Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-16
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Putnam FuneraI.-The funeral of the
late William Clement Putnam will be
held Wednesday afternoon, with SER
vices at 2:30 O'Clock, at Science hail.
DIR. ]. B. Donaldson and Bishop T. N
Morrison will officiate. The interment
at Oakdale will be private
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Child til.--Little Alma E. jackson,
the 2-year-old child who was taken by
its father, Frank Jackson on Saturday
night from its mother at LeClaire and
brought to Davenport, is still with Mrs.
Hill at the house of detention and was
reported to be quite i'll yesterday after
noon. suffering from high fever and
other symptoms of the grip. The child
was sick when taken from its home
at o'clock Saturday night and with
out sufficient outer clothing. was
brought by its father to Davenport,
where he was arrested at / o'clock
Sunday morning carrying the little one
in his arms upon the street. The faith
er was released from custody and at
once engaged Attorneys Cannon & Nc
Guirk in an endeavor to regain posses
sion of the child The mother has re-
tanned j. A. Hanley and will also fight
for the possession of the little one.
Traded Anothers Property. Walter
Trusdale was arrested yesterday after
noon upon a warrant issued in Justice
Halls court in which William Palmer
charges the defendant with obtaining
property under false pretenses. Trus-
dale traded buggy TO Palmer in ex-
change for a sorrel horse. 1t later de-
veloped the buggy did not belong TO
Trusdale but was the property of a
party by the name of Wilson.
Suffering from Dope.-Sunday night
the police were summoned to Second
and Iowa streets where ii was reported
a man had been found suffering from
fits. The stranger proved TO be Frank
Wretlund of Moline. He was taken in
the wagon to the police station and up
on arriving there Night Capt. Mullane
observed that he was suffering from
more than an attack of fits and had
him removed to st. LukS's hospital
where DIR. Barewald attended the pa
tent. The attending physician gave it
as his opinion that the man was suffer
ing from cocaine poisoning. He had
evidently been drugged by having the
cocaine put in his beer, for il was
known that he had been drinking at
number of places, at one of which it is
supposed the cocaine was used for
Knockout drop" purposes. He was
foaming at the mouth and in intense
agony. When he came over the bridge
Wretlund claimed 10 have had S11, but
when searched at the police station he
was penniiess. Wretlund is a Swede
and came TO Davenport from Moline
with company of his friends to cele-
brate the Sabbath on this side of the
river =. One of these Moliners, K A.
Gustafson, was arrested for carrying
a gun on the east side and when
searched at the station had 500 in his
pockets.
Teaches at university.-NIiss Bertha
Voss of this city has received an APP
pointment as teacher in French at the
State University of Iowa She will
have charge of the work in the sopho-
more classes Miss Voss was gradual
ed from 8. U. i. in 1904, in the college
of liberal arts. She had received her
preparatory education in st. Rather
ines in this city.
Case Continued. - The case of the
state vs. A. Riepe. charged with selling
cocaine to John Foley, 19-year-old lad,
contrary to the state statute. was not
called for trial yesterday afternoon in