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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1889
Page
7
The notice details Republican ticket items around July 16 and July 27. militia organization in Geneseo and Rock Island counties. local road and bridge work. redevelopment plans for Davenport and Muscatine areas. and a fatal train incident near Tiskilwa with a Moline teacher voyage to Chautauqua.
A group of Moine Scale Co. workers camped at Hampton for recreation and fishing while Capt H O Cleaveland travels to Springfield for business.
An eighteen month old child of John Adams of Cordova drowned in a cistern on Saturday afternoon. Mrs Adams left the child asleep went across the street for berries and returned to find the child missing. The Rev Shoop of Port Byron helped search and used a pole to locate the body in the cistern.
The county Prohibition party committee led by Blessors George Allen J H Reeves and A Williams nominated W Odell of Port Byron for state's attorney. Odell accepted after being seen by the committee and responding to a dig about his previous campaign letters.
A carrier pigeon owned by Johno Russell of Cable was released on Market Square Monday afternoon with a message from the Argus office giving Sullivan Kilrain match results. The bird flew to a building near Thomas's drug store and Schafer house, then headed south and disappeared. It landed at 6 20 on Russell's premises after an estimated eighteen mile flight. The same pigeon recently traveled from Chicago to Cable, about 165 miles, in four and a half hours.
A notice warns boys in Illinois to read section three of chapter sixty one of the revised statutes. It lists protected birds including robins bluebirds swallows martins and woodpeckers and forbids killing trapping netting or destroying them or their nests with a fine of five dollars per bird or nest.
The Rock Island County Teachers Institute reports 130 active teachers and 148 on the register after day two. Morning sessions run 8:30 to 12:40 with an afternoon hour for anatomy and physiology. Principal W H Ray misses due to illness. his classes are covered by other instructors.
The Bluff region shows rapid housing expansion with many new owner occupied homes and rising land values. Citizens urge swift action by the city to approve Fairmount platization and accelerate land sales while calling for a new central school and a voter petition to authorize board action.
A young man seeking board at Joseph Hunteen's on Sixteenth Street stayed for dinner then vanished. Miss Mary L Huntoon found her bureau unlocked and about 57 in savings stolen along with a $40 gold chain engraved with her name, Mary L Huntoon.
Demolition of the Old ice house on Second Avenue near Seventeenth Street in Moline leads to a collapse of a heavy ice slide. Eight workers from Rock Island Lumber Co. were injured. Henry Hagger died. Henry Lorenz, foreman, blamed by the coroner. Jury verdict holds Hagger died from falling timbers while working at the Wetber brewery building for John Weyerheuser.
D Colwell of Peoria visited Joslin early in the week while Mrs Kobler and daughter Emma from Moline are guests of Mr Wm White side. John Donahoo’s health falters after a fall from a new barn. A sister of Mr George Walker visits this week. Sherman Searle arrived at Joslin on Saturday. Whitesides in Rock Island attend supervisors meeting as Whiteside Hubbart boost binder and mower trade amid a damaging rain storm. ALVIN
George Jackson hurries to the depot where a Rock Inland train waited. He returns with a pretty young lady and the town serenades them. Kilrain men face rain with smiles while Mitchell faces doubt. J Vori Ach visits town and Frank gains weight. D B Adama of New Windazor will teach next year and replace Miss Hays. Lost items include a lichen ulster and spectacles. rewards offered. Garver Williams injured by a coal fall at the mines. Cable Illinois July 10 1889.
The 1889 session law changes term lengths for boards of supervisors in all counties under township organization except Cook. The next spring election will create two classes serving one and two years, with class divisions by town where multiple reps exist. From 1891, vacancies will be filled for two-year terms, leading half the board to expire each year.
Dr Nichols and James Farris urged the county board to fund sending Frank Harwood home to the East for his consumption. The board considered the request and implied the money would be approved. Harwood arrived Tuesday morning in poor health. The note also mentions Charles Hall in Chicago as a social figure from the Moline circle.
List of grand jurors for the September term 1889 of the Rock Island Illinois circuit court includes Cordova Jerry Bryant Coe Ashdown Canoe Creek Hiram Can Zuma David Adama Port Byron J C Walewight Hampton Glarz Moline E B Knox George Oldcrest John Lindwall South Moltke W C Wilson Rock Island Edwin Ward C H Stoddard Charles Hungpen Allson Conqueror South Rock Island David Sears Black Hawk H J Huyett Coal Valley John J Pryce Rural RB D Mccreery Bowling H O Haver Edgington James Venable Andalusia Charlies Hayes Buffalo Pleo D P Kistler Drury Louis Hessman
The committee on education at the Y M C A has plans for fall and winter work. Chairman Parks has prepared a blank for members to study, to request instruction in suggested lines and language, and rapid progress is hoped from the committee.
The county committee of the Prohibition party has nominated Samuel W. Odell as candidate for State's Attorney. Quonax Attey, J. H. Rexvas, and yor Gomatiien are mentioned in connection with the nomination.
Remaining unclaimed in the post office at Moline for the week ending July 11, 1889 is listed. A Lyons paper mill bleacher explosion killed two men, per local reports.
Prominent Swedish scholar and preacher Prof Waldenstrom, once linked to Augustana, will tour the country delivering sermons and lectures. He plans stops at Association Hall Friday next week and at Col. College and Rockford later, presenting his orthodox yet inclusive view on Christian worship and church establishment.
Fragmented OCR lists numerous individuals and parcels with scattered place names and amounts, including references to Wheelock, Wool, Mollie Cevedda, Henry P Lutton, Abert Aswege, Lam Ft Nelson, and others across various properties and receipts. The legibility and context are insufficient for a coherent event or outcome.
The probate record lists multiple estates with final accounts approved and administrators discharged. It notes guardianship reports for minors, receipts and releases, and petitions for sale of real estate with decrees. Instances include estates of Turner Ignatz Kuntman Charas A Ford and C Kool, with issuances of guardianship and local administrator appointments.
The county board discussed visiting the Poor Farm on Wednesday and approved publishing board proceedings in the Hock Island Argus for 96 dollars. Members Murphy Walt Wilson Woodburn voted yes against Armstrong Bestock Buffum Celling Cralle Forsyth Frick Hartman Hassan Hun toon Little McNe l Reyoulds Schoelder Whiter side, totaling 16 nays. Whiteside moved to compel ex-clerk E H Bowmen Jr to file unclaimed fees with the county treasurer after the election of a state's attorney. motion carried. Board fees totaled 265 dollars before adjournment. A note compares Johnstown calamities in New York and Pennsylvania, and Geneseo News reports a drunken celebration incident ending with medical care for a injured man on the Geneseo to Chicago Fourth of July trip.
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