Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-07
NOTES FROM NEARBY

kanllallee is expecting the arrival
Z of Il dozen trained servant girls. all
/ negroes. from South Carolina this
week. They will be allowed money
I for their transportation, and will
/ receive So Il week each for their SER
vices Local housewives hope to
settle veNatious domestic problem
| by the imported labor. The expert
ment was made of introducing Il Jap
anese man from Chicago to do the
housework in rich family several
weeks ago. but the Oriental became
lonesome and returned To the
metropolis after the first week
Roy Knee. son of W. :. Knee. of
Rock Falls, returned home yesterday
and surprised his friends. who
| thought him dead. Five years ago
he disappeared. being last seen with
tramp. Rewards were offered. de-
tectives employed, and he was finally
given up as murdered. Sevcral arrests
We're made. but the men arrested
were released. Fear of being made
fun of by companions kept young
Knee from returniT" and he tramped
all over the United states
On recommendation of the state
board of pardons. Gov. Yates has
committed the sentences of james
Reubart and William ii. Adams so
they will expire Nov. -. enabling
them TO spend Thanksgiving at their
homes. Reubart was sentenced in
January. 1901. by the Cook county
F,t
practicing a confidence game. Adams
was convicted III June, 1899. by the
Henry county circuit court of having
i'm his possession and circulating OBJ
scene literature. and was sentenced
To serve four years, six months and
ten days in the county Jail at Cam
bridge. He has been confined i'm Jail
more than two years without en-
ployment and il is feared hiS mind
will become affected.
Mrs. Hiram Cooper. of Hamlet. was
found dead in an outbuilding near
the house, about / o'clock last Satur-
day afternoon. She had driven to
Reynolds in the forenoon and return
ed apparently in usual health. but
since she has been for Il long time
subject to heart failure. that is at
tributed to have been the cause of
her demise.
The reports which have appeared
from time to time i'm regard to old
kaskaskia having disappeared entire
~ are Il great mistake. Many old
and objects of interest
-
ing by actual count i'm the old town
of Kaskaskia 10. houses, including
the old Randolph county court house,
most of them in fairly good repair, |
several being occupied. There is still |
II remnant of the old state house, .
tenaciously to the bank of l
the river. but the next fresh" will 1
no doubt undermine and bury il in I
the sandy bottom of the Father of I.
Waters. About a half mile above I
the old town and on the east bank of /
the river stands Riley's old mills. the !
first erected in Illinois
About one-fourth of a mile west of /
this old mill in a lonely. deep-tangled !
on what was once a part /
Of the Kane farm. is the neglected
tomb of Elias Kent Kane. Illinois
1rst secretary of state. under Shad
-ach Bond, the first governor and
ler first United States senator. The
Did Menard residence, erected in 1896. /
5 in good state of preservation. and
: owned and occupied by Charles
md Alexander Lynn. In this historic
Governor Bond. Chief Justice
VI oseph Reynolds. Ninian Ed
wards, and many others whose names
ewel the escutcheon of the state
we're Hospitality entertained in the
morning of the Nineteenth century.
)ther places of interest are old Fort
iage. the old cemetery on the hill
ack of the fort, old forts kaskaslia
nd CaholIia, and the Bond farm
.Iedo Democrat.
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