The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-31

N1A . mary E1dEueFs oos 41Aa Filth
avenue. committed suicide BY
asphyxiation after leaving a
note with instructions as 10
the disposition of property and
funeral.
13-Ffre believed to have been
caused by spontaneous com
bustion in a pile Of papers, de-
stroyed the Davenport ware
house owned by Morris Alter, 744
Twenty-fourth street, Rock Is
land, with adjacent buildings of
the Davenport Iron & Machin-
cry company, causing an estf-
mated loss of $4,000.
14-Mrs. Annie B. Wolfrum, so
was burned to death and her
body charred almost beyond rec
ognition in the ruins L a barn
destroyed in a fire this morning
on the home pre- Uses. Thir-
tieth street road at Thirtieth
avenue.
15-Miss Emelie De Santo, So
teacher in the Eugene Field
school 30 years, committed suS.f
eide by asphyxiation.
l7-John V. Wells, "a, Civil war
veteran and resident Of Rock
Island As years, died in his
residence, 1905 Thirty seventh
street, as result of heat pros
tration suffered five weeks ago
Harry King, 80, alleged by
George ". Brunette, Ala West
Third street, Davenport, to
having stolen a pearl necklace
and diamond rings valued at
$3.50, the property of Mrs.
Brunette, was held under $1,000
bonds on charge of larceny.
John A. Shield, BIS Tenth street.
foreman for the Mccarthy I'M
proyement company, Daven-
port, drowned in the Erie canal
in Syracuse, n. Y, when the
car which he was driving,
plunged over the end Of a
bridge which had opened to let
canal boats pass.
S-Twenty-five Methodist pastors
from the district with half
dozen distinguished evangelists
and church leaders headed
campers at the Rock Island dis
trict camp meeting, which
opened in Tindalrs grove near
Milan.
Bud Bridgens, Flying Fox of
the Tri-City Aerial Transporta-
ton company, killed in q 400
foot drop from plane at Rock
ford.
)-Galen Lamar, Davenport, wad-
ing with a party of friends on a
sandbar in the Mississippi river
five miles above Cordova, was
swept away by the current and
drowned.
John T. Mcdowell, Al, died as thaf
result of lockjaw caused froI
stepping on a nail two week
before.
-Twenty-eighth annual Rock Is
land county fair opened in
Joslin.
Wade Rothwell, air devil" Of the
Tri-City Aerial company cir
Gus, son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. ".
Rothwell, 1922 Thirty-ninth
street, fell when he Ieaped
from an auto travelling So
miles an hour and missed a
ladder suspended from an air
plumbing condi-
tons are prevalent in the Rock
Island county jail to such an
extent that it is unfit for habi-
tation, according to reports
submitted by f. L. Yerbury,
city plumbing inspector. and
L. X. Eihl, city health in
spectOT.
Two hundred Rotarians gath
cred at an inter-C!ty picnic al
the Watch Tower.
Gasoline dropped to 1872 cents
a gallon as the result OF a gas
war.
j. A. Miller, cashier of the
Rock Island Sash & Door,
works, and wife, Mrs Miller
Bettendorf. were killed when
an automobile in which they
were riding was struck by a
fast train east of La Harpe.
Public schools in Rock Island
opened with 1850 pupils en-
rolled.
Fred Werner, 1928 West Fourth
street, Davenport, intoxicated,
crashed into two cars on Sec
ond avenue and finally ended
up, after running over the curb
on the south side of Seventh
avenue, with a crash into the
porch of the home OF Miss
Emma Behrens. 1916 Seventh
avenue, and through the front