Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-31

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1S-Dr. James ID. Banta, serving
two years sentence in Fort
Leavenworth prison, returns to
city after being granted re-
lease signed by President Will
son. after it had been shown
he was being unjustly held.
Charles Farther, 30S Twenty
first street held up by negro
at Sixth avenue and Eighteenth
street.
United States Supreme court
upholds Illinois supreme court
ia enjoining county from erect
ing Jail building on court house
square
'1-Hallowe'en is observed in quiet
fashion, no serious damage be-
ing done anywhere in city.
NOVEMBER.
sugar ration is increased from
two to three pounds for each
person monthly.
4-Motorman Henry S. Newhouse
is seriously injuI ed and a score
of other persons are slightly
injured when Third avenue and
arsenal special cars collide at
Fifth avenue and Fortieth
street.
collected by city during
October total $1,0S3.60.
Rock Island voters return usual
Republican majority at polls
with but $500 ballots being
cast.
Mrs. Lon Mercer, 1925 Fourth
avenue and Frank Swanson
held up within few minutes of
each other on First avenue be-
tween Seventeenth and Eigh-
teenth street.
6-Man giving his name as Hugo
Thuriech and claiming to be a
Russian, arrested by federal
agents at arsenal as a spy, nu-
merous pictures, maps and
sketches of various parts of the
arsenal being found in HIS pos
session.
Rock Island people staged sec
ond fake peace celebration.
While town is in IprOar celebrat-
ing reported peace" the Syl-
van Ice company, 1927 Third
avenue; Twin Die & Tool
works, 4522 Sixth avenue, and
+. g. Maihack tinshOp, 1916
Sixth avenue, are burglarized.
1-Armistice is signed and Rock
Island puts on celebration last
ing more than twenty-four
hours, the day being proclaim
ed holiday by Mayor William
McCOnOchie.
United war work fund drive is
launched with city assigned
quota OF $45,9O9.
Closing rules forbidding public
gatherings of all kinds because
Of the influenza epidemic are
lifted
Arthur s. Nelson, patient Rock
Island tuberculosis sanatorium,
ends life by cutting arteries in
both wrists with a razor.
T. O. Tomlinson, 1410 Fifth
street, painfully injured when
thrown from auto truck 10
pavement at Second avenue and
Eighteenth street during peace
celebration.
Lightless night order is re-
scinded.
John Settler, 2S0S Eighth avenue,
injured in fall from street car
at Fourth avenue and Twenty
second street, during peace
celebration.
William Hueitt is seriously
wounded and Walter Felt
slightly wounded in shooting
scrape at PIG Seventeenth
street and Frank Curtis, alleged
perpetratOr of both crimes, es-
Capes.
is given by insurance
companies of 10 per cent in
crease on insurance of all
property owners.
Orders are received by exemp-
ton board for cancellation of
all draft calls.
City commission adopts ordi-
nance increasing salaries or all
city employees.
Mrs. c. II. Hill and daughter, Lu-
ellie Vivian, age 3 years, and |
son Charles, 3 weeks old, are |
asphyXiated in their home, at
1920 Ninth-0nd-a-haIf street.
Order compelling purchasers OF |
-four to buy a certain amount .
of substitutes al the same time |
is rescinded.
Government restrictions on F.
construction work lifted.
Last brick is laid on the Ninth +.
street paving Job which was
started in the summer or 1917.
Charles Wahlheim, 1904 TWen-
ty-foUrth-and-a-nalf street. Sc
riOusly injured when run down
by automobile at Thirteenth
avenue and Twenty fifth street. |
Paul Wilson of Milan seriously
injured when struck by auto
mobile on Seventeenth street
between Second and Third ave
nues.
City commission adopts ordi-
nance annexing 25-acre tract
on Forty-fourth stree. south of
Eighteenth avenue to city
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war work fund campaign.
Work of posting signs on roads
leading to Rock Island within
a radius of so miles of the city,
is begun. +
Government orders restricting
candy sales TO one pound are
removed.
Electrical workers OF tri-cities go
out on strike.
Mrs. Rose Dudley. sos Fourth
avenue, is murdered by hus-
band, Joseph Dudley. who later
ends own life in Moline.
Harry R. Coyne. 1911 Fourteenth
street. dies after being hit by
automobile.