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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1882
Page
1
The Review-Dispatch promises a 50 cent cash premium on advance payments and a one year subscription for 1.50 in cash. A canvasser is sought in every Rock Island County school district with liberal terms offered.
The County announces candidates for county offices with LUCIAN ADAMS for County Judge of Rock Island, RICHARD A. DONALDSON for County Clerk from Rural, WILLIAM G. MORRIS for Sheriff of Moline, JOHN E. FLEMING for Treasurer from Rock Island, and J. H. SOUTHWELL for Superintendent of Schools of Black Hawk.
M D Hausenis announces as an independent candidate for sheriff at a July 12, 1882 Com notice. He pledges to administer the office with fidelity and without regard to party politics, claiming support from Republicans Democrats and Greenbackers.
The town welcomed rain easing corn worries though haying paused. Residents planned picnics and lawn parties as fewer seaside trips occurred. Mr William Sheppard plans to move to Montpelier Iowa to run a hotel, and Glenn Gordon from Muscatine visits friends. Stoneware shipments for May Bros. and Rock Island proceeded, with social events at Wm Bruner and Eugene Klein residences drawing crowds.
Mr Beam suffers sun stroke while helping haul hay near Andalusia on July 28. Dr. Frank Smith of Andalusia attends and reports critical condition. Nearby items note dwelling changes, kiln work, crops, binding, and social notices. August 8, 1882, Epox.
In Watertown a depot car is moved and debris cleared. Dan McNeil finished a new hay barn expected to hold sixty tons and recoup costs in two years. Plans hint at large railroad stock yards. An accident at a crossing involved Mr George Adams and sister, with no injuries. Corn in Hampton township faces flood loss. some fields yield poor crops while others show potential. The local railroad, C M T P, is thanked for its generosity. August 2, Uncix BI.
Last Sunday's rain aided crops while Mr Vosburgh remains ill. Mrs Boyle and daughter Bertha of Prophetstown visited Hillsdale. Miss Mattie Henderson visits friends. Mrs Atkinson with ill child. Johnnie Kendall found a gold ring in Friday festival cake. Mrs Ryer and children plan Hillsdale home during Mr Ry ers absence. Festival net $85.33 funds organ debt. praise for Sunday school efforts and donors. Frizz. August 3 1883.
Four Muscatine men on a Muskaconda excursion split up to visit a crockery shop. Two of them pretended to be thieves prompting the clerk to warn them off. The others explained the stunt as a joke, and the situation cooled as the pair faced a firm reprimand.
The private tone of the war imposed upon me physicians call chronic diarrhea. Your
A midnight burglary at Francis Black's Hampton store near Davenport involved a powder explosion blowing open the safe. $130 in cash and $2,000 in notes were taken. Three men fled toward the railroad, pursued by residents. police across cities tracked suspects who were later observed in towns along the way.
A fifteen year old named Herman Conzelman, orphaned young, travels extensively by riding trains and ships. He has been to Colorado, the south, and St Louis, later writing from Liverpool about voyages to Russia and Finland as a cabin boy. His restless life of travel may lead to remarkable knowledge, though abandoning home at his age is concerning.
Acknowledging a third party presence both men claim innocence and deny crime. Smith asserts an alibi of sleeping in a house last night while the other man says he slept in a barn. Arrivals from Hampton may help identify them.
A tribute notes The Dr Harter Medicine Company of St Louis as a strong, reliable drug house and highlights Dr Harter’s Iron Tonic as a medicine of merit for debility and related illnesses. The piece asserts the remedy is well known and endorsed by the medical profession.
A man identified as Henry Mahoney was fatally injured when the Sterling bound train No 81 of the C B Q struck him on the track two miles east of the city. The inquest found the victim possibly intoxicated. witness Alonzo Collin testified Mahoney talked to himself on the rails shortly before the collision. The jury adjourned to hear further testimony from engineer Charles Heaton conductor E L Pollard and fireman G Bolman.
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