Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-02
DAVENPORT DOTS

The death of William A. McMahan
occurred Saturday morning at his
home, 1888 Eddy street, at the age
of AZ years. Cirrhosis of the liver was
the disease. The surviving members
of the family are the wife, one son,
Abner, and three daughters; Mrs.
Falk, and Misses airy and Bessie
AIcMahan, both at home. The funeral
is to be held at o'clock Wednesday
afternoon, with burial at Oakdale
cemetery.
Sunday forenoon Undertaken James
+. Halligan received a long distance
telephone message from St. Louis, adj
vising him of the death there, early
Sunday morning, of Miss Bridget But
Ter, sister of Miss Johanna Butler.
who died there April IL. The deceased
had been a resident of this city on up
per Harrison street near Thirteenth
for many years before she removed to
St Louis, where she had made her
home for the last decade.
w. S. Underdonll, of this city, and
Mrs. Ida Smith, of Rock Island were
Gated at Cedar Rapids, where they
will make. their future home. The
marriage comes as surprise to the
many friends of the couple in the
three cities. Mr.. Underdonk was for
merly local agent of the b., {. Il. q
NJ, and later chief clerk for the C.,
r. 1. & z. freight station.
Miss Pearl Klein, Miss Birdie
Fleischmann, Julius and Harold Ochs,
of Davenport. Miss Jeanette Mosen-
fielder, of Rock Island, and Miss Ray
Rosenstein, of Moline, were confirmed
at Temple Emmanuel Sunday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock. Rabbi w. II.
Fineschreiber otficiated. a fine must
cal program was rendered.
John G. Emmendorfer, for eight
years with the Heinrichs Crockery
company. has accepted the tri-city
craftsmanship for the \. Logomarcino
wholesale fruit house in this city.
The May report of the chief of po-
lice, just compiled is the largest we
have had in five years. The broad
expanse of trouble which it tabulates
is accredited to the presence in the
city of small army of shovel men
from the lines of the Milwaukee cut
of.
\ committee from the striking but
ton workers called upon the officers
of the Davenport Pearl Button com
but were informed by Secretary
Krouse that the directors had declined
To assemble to discuss the strike with
the committee. The committee sub
mitted an agreement on behalf of the
strikers, which provided that the lat
ter would return to work if the COM
pany agreed to cease any discrimi-
nation against union employees and
to pay the wages paid prior to April
Is, when the cut was made that re-
suited in the present dissatisfac tion.
y meeting of the union was held af-
ter the committee made its unfruit-
full trip to the company's Office, and
the strikers cause will probably Zoe
presented to the local trades assembly
and to organized labor generally in
the next few days.
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John L. May has recently been up
along the right-of-way of the Iowa
& Illinois road, and told the people up
there that he is going to be on the
ground with big force of men June
8, ready to begin the work of building
that road he has proposed to con-
struct between this city and Clinton.
Architect Clausen & Burrows have
advertised for bids for the new hotel
Lincoln, which -. ID. Petersen con-
templates erecting on Fourth and
Main streets. The estimates submit
ted will be opened at noon June 10 at
the office of the architects.
At 4:10 yesterday morning at the
home of his mother and step-father,
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kneese, SIT West
Eleventh street, occurred the death
of j. f. Kyle, of consumption in the
23rd year of his life. The deceased
has been i'll for the past three months.
He was born and reared in this city