Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-11-21


LEGATION Of alleged slanderous false
hoods about tue Republican.
| We are now ready to lit out that
new house of yours with either gas or
cone bination fixtures. Also a full line
of Welsbach NANTES and supplies.
Phone 1880. Rock Island Electric
Construction company.
The children of the late Martin
| Huthmaker desire to express their
| heartfelt gratitude for the many acts
of kindness and floral offerings ex-
tended to them by their kind friends
and neighbors in their hour of sorrow.
H. S. Ruby, pilot on the ferry Au-
| gusts, today met with most unfortu-
nate accident while operating wind
lass, one of the arms of which struck
| him with such force as to fracture his
right arm in three places. He was
attended by DR.. j. DeSilva.
Mary j. Shepherd, great pocahontas
of the state of Illinois, is in the city
and wishes to meet each and every
mem Der of Pocahontas council at their
meeting this evening at 1870 O'Clock
at Krell & Maths hall for the purpose
of recognizing said council. All are
urged to be present.
The Iowa Veteran Volunteer Fire
mems association is holding its al
| nual convention in Davenport today.
A feature of this afternoons program
is visit to the waterworks, where
the delegates are to be entertained by.
| CO.. James p. Donahue. TIE visitors
will tomorrow morning inspect the
Modern Woodman building in this.
city under escort of Capt. +. w. Baker.
The Tri-City Federation of Musical
| clubs met at Davenport and arranged
work for the winter season. The
central idea of the meeting was the
desire on the part of each club to
| Guido the efforts of tie others in self
culture on musical lines and the
bringing of music more into the life
| of the three cities.
The Peoria Star says: 1T is the
understanding among railway men
| that the Chicago & Northwestern will
buy goodly portion of the right of
way secured few years ago by the
| St. Louis, Peoria & Northern through
| this and Marshall counties. A part
of the constTU ction work has already
been done on that right of way"
Hon. Tom A. Marshall, of Keiths-
burg, will be captain of team of
| American trap shooters who will 90
abroad next summer and meet the
| best men of the world on their own
ground. They will shoot in Scot
land, England, Ireland. Italy ana
France. They may also visit Australia
and make trip around the world.
Senator j. p. Dolliver at Angus
tana Nov y, 1900 Have you ever
| heard of Mr.. DolIiver before? OF
course you have, and that too as of a
man-an orator that you will never
forget, once you have heard him.
Remember next Thursday evening at
= O'Clock. Tickets now on sale at
Harper house drug store. Course
tickets ST.
Supper served at the Broadway
church social from to o'clock to
morrow evening. Fancy articles y
aprons, large and small, VIII tie ard
black. also homemade candies, cam, d
fruit and jellies on sale, beginning t
$50 = o'clock. Light re'res hments
served during the afternoon al even
ing. At o'clock 4 short p ;Ogram
will be given.
Late yesterday afternoon at DaVen-
port a settlement was reached in the
cases OF Walsh & Gilman vs.. the ID
&. & f. and the Flick IL johnson Con-
s.ruction company VS.. the D., G. II +.
railway company. While the terms
of the settlement were not made pub
lie, it was whispered about the court
room that the sum of 81, 500 was paid
! to the plaintiffs in each case, making
| a total of $I5 900.
The controversy between Gen.
Miles, commanding general of the
army, and Gen. Burlington, chief of
the ordnance department, refuses to
down. Adj Gen. Corbin, who ap-
pears 10 be all-powerful at Washing
| ton, has taken a hand in the fight.
which hinges around the dispute over
the heavy guns, and as he has thrown
his influence on the side of the head
of the ordnance department the latter
may be said to be doubly armed to
continue the imbroglio should the COM
manding general persist in carrying
on the controversy.