Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-17

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tig, of Muscatine. The suit Is brought
on an alleged SANDER and it will be
tried in the courts of Muscatine. Hut
tig is a wealthy merchant of Musca-
tine, and Boepple claims that on two.
different occasions the Museatine
man charged him with having another
wife who lived in Germany. Boepple
claims that these remarks were made
to him in the presence of his own wife
and children and that it mortified him
exceedingly and that it has damaged
his reputation to the extent of $780,
600.
The Bee Hive Cloak and Millinery
company has dissolved its stock and
hereafter the store will be conducted
ON a partnership basis with Messrs.
IL. and j. Deutsch at the head of ~
The store will retain its old name and
will be run on the same principles as
before. In March, 1890, the com
pany was organized for period of
20 years or until the stockholders saw
fit to dissolve the stock and divide up
the assets. This was accomplished by
the stockholders July Is at their regu-
lar meeting.
Mrs. q. w. Hill, police matron of
Davenport, has returned home after
placing three Davenport girls in the
House of the Good Shepherd. where
they will be given shelter and placed
among comfortable surroundings
that will serve as an inducement for
them to desert their erring ways and
again start on the pathway of use
fulness and noble womanhood.
| William Hogg, the man who was ar
rested for beating the st. James hotel
out of board bill was taken before
Justice Hall and arraigned yesterday
morning. Hogg asked that the case
be continued and on the way back to
the Jail stated that he had written TO
Scotland Tor the money and that he
would have 10 wait for it. This means
that he will have to spend a good long
time in Jail unless he receives aid
from some other source.
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At > O'Clock yesterday fternoon the
fire department was called to Case
and Federal streets, in the immediate
vicinity of the oil tanks of the Stan
dard Oil company. The fire started in
II house belonging to n Mr.. Conoway
but the blaze was eXtinguished before
the arrival of the department. Con
| siderable excitement was accustomed
| however, for the time being by q
false report circulated to the effect
that the oil tanks were on fire.
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! Yesterday afternoon at ) o'clock
the body of Clara Luetje. of 1853 West
Eighth street. who was drowned We'd
nesday evening at the foot of Rock
Island street while starting out with
a party of six for a launch excursion
was recovered about 100 feet from the
shore opposite the ferry dock. The
body was found after search which
had lasted through the greater part
of Wednesday night and all of Thurs
day. Dick Schaefer. Fred Sunier. OF
To Ewoldt, Frank Baner and Harry
Jacobsen were in the rescuing party
They had been dragging the river
with net which was lowered in the
water between two boats, and after
being on the water for over 10 hours
they were rewarded at o'clock by
the recovery of one of the bodies OF
the two drowned girls. shortly after
finding the body of Miss Luetie, the
searchers pulled up a jacket and a
handkerchief belonging to one sof the
girls. The body was taken to the
Boies undertaking rooms, where Cor,
oner Lambach held an inquest today