Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30
DAVENPORT DOTS.

Aged Man is Bound Over.-J. A Will
Hams of Jamestown, Scott county
prominent politician of his township
being delegate to the republican state
convention, as also Il church deacon
and Sunday school worker in his home
village. was on Friday afternoon bound
over to the grand jury by Justice Hall.
on the charge of writing and circulat-
Ing obscene literature about the Bena-
dom family OF that place. In default of
$500 bonds, Mr. Williams was taken TO
Jail. Although Williams denies the
charge the prosecution considers the
charge against him TO be a strong one
Many OF the words contained in the OBJ
scene writing were misspelled During
the preliminary hearing Assistant
County Attorney Murphy handed VIII
Hams piece OF PAPER and pen and re-
quested him to write out the words he
gave TO him These were the ones
which were misspelled in the libelous
articles and invariably Mr.. Williams
spelled them Identical with the way
they were spelled on the pieces of pa
per and pictures which were posted on
the door of BeradOm's place of bust
ness as well as other conspicuous
places in jamestown. The defendant
IS close to 20 years of age and was I'M
til recently looked upon as a friend of
the Benadom family 1t is now thought
that he became enamOred of Airs. Bena-
dom and that when she repulsed him.
he grew jealous and resOrted TO this
means of getting even.
Wants $1,000 Damages.-Becaase his
son was injured by reason of a wagons
sinking into a deep rut or gully in Mon
roe street between Judson street and
Eastern avenue. Edward V. Welker.
has brought suit for that son. Frank
Welker, against the city for $4,000. At
torHeys Ruymann & Ruymann filed the
petition in the district court Saturday
morning The son fell under one of the
wheels of the wagon and had his right
leg broken Because of these injuries
he was put to an expense of $500 for
medical services and suffered injuries
in the sum of $4,000. The city is al
legged to- have been negligens in allow
ing the gully in the street. The petit
ton says it was completely obscured
from below by the hgh weeds which
choked the thoroughfare and that this
made it impossible for anyone TO see or
avoid it,
Small Boy in Runaway.-The little
son of Hans Roeh, truck gardener on
the river road near Bettendorf, had
mad ride up Harrison street at 81
O'Clock Saturday morning behind
team OF spirited horses. The little fell
low held his seat from Third street I'M
til the team reached Eighth street
when it was stopped by a man who
made a daring dash for the horses
heads Mr. Roeh came into town with
his little boy. about 8 years old, Satur-
day morning. On Third and Harrison
streets he got of the wagon and threw
the reins to his son. Hardly had the
man stepped off before the horses start
ed on their mad dash up the street.
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EIks Get Prize Money.-Secretary
Charles S. Cameron of the Davenport
lodge No. 29S of Elks Saturday receiv-
ed a remittance of $500 from the Den
yer Elk's lodge. being the prize won by
the local lodge for having the largest
number of ladies in attendance of any
lodge outside of Colorado. The other
prize of $3.50 was won by the Daven-
port lodge for having the best float was
paid TO Mr.SCamerOn at Denver
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Says Husband Was Cruel.-Ida E
Hartmann. through her attorneys, Gan
non & McGuirk, has filed a suit for di-
vOrce from SEVERN Hartmann. Mrs. |
Hartmann asks, in addition to a decree
of divorce. s25 temporary alimony, S475 |
permanent alimony, and attorneys fees
in the sum of S25. She also asks an in |
JUNCTION restraining her husband from |
further molesting her.
Axle Company Builds Cars The |
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST Paul Rail- |
way company is soon to be the owner |
of many new ears. A. E. Manchester |
and J. w. Taylor officials OF the road. |
were in Davenport Saturday to give
the order for the construction of the
new cars. The contract was given to
the Bettendorf Axle company. The |
steel material is brought to the Bet |
tendorf factory, where it is construct |
ed into about 100 new fiatcars. The |
railway company, when all the cars are |
completed, will have an additional serv-
ice of about 5000 cars.
Celestial and Dog in Fight Hop
Wah, resident of Davenport, who |
halls from the far away land of the
celestials, had a fight with a yellow /
dog on Fifth and Brady streets Satur-