Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-01-28

tract which has required over three
months of labor on the part of large
number of civil engineers and drafts
men to complete. This print contains
SO lots and shows beautiful boule-
wards ranging from 40 to 100 fet wide
winding through the entire property
and meas uring a total OF miles of
beautiful drives. The plans conform
with the natural beauty Of the pro-
perty and reserves over 1000 trees
after in the neiehborhood of 1000
have removed.
Someone. in attempting to thaw out
Il frozen pipe al II o'clock yesterday
in Il barn in the rear of the John y.
Feeney grocery store on East Third
street. ignited some combustibleS. and
someone else while excited turned in
box alarm summoning the depart
ment. No damage was done, although
there was considerable smoke for
awhile. The pipe was thawed out.
After Il brief Illness dating from the
midnight of Monday. Miss Emma
kasch. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Hen
~ Kasch. died at the home of her par
ents. 1929 West Second street at 2:3O
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Miss
Kasch had been unweN for Il long
time. She. however. attended the
Burns club festival at Otto Lair
mann'S Monday evening. and became
i'll at midnight. Deceased was ~ years
Of age. and was born and reared liz
Davenport. There survive her par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry kaSch. and
one brother, Charles kaSch. The fu-
neral will be held tomorrow afternoon
from the KaSch home. 1929 West Sec
ond street, with interment at Fair
mount cemetery.
vt midnight Tuesday AT the home
of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs Fritz Finger. 9I9 West Fifth
street. occurred the death of Mrs.
Anna Ri>tau. aged - years. Death
came to deceased very suddenly. and
without pain. She was wakeful last
evening. and enjoyed the company of
her daughter and her husband. At
midnight she became suddenly i'll. and
DR.. Strohbein was called. But the lady
was beyond mortal aid. She died soon
after his arrival. Death was the result
of heart failure. Deceased was born
in Dantzic. Germany. and came TO
America 10 years ago. Besides her
daughter. Mrs Finger, she i survived
by her son residing in Chicago.
Charles johnson. alias {. y. Janista.
who was arrested Tuesday morning
at the G.. L. /. d p depot by Officer
Goetsch and fully Identified by w. II.
Hill. Of the Sunshine Outfitters' -es-
Enlistment. Hugo Krohn. Of The Scott
County Savings bank. and Gus Stue-
ben as the man who uttered the forg-
ed instrument told of in this paper the
other day. was given preliminary
hearing before Judge Finger and on
waving examination was held to the
grand jury in the sum of 81. 900 bail.
The charge i that of forgery. The
police are now hunting the man Rod
gers who escaped in the direction of
Walcott.
At the parsonage of the Evangelical
Lutheran church on Fifth and Vine
streets. n > o'clock Tuesday afternoon
occurred the marriage OF Christian
Alt and Miss Alvina LehnS. both of
Blue Grass township. Rev. Herman
Grief performed the ceremony.
The success attending Prof. Ernst |
Otto's concerts at Turner hall has |
to Manager y. X. Slot of !
the Davenport Military band the pro- |
priety Cf inaugurating similar event |
at the Claus Groth hall. He has there
fore arranged to give Il regular series
Of concerts every Wednesday night at
the Claus Groth hall.
y. c. JaniSte may be a more clever
furger than the authorities think and
if ne is the man who worked graft
at the postofiice Monday he is certain
" smooth one. Monday Janiste
came to the postoffice and asked for
a money order for $40. The order was
written to James Morris. of Chicago.
ILL.,. and was in care Of the Parks
hotel. The man rendered a check
n payment, which was written by n. {.
Doner and was purported to be signed
oy II. Il. Jones of the Trust Manu-
featuring company. Miss Nettie Con-
ler. the money order clerk. cashed the
check giving the man So in return.
Later it was learned it was forgery
md an attempt has been made to
stop payment of the order if indeed
my will be demanded. The man gave
lis name as X. {. Doner in the order
md his address as 1926 Division street.
That il is he man Janiste or his partner
Who did the work is particularly evil
lent from the fact that the check
vas purported to be signed by H. Il.
Jones, the same as the other checks
Ound on Janiste when he was arrest
d. The officers are investigating the
natter. but no developments have ;
'ome to light.