Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-10
DAVENPORT

Mrs. Rails lmpToVes.-The condition
of Mrs. Henry Rails, who became IN
controllable soon after the news of her
husbands suicide was broken to her,
is reported as being somewhat i'm
proved. She is at the Davenport hos
pltal, where she was taken at the in
stigation of the police and her rela-
tives.
Asks $4,000 Damages. = Setting
forth in his petition that ne was seri-
ously and permanently injured BY be
ing struck by J. E. Burmeister's auto
mobile few days ago and that he has
suffered In health as a reason thereof.
Michael Kremheller, through his at
torney, W. H. Petersen, has filed an
original notice against Mr.. Burmeister
claiming of him the sum of $4,000.
The petition was filed Saturday in the
district court and states that the acct
dent in which KremhelIer is alleged
to have been injured occurred Jan. 4
at the intersection of Seventh and
Marquette streets. The plaintiff had
just alighted from car and was
struck by the car and knocked to the
pavement. Mr. Burmeister was not N
the car at the time, it being driven
by his chauffeur.
Judgment for 81 in SFancer Suit
An entry of judgment for the sum
of 81 in favor of the plaintiff, Minnie
AcCraney, in the SANDER suit against
Mrs. Lizzie Smith of LeClaire for the
sum of $4,000 has been. made in the
district court. In addition to the YER
dict of 81 which was recently awarded
to the plaintiff by the jury in the case,
the costs of the trial affixed at sS7.TO
were assessed against the defendant
No Inquest Necesssry.-After view
ing the body of George w. Church
who was found dead in his room on
the third floor of the Becker building
at the corner of Second and Brady
streets Saturday afternoon, Coroner
Rudolf decided that no inquest was
necessary. He accordingly passed n
verdict of death by heart failure. the
circumstances attendant upon the
case bearing out this verdict.
Girl Must Leave City-Rose Davis.
the petite young woman who preferred
such serious charges against A. 3.
Fryer and which she failed to substan-
tiate in court, was Saturday afternoon
at her hearing in police court given
a sentence of 80 days on the charge
Of vagrancy, but this sentence was
suspended upon her expressed desire /
to leave for Waterloo, Iowa, where she
stated she was going to reside with a
family and change her mode Of living. /
The young woman was hailed into the
courtroom in both the morning and the
afternoon, the first case being that in !
which A 3. Fryer was charged with /
having stolen a diamond ring from .
her a few evenings ago and on which /
charge he was released because of her /
failing to prove her claim. In police /
court the girl in telling her story broke I
down and wept, but told her story fear
lessly. She could not prove owner
ship to the ring around which the en-
tire case centered but in the testimony
regarding events and dates she was
not to be shaken. The only intima-
ton which she gave that her past
mode of life was made to MatrOn Hill
to whom she stated that she was tired
Of living the life she had been leading
and was resolved to start anew. AS
a result of the judicial airing which
the matter received Mr.. Fryer is ex-
onerated of the serious accusation
which was brought against him by the
girl
: Obituary Record.-From the effects