Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-27

visit with their aunt, Mrs. Della
Burns, at Reynolds, III. While alb
sent they visited at Viola, New Gil
christ and Taylor Ridge.
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Scott county, through its attorney,
Julius fischer, has entered suit
against William Kniegge and Con-
rad Kniegge, sons of one Henry Knieg-
ge, a pauper, having had residence
for over 90 years in the county and
since 1898 an inmate of the poor
house. The petition alleges that the
defendants, William Kniegge and Con-
rad Kniegge are the sons of the said
Henry Kniegge, and that they are
both in good circumstances and well
able to support their father, but that
they have neglected and refused so
to do upon demand made. The county
attorney alleges that the county has
expended for and on account of said
Henry Kniegge for board and
lodgings the sum of 1892, which it
seeks to recover from the sons, the
two defendants in the case.
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X. w. Roberts, with PAU Koeckert
III the Gem Distributing company,
received Monday the sad intelligence
of the death of his mother, Mrs. NJ.
l.. Roberts, whose demise occurred
Sunday afternoon, at the home of her
daughter. Mrs. Lennis Wurtz, at Es-
canada, Mich, in the send year of her
age.
a license to wed was issued yester-
day To Lincoln Il. Pope and Hannah
Z. Schmallhaus. This brief record on
the book of marriage permits con-
tains story of love and tragedy
which reads like a novel: Lincoln r.
Pope married girl named Leather
mann at Iowa City, but finally she
deserted him. Later Pope removed to
this city and married Hannah +.
Schmallhaus, and the course of true
love as they thought it, ran smoothly
and happily. But the woman Leath-
erman came upon the scene and in
voked the majesty of the law. The
result was an indictment against
Pope-two of them in fact-one for
bigamy and another for adultery. He
was defended by c. II. Murphy, who
advised him to plead guilty. He did
so, and in consideration of the fact
that Pope was illiterate, and partly
because of the representations made
in the case, the judge exercised Glenn
ency, and Pope was sentenced on
Dec. 16, 1901, to only nine months in
the Fort Madison penitentiary. Pope's
first wife, Miss Leathermann, Sc
cured divorce from him some time
ago, and this left him free to marry
in legal form Miss Hannah Schmall-
haus, who followed him to the Fort
Madison penitentiary and there did
domestic service for the warden pend
ing her lovers liberation. The trou-
bles of Pope and his faithful wife
No. are now over. The ceremony
performed yesterday starts them on
the road to happiness.
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a bill of sale and an agreement of
very great interest were filed in the
Office of the county recorder yester-
day. showing the transfer of one of
the leading, hotels of the city and
state from George j. Margerum, who
has been the proprietor of it for sew
eraI years. to Harrison and German,
the proprietors of the Downs hotel.
and until recently the proprietors of
the Iowa house in Des Moines. Har
rison and German have thus con-
centrated their interests in Daven-
port, which they regard as the com
ing metropolis of Iowa. BY the pur-
chase of the KimbalI they have Sc
cured another first class hosiery.
The Downs is at the corner of Third
and Perry and the Kimball at the cor