Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-02
DAY IN DAVENPORT

Threatened to End Life.-Elsie
Hansen, a, 17-year-old Waterloo girl,
was placedtunder arrest and held on
q vagrancy charge, after she had
threatened to end her life by leaping
from the government bridge into the
Mississippi riverteariy Thursday morn
ing. The girl was picked ups by City
Detective John Kinney. after he had
been informed thattthe girl threatened
TO end her life. She%was placed under
arrest near the approach 10 the bridge
and taken to the house OF detention.
The Waterloo authorities were mott
fled and the girl will be returned to
her home. She ranAaway two weeks
ugo.
Runs Amuck.-Brsmfishfn an ugly
looking butcher knifeAand razor and
said TO have threatened to cut the
throat of fellow countryman, caused
She arrest Of Lorenzo Lopez, an erst-
while Mexican revolutiuniAt, who was
arraigned before Magistrate Rodde-
wig yesterday charged with intoxiea-
ton. The affair occurred in va box car
in the west yards Of the Rock Island
railroad in Davenport. According 70
witnesses. Lopez was badly under the
Influence Of liquor and he became
peeved at the sight Of his would-be
victim. The police were called, and
the man placed under arrest
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Begin mproVements.-Inac omrnun-
ica.ion TO Mayor Mueller yesterday
the Tri-City Railway company prom
Uses TO begin Immediately the I'm
provements contemplated at the tresck
Intersections at Fourth and Harrison.
Fourth and Warren and Third and
Warren streets. and to complete the
paving repairing IN the tracks onWest
Fourth street. The mayor tookt the
matters up with the company few
days ago and urged that they be at
tended TO. General Manager Huntoon
informed the mayor that the, company
has been badly delayed in making'im-
provements because of its inability to
secure prompt deliveries OF steel
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Big Savings Effected-"one hun
bred and fifty thousand dollars per
year will be saved by shippers and
receivers of freight in Davenport by
the decision handed down yesterday
by the Interstate commerce commits
sion in what is known as the Missis
sippi river case says Traffic Com
missioner Banner Of the Commercial
club. IN this case it is held thai
present rates between the upper Mis-
sdssippi river crossings in Iowa, in
GLIDING Davenport, Keokuk, For
Madison, Burlington. Muscatine. Clin
ton and Dubuque. and points east, o.
the Indiana-Iillnois state line. areI ex
cessive and unduly discriminating
when compared with rates to the low
er crossings, which include ST. Louis
Thirty Permits During Month";
Thirty building permits for a total eE
penditure OF $S1, $50 we're issued dun
ing the month of July by Clerk FREE
Friedholt OF the Davenport board o
public works. During the same montI
a year ago IS permits were issued 70
SS5,20O worth OF building. The yea
1913 has been far ahead OF last yea
in the number Of permits issued.
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Suffrage Party coming.-The autt
mobile party OF the Iowa Equal SUI
rage association will arrive in DaveI
port on Sept. 10, and a suffrage NEE
ing will be held here at that tim,
The suffragets VIII cross the stat
twice in a trip ever the White Pol
and River-to-Riyer roads. The fir
meeting will be held on Sept. l {
Abel, Iowa, by invitation and undC
the patronage Of Governor and Mr.
George Clark. Open air meetings {
meetings in halls will be held at Ii
points along the route. Miss Flor
Dunlap. the head worker OF the Roa
side settlement in Des Moines, an