Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-20
DAVENPORT DOINGs

| DAVENPORT DOINGS
Marriage licenses were issued by
Clerk Cheek yesterday to William ].
Scheel, of Rock Island, and Adalena
Vetter, of Davenport. William Sny-
der and Loretta A. Marquis.
George Lindsay, colored, known to
the police as Shotgun was arrest
ed yesterday on general principles,
to serve out old time. When "Shot-
gun" was last before the bar of JUS
tice the magistrate asked him where
he got the name, and he said that he
was shot with a shotgun in Quincy
some years ago, and since that time
the name, which was not of his own
choosing, has always chung to him.
The Scottish Rite Masons of the
various bodies in the Davenport jur-
isdiction assembled here for their an
nual autumn reunion today. The
Masonic temple is their meeting
place, and the work in the various
degrees from the 4th to the 32d in
elusive will be carried on there pref
ty steadily Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday afternoons and evenings.
According to n deed filed in the re-
corder's office yesterday Phineas
Curtis and Louis l.. Curtis have sold
to Robert c. Curtis, for $1O,35O, 40
acres about half mile southwest of
the town of Donahue, in Aliens
Grove township. The deed of trans
fer of the old building of the First
Presbyterian church to the north
west corner of Seventh and Brady
streets was filed yesterday and shows
that the Davenport Academy of Nat
ural Sciences has secured the prop
erty on payment of $1,000.
The marriage of Miss Margaret f.
Lumsden and Hon. Stanley Foutz
took place today at high noon at the
brides home, 1411 Fulton avenue. Mr..
Foutz is n Baltimore attorney and at
the last election was elected to the
Legislature.
There has been deposited in a Dav-
export bank a purse of about $500 to
the credit of the widow of J. Thomas,
the Davenporter who was killed
while at work on the government
work at Moline a few weeks ago.
The purse was made up by the en-
ployes of the government arsenal
Men in every shop contributed and
turned the money over to one of the
officers, who gave the bank book to
Mrs. Thomas. Mr.. Thomas formerly
worked on the island and was popu-
lar with his fellow worlkmen.
Perry Cooper. employed at the
shops of the Rock Island road in this
city, was seriously injured yesterday
afternoon shortly before ? o'clock
by letting a heavy piece of iron drop
on his right foot with the result two
of the small bones in that member
were broken. He was taken to his
home on the third floor of the Put
nam building.
The trial of Alexander Berndt, the
carpenter accused of the murder of
Ed Thode. will commence in the dis
trict court next Monday. according
to present arrangements. 1t will be
remembered that Berndt was ar
rested the day after the stabbing of
Thode. The two are said to have
quarreled in a saloon on Rockingham
road and an effort will be made by
the state to show that Berndt follow
ed the younger man and when a fav-
orable opportunity offered stabbed
him in the stomach so that the in
testine was perforated, causing gan
creme to set in and resulting in the
death of the wounded man at Nor
bonia hospital few days later. An
ante-mortem statement by Thode eX-
pressed the belief that it was Berndt
who was responsible for the stab
bling, inasmuch as the carpenter was
the only man he had had any trouble
with the night of the affray. He adj
mitted his impression at the time
was that he had been kicked and not
stabbed. The discovery of his wound
was made by others at his boarding
house some hours later. w. NJ.
Chamberlain will be the prisoners
lawyer.
Harry n. Pillsbury, the chess
champion, arrived in the city yester-
day and last night he played %
games simultaneously at Turner hall,
the exhibition being under the aus
pieces of the Davenport Chess club.
The champion succeeded in winning
all of the games except one, which he
lost to DIR. w. II. Ludewig, of Rock
Island. Tonight at the same time
MIR. Pillsbury will give an exhibition
of blindfold chess, playing 10 games
simultaneously without seeing any
of the boards and without any rec
ord of the changes in the position of
the pieces except mental one
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