Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-07
MOLINE

Epidemic of Typhoid in city.-A
small epidemic of typhoid fever has
broken out in the city, four cases hav-
ing developed last week among work
men in factory. 1t is thought the
disease was contracted through the
drinking of water from an old well at
neighboring plant, two men from
that concern having also been taken
i'll with the same disease. Two of the
fever victims are confined at the city
hospital; two others are at their homes
in this city. The other two have been
working in Moline, but their homes are
in Geneseo, and they have gone there.
Hand In PIaner.-John Davis. re-
siding at Twenty-fifth street and Nine
teenth avenue, almost lost his right
hand in a planer accident at the Bar
nard e Leas plant yesterday after
noon, when the hand came in contact
with the knives of the machine at
which he was working. The flesh of
the first three fingers was badly LAGER
ated, portions being removed and the
bones being laid bare. A physician,
who was called, hopes to save the
members, but it is probable that the
index finger at least will be practic-
ally useless. Mr.. Davis was taken to
his home. He is in a weakened con-
dition, having lost considerable blood
Early Engraving Found. - Probably
the oldest print in existence of a pict-
ure of Moline in the early days is that
received yesterday by ]. B. Oakleaf
with the compliments of d. L. Passa-
want, connoisseur in old books, at
Zelienople, Pa. The picture is from a
steel engraving and was probably re-
moved from a book. 1t deals almost
exclusively with the water front, show
ing the pool and what is probably the
pioneer flour mill on the Moline side''
and the Huntoon factory on the ar
senal side. The old brush dam is
shown and in the middle of it is a
house. There are but a few buildings
along the water front, the primeval
woodland being most conspicuous.
Drawn from nature" is explained be-
meath the picture.
Boy Coaster Injured.-John Mckee, |
aged ii, a pupil at the Washington
school, was injured while coasting
down the Seventeenth street hill His /
sled collided with a telephone pole and |
Mckee dislocated his right elbow. /
The injury was dressed by a physi- F.
clan. Mckee resides with his mother, /
Mrs. Mary, Mckee, at 1926 Twenty |
eighth avenue.
Rock Island Building Own Engines.
With view to a new industry at
Silvis, the Rock Island railroad is
building there several new locomotives.
If the experiment proves to be success
full the company intends to build more
locomotives for its own use in the
shops. One engine has been practic-
ally completed and FIVE more will be
built in the near future. If it is found
that the locomotives can be built as
cheaply or for less than the cost of
buying them from the American Loco
motive company, the Rock Island in
tends to continue building its own en-
gines and use the Silvis shops for more
than mere repair purposes. Another
which probably led to
the step by the Rock Island is the
separation of this system and the
Frisco. The shops were equipped so
hat Frisco engines as well as Rock
Island equipment could be repaired at
Silvis. With the Frisco work lost, the
equipment of the shops is probably
sufficient to handle more work than
current repairs to equipment.
Furniture for New Postoffice.-John
Todehn, assistant postmaster, and the
Jerks in charge of the various depart
nents of the local postoffice are busy
IN estimates of what will be required
n the way of furniture in the new
a call from the postmaster ,
general at Washington has been re- ,