Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-03-12


favor will be much appreciated.
G. Kneese and S. F. Shiek, of Mus
catine, were in the city Saturday to
arrange for the presence at Wood
man entertainment in Nuscatine
April 3 of the drill team of Camp 20.
The team accepted the invitation.
The last entertainment of the very
successful lecture course conducted
| this winter by the Y. NJ. {. A. will
be given Saturday night at Harper
| theatre, when Katherine Ridweway.
with her well known concert compa-
ny, will appear
Spring in all her glory will soon be
| here and you will want q becoming
garb. AT j. b. thinner & Cos you
will find the most exquisite line of
spring and summer suitings. The
patterns are.exclusive. your lit will be
perfect and the workmanship of high
est grade.
Daniel McCleary, living at 527
Thirty-fifth street in this city. and
working for Deere Il Co. in Moline.
was hurt in the side by the bursting
of an emery wheel this afternoon, and
was taken to his home in the Moline
am bulance. His injury is thought to
be serious
The peoples party voters of South
evening. These nominations were
made: Supervisor, Louis Jahns; town
clerk, G. a. Larson; assessor. j. &.
Newland; collector. w. c. Wilson;
highway commissioner, Emil Lundahl.
The peoples party caucuses in Moline
will occur next Thursday night.
Attorney Henry Curtis. of this city,
has notified Mayor Vessel that the
Deere Weyerhauser- RobinsonRosen
field syndicate has determined to do
nate the land on the north side of the
railroad tracks necessary for the open
ing of Twenty-lifth street, Moline, to
the river. and thus is the last bar to
the opening of the street removed.
Rev. Father Mackin delivered an
eloquent tribute to St. Patrick in his
sermon at st. JOseph's church yester-
day morning. tracing him from the
time of his birth in slavery in France
over to the Emerald Isle, where he be-
came the idol of the people Of his
adopted country. and by whom his
memory will ever reyerently be re-
mem bered.
Peter Damn, organizer for the Car
riage and Wagon Makers Internation-
al Union of North America, addressed
a meeting of laboring men at Library
hall, Moline, Saturday evening.
Among other things he said: Dur
ing specified time have found that
the means of subsistence have risen
25 per cent, the price of wagons, car
riages and other vehicles have risen
from % to 33 per cent, and yet the
carriage and wagon workers have not
received an increase in wages. | will
say that this is equal to Il reduction
in their wages"
Mcssrs. William Filter and Frank
DeGork, two of the well-known tailors
of the city, have arranged to go into
the merchant tailoring business ut
No. 32S Twentieth street They are
first-class tailors and cutters, and
have been employed by leading tail
ors in this city, and by some of the
best metropolitan firms in this coun-
try and Europe. They will open their
store next Thursday, March Is, with
a fine line of suiting5. They cordially
invite the public to inspect their stock.
They guarantee first-class workman
ship and perfect fitting in all work in
trusted to them.
For n man whose nomination has
not yet been made, the self constituted
candidate, +. L. Robbins. is presum-
ing a good deal upon the voters of the
Fifth ward in asking their support OF
his candidacy for the council. Evil
IDENTIFY Mr.. Robbins counts the appro-
baton of the republican party bosses,
before whose star chamber session AZ
the famous undertaking rooms the
other night he announced himself, as
equivalent to the primary indorse-
ment. Such is the rule where the
bosses start the machinery and the
OF hen. fellows of he nart Y do he rnst