Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-31

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IL. Robert Paul Barnett, aged 16,
browns in Rock river in attempt
to save a companion.
IL. Promoters of recall confess made
quacy and hearing in circuit court
| ends.
13. Rock Island county veteran SOL
diers and sailors hold reunion at
Tower.
II. Judge Graves returns formal YER
dict on recall; petitions INSULT
Gent
Hennepin canal closed owing to
washout near Mineral, nj.
10. Twenty-seventh annual reunion
OF veterans, l26th Illinois yolun-
teers, at court house.
Five thousand attend annual Farm
ers' picnic, Lyford's grove, Port
Byron.
16. George Bennett. aged SO. we'll
known furrier of this city. sui
cides by shooting himself.
Death of Valentine Schmidt, aged
81.
Death of Mrs. Margaret Dougherty,
aged 81.
II. Death OF Philip Kadell, aged 50,
inmate WATERFOWL hospital.
10. Celebration Of Homecoming week
begun at Coal alley.
20. Governor Deneen calls judicial
primary election for Oct. s, to fill
=. vacancy caused by death of Judge
Gest.
81. Old Settlers reunion, Rock Island
county, at Watch Tower; 100 pres
ent
Death of Mccoy Starr, aged 60.
Unidentified 1oater found at foot of
Thirteenth street. Moline.
Death of Mrs Jane c. Kirkpatrick,
aged SIS.
"a. Helen, 6-year-old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Horst, drowned
In Rock river
Death Of Martin Schillinger. former
mayor of Moline, oldest Odd Eel
, low in county, aged IS.
%. Death of Mrs W1Hiam f. Kusch-
, mann, aged Ga
, 26. Opening of annual institute Rock
Island county teachers at high
school.
II. Death or David Mordock, Eliza
aged 81, old settler.
IS. New postoffice thrown open to
a public for inspection.
%. Word received of death of Mrs.
Mahala c. Padden, Cincinnati,
former Rock Island resident, aged
"a.
Death of Ignatius Gasnow, East Mo-
. line, aged rs.
Body of August Klaus, this city,
aged %, found in Mississippi at
East Moline; suicide.
!, Two-year-old August Posateri burn
ed to death Ia bonfire.
J. B. Titterington disposes of Edg'
- ington farm for 100000.
SEPTEMBER.
4 /, Arthur Wanke, aged 2S, browns
!. in attempt to swim Mississippi al
Suburban island.
2. Labor day exercises celebrated al
q Moline. Max Hayes of Cleveland
is speaker.
q 8. Public schools open for fall term
6. Christ Scheff. aged 40, prisoner at
f. police station, suicides by hang
r. ing.
8. Hottest day OF year recorded;
B, thermometer registers 81.
J. 9. William Wiese, aged q, of Mo
3 line, killed by train at Forty-third
street crossing.
II Death of ]. A. Kaiser, aged So.
II 10. Annual baseball game between
Union and Argus results in Argus
d victory by score of IL to 6.
IL. Polish-L ithuanian-Siovack church
4. organized in three cities.
d II. George, 3-year-old son of Mr.. md
w Mrs. c. G.. Lewis, killed in fal
v. from sidewalk.
Death of Mrs. Mary Miller, aged SO.
4. Is. Dorothy Nowack, aged 10, Soutf
sr Rock Island, is lockjaw victim.
Death of Mrs. Sarah Snyder, agec
at a.
IT. Rock Island knights Templal
d leave for annual Peoria conclav'
on special train.
g New postoffice opened for actua
business.
3 Is. II. X. Mueller, Erie, Pa, new ed
n. tor Of Volks-Zeitung.
10. Four hundred boosters take spe
al cial train for Aledo fair to cele
brate Rock Island day.
20. Nine injured in collision Of Pee
ria passenger traiA and Rock Is
CT land Southern engine near Sears
81. Death of Fred G. Gall, aged So.
es Death of Mrs. Celeste Bigelov
Huntley, Port Byron, former res
go dent of Rock Island and Merce
counties, aged n.
'e- %. Death of Carl Rudgren, one o
the founders of the first Swedish
70, Lutheran church of Rock Island
aged rs.
at 25. Death Of Mrs. anna ]. Cheney o
or South Rock Island, aged 70.
u 26. Death of Mrs. Mathilda Thornton
aged rs.
ID 81. Louis Reiter of Rock Island sci
fenced to 20 years in Joliet pen
Tertiary for murder of Mrs. Hal
lie, tie Phelps, in Peoria courts.
ie- 20. Death of Mrs. susan Girl, DrurJ
~ aged rs.
30. Word received of death Of Mri
IN, H. e. Woods, Jew York, forme
at Rock Island resident, aged IS.