Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-07

MOLINE

and Chicago are rivals for the 1911
convention of the Swedish-American
Republican league of Illinois, and Mo
line is said to have the call on its big
sister. The convention was last held
in Moline in 1900. The candidates for
president are John Selander of Chi
cago and John Root of Galva, and it is
not altogether out of the range Of pos
sibility that Moline may have candi-
date. The convention will be held in
Galesburg Wednesday. Senator Charles
| Hurburgh of Galesburg is the present
president. After the business session
in the forenoon, the delegates will be
given a ride about Galesburg in auto
mobiles. The business sessions will
be followed by a reception and then
will come the banquet. Arrangements
have been made to seat 900.
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Gundbere Tragedy Due 60 Quarrel
Charles B. Gundberg and his wife had
Quarreled prior to the attempted homi-
eide that shocked Moline Thursday
night. according to testimony offered
at the inquest. The widow maintains
that there had been no quarrel, but
John Berg5trom, a baker employed by
Mr.. Gundberg, testified that he had
heard husband and wife quarreling.
Mrs. Gundberg admitted that she and
her husband had quarreled at times, es-
pecially after he had been drinking.
They had not quarreled frequently in
the last year, she said, and she couldn't
remember that they had had any dis
pute in the last three months. He
often had expressed the wish that he
was dead, she said, but he never
threatened to kill himself to her knowl-
edge. In the morning when discussing
the tragedy Mrs. Gundberg said that
recently she overheard Mr.. Gundberg
tell a travelling man that he needn't
be surprised to learn that he (Gund-
berg) had put a bullet through his
brain. John Bergstrom testified that
he heard Mr.. and Mrs. Gundberg quar-
reling, and that he remembers that
Mrs. Gundberg said: That's what you
are" Bergstrom did not know what
the comparison implied. Later Berg.
strom heard reports of revolver shots
and soon learned of the tragedy that
had occurred George Miller testified
that shortly after the shooting a stran-
ger walked into the lunch room and
said: Il heard them quarreling about
$1,000" Miller says he never saw the
man before till that evening The cor
oner's jury returned a verdict that
Mr.. Gundberg came TO his death from
a revolver shot fired by his own hand.
The funeral was held at o'clock yes
terday afternoon from the residence
Rev. Albert Johanson officiated, and
burial was iii Riverside cemetery.
Railroad Rivalry Seen.-That con-
siderable rivalry over tire immigra-
ton business has developed between
the Burlington, Rock Island and Mil
waukee roads became evident here
Saturday when the two roads firsN
mentioned refused to allow the Mil.
waukee to place it's exhibit car on the
uptown sidings. Instead the c., NJ. &
st. Paul was forced to leave it's car
on the siding just east of the Milwau-
kee passenger depot at Third avenue
and Twenty-first street. AS local res
idents know, the last named siding is
and no railroad would place an ex-
hibit car there unless forced to do so.
That the Burlington road refused to |
allow the exhibit car to pass over it's |
tracks was admitted by o. d. Tib- /
belts, travelling immigration agent for |
the Milwaukee, who is here with the |
exhibit.
Wagon Plant to Be SoId.-Announce- |
ment has been made that the Hickman |
Ebbert Wagon company of OwensboTo, |
KY. will go into liquidation. w. A. |
Gilbert. former sales manager for the |
Moline Wagon company, was one of |
the organizers of this concern, but he
sold his interest IN the business to DR.. |
Hickman more than a year ago, and is
INV. V,aonoOor NJ tho