Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-31
APRIL.

!. Residence OF Max Touro1. 1910
Twelfth street. Quilted by flames;
loss about 81 500.
Democrats successful at polls: those
elected. c. ]. Smith. police magis-
tra-e: Louis Ohlweiler. Henry Ru-
ben. Elmer McDole. Vincent Muir
ply and Henry c. Hinrichs. super
visors: James W. Maucker and
Carl Kuehl, justices of peace; con-
stables. sam Fitzpatrick and Mike
Mint
George Richmond, republican. re-
elected chairman board superyis-
ors
.. Death OF Simon Trent. aged a.
former Cordova resident. at Booen-
ecu, y. d.
3. Charles H Black, carpenter. aged
55. suicides by jumping in river.
4. Fifty Thousand club offers 5000 in
prizes 70 farmers in good road con-
test
5. Death of Mrs. Mary Sheahan, aged
so.
6. Death Of James II. Cook, aged 63.
Death OF Mrs. W. o. Smith of South
Rock Island. aged 60.
Rev. Mitchell E. Chatley of Center
vile. Iowa. accepts call 10 Memo
rial Christian church.
Z Mrs. X. T. Anderson succeeds Mrs.
NJ. Z. Merzgar as Bethany home
head
Death Of Mrs. Elizabeth Hicks of
Presumption. aged 81
Death OF Mrs. Rosie {. Binder. aged
-.
DIR. W. d. Snively named president
OF Rock Island County Medical so
ciety
Willard Larkin elected R / II. 8.
football captain.
Is. Clifton L. STANDBY. aged &c, drops
dead on street: apopleNy.
ST Onge general store at Reynolds
destroyed by fire with loss OF
a. Death OF Mrs. :. r. Kenworthy.
aged s.
Death OF Thomas J. Murray. sr-
aged So
Death OF Mrs Anna J. McAllester Of
Port Byron. aged 50.
Death Of Mrs. A. r. Bull. Buffalo
Prairie resident for 40 years.
10. Edward De Porter OF Moline kills
cousin. Ida Morrell. and then
shoots himself.
IG City Weighmaster W. 3. Petit re-
ceives word of death OF brother,
DIT Henry McEwan Petit. former
Rock Island resident. at Freder
lex. Md.
Death Of George W. Freestone. aged
CO.
l.. Death Of Mrs. Jane Ransom, aged
~
Mrs. Emily Clayton found dead IN
bed. aged 81.
IS Body OF unknown man found feat
ing in river near ferry landing on
Davenport side
Death Of Henry c. Webbing. aged Al. .
10 Body of foater found to be that OF
Thomas Moore. Davenport man. .
missing since March :.
DR.. J. p. Comegys named post sur |
geon az Rock Island arsenal by /
Secretary OF War Garrison
% r. c. Battles Of Rock Falls. aged .
-, shoots self in room al Rock .
Island house.
II NJ. McCaskrin acquitted of charge
OF sending unavailable postcards
through mail: Peoria federal court.
%. Retiring Congressman James Nc
Kinney greeted with Homecoming
celebration at Aledo, all counties I
in district joining
"A Death of Mrs. Mary Jane Boyer,
aged so.
New odd Fellows home. corner of !
Fourth avenue and Eighteenth /.
street. Is dedicated with fitting 7
Death Of Patrick Boylan Of Briar 4
Bluff. aged ~
Charles Dawson Of Geneseo. aged %, /
suicides by shooting.
p. Frank De Lorenzo. Italian section .
hand. killed by train in Milwaukee /
yards
&c. Emil Sporrey. East Moline wrest-
Ter. aged 80. Kills Grace Campbell f.
and shoots self
Siboney Bay camp No. s. United
Spanish War Veterans. celebrates
18th anniversary OF calling Illinois
troops to front
Is. Word received here of death of
Orlando D. Cushman. old resident
Of AndaIusia, at Portland. Ore.
Death of Mrs. Charles H. Deere Of
Moline at New York. aged ~
-. Death OF Christopher Blakley. old
resident of Presumption, aged So.
MAY.
l. John Banderberghe murders his
landlord, Thodul Nande Neergeate,
aged 81. by striking him over head
with butt Of shotgun, Moline
,. Body OF AIious Teerlinck. Moline.
found in Mississippi near Sylvan
island; suicide cause of death.
3. Death of Robert l. Hamilton, aged
6s.
!. Oficer Cornelius Meenan, aged %,
and William Kaiser aged 40, cleo
trocuted in Rock Island Southern
yards in effort to save life of Har
~ Dixon. who had grasped q live
wire.
Death OF Mrs Caroline Stengel
Schillinger. aged 20. i