Rock Island Argus., 1919-12-31
indeterminate sentence from
one to ten years.

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one to ten years.
Coroner John G. Miller was
yesterday named sheriff Of Rock
Island county by the county
board Of supervisors to sue
coed the late Sheriff Jake S.
Wigers.
BY vote Of II to the Rock Is
land county coard OF supervis-
ors decided to appeal once
more the jail building case to
the supreme court Of Illinois.
Definite word received from
Washington reaches Henry w.
Horst that the 460 government
homes in Rock Island. Moline
and East Moline will be COM
pleted.
Wynn Miller, aged 10 years, died,
and Howard McGuirk, aged 3
years, was seriously injured
as the result Of the first coast
ing accident which occurred to-
day at Fourteenth street and
Eighth avenue.
1s-Ofices were opened in the fed
eral building in charge Of Miss
l. D. Eddington to ascertain
what 1t costs the average wage
earning family to live in this
city.
Edalo Vencenzo, employe OF c. 3.
& O., died at the st. Anthony's
hospital yesterday as result of
being crushed by a switching
train at First avenue and Four
teenth street.
ceed the late Jake 8. Wigers.
1t was revealed today that y
sweetheart indirectly was the
cause Of Arthur Miller, alias
James Ellsworth, one Of the
20 who escaped from the coun-
ty Jail, to give himself up vol
unfairly.
Raymond Akers, driver for Bed
ford & Bartz, grocers, 17G1
Twenty-fifth street, was robbed
of $S2.72 by a lone robber at
Twentieth avenue and Twenty
seventh street. Saturday night.
OHara, third Of the
outlaw gang that shot Sheriff
Jake S. Wigers, was arrested
yesterday in Burlington, Iowa.
-Four holdup men, all armed and
masked, robbed the grocery
man at the w. F. Tiedeman
grocery, 906 Fourteenth-and-a-
half street, last evening of $35.
The name of Albert S. Coe OF
Port Byron appeared today in
list Of men reported to have
died in a German prison camp.
Each home in the city is to be
cahvassed Sunday to reenlist
members in the Red Cross.
15-Ben Ganahl was sentenced 10
IA years to Joliet yesterday,
for the murder of his wife,
Edna Ganahl. Dec. 2, 1918.
Harry Lavell, alias L. H. Smith,
was arrested yesterday here as
a deserter from Camp Dodge.
The New York store on Fifth ave-
nue. between Fifteenth and Six
teenth ! streets, Moline, was
completely destroyed by fire
this noon.
16-Firss welcome home party was
given for returned boys at Ma
sonic temple.
Erwin Walter Sloth, aged 19
years, committed suicide, tbs
reason unknown, in a Milwau-
kee hotel yesterday.
Cyrus e. Dietz was robbed OF $50
by two bandits last night,
while he was driving toward
Moline on Fourteenth avenue.
Rock Island, between Fortieth
and Forty-first streets.
17-Rev. P. H. Durkip was appoint-
ed pastor of the st. Joseph'5 }
Catholic church to fill the va
cancy left by the resignation
of Dean ]. J. Quinn.
Walter W. Kittilsen, chief deputy
sheriff, resigns today following
request for same by the re-
Gently appointed sheriff, John
G. Miller.
1S-Albrecht De Bruyno from Can
ada, q visitor here, and who
was arrested for being intoxi-
Gated last night, was robbed of
q purse containing $3.50 last
night.
20-N. E. Munson, deputy clerk
under the late Probate Cietk
Leo Deisenroth, was today
named probate clerk to sue
ceed Mr.. Deisenroth.
The leather shop at the arsenal,
which was to be closed, will be
kept open indefinitely by order
of Secretary of War Baker.
Dewey vetter, living five miles
west of Milan, incurred severe
injuries, probably fatal, Satu--
day night when the buggy IN
which he was returning home
was struck by a westbound
Rock Island Southern car at
Blazer crossing, three miles
west of Milan.
Mrs. Cary, 1909 Sixth avenue,
had $3c in cash and a gold
watch snatched from her hand
on Eighteenth street, between
Fifth and Sixth avenues, Sat
urday night.
:1-Dewey Vetter. aged 20 years
died at st. Anthony's hospital
as a result of the accident IN
Milan Saturday night.
22-Overpowering Herman J.
Wahlstrand, turnkey. and John
p. Sexton. special night guard
20 of the most desperate crimi-
mails ever confined in the Rock
Island county Jail effected thei:
escape early last evening and
IL hours later only five men
we're recaptured and one had
voluntarily given himself up tc
the police.
23-Sam Green. paroled negro who
robbed Harry Kendall Of Dav
export. Alfredo de Leon, charg.
ed with robbery and JOSEPH
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