Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-11-01


done.
Hedley Beesley. lieutenant of Conn
pany b. and late partner in the art
shop ON Brady street. who disposed
of his interests there some two
months ago and in company with his
brotherin-law. \. Il. Burleigh, made
Il visit to England. left today with
his family for Los angeles. Cal.
where he will engage in the picture
framing business.
The first Sunday afternoon concert
in the coming season of the Strasser
orchestra and band will be given I'M
der the direction of Prof. Otto at the
Turner Grand opera house tomorrow
afternoon. \ program is in prepare
tion for the event. This seasons
concerts will be given under the man
agement of Manager Henry Sindt, of
the baDd.
y fugitive warrant has been issued
for the arrest of NJ. j. Brierton. for
three months agent for the +. II.
Prince general commission. broker
at 107 West Fourth street. i'm the ST.
mon Koch building. The warrant was
sworn out by \. f. Priest. agent in
this city. who has succeeded to the
office of Mr.. Brierton. The charge is
larceny by embezZlement. and the
warrant was sworn out Yesterday.
The amount involved is $1,000. 1t is
learned at the cOmpany's office that
Brierton was the local agent, sue
ceeding W. W. Welch three months
ago. \ week ago he disappeared and
the police are now hot upon his trail.
Brierton came here from Chicago.
and was high flyer. The firm, or
company. of which f. H. Prince, of
Chicago, is the head, and with which
the local Office is in correspondence,
had sent several sums of money pay
able to customers on their opera
tions. and of these sums 81 900 has
disappeared in the three months of
Mr.. Brierton's tenure. The local
house is affiliated with the Prince
company. which in turn is a member
of the Chicago Board of Trade. \. +.
Priest, the present agent, who swore
out the warrant, was formerly in the
employ of the Register Life Insurance
company. and is gentleman well
known in this city.
Elmer. the little son of Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. +. Bowling, is at st. Luke's hospi-
tai, suffering from severe attack of
lung trouble.
DIR. and Mrs. {. III. Preston are en-
pertaining Mrs. Preston's brother.
Hon. c. w. Irish. of El<o. New, who
is visiting here for short time.
DIR. and Mrs. William ii. Fineshri-
Der arrived in the city yesterday, af-
ter the trip that followed their mar
rage at Paducah. KY, last week.
Miss Mabel Metzgar left yesterday
afternoon for Chicago with Mr. and
Mrs. 4. H. Arnold. who have been Wis
iting Mr.. and Mrs. NJ j. Eagal, and
will be their guest for a couple of
weeks.
G. \. Hansen was one of yesterday
passengers for Chicago,
to spend Saturday and Sunday with
his wife and daughter, Mrs. Hanssen's
engagement with one of the leading
choirs there and her musical studies
having taken her there some weeks
ago.
Mrs. Henry Saelens, Swiss lady,
"a years of age, was brought before
the insanity commissioners yester-
day afternoon at o'clock. The lady
resided near EIdridge and week ago
went to Carbon Cliff, ILL.,. to visit with
the family of julius Grumpys. The
lady displayed acute religious mania,
and the commissioners decided to
send her to Mt. Pleasant, whittier she
was taken.
r. III. Hoyt, who has been visiting
his brother, John Hoyt, for the past
few weeks, has left for his home at
Greenfield, Mass.
The Lindsay q Phelps saw mill
started up again yesterday, after be-
ing shut down for two days ON ac-
count of the non-arrival of logs.
Owen Shannon, the ball player. has |
returned to Davenport from Fort |
Scott, where lie finished the season, |
and will remain here over winter
o.
Fifteen mol6lers are out at the Bet
tendorf Metal Wheel works as a re-
suit of disagreement of wages. For
a certain class of piece work for
which the men had been receiving
four cents piece the pay was cut
20 two cents, according to the state
nent of the men. They offered to
work for three cents, but the com
1any refused. The men can get out I
lbout so or 90 molds per day and I
made very good wages at four cents