Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09
DAVENPORT

teamster boarding at $40 Rock Island
street. lies at st. Luke's hospital how
ering between life and death and suf-
fering torture and agony by reason of
his rash act in swallowing the con-
tents of bottle of carbolic acid early
Monday evening. Only the timely ar
rival of DR.. ]. R. Porter saved the
mans life. While he is not yet en-
tirely out of danger, DR.. Porter stated
he has hopes of pulling him through.
Chambers tact was the result of do
mestic unhappiness. 1t appears he
and his wife separated some time ago,
since which time he has been board
ing with Mrs. Josie Montgomery at
$40 Rock Island street. Soon after
drinking the poison, Chambers became
unconscious. The stomach pump was
applied and the patient taken to st.
Luke's hospital. His mouth, throat
and stomach are terribly burned and
even though he lives, ne will be badly
SCARED by reason of the burns.
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Clinton EIopers Wed Here.-The eli
max of a pretty little romance oc
CURED yesterday at the home of DR..
and Mrs. George Middleton, 1921 Scott
street, when Joseph P. Dilley of the
Dilley Hotel company, which operates
the Lafayette inn at Clinton, and Miss
Elizabeth Mock, also of Clinton, ter.
minated a very successful and sur
reptitious elopement by being united
in marriage by DR.. Marmaduke Hare
of Grace cathedral church. Mrs Dill
ley is a young and pretty orphan, both
her parents having been dead for
some time. She has been living ut
the home of c. c. Coan, a prominent
banker of Clinton. Mr.. and Mrs. Coan
objected strenuously to her marriage
to Mr.. Dilley. with whom she was in
love, and SO the young people slipped
away and came to Davenport. Arriv-
ing here at IL o'clock, they went to
the home of DR.. Middleton, where
they were married.
Company 3 Is Home.-When a
Rock Island passenger train pulled in
Monday night from the west, 46 khaki
clad Tommy Atkins, brown as nuts
and with bristling boards, swung from
the train. They were the 43 enlisted
men of Company B of the 54th Iowa
National Guard with their three Off
GERS, Captain o. w. Kulp, First Lieu
tenant d. F. Evers and Second Lieu
tenant Albert Hass, who had been to
Fort Riley, Kan, to take part in the
annual army maneuvers there. Every
one of the men was in good condition
and stood the strenuous eight days of
warfare like veterans. not a man of
them having to drop out or go near
the hospital.
Burglar Worked Labor Day.-At the
next meeting of the burglars union
there is one individual. assuming that
he has membership in the organizae
ton. against who.a doubtless COM
plant will be instituted for working
on Labor day. He got busy Monday
afternoon between ana o'clock on
East Locust street, where he entered
the residence of w. H. Drummond
during the absence from home of the
family MT. Burglar Carried Key
that operated the lock of the kitchen
door. That door was found open on
the return of the family. Every room
in the house was ransacked, but an
inventory showed that nothing had
been taken. 1t is evident that the
intruder was after the cash, for there
were various articles that he could
have carried away and realized on a
the second hand stores.
Closes Three Saloons.-Judge Boil
linger yesterday filed written deci
sion in the district court in which HI
issued DEGREES of abatement agains
three saloon properties. The order o
abatement follows the permanent in
functions issued against the tenant!
some time ago. These are Knut H
Johnson at the Slate House. Dan ]
Flynn at the Ozark and John Mozart
land at the |. e l. bar. All three
properties are now ordered closed b,
Judge Bollinger under section 240S O