Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-06
MOLINE

SAINT, chief of police, left last night
for Washington, D. c., to attend the
annual convention of the Information
al Association of Police Chiefs which
convenes in that city June 8. The
meeting will be of four days duration
and police heads from nearly all i'm
portant cities of this country. Canada
and Europe will attend. Major Sylves-
ter, superintendent of the Washington
police, is president of the organization
and Las made plans to make the COM
ing convention the largest that has
yet been held.
Property a Nuisance.-Property at
1719 Fifth avenue has been declared
a nuisance. 1t is said to be insanitary,
unsafe and a bad fire hazard because
of defective construction. Commits
sione- E. L. Eastman has served Off
cial information to that effect and no.
titled A D. Wright, the owner, but not
the tenant, to place the building in a
safe condition or to tear it down. Six
ty days has been granted the owner to
comply with the order. The building
is one of the oldest in the city and is
one of the only remaining on the north
side of Fifth avenue between Fifteenth
and Eighteenth streets.
Hearing Bankruptcy case.-Hearing
in the bankruptcy proceedings against
the Midland Motor Car company be-
gan yesterday afternoon at the Manu-
facturers' hotel. E. U. Henry, spe-
cial master in chancery of the federal
court at Peoria, arrived in this city
and will conduct the investigation and
take the evidence. Shallberg &. Har-
| per are Moline attorneys representing
the creditors of the Midland company
Swimming Teacher at Y.-Decisior
has been reached to add another as
sistant in the physical department Of
the Y. NJ. c. A. to be known as {
swimming instructor. A man who i!
said to be eminently qualified for the
place has been secured in the person
of D. T. Bridges, a graduate of thu
Springfield, Mass, association train
ing school He completed the three
year course in the class Of 1911 will
the degree of B. P. E. His home il
in Connecticut, but since graduation
he has been physical director of tn,
association at Danville, Va. and ha
also been engaged in Fairgrounds ant
summer camp work in New Bedford
Mass, and in Montclair, n. ].
Leaves Company After 80 Days
Frank L. Matt, after a continuou
service in the coal business for thirt
years, sewers his connection with tn
Rock Island Fuel company. Mr.. Nat
entered the coal Office June 4, 1885
in the employ of H. Woodwork, serN
ing as clerk for four years. He the
bought the business and conducted
for himself eighteen years. He sol
out to the Rock Island Fuel compan
eight years ago, but since tina Tim
he has been manager at the Eleventh
street Office.
False Pretenses Case Dismissed
president and manager Of the Molin
Sales company at Fifth avenue an
Twelfth street, a concern that handle
pianos and other musical instrument:
who was charged with obtainin
money under false pretenses, was di'
missed by Justice Fred Entrikin ye'
t terday afternoon. Tongert was a
I IN n ~ y
John Almlcf, Eleventh street an
: Thirteenth avenue. He was locked u
) at the Moline police station, and, ha'
: mig just recently come to this cit.
. was unable to secure bail.
Considering Depot PIans.-A. c.
Ridgeway, vice president of the Roc
: Island lines, and c. A Morse, chic
engineer, are in Moline from Chicag
with various sets of tentative plan
for Moline's new passenger station
seen to rise en- ground acquired on til
south side Of the Rock Island track
between Seventeenth and Nineteent
streets. Plans for the proposed par
in blueprint form, have also been pr
, pared, and the railway chiefs are g
ing over them all with the city cor
! missioners with a view to decidir
refnitely on the general improvemel
SCENE. Hope Is to get work undt
way in the immediate future
! %
r Obituary Record. - Mrs. Willial
p, Hanson, prominent worker in the Mi
2 sion tabernacle, was summoned /
! death in the home, 1924 Sly zenith av
5 nue., at 8 Wednesday night. Ulril
! Johnson was born in Varmland, Sw
den, July II, 1862. and in 1891 can
10 this country, setti 1 first in Siol
I City, Iowa. She was married there
S William Hanson, Jan. %, 1892 H
e residence in this city dates from 1s9
+ She leaves TO mourn her passing, h
y husband, one daughter, Linda,
home, her father, two sisters and Oh
: brother in Sweden.