Lieutenant Bradley fatally shot during disarming attempt
Lieutenant Arthur Bradley commanding the local naval militia died at City Hospital after a bullet fired by John W. Findley during a drunken dispute at Deckers saloon. Findley, held on murder charges, fled but was captured. cause of death listed as shock after bullet perforated intestines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur FE Bradley
Naval Militia
John W. Findley
Iloline Pump Co
Fourth Avenue
Findley
Bradley
Findley Betwen
Deckers Saloon
Fourteenth Street
Fourth and
Fifth Avenues
Joe Ullmain
Findleys
C Hi Goetzmann
Hardy and
Aches
Bradley Rsuit
Fifth Avenue
John Carlson
Third Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Frested
August Paulsen
Deckers &Aloon
Skinner Annes
Carl
Naval
C Hl Goetzman
Texas
al Johnson
Haymarket
Seventeenth Street
Second Avenue
Emil Jasper
Turner Hall
Jasper
Decker
Molders
Industrial’ Hall
Joe Feeles
Root & Vandervoort
East Moline
Joe
Feeley
White
Carlson
Goetzman
Bratheyr
Graetzmans
Feeley and
Naval Reserves
Findley Nots
Goetzman Findley
Feeles
Finchey
Poice
F.fteenth Street
Orers
Finley
Joe Ullman
Colberg
Decker’s
W A Cox
Frank Gottsche
Central Station
Dr. Cox
Fifteenth Street
Builying
Swensson
Bookers Restaurant
Eckhart
Statels
Weld
ID Blakemore
Searle
Arthur Bradley
Cuba
Moline
Arthur
Deere & Mankur Co
Davenport Machine Works
S M
J. Grimes
Sound as a dollar from Scott's Emulsion claims
An advertisement touts Scott's Emulsion as strengthening the throat and lungs and driving out coughs colds and bronchitis. It highlights use for weak lungs and sensitive throats and concludes with a sales pitch from T Bowye Pearl Street New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
Military honors for Lieutenant Arthur E Bradley
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 3 from the Unitarian church for Lieutenant Arthur E Bradley. The service, led by Dr Hedley Hall, honored his character and ideals. Naval reserves and local militia attended, with numerous floral tributes and significant pieces from Masons, Eastern Star, and naval units. Burial at Riverside was with full honors and salutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur E. Bradley
Unitarian Church
Hedley Hall
Morris Wheelock
Dorie Lodge of Masons
N. M. IH
Co. F
Rock Island
Moline
Company A
Bradley
Riverside
Stee
Move in and near Skinnerville shows heavy moving activity
Surveyors for the Rock Island road board at Mrs Warner and E E Warren. Harry Haley moves timbers to Pleasant Valley school house then to Palmquist farm. George Evans and sister moved into the village. Rob Skinner teams for Frank Cooper. Smith graveyard moved to Hampton. Many houses north of the tracks torn down. Alfred Skinner and others work for surveyors. Several residents plan moves to Hampton Watertown and Barstow area.
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Rock Island Road
Carbon Cliff
Emerson Farm
Myra Smith
Alfred Skinner
Eugene Skinner
Howard Skinner
Frank Warren
James Reese
Henry Evans
Jason Willis
Hampton
Albert Evans
Watertown
Henry Ellingsworth
Marvin
Moline
Henry Shinner
Weatherhead Farm
Barstow
Postmaster Metzgar Denies Davenport Account Shortage
Rumors claimed Postmaster George R Metzgar of Davenport faced shortages in his accounts. Metzgar released a statement saying the rumors are baseless. Inspectors reportedly found his Davenport accounts correct to a cent, and a Washington inquiry confirmed balance. Metzgar remains in office with three and a half years left in his term.
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George R Metzgar
Davenport
Iowa
Metzzgar
Muscatine
Metzgar
Shallene Brothers Buy Sorling Stock
Axel Sorling the furniture dealer on Fifteenth street sold to F W Shallene and John N Shallene the remaining stock as he retires. The Shallene brothers planned a Chicago stock purchase and expect to open a modern furniture store Monday in the present location. They are longtime Moline molders at Union Malleable Iron Co with strong reputations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Axel Sorling
Fifteenth Street
F. W. Shallene
John N. Shallene
Augustana
Gus Wilson Elected President of Tri-City Musicians
The Tri-City Musical Society in Davenport announces Gus Wilson as president and Charles Bleuer as vice president. The executive board includes Henry Sonntag Hugo Toll N K Scott Hy Lindt Geo Stroehle Charles Mangold L Hemenway and O A Artz. Delegates to the Tri-City Labor Congress include Bleuer Alfred Freed Stroehle Severin Hemenway Killmer.
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Tri- City Musical Society
Davenport
Gus Wilson
Strasser
Charles Bleuer
Rock Island
Henry Sonntag
Hugo Toll
N. K. Scott
Hy. Lindt
Geo. Stroehle
Charles Mangold
L. Hemenway
Givenfort Island
C. H. Hagenges
Operators Win Illinois Miner Pact For Year April First
Davenport coal merchant J B Wyle reports Illinois miners and operators ratified the Indianapolis agreement at Springfield ending talks. Mines will run for a year from April 1 under the pact, with operators adding 25 to 30 cents per ton for screened coal to cover advances in pay and day wages.
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Wyle
Davenport
Springfield
Indianapolis
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Danville
Ninois
Wylie
Tri-Cities
John Mitchell
Notable Instructors Secured for 1903 Rock Island Institute
County Superintendent S J Ferguson announces two renowned instructors for the next Rock Island County Teachers institute J M Greenwood Kansas City schools and Dr Earl Barnes University of Pennsylvania will focus on school administration and psychology respectively The institute runs August 24 to 28 A Springfield conference April 14 to 16 aims to harmonize institute methods with papers from Hall Westhoff Lake Shryock Clark Davenport Bright and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. J. Ferguson
Rock Island County
Alfred Bayliss
Springfield
Frank H. Hall
Aurora
F. W. Westhoff
Illinois State Normal University
Edward J. Lake
University of Illinois
Henry W. Shryock
Southern Illinois State Normal
S. H. Clark
University of Chicago
Eugene Davenport
State College of Agriculture
Orville T. Bright
Chicago
Smallpox Case Quarantined in City Home
Perry Wilson a carpenter at 1102 Twelfth Avenue is quarantined with smallpox. He has been confined since the fifth with his wife and one child also quarantined. They recently moved from Aledo two weeks ago and authorities believe the illness is the genuine disease in a mild form. Mayor Wessel investigated and confirmed the diagnosis.
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Perry
Wilson
Twelfth Avenue
Wessel
Aledo
Double Bereavement in Lower End Family
A Rock Island county family suffers fever and measles with two deaths. Elizabeth Weiss Martin aged 18 died at 1 a.m. Sunday and her mother Mrs Elizabeth Martin died at 5 p.m. the same day. Mrs Martin leaves twelve siblings across the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Martin
Rock Island
Tragic Rock Island Flagman Killed by Fast Train
John Gaffey a Rock Island flagman at Fourth Street in Rock Island was killed by eastbound passenger train No. 20 at 6 25 near his tower. He served 35 years with the road and is survived by five children. The death's cause remains a mystery and witnesses are unavailable.
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John Gaffey
Rock Island Road
Fourth Street
Fifth Avenue
Rock Island
Gaffey
St Ig
Ireland
Mary A
Julia T
Patrick
John
Burlington Freight House
Moline
James
Hillyard, Wash
Hotels storerooms fill fast in new Manufacturers' Hotel
Bidding for storerooms in the new Manufacturers' hotel building along Sixteenth Street is active. Tenants secured include a corner hotel bar, C. J. Aldine tailoring shop, Postal Telegraph office with extended hours, and a reading room for hotel patrons. Third avenue stores face ongoing negotiations with F. J. Clendenin’s drugstore likely to take a corner spot if rental agreed. W. A. Dieroff and others contest the storeroom on Third avenue amid bids from a Fifteenth Street firm.
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Manufacturers’ Hotel
Sixteenth Street
Third Avenue
F. J Clendenin
W. A. Dieroff
Fifteenth Street
McCaskrin Sets Platform for Rock Island Mayoral Bid
George W. McCaskrin announces an independent bid for Rock Island mayor and outlines five planks: voters choose the mayor free of party machines. enact laws to punish spending to secure nomination and election. make appointments after election and subject them to city council approval. uphold city and state laws and government. and require full oath of office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. McCaskrin
Rock Island
Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children
Purporting to cure colds in 24 hours and relieve feverishness in youngsters. Advertises Mother Gray a nurse from a New York Children’s Home with claims of relief for headache stomach troubles and related disorders. Sold at druggists for 25 cents with free sample offer. Allen 8 LeRoy New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother Gray
New York
Allen 8
LeRoy
Acras h in Rural town southwest of Coal Val
A brief rural item notes a place called Acras h in a town southwest of Coal Valley. The fragment provides no clear event or person details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uth
Coal Val
Husband and Wife Die Same Day
A couple died on the same day in a joint death that drew notice in the local area. Officials reported no further details. investigators are reviewing circumstances surrounding the deaths.
Colgroves Die Within Hours of Each Other in Hampton
W W Colegrove and wife both died of old age within four hours of each other at their Hampton home. W W Colegrove, 53, Came to the county in 1843 and remarried in 1898 after his first wife died in 1895. Survived by a son and six other children in Iowa Kansas Oklahoma and New York state. Funeral held Tuesday. interments at Barstow and Watertown.
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Colgrove
W. Willard Colegrove
Hampton
Colegrove
Lucinda Tubbs
Nancy Drake
Barstow
Lewis
Fourth Avenue
Swisher
Geneseo
A. Brown
Kansas
Norman
Merritt
Milton
Lake City
Iowa
Burton
Oklahoma
Watertown
Plow Co Association Signs Doctor Contract for Members
The Moline Plow Co employer association signs with Drs Hart and Burson to care for member families at a set yearly rate. With 413 members, they pay $4 annually for twenty calls. The contract stays in force only while membership remains 190 or more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moline Plow Co
Drs
Coupon Tickets from Iowa Burglary Recovered
Investigation shows California coupon tickets sold by C B Q were stolen from New London Iowa railway station during a burglary around the month’s start. Division Agent F A Hart confirmed the theft after contacting Chicago offices. Mortimer or Monteman claims a stranger gave him the tickets, with a hearing set for this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
James Monteman
Mortimer
Rock Island
Davenport
New London
Iowa
F. A. Hart
Chicago
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Goetzmak
Decker Saloon
The
Fifth Avenue Cor
Ocal
M Findley
St Street
Shuttler
Coole
Pindley
Twen
Brada
A. L. Mills
Washington State
T & Bowye
Pearl Street
Skinnerville
U. K
Washington
Shallene Brothers
Sorling
Tri-City Musicians
MOLNE
M'Caskrin
Marly
W. W. Colgrove
Case
Mr. Colegrove
Drs. Hart & Burson
Ilies
Bradfield Regulator Co
Atlanta, GA
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