Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-09
DAY IN DAVENPORT

No Mere Football. On account Of
the serious injury to Captain Ed Nor
rissey of the St. Ambrose college foot
ball team, II has been decided to aban-
don the present schedule and to dis
continue playing for the season. This
action Is taken out Of respect TO the
injured captain. Mr. Mcrrissey is re-
ported 10 be improving rapidly and is
. now believed 10 be out Of danger from
the amputation OF his leg. DR.. Nor
rissey, a brother of the patient, re-
turned 70 his home in Cakes, y. d.
Before leaving he issued statement
in which he expressed his thanks to
the college faculty for their kindly
consideration shown him and his in
tured brother. He also stated he re-
allied the accident was a very serious
one and is satisfied that only quick
: action and skilled medical attention
saved the patients life.
Relief Society in Good Work.-The
following report Of the general secre-
r tary Of the Ladies Industrial Relief
society, Mrs. E. s. Hammatt, shows
the good work Of the society during
the past month: Forty-four applicants
for aid; 154 applicants for work; 2i7
requests from housekeepers for work
ers; 11S supplied Ill visits made:
four families moved from some OF the
z most squalid houses and neigh
borhoods TO good houses and de-
sirable neighborhoods. The society
. has this month received help Of var
ious sorts and gifts from several fam
flies who were within a few years de-
pendent upon the society for aid.
Ten MISUNDERSTANDING the 10 in
dictments returned by the federal
grand Jury which reported yesterday
afternoon 70 Judge Smith Mcpherson
were bills against Jacob Light, charged
with sending obscene matter through
q the mails; William Langfeldt, a Day.
export boy, for tampering and remov.
ing money from mails: Count de Cor.
ompa, white slavery. Other indictments
were: Dick Worley. bootlegging; AL
fred Fierce. bootlegging: Verne Smith,
bootlegging; Robert Carter. bootleg
ging; Frank Pinney. alias Frank Kin.
ney, bootlegging; Michael T. Dwyer,
using United States mails TO defraud
Patrick Murphy, stealing from inter,
state shipment. The grand jury ask.
cd for clemency in the case of William
Langfeldt and Judge Mcpherson said
he was willing 10 take their request
into consideration. Langfeldt entered
a plea OF guilty through his attorney
II. II. Jebens. The boy letter carrier
and his parents appeared and were
given a long talk by Judge McPher
son. Langfeldt was given 80 days in
jail. George Lockwood, Nevada
Iowa, boy charged with breaking into
a car containing an Interstate ship
melt while intoxicated, was also given
a heart 10 heart talk by the judge fol
lowing the grand jurys ignoring the
charge against him and was set free.
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Father-ln-Law Dies.-Gerb Williams
janitor at the Davenport police sta
ton, was called TO Hannibal Mo, yes
terday morning by the death of his
father-in-law, which occurred Tuesday
night.
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Methodist Pastor Injured. - Rev
Thomas T. Fleming, former pastor Of
the old Fourteenth street Methodist
church. and presiding elder of the Dav
export district, was injured in a rail
road wreck in the Minneapolis e. st
Louis yards at Marshalltown, Iowa
Tuesday night. Rev Fleming was cut
about the head and bruised badly.
Mother In Fatal Aeeident.-GeorgC
VI. Hoole, who Tuesday opened a pho
tograph art studio in the Masonic tenn
pie, was suddenly called TO his former
hcme at Springfield, H.. by the dealt
OF his mother. Mrs. George Hoole, whC
died as the result of INJURIES received
when struck by al automobile. Hi
studio will remain closed for severa
days. Mrs. Hoole was struck by al
automobile while crossing the stree
in front OF her home and suffered con
cussion OF the brain by being thrown
20 the brick curbing. She died thre'
hours later at St. Johns hospital. He
husband arrived home just as the!
were carrying his wife into the house
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Settle Police controversy.-Chief o
Police Schramm announced yester
day morning that Sergeant Walter
Homeyer. self appointed public cen
sor and intimidator OF the press. haC
no authority 10 suppress the publica