Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-16
MOLINE

OuStS ofI2 ScntS OF tnc OOitdT.-
The McElvain Adjusting company of
Chicago, through its representative,
H. v. Crooks, who is in the city, has
| offered to purchase the stock of the
| Moline Building & Loan association at
| the rate of 571a cents on the dollar
This basis of settlement has been set
tied upon by Mr.. Crooks after weeks
of study given to the case, and out of
IT'S stockholders communicated with
by letter, so have replied, and all have
seemed willing to accept such a set
Element. There is no doubt in my
mind" said Mr.. Crooks, shat we will
be able to reach a settlement in this
case Our proposition | regard as a
peculiarly equitable one. Consider for
a minute. This case has been drag
ging along for six years, and there is
no prospect that it will be settled in
less than four more, for with such big
sums involved either side is certain to
carry it to the supreme court"
Mayor to Be Host.-Mayor Olson and
| AlueIIlldH SHIiSliSOH Will SHlSitdll Il
company of 40 men-city officials and
Ifricnds-at fish dinner Sunday noon
at Axel Christopher's Maple Lane camp
on Rock river. The hospitality of the
two officials is so well known that all
who have been fortunate enough to re-
ceive invitations are planning to at
tend. Hacks will meet the $3.50 and
1890 cars at the Prospect park end of
the Fifteenth street line to convey the
guests to the Rock river bridge, where
boats will be waiting to carry them the
remainder of the journey into camp.
Thumb Cut Off.-John Ligino. Ia
borer working at the new shops in
Silvis as a steel cutter. met with a
painful accident yesterday. Ligino
was holding a strip of iron to be cut
when he pushed it into the machine
too far and got his hand caught. The
thumb of his right hand was cut off at
the first joint.
| Proves a Hero.-John Swanson, the
we'll known grocer. proved himself a
hero yesterday by stopping a runaway.
An American Express company horse
and wagon had been left standing I'M
tied on Fifth avenue between Four
teenth and Fifteenth streets, while the
driver was delivering some packages.
when the horse suddenly began to
think that it was about time to be
travelling It. started down Fifth ave
nue. at a good pace, heading toward
Fifteenth street Just as it was about
to turn south on Fifteenth street,
threatening to take a telephone pole
and couple of mail boxes with it.
Mr.. Swanson ran out in the street,
caught the horse by the bit, and with
few vigorous jerks soon had the
horse stopped
Stone is lacking.-The stone for the
new postoffice has not arrived yet, but
is expected today. The foundation and
basement of the building have been
built as far as it is possible TO do so
without the stone, and now nearly all
the men except the carpenters have
been laid off until it arrives. The stone
was shipped from Salibury, n. c., July
10, and is now on the road. Two stone
layers are in the city waiting for the
stone and will begin work as soon as it
arrives. These two stone layers will
be able to keep six or eight brick-lay-
ers busy backing them up. The car
penters are building boxes in which
steel beams will be laid and reinforced
with concrete. The steel beams will
be here in few days.
Barely Misses Artery. - Leonard
Gale living at SCI Fifth avenue, and
working for the Central Union Tele-
phone company, cut his right arm
quite badly Wednesday afternoon.
While he was cutting a rope with a
knife, the knife slipped and entered
his right arm just above the elbow
with such force as to cut cash nearly
two inches long to the bone. The
knife missed the humeral artery by
about half an inch or the cut might
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