Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-19
MOLINE

Submitted to observation-disclosures of
Swan Tropp will be glad to learn that
he is making good recovery after the
surgical operation performed at Au-
gustana hospital in Chicago last week
Monday. Mr.. Tropp was taken to Chi
cago by DR.. Eden, and the operation
was performed by DR.. Ochsner, famous
surgical specialist. and assistants. The
operation was for removal of a cancer
on the tongue. Mr.. Tropp had SIM
liar operation at the Moline city hos
pital some three years ago, but the
trouble appears not to have been thor
Oughly eradicated at that time
Sunday Cannot Come.-Rev W. NJ
Story has word from Evangelist w.
A. Sunday at Muscatine to the effect
that Mr.. Sunday cannot now set date
for his visit to Moline. Mr.. Sunday
promised to come to Moline and look
into conditions here with a view to
decision on MolineS invitation to hold
revival services here in January or
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be here later.
Meese Is Engaged.-William A..
Meese has been retained by the legis-
lative investigating committee which
is inQuiring into the methods of the
Illinois and Michigan canal commits
sion. to probe the matter. Mr.. Meese
:. to hn hn Oft f~,. he
tee, which was appointed by Speaker
Shurtleff. There has been a dispOsi-
ton in certain quarters to think that
this committee did not mean business
and was only intended as a bluff or
as means of effecting a whitewash
of the canal commissioners. in case a
whitewash should prove necessary.
o.
| Hurt in Runaway.-Tony Ponaros is
lying at the city hospital in critic
condition as result of a runaway yes
terday. The wagon on which he was
driving struck a post at Five Points
throwing Ponaros out of the wagon
and 90 feet away. He was picked VI
unconscious and taken to the city hos
pital, where DR.. Arp and DR.. Kohlel
attended him. He had fractured his
left shoulder and had sustained Sc
we're scalp wound. The injured mar
drives a delivery wagon for Coins es
Enlistment in Rock Island. Coming
down Fifteenth street at 1880 the
horse slipped and fell and when oppo
site DR.. P H. Vessels residence the
started on blind dash down the hill
He swerved to one side as he reached
the Five Points corner and the Wagon
struck a mail post box. The drive
} was thrown 20 feet away against an
other post. People near by went Il
} his assistance and called the ambu
) lance. which conveyed him to the hos
pital. The horse was caught a fey
moments later, having sustained n
injury.
J Obituary Record. - Mrs. Mimi
Shields, wife of Harry Shields, di"
oil Sunday afternoon at the home of he
D parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Herman f. Lagt
/, 1872 Fourth avenue. Mrs. Shields ha
, been i'll for some time and recent
, came here to visit her parents an
, was taken i'll with pneumonia. Sh
, was born in this city June II. 1877
\ and educated in the public schools {
, Moline. She was married three year
, ago last June to her bereayed husband
= and has lived in Kansas since. Sh
= leaves her parents, two sisters and tw
y brothers. They are Augusta, Henri!
Carl and Mrs. Harry Anthony at Wicl
U tia. Kan. The funeral will be hel
U at the home tomorrow afternoon at
D o'clock. John Kroger will conduct tn
0 Fservices and burial will take place 6
D riverside.