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Subject: [IASCOTT] News Clips 1895
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:48:12 -0500

The Davenport Daily Times

Wednesday, December 18, 1895

The board of education has decided to close schools for the Christmas vacation next Friday evening and after a week's vacation will reopen them on Monday the 30th for the winter term with Wednesday, Jan. 1, observed as a holiday. This is the practical way to handle the holiday vacation question but will hardly meet with the ideas of young America, especially if skating and coasting are good.


"Modoc" finest smoking tobacco, two ounces for 5 cents. For sale by all dealers.


The city council of Rock Island is on the trail of the Tri-City Sprinkler Company and it is due to the claim that the latter continues to blissfully ignore its indebtedness to the municipality. The company is said to owe the city $500 for water and as it does not appear to be making any frantic endeavor to settle the obligation City Attorney HAAS has been instructed to interview the delinquent as to the why and wherefore of its unpatriotic behavior.


Thomas KIMBALL, who stabbed a Mississippi river raftsman named Frank HAMILTON and who has been confined in the Iowa City jail, has made a successful break for liberty. During the early morning hours when a funereal quietude prevailed in that Bastile, KIMBALL succeeded in prying out the bars of his cell and getting away. He is still at large while the man whom he knifed is in a precarious condition, although he will probably recover.


Call and see our fine rockers for only $3.50. WALL & SPICER, 319 Brady.


A valuable horse belonging to Tom REGAN was badly injured on the Fifth and Main street railway crossing yesterday afternoon and will probably be maimed for life. The animal was being driven across the track when its front hoof caught in between the rail and flooring, throwing the animal violently to the ground. This is not the first horse that has been injured on this crossing and the railway company is busy to-day having it properly repaired.

If you are sick, nothing renovates and invigorates like Dr. KAY's Renovator. See advt. Price 25cents and $1.

The Sons of Veterans and Ladies Aid Society will give a masquerade ball at the G.A.R. hall tomorrow evening which promises to be an affair of unusual social enjoyment. The committee on arrangements consists of E. S. ARNOLD, E. WEINGARTNER and Frank DOW, and Misses Kate RIGBY, Minnie SCHUMAN and Sadie TILLOTSON. These two organizations have given quite a number of pleasing entertainments and the affair tomorrow evening will probably excel all past records.

A necessary dish: "Friends' Oats,"

West Third street was the scene of an exciting runaway yesterday which nearly resulted in the serious injury of Mrs. Rev. C. A. FINGER and a couple of ladies who were in the carriage with her at the time. The horse which Mrs. FINGER was driving became frightened at a passing car near Third and Vine streets and indulged in a lively run until it was turned in an alley near Third and Marquette and brought under control. The carriage rocked to and fro considerably and it was decidedly fortunate that the ladies were not thrown out.

Ladies interested in china decorating should not fail to see the elegant line white china at The Jarvis WHITE Art Co. Lessons given and firing done.

The ladies of the Calvary Baptist church are completing arrangements for their Christmas entertainment which is to be held in the assemblage room of the church next Monday evening. Forty-four dolls are being fitted up for the tree and later will be distributed among the forty-four girl members of the infant class; the twenty-three boys of the class will also be remembered with something appropriate. The other members of the school will also be remembered and a fine programme carried out during the course of the evening.

We show the largest line of chamber sets in the city. Prices very reasonable. HINRICHS Crockery Co.


Dr. H. A. GILMAN, superintendent of the Mt. Pleasant insane hospital has notified County Clerk Balluff that the hospital board of trustees has found the following cases incurable and ordered their removal:

Theo. POHLMAN, Thomas TRAYNOR, Madison T. LONG, Wulf MOELLER, John O. TEEGEN, Wilbur BARNHARDT, John HAINS, James O. SCHAEFFER, Nellie LUNSFORD, Eliza WRAGGE and Lizzie DOYLE.

Fritz KANN, one of the deputies in Sheriff JONES' office, accompanied by several assistants, left for Mt. Pleasant this afternoon to bring the male patients back to this city. They will arrive here tomorrow night and Friday morning at 8:30 the commissioners of insanity will meet to determine what disposition to make of them. Unless the relatives desire some other arrangements made, the unfortunates will probably be committed to the insane department of Mercy Hospital for safe keeping. The women will not be returned until next week.

J.C. WALLACE has all of the standard goods and all the novelties in musical instruments. Have you seen the mandolin attachment for pianos? Look over Mr. WALLACES fine stock, at 116 West Second street, and get his prices. They are the lowest.

RETIRES FROM OFFICE

A KIMBALL Resigns the Vice-Presidency of the R. I. & P.

President R. R. CABLE, of the C. R. I. & P., was in the tri-cities yesterday, his visit being occasioned by the semi-annual meeting of the directors of the R. I. & P. which was held in Rock Island. The others in attendance were H. B. SUDLOW, A. KIMBALL, and Phil MITCHELL. One of the principal acts was to declare a dividend of 2 ½ per cent on the business of the past six months, Mr. KIMBALL, who has been the vie-president of the company, presented his resignation, which was accepted. H. S. CABLE, son of the president of the Pike's Peak railway, was unanimously elected to succeed the veteran railroader who desired to retire.

Notice

Our store will be open evenings until after Christmas. Aug. STEFFEN.



Malicious Mischief

The management of the local U. S. express agency were somewhat chagrined this morning to find the expensive covering of their express wagons practically ruined at the hand of some ruthless villain who had maliciously cut up the cover with a knife or some other sharp instrument. The wagon was left standing in the alley back of the Eldorado saloon last night and this morning it was found with the cover in a badly mutilated condition. The matter was at once reported to the police but as yet no clue has been found to the perpetrators. The express company will deal severely with them if caught.

One of the best stories ever written by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps WARD is the illustrated novelette, "The Veteran" which will appear in next Saturday's Times.

E. M. DALZELL, practical plumber, 832 east Sixteenth street. Jobbing and repairing reasonable and promptly done. Close estimates on plumbing, gas fitting, water service and sewer work. All work guaranteed.


Northern Witches

In Modern Times Belief in Them Has Been Quite Common

So lately as the middle of this century a girl of Louisburgh, near Wick, was accused of being in league with the "pooers o' mischief," and a remedy akin to that recently practiced with such tragic results in Ireland was devised. She was placed in a basket, lined with shavings of wood, which was then hung over a fire. The issue in this case was not fatal, but the folk averred that she was not "half so witch-like" after she had been singed. A hag of the northern isles was at times thought to be meta-morphosed into a porpoise, and in fair weather she would dive under and over-turn a fishing boat, against whose skipper she bore a grudge. On one occasion she was made to place her hand on the bodies of several men who had met their death in such a way, and in the words of the old chronicler, one "bled at the collir bane," another "in the hands and fingers, gushing out bluid thairat, to the great admiratione of the beholders and revelation of the judgment of the Almychtie."

A host of stories tell of northern witches who have given diseases to horses, oxen and flocks of moorland sheep. Herdsmen to this day distrust unknown persons who touch the food of their kye, lest it be poisoned. In Shetland the cat or vaneja is regarded as an animal which brings good luck; if she is seen to run toward the boat's mast there is sure to be a good catch. In Chaithness, on the contrary, witches frequently appear in the form of cats. A carpenter of Scrabster in the olden times was systematically robbed of his meal and cakes. He thought it "cu'nu be cannie," and one night as he watched he saw a number of cats devouring his property. In a trice he cut off the right leg of one of them, whereupon they made their escape with a rapidity which confirmed his former suspicions. Shortly afterward an old woman, who had always been looked upon with disfavor, was found dead in her lone cottage, bereft of her right leg..-Scottish Review.

The C. B. & Q., 108 west Third street, are selling the slickest playing cards in the country for the money, 15 cents a pack. Don't fail to drop in and buy a pack.

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