Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-27
TO SPITE The CITY
Matthias SchnelI Seeks to Get
Back at Rock Island in
Storm Drain.
WOULD TIE UP ALL FUNDS
Wants Injunction Stopping Payment ct
All Legitimate Obiiga-
tons.

court in the name of Matthias Schnei
and Henry Tappendorf, through II. A
I Weld and Joseph l.. Haas, attorneys
for the purpose of enjoining the city
of Rock Island from the payment ri
| any of the recently contracted indebt
edness and restraining Henry r. Hub
| bard. county clerk. from levying any
! tax for the sinking fund.
III This follows the refusal of the city
council TO make amy payment on the
storm drain fraudulently constructed
and for which the court failed to find
that the city owed anything. 1t Is
looked upon as either means of fore
ing settlement of some kind as com
promise or is prompted by grudge and
spite against the city because the
council refused to enter into such com
promise.
Contents of the Bill.
1t is set up in the bill for injunction
that there are outstanding bonds in the
sum of $4,000. dated September |,
1897: unpaid water certificates in the
sum of 100000, dated Jan |. 1901 !:
bonds in the sum of $25. 900. dated Feb
|, 1902
Ill 1t is stated further that contracts are
pending with the Concrete Construc-
ton company for the erection of an aG.
dition to the water works building at
an expense of $5.565 with the Snow
Steam Pump works for the installation
of pump at an expense of $24,990:
with the SeaSrave company for hook
and ladder truck costing $1,000; with
/. the Peoples Power company for light $
at an expense of SIS, 200; and with spe-
cial attorneys.
IL What Is Now Sought to Accomplish.
| 1t is asked that George W. McCasll-
rim, mayor; II. c. Schaffer. city clerk,
and Z. w. Schoede. city treasurer. be
restrained from the payment of any of
| these bonds or the interest thereon or
| the consideration in the contracts, and
that Henry b. Hubbard. county clerk.
be restrained from further extending
| the taxes for the sinking fund in the
l hands of the state auditor
ii What cOnld be accomplished by such
an action beyond further litigation and
4 lperhapS embarrassment to the CITY
| simply because ii has stood against q
fraudulent transaction. il would be d.f
/ ficult to see.
\
John Weaver asks for the sum of
$4,000 from the Mississippi Valley
Traction company. alleging that he re-
ceived injuries by being thrown from il
, car at Twenty-third street and Third
avenue, Moline. the car not being stop
] ped when he asked of the conductor to
be allowed to alight there NJ j. Nc
Entry is attorney for the plaintiff
S. r. Kenworthy and A. H. Kohler have
sled a praecipe in a case in which
. William .Josephson is plaintiff and j.
Peterson & Co. are defendants, the
. amount of damages being set forth as
100000
81 Carl HOlmberg. through p. r. Ingle-
; son, his attorney. has filed praecipe
in suit against August Schultze and
Minnie Schultze. claiming damages in
the sum of $4,000.
A praecipe has been filed by w. r.
5 Moore in a case brought by John G.
2 Martinson by his next friend John Mar
tinson. against Peter Peterson for dam
ages in the sum OF $4,000.
Driven from Home.
81 Charging that her husband Robert
l.. Aldrich, struck her a violent blow
with chair and told her that he had
another woman in the house. and order
! ed her to take her clothes and get out
and at the same time threatening to
kill her. Mrs. Bertha Aldrich of Rock
Island brings suit for divorce. This,
according to the allegation, happened
April 9. She asks for the custody of a
5-year-old child. The parties TO this
suit were married Jan. 9, 1899, in Dav-
export, and lived together until April
,l9, 1906 r. w. Olmsted is attorney
; for the complainant.
Personal Injury Suit.
y Leander Berggren of Moline has be-
) gun suit against Johannes Peterson &
Co. for $4,000 for alleged injuries re-
ceived while in the employ of the de
PENDANT company in a piano factory.
He was engaged in operating a rip
saw which. he alleges, was unsafe, and
he had hand injured by contact with
it March "a, 1906. G. A. Shallberg IS
attorney for the plaintiff.
To Recover for Loss.
Mary. E. Munson, by Murphy & Wit
ter, her attorneys, brings suit against
the Milwaukee Mechanics Insurance
company 10 recover $l,ooo Insurance.
5 on property destroyed by fire Nov. IS
: 1905.
81 Appeal DOcketed.
81 W. M. PeanuD Dick today put ur
5 the necessary funds to have placed
: upon the docket in the circuit court
5 his case against Mayor McCaskrin. in
( which Judgment was secured before
Z Justice McFarlane, and an appeal talk
en- by the mayor. The amount is 5000
for labor performed and money adj
: vanced.
II ID has caused more laughs and dried
4 more tears Wined AWAY .diSeaSaS II