Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-05
DAVENPORT DOTS

Suit has been begun in the district
court against the Bettendorf Axle
company. The petitioner is Emil
Klaffl<e, who asks damages in the
sum of $4,000 on account of personal
injuries sustained by an accident at
the plant of the defendant company
on the oath day of last March. Mr..
klaffke says that on the day in ques-
ton he was working on one of the
punching machines and stopped to fix
it. The safety device, he alleges, was
not in running order, and for that
reason, while he was working to re-
pair the machine, the jar from the
other machines set this one going,
with the result one of the petitioners
hands was crushed.
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The telegraph team shoot of the
Davenport Schuetzen society was held
at the Schuetzen park Sunday. This
shoot was participated in by 20
teams of the Northwest bund, the
organization which includes all the
Schuetzen societies of the northwest.
The results were as follows: j. f.
Bredow, 1851; Emil Berg, All; Ed BerI
ger, 400; Frank Berg, 800; c. W. Ran
zow. 1855; j. d. Reginnitter, 4O6; total,
'2,37O.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Behr, who re-
side four miles out of the city on the
Locust street road, are mourning the
loss of their son, Freddie, whose
death occurred Sunday morning, the
fatal ailment being appendicitis. The
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o'clock, with interment at Paramount
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At the family home, six miles north.
east of Eldridge. at 8 o'clock Sunday
night, occurred the death of Herman
Westphalen at the age of "a years.
Death occurred after an illness of
four weeks from pleurisy and compli-
cations. Deceased is survived by his
mother and two sisters, Mrs. Mutchau
and Miss Lizzie Westphalen. The flu
neral will be held Wednesday after
noon at , o'clock, with interment at
Hedges cemetery.
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The dedication of St. Johns chapel
and school on Lincoln avenue down
in the west end took place Sunday.
This chapel has been erected by the
German Evangelical Lutheran
church congregation of which Rev.
\. ID. Grief is the pastor, and to
which it is auxiliary as a mission.
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The death of William Mcfarland,
Jr., occurred Sunday afternoon at
1870 o'clock. He was born in St.
Louis and was 40 years of age. He
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sisters. Mrs j. f. Reynolds, Mrs.
Ira Weir of Santa Barbara, Cal,
Mrs. c. \. Shellberg of Moline and
Mrs. X. Pierce of 312 Perry street.
The funeral was held from the
home of Mrs. Pierce this morning
at s o'clock service being held at st.
Anthony's church and interment
being made at St. Marguerite's Gene
terry.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. 5. Hepburn and
daughter Mabel and Major and Mrs.
Z. 3. Hayward left today for the
east stopping at Niagara Falls, talk
ing the trip down the st. Lawrence,
and going via Quebec and the White
mountains to Portland, Me. From
there Mr.. and Mrs. Hepburn go to
their old homes in St. Lawrence coun-
ty and at Crown Point y. Y, for
visit, and meet the other Davenport
ers again in the Adirondacls, return
ing home in the fall.
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Word has been received from Gen
'eseo to the effect that requisition
papers were being made out for the
return of the two negroes Tolliver
and Hedges, who stole bicycles at
Geneseo last week and brought them
to this city. When the bicycle deal
er from whom the wheels were
stolen came here he refused to pros
ecute the case, and was read quite
lecture by Chief Martens. Later
Desk Sergeant Tilebein wrote a let
ter to the authorities there which
awakened them to sense of their
duty.
r. Hogan the negro who was ar