,
N. Y, is removing the discarded engine
at the waterworks building preparatory
to erecting the S21. 900 pump which the
city has purchased to replace it.
John Peterson, an old man IS years Of
age, disappeared from his home in Mo
line on Saturday and nothing has been
heard o. him since. His friends are
totally al a loss to account for his sud-
den disappearance
R, B. Ellis, of Gable, father of T. II.
Ellis, of ibis city, became Frustrated with
sudden stroke of paralysis on Saturday
evening. A special train over the r. l.
& P. about - o'clock that night con-
| veyed his relatives from this city to his
bedside.
John F. Dindinger will win his Gre
dentials as alderman from the Sixth ward
tomorrow, succeeding William Kennedy.
Dindinger will make number one alder
man, and the people of the ward realizing
that fact. will give him chance tomor>
row.
McIntire Bros. offer an extraordinary
opportunity to purchasers of cloaks. On
Thursday of this week they will have in
their cloak department grand display
of spring garments from one of the lar
gest cloak houses in the United States.
Your garn ents can be delivered at once
Mrs. Mary Oliver, of Ottumwa, Iowa,
is in the city visiting at the residence of
her nephew. A. P. Graves, on Fourth
avenue. She is SO years of age and is
remarkably spry for lady Of her adj
vsnced age. She is on her way to visit
relatives in Wisconsin and Idaho.
The funeral of Elk Mayor Ernst Claus.
sen, of Davenport, occurred yesterday
afternoon, and was attended by an i'm
mense concourse of people. Gustav
Donald, editor OF Der Democrat, de-
livered the funeral Grafton. and it was a
scholarly effort The body was cremsted
at the Davenport cremstorium.
The democrat tickets present strong
sldermsnic candidates in every ward this
year: In the First, James Downing; Sec
ond, Henry Kinner; Third. R. c. Lloyd;
Fourth, Valentine Dauber; Fifth, J. L.
Mayer; SIKH, John F. Dindinger for the
long term and Frank Weigand for the
short; Seventh, j. II. Kerr for the long
term aud ]. W. Lswhesd for the short.
The coroner's Jury on inquest over the
remains of he unfortunate Mrs Mic holss
DeRoo, of Sears, after examining several
witnesses who testified as to the pleasant
relations ex sting between the woman and
her husband and hearing the latters tes-
timony as to her suffering from i'll health
predicsted verdict that she came TO her
death by drowning herself in Rock river
on Feb. %, while temporarily deranged
]. W. Lswhead being the only candi-
date il the Seventh ward who does not
live on the bluff, should be elected to.
morrow to the seat vacated by J. G. Ad-
ans. Mr.. Lswhead's sickness has pre-,
vented his doing the work he would
otherwise have done, and has given his
opponent al undue advantage over him,
but his frier DIS will not let him suffer on
that account, but will elect him in good
shape tomorrow.