Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-03-01
POLICE POINTS.
Business Doomed After . Protrac,ed
Lull.

Lull.
Mrs. NJ. c. Nowlen and Mrs. Helen
Mellish contributed $3.50 toward
the city's fine fund today. Several
weeks ago these two women came to
Rock Island and engaged in medi-
cine peddling. Quite successfully
did their operations work, but soon
their medicine stock ran low and
they went to those persons who had
purchased their medicine, and tell
ing them that they would make them
so.e agents for their medicines here,
they took their order for q case of
medicine, collecting 90 for the case.
Four of these sole agents entered
complaint against them today, and
they were arrested and fined SIS and
costs each for peddling without a
license. The cases Of medicine for
which the original two received the
- arrived all right. but the enter
prising saleswomen had several sole
agents in the city.
Rads Little Celebration.
Tom Dennison and John Ryan eel
cbrated the opening of spring yes
I,terday, and last evening they could
not tell where they lived, SO Officer
Mulqueen took them under his guild
ing wing and called the patrol. They
were taken to the station, and this
morning Magistrate Schroeder adj
ministcrcd dose of settler to the
tune of about s. and costs. They
left security and went to Moline to
find friend to get them out OF their
predicamcnt.
On Trial for Larceny.
Henry Bramst, of Davenport, veg
ctable pcddlcr. is on trial before
Magistrate Schroeder charged by
Browncr Il Co. with larceny. Bramst
hal access to the cellar at Browner
n Cos. store when delivering vc-e-
tables, and the firm claims he helped
himself TO one kind of produce to an
amount considerably in excess of
what was coming to him for what he
delivered
BACK From jacksonville.
Sheriff Gordon returned from
Jacksonville last evening, and
brought with him an incurable nam
ed Peterson, from Moline. The sher-
if says that Peterson is the worst
man he ever tried to handle, and
that he will take him to the poor
farm Monday.
Sabjcct to Fits.
Andrew Elselshon fell in an cpl
leptic fit, near the X. /. & p. depot.
this morning, and was taken to the
police station in the patrol. In the
fall he sustained severe injuries
about the left side of the head. Just
before noon he took another fit in the
police station, and it was all that Of
iicer Dumbald and ..Prof." Dickman
could do to hold him.
Out of Jail.
George White, alias ..Rastus." the
colorcd lad arrested for stabbinp
John Herman, Thanksgiving night,
was released from the county Jail to-
day. after having served a 3O-days'
sentence for assault with deadly
weapon.
The February Report
Chief Sections report of the work
of his department in February is APP
pended:
Arrests-Assauit and battery. l.:
breach of the peace. ,; keeging dis
orderly house, /: inmates disorderly
house. 1; disorderly conduct, .;
drunk. =: larceny, 4.
State cases. 4; city cases, 10.
Amount of fines and police fees
collected by Magistrate Schroeder,
$3.50.
Jail bill. 81.
Lights out, 1913 hours.
Tramps lodged. 176.
Wagon business-No. runs. -: box
calls. 4; telephone calls. 8: fire alarm
calls, ?; false wagon calls, /; miles
run, %: ambulance calls, 3; tramps
carried. z.