Rock Island Argus., 1903-12-31


Rock Island Three-Eye baseball
league team finishes season il
fourth place.
13. Death w. E. Stodd, 80.
Death Mrs. Katherine Louise Oh
sen, Go.
Death Mrs. Mary Lawless, 70
Port Byron.
IA. Body of Thomas harrington. miss
ing sergeant at Rock Island ar
| senal, found in the river Believed
to have suicided.
Rock Island city schools open.
Capt. and Mrs. T. J. Buford observe
50th wedding anniversary
Death Luce Smith, 20.
Death Mrs. Charles Dunlap, ~
Edgington.
II. First frost of the season. No
damage.
20. Rowley Mumford, Burlington
brakeman, killed by train in Mo-
line
%. Maurice Gaylord, %, killed by fall
of derrick at New Shops.
Death Mrs. Della Brennan, old
resident.
Death Charles CLOWN, 50, of Coal
Valley, at Cedar Rapids.
"a. Miss Preston wins wOman's golf
handicap cup at Rock Island ar
senal links.
Death Mrs w. p. Swami. 55
20. Death Mrs johanna Bischoff. So
2S Death Mrs. John ~ Gustafson.
32
Death Mrs. Sophia B. Head, IS.
Death Henry Van Dacle, So.
OCTOBER.
?. Death Mrs. a. NJ. Blakesley.
So, Monrovia, Cal
Death Hugh Conwell. Il.
Death Mrs. George NJ. Kerns,
former resident, Ottumwa, Iowa.
Death George G. Sperry. 81.
6. Damage wrought by rain and
wind storm.
Z. Death Guy Wheaton. 80, Rey-
nolds.
s. State bank of East Moline incor-
porated.
II. Fire at 1sOS Second avenue does
$4,000 damage.
-. Death Thomas Armstrong, 60.
of Bowling, at GrinnelI, Iowa.
13. f. NJ. Holland, of Bloomington,
elected president of the Three
Eye baseball league, succeeding
NJ. II. Sexton, of Rock Island.
Death Mrs. Barbara ~ Seymour,
6S.
16. Death Hans Adolph Bertel-.
sen. 75, South Heights
Is. Death of August Ahlberg, 10.
20. Thirty-fourth annual grand lodge
of Knights of Pythias and Rath-
bone Sisters of Illinois open four
days session in Rock Island
%. c. B. CullOm, 81, clerk in the of
flee of Deere & Co, in Moline, sui
cides by shooting. Cause un-
known.
"a. Death Gustav Schmidt. "a. former
resident. at San Francisco, Cal.
25. Spencer Memorial Methodist |
church, erected by Rev. j. b. Rut-
ter at Forty-third street and Sew
enth avenue at a cost of $25, 900,
dedicated by J. w. Powell, of Buf-
falo, y. Y.
Death Miss Annabel Fleming, for
mer resident, at Pittsburg, Pa.
96. ". H. Sherman, IS. killed by c.,
r. l. & P. train at Natick.
y. Bishops of Methodist church as
sembIe in Rock Island for week
of semi-annual conference.
30. Death Mrs. James b. Walker, 70,
Coal Valley.
Il. Death Axel F. Eckstrom, IS, Rey-
nolds.
NOVEMBER.
l. Ivy Murdoch, Ss, killed, and Fred
Knapp and John Whipple serious
ly hurt in an explosion in mine of
Moore & WahlStrom. at Coal Val
ley.
.. Death Mrs. Mary S Miles, 76.
Death John Costello, 42.
4. Announcement made of the short
age of j. w. War;, well-known9
Moline publisher and secretary of
the Moline Savings, Building &
Loan association; Indebtedness
subsequently shown to be over
100000, with assets of less than
$4,000: building and loan assOcia-
ton wrecked.
Gov. Yates visits Rock Island and
speaks at the court house in the
interests of his race for renom-
ination.
First annual banquet of reorganized
Rock Island County Bar associa-
tion held at the Harper house.
6. Tri-City Bowling league opens
season.
Death o. H. P Sturgeon, Sc, former
resident, at Window, Kans.
:. Remains of Louis Lamb, Edging
ton young man, brought home
from Michigan, where he suicided
after shooting his wife and moth
er-in-Iaw
Death George Behrens, As.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ozias McNall, Drury,
celebrate 5Oth wedding anniver-
sary.
s. Death Andrew John Widen, &c.
Q. British educational commission
inspects Rock Island schools.
Death Mrs. w. w. Eggleston, 6s.
0. Michael Valentine, Is, of Rock i
Island. killed by C.. II. l. & P. :
train at Muscatine. {
Death Andrew Lofgren, ~, Moline. :