Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-21


overhead telephone wires within the dis
duits.
The three Masonic lodges had a joint
installation of ..ieir officers last night
The officers are:
Davenport lodge, No. 81:
- w. Nj. X. Buck.
:. WI. L. Bills.
J. VA. G.. Bush
1reausrer-Ed. H. Clifford
Secretary-E J. Foster.
Trinity lodge, No. POS:
W. NV. ID. Wells
;. WI. a. Reading.
Treasurer-W. W. Humphrey
Secretary. c. Stein.
Fraternal lodge, No. 22l:
w. M.-John p. Nolkens.
=. W.-Fred Wernentin.
j. W.-Elugo Wulf.
Ireaswer-H. G.. Struck. Jr.
SecretaTy-John j.. Peters.
George w. kerker mas bought the old
| Down warehouse on Fifth street between
/ Rock Island and Iowa, and is equipping
/ il with lot of new and modern machin-
cry and preparing to turn paper boxes
out of il after Jan. I at a rate that will
set new pace for that business in this
vicinity. The plant will be known as the
kerker Paper DoX factory. and Mr.. Ker-
ker Will be its manager and owner.
Sheriff Macarthur has received a let
ter from a sister of Harry Roche, the
travelling man who has been in Jail in
demented condition for nearly a
week. The sister writes that Roche
has a wife and two sons at Elma, Ia.
While Roche was so vicious in his de-
mentia that his case did not seem to be
one of tremens, his sister intimates that
whisky had a good deal to do with it.
and has caused his family good deal of
trouble prior TO the present time. Prob
ably Roche's wife does not know where
he is, and it falls upon the sheriff to
break the news to her. Roche himself
shows signs of recovery although still in
bad condition.
The fremen were called to the cor
ner of Third and Rock Island streets
yesterday. Smoke was pouring out of
the hay and feed store of ID. A. Burrows.
next to the saloon of j. c. Witherspoon,
which occupies the southeast corner of
those streets, and there was evidently
fire back of it. The water was turned
onto the feedstore, the living rooms of
Mr.. Witherspoon and his family, over 1T,
and the saloon. and indirectly onto the
saloon. The fire smouldered among the
bales of hay, and was hard to handle.
but the active flames were subdued, and
LAT or 10 abandoned
hayhooks, and the smoking bales were
tumbled out into the street where they
individually soaked till they no longer
smoked. The loss on feed stock on the
part of Mr.. Burrows runs to few hun
dred dollars. The Witherspoons have a
ruined household establishment, cover
ing half dozen well furnished rooms,
and the saloon is badly waterlogged. 1t
may take $1,000 to replace everything
as it was. There was insurance enough |
to take care of the greater part of the
loss.
Justice j. A. Altman officiated yester
day afternoon at. the marriage OF
Adolph Petersen of Stockton, Ia, and
Miss Alma Paustian of Durant, la.
Fred Hubing, employed at the Betteh-
dorf Axle works, dropped heavy piece
of iron on his foot and was so disabled
that he had to be removed to his home,
624 West Front street, in She ambulance.
This happened at o'clock last evening.
The stranger sent &c Morbonia nos
pital five or ak days ago by DIR. Turners
who was called to attend lin and
found him N very dangerous cnlrli- /
ton. died lust cvea'ng. lie was DER
ious and even violent from ihc time ne
reached che hospital until tic time CT li-