Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-12-04

| The Veteran Volunteer Firemen's
association met in regular annual
session at Inter den Linden Tuesday
evening and elected officers for the
ensuing year who will be duly in
| stalled next March at the next regu-
lar quarterly meeting. The officers
were elected as follows: President,
Herman c. Warnebold; vice president,
George Maisack; second vice presi-
dent, George II. Ravens; secretary,
| Ignatz Schmidt; treasurer, Henry
Strathmann; executive committee, Ig-
natz j. Hid, Henry w. Brandt and
Bernhard Boyer; foreman or captain,
j. B. Schmidt; flag bearer, Herman
Siefers.
The annual election of officers of
Loras council, No. 532, Knights of CO.
Iumbus, was held Tuesday evening at
their headquarters in Columbian hall
and resulted as follows: Grand
knight. w. j. Mccullough; deputy
grand knight, j. f. Halligan; chancel-
Tor, f. j. Stackhouse; chaplain, Rev.
| {. j. Donahue; recorder, +. j. Car
roll; financial secretary, Frank c..
| Balluff; treasurer, Il. j. Feeney; war
den, +. j. Dorgan; lecturer, +. j. Som
mers; advocate, +. NJ. Sharon; inner
guard, T. c. Carroll; outer guard,
John y. Feeney; trustees, II. j. To-
her, George Durnin and j. F. Halli-
gan. The council voted a Donation of
', S25 to st. Vincent's orphanage. as
Christmas offering to that worthy in
stitution.
Harvey Inslee, accused of the theft
of team of horses from Aaron Lam
caster, of Port Byron, was brought
back from Galesburg, ILL.,, where he
was arrested by Bailiff Denny Curtis
yesterday. Inslee consented to re-
turn without requisition papers.
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The ST. Paul Evangelical Lutheran
League of this city met last Monday
evening at the home of DIR. Parmele.
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: President, Roscoe
Allen; secretary, Otto Hamann; treas
urer, Roy Hartman.
\ new club has been formed by
about twenty young men of the city,
which will have its headquarters in
the Dittoe block, where it will have a
suite of rooms. The name of the club
will be lei Salero," and the object
will be the propagation of good fell
lowship and furtherance' of their bus
mess interests. Frank Davenport has
been elected president, c. Pigman vice
president. Il. Hayford secretary, and
Carl Mangan treasurer.
The following invitation was re-
ceived by the friends of the family
yesterday: 'Dr. and Mrs. NJ. III. Cas-
sell request the honor of your pres
ence at the marriage of their daugh-
ter Bessie to DIR. John Vincent Littig
Wednesday evening. Dec. II. 1902. at
$3.50, at Trinity church, Davenport,
Iowa.
At 2:15 yesterday afternoon the
jury in the personal injury damage
suit of Bridget McDarrah VS.. the city
of Davenport returned verdict for
the plaintiff, assessing the amount
she was entitled to recover at. 81 ,675.
The case went to the jury shortly be-
fore noon yesterday and the verdict
was ready to be returned soon after
the time for the converting of court
in the afternoon. During the NORM
ing the city, represented by City At
torney Thuenen, had placed its wit
nesses on the stand seeking to show
that the sidewalk on the west side of
Harrison street, just below Fifth, and
in front of where the Davenport ele-
vator used to stand, if it was in a bad
condition, was in such condition only
for few days. so that the city did
not have reasonable time to take no.
tice of it. The defense alleged that
the city was therefore not negligent
and not liable to pay for the injuries
sustained by Mrs. McDarrah. The ar
along this line, while George w. Scott,
appearing for Mrs. McDarrah, put
her case before the jury as one in
which her claim was based on Justice
and right and did not need any sym
pathy to support it.
Samuel Yocum and his son, j. C. Yo-
cum, who persisted in the Lincoln ho-
tel fire in Chicago this morning, as re-
lated in this evenings Argus Associ-
ated Press dispatches, resided on a
farm 10 miles north of this city. They
were in Chicago attending the stock
show. The father was aged so and
the son IS.