Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-12-31

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1000 farmers attend annual picnic
at Woodward's Grove.
j. ID. Cady wins championship in
Rock Island. arsenal golf tourna-
ment.
2s. Miss Sibilla NJ. Fluegel, 20, COM
mits suicide by hanging.
20. Death Mrs. Wilhelmina Beebe. CO.
so. Death Mrs. Gittell Femel. 63.
Henry Stewart shoots and kills wife
and self.
81. Death James Milton Walker. SIS.
Moline. at Soldiers & Sailors
Home at Quincy.
Joseph Murphy. As. Drury. buried in
well cavein and killed.
sEPTEMBER.
/. Death William NJ. Thompson, IS,
Moline.
Thirty-ninth annual reunion of coun-
tvs pioneers. at Black Hawk at
tended by about 200 old settlers.
3. Death Peter Waner, 20. Moline
| 5. Several thousand. men in line in
Labor day parade in Rock Island.
G. Milton Steele. AZ. Moline, suicides
by drowning in foot of water in
Mississippi.
z. NJ. e. Sweeney brings action to
hare Plow company plant remov-
ed from the street. Street later
vacated to company by council.
s. Death Mrs Inga C. Lundquist, 62.
Moline
10. Col. II. V. Horton. promoter for
Twin-City Driving association.
mysteriously disappears during
meet.
IL. Death Frank d. Scheible. So.
IL. Lester Peck, aged 8. falls from
barge and is drowned near ferry
landing.
Is. W. L. Ludolph appointed city at
torney to fill term of John X.
Scott, resigned.
16. Suicide of Mrs. Joseph Helm. OF
Moline, at Peoria by carbolic acid.
IL. Death Capt. John w. Gregg, al
Pasadena, Cal.
Death John Kearney. IS. Moline.
20. Death Miss Freida Anderson, "a.
caused by blood poisoning.
81. Death Mrs. Jane McTaggart. n.
%. Death Capt. David Upton, IS, on
steamer Mackenzie near Red
Wing
Death Mrs. A. l.. Talbot, so, of Cam
bridge
%. Death w. T. Smith. 81
"a. Death Mrs. ]. l.. Perkins, II, at
Kellerton. Iowa.
Death Mrs. Philip Heffernan, &c.
25. Death Mrs. Mary Newcomb, 49,
&C. High school begins football sea-
son with victory of 81 to 0 over
alumni
81. Cyclone does $4,000 damage at
East Moline.
Rev. r. B. Williams and Rev. j. B.
Rutter returned by Rock River
Methodist conference.
IS. Wilbert NJ. Bowman. defaulting
bookkeeper of Rock Island Lum-
Der company, sentenced to Joliet
penitentiary, on plea of guilty to
embezzlement of $6,65S.51.
Ed Tam sentenced to penitentiary
for burglary and larceny.
90. George w. Sample adjudged in
sane. Insanity resulting from
blow on head with rock while
acting as constable at Fulton.
80. George w. Harris sentenced to
penitentiary on charge of embez-
element of $226.16 from the Ridge
ly commission company OF Des
Moines.
Mrs. Anna McGorman. Moline. ad-
Judged insane. said to be result
of ]. w. Wars manipulations.
OCTOBER.
/. George w. Coffn,, aged 2, instant
ly killed by c., M. & st. p. train at
Hampton.
2. Death Charles B. Mclaughlin, 81,
Milan, at Portland. Ore.
8. Death Mrs. Mary A. GIFT. n, South
Rock Island.
4. Raymond Mold, aged 10. acciden-
tally shot and killed in Yuma by
his uncle while hunting.
5. Death John r. Frey, 20, Andalu-
STA, at Eldora. Iowa.
Mrs. Maria Sweeney, nearly 100
years of age and a nurse in the
civil war, adjudged insane.
6. Death Mrs Mary Thompson, 81.
Death James W. Atkinson, IS, Mo
line.
z. Death Mrs. Mary Jane Johnson,
"a.
8. Neal McGinnis, 60, found dead in
Hennepin canal.
9. Walter Kannenberg. aged 10, Mo |
line, confessed setting fire to eight |
barns during summer; robbery the
motive: sentenced to reform school
H. Semi-centenhial of United Presby-
terrain church.
IL. Death Michael Brennan, so.
Is. Death Hugh Brennan. rs.
II. Death ID. w. Carney, IT,
16. Mrs. Corinda De Voc, ~, of Sears.
dies as result of injury at Rock
Island Canning company's plant.
John O'Connor, 90. shot and fatally
injured by Henry vermuis at East
Moline