Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-26
DAVENPORT DOTS

At the Manse residence, at
Twelfth and Rock Island streets. Rev.
John b. Donaldson. ID. d.. united in
marriage William Henry Bissick. Jr.,
and Miss S. Olive Helen Lancaster.
The groom is druggist and has
large business established in St. Lou
is. The bride is the daughter of
Capt. Lancaster, Of lie Claire, and is
very popular there and with Daven-
port friends. l.. b. Schwarm acted as
best man and Miss Zindell assisted the
bride.
Gustav Burkley was caught by the
cars at Rockford, Iowa. early We'd
nesday morning and killed. His hips
and spine were crushed. The body
was taken to his home at Cedar Rap
ids, where the funeral was held at
the church of the Immaculate Con-
ception Thursday afternoon at ,
o'clock. Word of the death of Mr..
Burkley reached his sister, Mrs. Har-
~ Davenport. of this SitN. at noon
Wednesday, and she left the city on
an evening train to attend the flu
neral. Deceased was Il brakeman by
occupation and was - years of age.
He was born i'm Iowa City and remOv-
ed here with his parents when boy.
and continued to live here until four
years ago. when he removed to Cedar
Rapids The survivors are his moth
er. Mrs. Sarah Burkley. of this city,
and four sisters. Mrs Frank Long. of
Cedar Rapids: Mrs. Emma Graham, of
Iowa City: Mrs. Louise Beamer. of
Cedar Rapids. and Mrs. Harry Daven-
port, of this city.
George Edwards. the man who last
Saturday night was caught shop-lift-
ing. and who was sent to Jail for 30
days upon information sworn TO Mon
day by w. ID. and Arnold Petersen.
was Thursday morning recalled from
the jail before the police magistrate,
and given still another 80 days upon
information sworn to by Henry Won
Maur. of the Boston store. for shOp-lift-
ing. The amount of goods taken
from the Harmed & Won Maur estab-
lishment was given at $3.50. cOnsti-
tuting petty larceny. There remain
a fine set of salt and pepper castors.
and an open-faced metal watch. the
ownership Of which remains unknown.
in the custody of the police. which
were found on the person of Ed
wards. This might. if prosecuted up
on. lead to a third conviction. which
would place Edwards in line for the
penitentiary under the habitual Grim
inal act. should he be convicted.
AID. Frank Klauer has bought out
the interest of Ben Warnke. of the
firm of Warnke Il KIauer. and from
this time on will conduct it himself.
Divorced Wednesday and married
Thursday is the story of a brief frag-
ment of the life of Marguerite Maer-
tens. leading lady of the German
Thea trical company, now playing at
the local German theatre. Marguer
lite Tor Grethe) Maertens is only her
stage name now. for she was made
Mrs William Sudrow by Justice of the
Peace Louis Roddewig at shortly be-
fore o'clock Thursday afternoon.
1t has been her stage name for some
time, for that matter, because only
Thursday morning news was received
that she had been divorced from her
former husband, Il Mr.. Hilmer. by
st. Louis court. William Sudrow is
also an actor and is playing n leading
role with the same company with
which his new wife is enacting the
principal female parts. He entered
County Clerk Moths office Thursday
afternoon. secured the license from
Deputy Clerk Mcfarland. and joining
his fiance without the room. walked
Immediately TO the justice shop.
where the theatrical interests were
duly consolidated. Both members of
the syndicate were anxious that the
matter be passed over without its re-
ceiving publicity and neither would
DISCUSS happiness or anything that
willcfollow or that has preceded. to a
curious reporter. They stated. how
ever. that the. merging of troths
would not in any way prevent their
interpretations of the separate parts.
The conventional honeymoon will be
dispensed with at present and they
will continue to occupy the boards
during the playing out of the remain
ing numbers of the repertoire.
Claus NJ. Kuehl. manager of Grand
Isle, has received Il dispatch from
Denver. Col. announcing the sad
news of the death there by drowning
of John Ryan and Miss Lena Zoring
by an accident while skating last Sun
day. The ice upon which they were
skating broke without warning under
their weights. and before they could
be rescued they were drowned. She
was 23 years of age. The deceased,
n
Iowa, where her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Fritz Zoring. now reside. For
four years she resided in this city.
This was during the management of
Claus Groth hall by Mr.. Kuehl. Here
she made many friends. Deceased
left here for Colorado, where she
died. She had gone there in a futile
search for health.