Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-02-01
MOLINE

LANCE Made Chief c!erk.-Promo-
lions among employees Of the local Mil
waukee freight and passenger stations
are effective tomorrow. ]. c. LANCE,
who has held the Office of depot agent
for number of years, is promoted to
chief clerk and cashier OF the freight
depot. He will succeed J. W. Snitzer.
who has been assigned ether duties in
the same office. Lange's successor
probably will be D. w. DeFoe, who has
been in the passenger station in Rock
Island. E. A. Biggs, who has been as
sistant ticket agent under Lange, has
resigned and he has been succeeded by
NJ. a. Gould of New Sharon, Iowa.
Biggs has been given a decided adj
lvancement in railroad work, becoming
general superintendent of the Atlantic
Northern and Southern of Iowa. 1t is a
small road, but the work is a new line
for the local men. He will have his
headquarters in Atlantic.
Blacksmith Iniured.-F. A Johnson,
aged 80 years. blacksmith employ
ed at Deere and company's, residing at
/ 10 Twelfth avenue, while at work
Monday evening a few minutes before
/ quitting time, was injured when drop
fell on his right hand, smashing the
| index and long fingers and the thumb.
The latter was amputated at the hand,
while the two former were cut off
midway between the second and third
joints.
Knife Used in Attack.-Efficiency of
the new police signal belLIight alarm
was demonstrated early Monday eve
ming as result of a fight at a Greek
IroOming house. 1919 Third avenue One
officer was dispatched to the scene and
a second officer was signaled. The sig
nal was sounded and in less than a
minute a patrolman communicated
with the Office and learned where he
was wanted. The fight led to the ar
rest of Peter Demos and Peter Andon-
opOlous and third Greek is being
sought. The man who charges that he
was attacked is George Kocenes. He
has a bad cut over his left eve which
he alleges was made by a knife in the
hands of one of his assailants. It is
said that the three men were DESTROYS
of borrowing some money from Ko-
Genes; that he refused TO be a diStrib-
uting agency and that the men at
tempted to force him to make the loan.
Assault and battery charges against
Demos and Andonopolous have been
preferred and they have been released
on bonds.
CHAR RaatArkRA
CLAIR was reelected captain of the Mo |
line high school track team at a meet |
ing held yesterday. Work on the spring
athletics will be started soon.
Auto Hits Wagon-Dr c. c. Sloan !
narrowly escaped serious injury Mon |
day in Rock Island when his machine |
in which he was riding collided with |
heavy coal wagon. The accident oc- |
Cured at the corner of Seventh ave |
nue. and Thirtieth street. Dr. Sloan !
was driving west down the Seventh |
avenue hill at the time. He was on |
the way to St AnthOny's hospital and |
as he was approaching the intersec-
ton of Seventh avenue and THIRTEEN |
street some person called TO him as he !
was passing. In looking around, DR.
Sloan did not notice the approach of |
the coal wagon and ran directly into it,
AS a result of the collision the ma
chine was badly damaged All of the
lamps on the machine were destroyed
and the radiator was badly broken.
Repairs were necessary on the radia-
tor before the machine could be used.
Obituary Record.-The 3-months-old
child OF MIR. and Mrs. Alphonse Viii
laert died at noon yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Milton Sowash of
2708 Twelfth avenue mourn the death
of their 7-days-old son yesterday.
Mrs. Fred Keller Of Galva, mother
of Forest Keeler of this city. passed
away at Peoria hospital Monday eve
ming following an operation in the aft
ernoon. The death was, therefore,
quite a shock to her friends and rela-
tives. Widower and four sons survive.
Forest Keller is employed at the Mo-
line Heating and Construction office.