Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-03-04
DAVENPORT DOTS


Cook & Dodge. on behalf of Henry
VI. Baird, have. filed an action for di-
vorce against Lizzie Baird, alleging the
insanity of the defendant. The plain
tiff saws he was married on Memorial
day. May 80. 1883. in Bourbon, KY, and
did not notice that his wife was insane
until he moved to burlington, Ia,
when he was obliged to place her in
the Mt. Pleasant hospital He alleges
that at the present time she is an in
mate of Missouri hospital. y de-.
cree of divorce is asked for. The chill
dren Of the couple are already of age.
Word comes from Buffalo to the eff
feet that Capt. Hugo Hoffbauer, the
old postmaster and veteran grocer of
that village, and now the chief eXecu-
tive there. has disposed OF his stock to
an Illinois party who will take posses
sion of it April l.
The Information alleging eX-Ald \.
c. Boyer to be of unsound mind has
been Withdrawn, and the case against
him dismissed. The hearing was TO
have been held last Monday, but Mr..
Boyer secured continuance of the
case until yesterday when the above
action was taken.
At 1870 o'clock Wednesday after
noon, at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
H. Gabathuler. 1872 West Second
street, occurred the marriage of Owen
Carpenter, of Montpelier. and Nettie
Richards, of Fruitland. both in Musca-
tine township. Rev. :. II. SeccOmbe of
the Bethlehem congregational church
performed the ceremony.
y license to we'd was issued yester-
day morning TO John Dobers, of Erie,
H.. and Miss Katie Stubbs. of Daven-
port. They were married by Justice
Louis +. Roddewig.
Arrangements have been made by
which the Davenport high school boys
and girls basketball teams will contest
with the teams of the Moline high
school at the Industrial hall in Moline
this evening. \ large delegation of
rooters from the local school will ac.
company the players to the Plow City.
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Chief Piening. of the Davenport fire
department has reported that there
were 12S fires during the year with
13s calls, ten of which were false. The
total property loss was S45, s0927. with
S17,450 insurance. The blaze at the
Ferd Haak cigar factory, which cost
$4,000 is not included in the report.
Mrs. w. J. Pugh has brought suit
against her husband, the we'll known
patcntee of the button carding ma
chine. and Il pneumatic beer pump,
and an automatic builder, asking the
court to grant her divorce on statu-
tory grounds, naming Name Nc kinley
of Davenport, as the correspondent.
The suit was brought in Chicago be-
fore the Cook county court. The cou-
pie were married on Christmas day
1902. and lived together fer only 20
days.
The ambulance made Il hurried run
to the glucose plant Wednesday after
noon where it conveyed Henry Erick-
son, a workman residing in Black
Hawk to St Luke's hospital, suffering
from badly crushed forearm and
hand. The man got the member
caught in set of cogwheels. The in
juries are severe, but are not thought
to be serious.
When seen relative to the ordinance
passed by the city council demanding
the installation of steel curtain and
other improvements at the Burtis.
Manager Kindt stated that the steel
curtain proposition was out of the
question and that if it was insisted
upon he would shut up the Burtis
opera house for good. In support of
the above statement Mr.. Kindt states
that he cannot bear the expense of
operating a steel curtain. These cur
tains are mammoth sheets of steel
made into one piece and are operated
ed at the Pleasant Ridge church Sun
day.