Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-01-26
DAVENPORT
Awarded $500 pamaaes.-Thnrsdav

Awarded $1,000 Damages.-Thursday
of Hattie Sherman against the Cres-
cent Macaroni company returned a
sealed verdict. The Jurors had been
out since sos. Yesterday when court
convened at 9 o'clock the verdict was
opened and it was found that 1900
had been awarded the injured girl. The
jurors in answering the interrogatories
propOunded by the judge in his instruc-
tons stated that the girl was ordered
to the machine by the foreman, and
that the cog wheels were not properly
guarded at the time of the accident
The suit was for $4,000 for permanent
injuries to the fingers of her right
hand.
Commercial Club EIects.-The direc-
of the Davenport Commercial club met
at the club house and elected officers
for the ensuing year The result was
reelection of the former officers.
They stand as follows: President
Wilson McClelland. Vice president
w. r. Weir. Second vice president
E. S. Johnson. Treasurer-O. b. Grant.
Secretary-C. A. Steel.
Two Broke JaiI.-Two prisoners at
the county Jail, Charles Ricer and Al
Carstens. both serving sentences for
larceny, broke away from the county
bastile Thursday afternoon and took
to their heels. The police department
was notified and in less than two
hours Officers Sanford and Quinn had
the two fellows under arrest and back
to Jail. Their capture was made near
the mile track after a spirited chase
through fields and over rough roads.
the chiefs wagon being used in the
pursuit They were captured at the
point of the guns of the pursuing Off
GERS and after looking down the bar
rels offered no resistance to accom-
panying the officers back to jail. Car
stems was serving a six months SEN
tence. three of which had expired
Ricer had 80 days to serve. Both will
now have ten days confinement in the
solitary cell added to their uneXpired
terms as a result of their foolishneSs
in making their escape. This escape
was effected by breaking the lock with
a sledge hammer on one of the outer
doors TO the large basement in which
IS located the stone pile. The investi-
cation by Sheriff Louis Eckhardt has
developed the likelihood that the pris-
oners received aid from outside.
Not High School Souvenir.-A plaus-
ible young canvasser seems to have
laid the basis for a raid on business
men by proposition to get out a high
school souvenir. under ''the auspices
of the school board Louis SLIDER
stein, chairman of the retail trades
committee of the Commercial club,
looked up the matter as soon as it was
submitted TO him and states that the
school board processes entire ignor1
ance of the proposition, and disclaim
any part in it, The statements being
made that the souvenir is to be pub
lished under the auspices of the schoo,
board convince Mr.. SiIberstein that a
warning should be sounded, letting
business houses know the facts of the |
matter as he has found them.
Obituary Record.-Mr. and Mrs. John |
Herzberg of 1114 West Fourth street |
are bereaved by the loss of their little |
daughter, Norma NJ. Herzberg, aged , |
years who passed away Thursday eve
ming. Besides the parents there sur
vive her four sisters. Mrs. Emma Kahl |
Mrs. Amanda Helmet, Adelia and Alga |
HerZberg, and two brothers, Frank and |
Henry HerZberg. The funeral took /
place this afternoon at 2 o'clock from |
the late home with burial in Fair |
mount cemetery.
Yesterday morning. at Mercy hospi- |
tai. where she was taken last August. |
occurred the death of Mrs. Chester |
Brown, who goes to her rest after |
period of suffering covering the entire |
past year. Maggie S. Ickes was born
July 4. 1888, at Fairfield, Ohio, and |
came to Davenport in her early wom-
anhood She was married in 1866 to
Chester Brown and is mourned by her
husband and one daughter, Miss Mabel |
Brown of this city. Mrs. Brown is
also SURVIVED by a brother. T. f. Ickes
of Denver Colo, and sister, Mrs.
Asenath Kepner of Kansas City.