Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-31
JULY.

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2-John ". Halves. who shot and kill
ed Peter DeGols, acquitted of muir
der charge.
3-Death of Mrs Bridget Donahue al
county infirmary, aged 10.
Fourth of July celebrated through
out city and country. Few acct
dents resulted here and it was a
sane Fourth.
5-James Lagrange, brooding over
domestic troubles, jumps overheard
from steamer Helen Blair and is
drowned near Muscatine
6-Samuel Sampson of Clinton ends
jamboree in this city by having
head cut off by railroad train. Ap-
parently suicide.
9-Roger Justie, apparently a tramp,
struck and killed by passenger
train on Peoria branch.
Leonard DeMaeYer, aged 27, drown
ed while bathing at foot of Second
street, Moline
bathing at foot of Fortieth street.
12-George Demos, an employee at the
Sylvan steel mill, killed by a fly
ing block and tackle while unload
ing machinery.
John Mcdonald. aged "a. a switch
man on the Rock Island, killed by
swinging car door in Davenport
yards
13-Grand jury returns indictments
against Is after a long investiga-
ton of the alleged insurance
IN, f1I
Tribunes we're involved
Death of Mrs. Desdemonda Downing,
aged So.
Steamer Helen Blair hits obstruction
just below Rock Island and sinks
after being beached
14-David Gerherzt and Alonzo Twiggs
CcolOred), both of Davenport,
struck and killed by lightning dur
ing storm.
Death of H. o. G. Johnson of Port
Byron, aged IS.
aged 81.
17-Unkuown woman jumps from Rock
Island train at Twenty-eighth
street and is killed
20-Carl Nelson of Moline. aged %. hit
in head by rock in hands of Albin
Sundberg and killed
22-Death of Mrs. Hans Joens, aged GO.
29-Alden Sutherland, aged CT, run
down and killed by taxicab.
Clyde Paris of Davenport browns
at Buffalo
2S-Death Of Ignatz Huber, pioneer
brewer, aged 81.
Death of William J. BIedsoe. aged ca.
29-Death of H. T. Bushnell. veteran
Davenport school teacher, after
prostration from heat.
AUGUST.
Mrs. Nick Nehlsen. north Of Dav-
export poisons self and two babies
with strychnine.
death of John Barth, aged rs.
Death of J. H. C. Petersen, pioneer
Davenport drygoods merchant,
aged SO.
Death of Mrs. Anna Bowling, aged
so.
3-John W Freel. Little York far
mer, dies suddenly at local hotel
from effects of heart failure Aged
GO years.
5-Stengel feed barn in center
Moline business district burns
with loss of $4,000.
death of Senator c.. A. J. Ericsson,
Boone, Iowa, aged 20. Was donor
of Augustana campus.
S-Diamond 10 Line steamers com
PEELED by low water to quit service to
st. Paul.
9-Miss Jennie Wolstencrost, Moline,
aged &c suicides with strychnine
as result of being crossed in love-
10-A. J. Burton arrives in city from
Wilmette to become high school
principal succeeding H. z. Brown.
Death of Miles Judge, Milan, aged
SO.
12-Rev. Theodore Ekblad, six years
treasurer of Augustana synod. re-
signs and accepts pastorate OF
church at Superior, Wis.
Ground broken for new Central Pres
byterian church at corner Tenth
avenue and Fourteenth street
14-W. L. Hintz, Coal Valley, aged %
browns in Rock river.
15-Death of Mrs. Ethel P. West at
Waukegan, ILL.,, following INJURIES
in auto accident.
Death of Mrs. Bridget Walsh, Milan,
aged 81.
August DeScheppers, aged 60, killed
by Rock Island train at East Mo
line
16-Death of Harry Gellerman, aged
81.
17-Death of Mrs. T. L. Long, aged So.
19-Annual Methodist campmeeting at
Tindalls grove convenes for 10
days.
2O-Death of Mrs. Katherine Sullivan,
aged Sc.
Death of Leonard wicker, Sher-
rard, aged SO.
22-William Jackson celebrated 50th
year as member of bar association