Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-01
DAVENPORT DOTS


day afternoon at the wedding of Hen
ry j. Knuth and Miss Elizabeth Clio
YER at the parsonage of ST. Paurs
Lutheran church. Only few friends
of the couple were present to witness
the ceremony, which was very quiet
The groom is an employee at Hinrichs
crockery store and lives in Davenport
while the bride is Long Grove young
lady. Mr.. and Mrs. Knuth will live al
1923 Farnam street.
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Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. James Leon
ard, of this city. passed the golden
milestone in their matrimonial life
and observed the occasion in Il very
appropriate manner by having al
their children and grandchildren
present at their home, $50 lie Claire
street, to assist in enjoying the festiv-
tiles of the event.
The divorce suit of Frances Ora
| ham against her husband, Frederick
Graham, was heard yesterday by
Judge Bollinger, and after the evi
dence had been produced the petition
was granted. Cruel and inhumar
treatment were the grounds on which
the divorce was secured. Mayor
Becker represented the plaintiff il
the case and Attorney Hanley the de
PENDANT.
The Davenport Machine works yes
terday held its stockholders meeting
and elected the following directors:
j. III. Flick. +. j. Johnson, \. l.. Hage
boeck, c. l.. Grimes and William The
ophilus. The directors then elected
the following officers: President, f
j. Johnson; vice president, ]. II
Flick; secretary. \. L. Hageboeck;
assistant secretary. August Sebelien;
treasurer. f. NJ. Hill; manager, c. L
Grimes.
| The naval recruiting detachment is
comfortably located in the postoffict
building. having suite of rooms OF
the second floor. They have had nine
applications for enlistment thus far
and of these six have passed the eX
animation of the physician who ac
companies the party. Of these six
three have been sworn in, and then
names are August ID. Bates, of Mo
| line; Harmon \. Rollle, of Davenport
and Benjamin f. Lusty. of Moline
| The others will be sworn in as sooT
as possible. These three are to bt
landsmen and will go to Philadelphia
for training. Instead of sending tn,
recruits as they are enlisted they viii
all be sent in bunch Saturday, wheT
the office here is closed. The pay OF
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accepted
| \ pitiful case of insanity was heard
before the commissioners of insanity
yesterday afternoon, in which J. w
| Kann, of Kansas City, is the afflicted
one. Kann came to Davenport two
weeks ago to visit his sister. Mrs
Kate Albright. of West Second street
and other relatives. His wife anC
child came with him and the family
came for the benefit of the father
health. Shortly after they arrived
the relatives here noticed that thu
mans mind had become affected anC
that he was rapidly going insane. Fl
ually he became so bad that it wa
necessary to place him under con
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hospital Here the man became 81
violent that it was necessary to stral
him to his cot in the room and h
raved and tore in frightful manner
In the meantime the wife becam
frightened and said that she was go
ing back to her home in Kansas City
The relatives tried to persuade he
TO remain with her afflicted husband
but she refused and a few days ag
left for her home.
Every member of the Houston fam
ily, at Third and Green streets, con
sisting of the father. mother and on
daughter, is i'll with the smallpox an
the city authorities have been com
PEELED to place nurse in the hous
to take care of the stricken ones
The little daughter, Lillian, cam
down with the disease several day
ago and the case was Immediately re
ported to the. authorities. The hous
was Immediately quarantined and eN
cry precaution taken to save the par
ents from contracting the disease
but the efforts proved futile for the
were both reported i'll yesterday
Both of the parents have the diseas
i'm more severe form than has bee,
usual and are entirely unable to hel
themselves The officials were not
fed of the state of affairs and imme
diately secured a nurse who was sen
to the house to take care of the pa
TENTS until they should recover.