Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-09
MOLINE

Close Call in coIIision.-Walter Gla- |
SER 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. |
Mathies CHASER. 226 Thirty-sixth
street, a messenger employed by the |
Western Union Telegraph company !
nearly met death Wednesday evening !
at o'clock when he crashed into the
auto of Ernest Jericho on Fourth ave
nue. and Tenth street. He was coming
down the Tenth street hill at rapid
pace and Mr.. Jericho was riding east
on Fourth avenue. Both endeavored
to turn out, but the bicicyle on which
CHASER was riding slipped out from
under him and he skidded against the
| front fender of the auto and was hurl-
ed over in front Of the machine. Mr..
Jericho brought his machine to stop
within five feet and hurriedly extrfT
Gated the lad from under the body of
the auto. The lad escaped with bad
! ly bruised shoulder and a scratched
! face.
Clerk Missing; So Is cash.-Charles
Boyer, night clerk at the Interurban
hotel on Second avenue, decamped at
an early hour yesterday, and when the
proprietor, Jacob CLAIR, arose he found
/ goods and cash amounting to the sum
of $50 missing. according to complaint
which he has made at the police sta
! ton. CLAIR is not the only one who
has suffered loss. A ledger engaged
! room, and he alleges he rendered the
clerk a IS bill in payment He says
/ the clerk was to return the change
/ $4-to him at his room, but that the
clerk neglected to perform this little
duty. During the night Charles Jor-
dan applied at the hotel for lodging,
/ but he was a bit under the weather"
and he raised a disturbance when he
was told to vamoose. He refused to
quiet down and the clerk had him ar
rested. When Mr.. CLAIR was ready to
prosecute Jordan he found that he had
no witness, as the clerk could not be
located The hotel proprietor request
ed that the case be dismissed and Mr..
Jordan paid costs amounting TO 81.
/ Hansons Sell Property.-A piece of
real estate purchased 80 years ago for
: $1,000 has been sold for $4,000. The
property is at Seventh avenue and Fiji
teenth street and was owned by G.
/ Oscar and Albert Hanson. The pres
ent purchaser is Frank e. Sheppard, a
hardware merchant at Hillsdale, broth
er-in-law of the MalmbeTg sisters of
this city. The property has a front
age OF $50 feet on Fifteenth street. &c
/ feet on Seventh avenue and fl feet on
the alley.
August Gustafson Insane. - August
Gustafson of Chicago, who went in
sane at Zion City the first of the week,
has been apprehended at Waukegan.
He has a brother, Arvid. living in Mo-
line, who will be asked to care for
him. August has twice attempted sui
eide this week.
Hit by Falling Timber.-John Swan
son. Jr., of WATERFOWL, nearly lost his
life when a heavy timber at the new
building being erected for the Moline
Automobile company fell two and a
half stories. striking him glancing
the full force Of the blow his skull
would have been crushed. Swanson
was on the ground when the timber
fell. A cash four inches long was cut
in his scalp. The timber was a AXIS
and 16 feet long. Swanson was taken
to the city hospital here.
Crippled fer Life. - Theophil Van
Lancker, delivery clerk for Louis Son
neville. bluff grocer. may lose his left
foot as a result of an injury sustained
yesterday. Van Lancker jumped or
was thrown from the delivery wagon
and his left ankle was broken. The
bone was splintered and the sharp
ends protruded through his stocking
and shoe. He was taken to the city
hospital.
Arm Broken by FaII.-Nels Monsoon
residing on Third avenue and Fifty
fourth street, Moline, broke the bone
of his left upper arm in fall from a
wagon while working in the rear of
the Union Malleable Iron plant in East
Moline. He was removed to the Mo
line city hospital
Obituary Record. - Mrs. Caroline
Dahlheim, wife of Alvin Dahlheim,
2517 Thirteenth avenue, died yesterday
of tuberculosis after an illness of about
1e months. She was born in Sweden
Feb. 10, 1867 came TO Moline direct
from Sweden May IS, 1888, and was
married to Alvin Dahlheim July IS,
1891. She is survived by her husband
and four children, three daughters,
Ingaborg, Martha and Lille, and one