Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-08-04
MOLINE MENTION

4XOAk1NC WIEN i kOAN
Bright and early this morning from
the c., R. l. & P. station, the annual
excursion of the Retail Merchants as
sociation started, this year the trip be-
ing made to Springfield. In conse-
quence of the very general exodus of
merchants and their clerks for the day |
the stores of the city, the banks and
about everything else are closed.
Several complaints were made to the |
board of education, at the meeting held
Tuesday night of men and boys tres |
passing on the different school grounds |
| in the evenings. At some of the schools |
they indulge in baseball and the result |
| is. that windows are broken. This |
has been more noticeable at the Irving |
school, where several windows have
been broken. The buildings andi
| grounds committee was authorized to
take some action for keeping people |
off the school lots.
The case of Herman Milde VS. Emil |
| Bogaert was decided in favor of Bo- |
gaert yesterday in Justice Ingelson's |
court. Milde borrowed a saddle from
Mayor Skinner and then loaned it to !
| Bogaert. When the mayor went to
Milde for the saddle he claimed that
| BogaeTt had not returned it and swOre |
out a warrant for his arrest. Bogaert |
proved that he had returned the sad |
die and Justice IngelsOn could see no
other way than to decide against |
Milde.
The stockholders of the Moline En-, !
craving company. held their annual |
meeting at the office of the firm and |
| elected the following officers for the |
ensuing year: President. David a
| Schiller; secretary. w. y. Horton;
| treasurer. J. II. Porter.
The explosion of gasoline in the
summer kitchen belonging to Aid. A. c.
| StOuffer necessitated the calling out OF
the fire department yesterday. The
| blaze was eXtinguished before any
serious damage was done.
Arthur Johnson, after being put
! through the sweat box by the police.
| admitted that he was the thief who
| stole the stock that J. w. ChellstrOm,
| had in the little stand on Fifteenth
street several weeks ago. Mr.. Chell-
strom unfortunately lost an arm in
machine at Deere & Mansur cOmpany's
last year. and only shortly before the
robbery had started a little stand
handling tobacco, gum and candies for
Il livelihood When the robbery was
| M 10 rn
whom the culprit was. However, not
many days ago, suspicious of the of
ficers turned towards Johnson. A
business man informed the police that
Johnson was out in the country and
that he was exceptionally stocked up
with tobacco. gum and candies. and
that it was of the same make as that
handled by Chellstrom. Then Johnson
was arrested and while he at first de-
MED the charge, said he would
willingly pay for the stock stolen, al
though still claiming his innocence
The officers finally got him to admit
the job. He was bound over to the
grand jury. Johnson is 81 years of
age and has always had good name
He lives at 1922 Twelfth avenue.
Arthur Anderson, 15-year-old Chica-
go boy who is visiting at the home of
J. b. Oakleaf, had the misfortune to
| break one of the bones of his left
ankle Tuesday morning. With a com
paniOn he had rugged up a trolley wire,
and by means of a grooved wheel and
a pair of handles the two were having
great sport riding down their inclined
wire between two trees. One handle
was slightly defective, and this caused
the accident, a break while young An
dersOn was riding, pitching him to the
ground
Four new teachers to fill vacancies
have been named for the coming year
by the board of education. The Misses
Florence Kneberg and Mabel Alster-
lund were engaged as grade teachers,
and the Misses Genevieve Lyford and
Gusta Brinkenhoff were employed for
the kindergarten department.
Andrew Turnquist, an apprentice in
the pattern department of Deere &
Mansur company met with an accident
yesterday which nearly caused the loss
of his life. He was engaged in trim
ming a pattern with a sharp pointed
| knife when the handle slipped off and
| caused him to plunge the blade into
the left arm just below the joint, sew
ering an artery. He bled profusely
II was impossible to staunch the flow
of blood and the unfortunate man was
taken in carriage TO to the Office of
! DR. l.. ID. Dunn. where the wound was
carefully dressed. Later he was taken
| to his home on Twcnty-fourth street
| and Seventh avenue. Although the
| cash was not very wide one it was
very deep and will force him to remain
! idle for a number Of days.