Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-08

NJ. 4. \. building Numbers will be
given out As before beginning at
O'Clock.
California. The only direct line te
all California points. the great Rock
: Island route. Through tourist cars
to San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Excursion tickets now on sale.
Only one member of the public
library board showed up for meeting
last night. The others were probably
at home reading books of travel on
vine clad hills where such weather as
this is unknown.
The Phoenix Bridge company yes
terday started erecting the first of the
seven steel girders that are to span
the slough on the Davenport side.
Slow progress is being made, owing to
the severity of the weather.
The Sth Illinois volunteers (col-
ored) will be mustered out of the
United States service in Chicago on
their return from Cuba about March
1. In this, command are the colored
volunteers who left with Lieut. Wash
ington.
Some of the well known walkists
who will participate in the cake walk
Thursday evening are Miss Belle
Woods, William Fulton, Miss Matte
Marshall, John Wilson, Miss Dora
Williams and John Tyler. Prof. Abe
Warwick viii lead the walk.
Albert Gale, former Rock Islander,
was severely burned by the oyerturn-
ing of a gasoline stove at his home in
Davenport yesterday. He was taken
to ST. Luke's hospital. Mrs. Alvina
Gale, his mother, was also painfully
scorched in rescuing the lad.
The will of the late Eve McKinstry
was probated in the county court to-
day. BY its terms the deceased's
property is divided between her two
nieces, two-thirds going to Caroline
Wilson and one-third to Mrs. Louisa
Churchill. The will was drawn Aug.
3, 1895. j. W. Welch is named as
executor.
The baseball meeting to have been
held tonight has been postponed. 1t
viii proba bly, be held later in the
week. The officers of the local asso-
citation have received promises of sew
eral handsome subscriptions and feel
greatly encouraged over the pros
poets, even more so than was the case
at this time last year.
The committee of the Rock Island
Club to investigate street railway
franchises held a meeting last night
at the club house. The invitation to
the public to participate was not ex-
tensivelv responded to, owing, posi-
bly,, to the severe weather. The COM
mittee will make its report to the
membership meeting of the club next
Saturday night.
Health Commissioner omegys' rec
ord for January shows total of eight |
deaths reported as follows: Old age,
8; pneumonia, 2; fracture of femur, l.;
l asthma, 1. OF these in |
life seven were windows and one a |
widower. Seven had reached the age |
of 90, only one being between so and |
90 years. Twelve births, of which t |
were boys and girls. were reported.
Only one case of diphtheria was re-
corded.
At the Bnrtis opera house, Daven-
port, next Monday and Tuesday even
ings, will be given the Story of the
by Mrs. III, f. Mon
roe, of Philadelphia, and $50 people
from the tri-cities. The entertain
ment will be given for the benefit of
ST. Paul's English Evangelical Luth-
Gran church. Martin Luther will be
personated by Rev. Carl Nelson, the
college orator. The lead
ing roles in the nun scene will be taken
by Mrs. NJ. NJ. jacobs and Master
Virgil Jacobs.