The Moline Review-Dispatch from Moline, Illinois • 5

of the officers and as to the voting by THINGS THEATRICAL. couple of columns to a flattering review Uttsiiuess Cards. A Cheeky Woman. Yesterday, a womaa well known in this city, undertook to obtain some groceries without paying for them, in a rather Piano and Organ. INSTRUCTION ON THE PIANO AND ORGAH Terms moderate.

Mrs. J. A. HENDERSON. South side Wells two doors east of Bass St, Harwood Cralle.

LI VERY, BALE AND FEED STABLE AND City Express. First-class riifB. careful driven and one price to all. Telephone at Livery omoe or at Craile residence. A.

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Gordon, D1 ENTIST. OFFICE OVER THE DRUG STORE of Richards Sohrbeck. oomnr of Mln anrl Lyude streets, Moline, Illinois. Oscar S. Bryant.

NOTARY PUBLIC DEPOSITIONS TAKEN. Acknowledgement of Leeds, Pension Certifl-cates, etc. Office at the Bluff Drug Store. Browning Entrikin, TTORNEY8 AND COUNSELORS AT LAW and Notaries Public. Omoe over First Na-onal Back, Main Street, Moline, Illinois.

N. C. Tyrrell JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. OFFICE UP stairs, comer of Main and Lnde streets. Colled ions attended to.

Deeds, mortgages, made out. John C. Moore Co. WELLS DUG, BORED AND DRILLED. DEAI, ers In Ualliday's Wind Mills and Pumps.

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GOODS CONVEYED TO ANY part of the city. Orders can be left at Wal- ace's. ROCK ISLAND. j. W.

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"Wm. Hunt, a coal miner, fell down a shaft a distance of 400 feet at Mt. Pulaski, 111. The National Petroleum Exchange was opened yesterday at New York, and 500 seats were sold. The exports of breadstuffs during November amounted to $15,306,494, against $18,025,880 in November last year.

Fire in the Barton Block at Minneapolis, yesterday, caused a loss of $85,000, UDon which there is $70,000 insurance. The President yesterday nominated John F. Gimsted. of the District of Columbia, to be commissioner of the District. By order of Secretary Folgcr the exchange of 3 per cents into 3's will be suspended during the month of February.

Dry epizootic of a most infectious type has broken out among horses in Camden, N. and in several parts of Pennsylvania. The.improvementa at the White House were completed yesterday, and the mansion will be open lor inspection to-morrow. Great distress is reported in some localities in the western portion of Ire land, and people are repoited actually starving. It is asserted that Arabi Pasha is to receive an allowance of about $2,500 per annum, and that he will shortly be joined by his wife in Ceylon.

Twenty freight cars were thrown from the tract near Gilberton, yesterday on the Reading road, and their contents were scattered in all directions. The medical students and their assistants, recently caught while robbing graves near Richmond, were sentenced yesterday to six months' imprisonment. Many of the tobacco firms of St. Louis have called in their traveling solicitors owing to the uncertainty in the trade caused by the proposed tariff charges. The sales of tobacco at Lynchburg, Bince Oct.

1, have decreased 1,000,000 pounds, as compared with the same period in 1881, but the prices have ranged higher. At Mermentau, Sunday morning, an assassin fired through a window at Dr. J. A. Rouke, ho was drinking a cup of coffee at the time, and killed him instantly.

A Paris newspaper advocates an alliance between France, Italy and England to counterbalance the Austro-German alliance, and by this means to further insure the peace of Europe. Gov. Foster, of Ohio, has issued a proclamation for a special election in the Thirteenth Senatorial District on January 2, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Senator O'Hagan. The transfers of real estate at Bismark, D. aggregated $1,000,000 in the past month.

The McKenzie Coffin addition was placed on sale yesterday, $75,000 worth of lots being purchased with two hours. Sergeant Ballantyne, the English barrister, was entertained at dinner yesterday in Philadelphia by Horace H. Furness, after which he was tendered a reception by the Pennsylvania Club, here he met many Judges of the Snpreme and other court3. In the star route trial yesterday Judp "Wylie complained of the charges of the stenographers, and said at twenty-five cents per folio they got just four times as much as he received as Judge. Mr.

Bliss continued his speech, but nothing new transpired in the course of it. Mary "Wiessenberger, aged 75, was criminally assaulted by Frank Commiz at Louisville early yesterday morning, the fellow who as drunk, only desistiDg in his efforts hence had been beaten insensible by officers. It is believed the assault will cause Mrs. Wissenberger's deatn. Hon.

William M. Smith, the President of the Illinois State Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners, and ex-Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, is again very ill at his home in Lexington, McLean county, and there is no hope of his recovery. The North Chicago Rolling Mills, one of the largest in the country, which has been partially closed for some time shut all its departments Tuesday. The reason given is inability to get coke to use in the furnaces. The proprietors state that the mills will probably resume work early in January.

T. D. Eads Tuesday made his preliminary report of the United States court in the matter of his receivership of the Danville Olney Ohio River Railroad, stating that $300,000 would be required to put the road iu goVsd order and $200,000 to pay off its debts. He then resigned his receivership, and the court will appoint his successor in the morning. It is stated that in the scheme lately considered at the joint discussion of the directors of the Pittsburg Lake Erie, and the Pittsburg, Alleghany McKees-port roads, to carry out the proposition of the Philadelphia Reading road, to construct a new South Pennsylvania line.

Twenty millions of bonds will be provided for the Vanderbilt interests, and the proposed line will parallel the Pennsylvania from Pittsburg to Harrisburg, and make an additional through line from New York to Chicago. This is an old idea worked out on a new plan. of M. B. career, in the course of which, he is referred to as the Napoleon of managers.

"The World" Company No. 2 concluded not to go to San Franciseo after its experience at Omaha. Phillip Hawley, the leading man, has just begun a suit against J. II. Haverly for salery due him in some connection with the mining business of the protean manager.

The Graphic makes the sensible suggestion that Nicoliui and Patti be doomed to sing eternal duets together, out of reach of all human ears but their own. Now this is all very well, but the fair Adelina will have an effectule something to say on the subject. The Florence Herbert dramatic company took the road Dec. 18, opening at Lockport, 111. The company consibts of Florence Herbert, Minna Whittle, Josie Martin, Grace Hall, Edna Langdon, J.

I. Clark, Charles P. Price, Harry Lovell, Edward Wright, R. Maddox, Charles Maguire, A. R.

Samuels, W. E. Sweet. D. M.

Miller is manager. Young Mr. Gould is said to have become interested in Miss Don's play, "A Daughter of the Nile," and he is likely to furnish he capital to put in on the road. Although Miss Don's health compelled her to return here very suddenly, she made an immense amount of money by the play. So large, indeed, that she now has her carriage and horses, dresses extravagantly, and lives in high feather.

The report that she was going to the South of France for her health was only started to discourage other authoresses from making money as speedily as she did in the same way. Miss Effie Ellsler has left the Madison Square Theater Company. It was high time she did. She was rapidly unfitting herself for other and better work by constantly acting the part of Hazel Kirke. Miss Ellsler is an actress of too much ability to wear out the promise of her youth with any one character.

The theater is unwilling to let her go, and will try to restrain her by legal proceedings. The fact is, she was worn out with the one endless role, and it became harder to endure from the fact of the Lord Travers being so often changed for the work. Electric Light. Uner the heading, "A Remonstrance," the Gazette of the 14th publishes the following The difficulty in the ranks of the of the Electric Light Company is assuming a graver aspect. A petition is being circulated among the disaffected members, and is being signed by them, asking the directors of the company to make a halt, and take no further steps until the alleged defect in the election is remedied.

This petition is called out by the recent notice, issued bv the Directors to the effect that the capital stock is to be increased. Those who have signed the petition allege, among other grievances, that the eh ction of Directors was illegal, and was therefore null. They claim that, in the election meeting some member or members voted as pioxies without any written instructions to do so, which makes the election void. They claim, further, that the drawing of cuts by the two members who received the same number of votes at this election, to decide who should be the last director, was also contrary to law, and nullifies the election. There are other matters, too, which do not go down with these members.

The secret of this move seems to be the unsolved question of which light is to be adopted. The directors are thought to be strongly in favor of the Edison light, although no such announcement has been made official but the members referred to above are so confident that this is the fact that they have resolved to make strong en-deavors to force the Max light into use It is understood that should the directors declare in favor of the Maxim this contest would vanish. One of the prominent men in the company stated the oiher day that in consequence of this petition and other consideration, the officers and directors ot the concern would all resign and allow the company to begin all over again. In this n.anner the breach may be healed. A Dispatch reporter, with a view of as certaining the exact facts in the case, vis ited some of the prominent members of the Electric Light Company, who declare that the disturbances in the company are not likely to affect its interests in the least.

It is stated that the report that a large number ot the subscribers to the stock are disaffected is false, and that the greater part of the few signatures attached to the petition above mentioned were obtained through a false representation of its import, and of circumstances connected with it. It is further stated that the subscriber to the original stock did not subscribe with only the Maxim light in view. Following is the wording of the original subscription paper, whieh'cone-sponds with the entry in the stock book to which the subscribers attached their names: Molike, 111., Oct. 16th, 1882. "The Merchants Electric Light Company of Moline" was yesterday peima-nently organized witn a capital stock of $4,000 divided equally into 200 shares.

We, who have hereunto subscribed our names agree to become stock holders of the above company, or to use its light, or both, according as we may be appended with our signatures below, and agree to attend the next meeting for the completion of permnnent organization, to be held at the office of Dr. Piper at 2:30 Tuesday, Oct. 17th, A. 1882. Seyeral gentlemen have offered to purchase the share of the disaffected members but they refuse even to set a price on their stock, knowing full well that any reasonable offer would be accepted at once.

The article in the Gazette intimates that the officers of the company will resign on account of the disturbances, but one of the most prominent among them says that it has been their intention from the first to resign when the capital stock is increased, in order that all of the newly created shares may be represented in the election proxy without written permission, it was sanctioned by a vote of the company, and furthermore, the chief among the disaffected ones, represented votes of absent members without such written permission. Whatever may be the legal rights in the matter, it is singular that it should all hinge on whether or no the Maxim light shall be used and it is equally certain that after the next election of officers shall occur, the voice of the grumblers must be silenced forever, as there cannot then be a shadow of a doubt as to the legality of the proceedings, and those who do not like it, will find the only course they can pursue will be to sell thetr shares and withdraw from the company. Official. City Council. Special meeting of the 'ty council.

Present, his Honor the and all the aldermen. The report of the special bridge com-tee was made, and Alderman Wessell moved that the report be received and placed upon record. Carried. To the Mayor and city council of the city of Moline: Your committee appointed at the last meeting of the city council to designate the objectional points in Rock river bridge being erected by J. A.

Bullen and report the 6ame to the city council at a special meeting of the city council to be called by the mayor would respectfully report as follows Your committee consisting of the bridge committee and Elisha P. Reynolds and Alderman Robert McMann visited said Rock river bridge December 13th, A. D. 1882, also taking in company with them a competent bridge builder, George-Downs, of Rock Island, Illinois. They examined said bridge carefully and find that said bridge is not built in accordance with the contract between the city and said J.

A. Bullen that there are a great number of minor details wherein said bridge is not in accordance with said contract. That it would be a laborious and almost impossible task to report minutely all the defects in s. id bridge. That it is in the opinion of your com mittee useless for the whole committee to be present at all times during the completion of said bridge.

Your committee would further report that the city of Mo line can procure the services of said bridge builder, George Downs, to superintend the cnanges and additions necessary to make said bridge in accordance with said contract, and that said J. A. Bullen Co. are willing to accept the changes and additions as the same shall be pointed out by said George Downs. Your committee would therefore recommend that the matter of the changes and additions necessary to be made in said bridge by J.

A. Bullen to comnlete the same in accordance with said contract be placed in the hands of said George Downs to superintend, and that the Mayor Bnd City Clerk be authorized to enter into a contract with said J. A. Bullen to the effect that when said George Downs shall report to the city council that said J. A.

Bullen have completed said bridge-in accordance with said contract between the city and J. A. Bullen the city will accept said bridge and pay for the same in accordance with said contract. provided that said J. A.

Bullen will pay all expenses incurred in the employment of said George Downs. Robt. McM vkn, asdro j. lundqtjist. A contract was entered into between the city of Moline and J.

A. Bullen which is as follows WHEREAS the City of Moline and J. A. Bullen Co. entered Into a certain written contract in and by wuich said J.

A. Bullen Co agreed to build a certain bridge known as the Eock Kiver bridge and the city of Moline agreed to accept ami pay for said bridge In accordance with the terms and xpeciticulions of said contract and, whereas the said A BulU-n Co. have built said bridge and tendered the same to the city for acceptance but the city has refused to siccept the same and claims that said bridge is not built and constructed In accordance with said contract And whereas said J. A. Bullen Co.

and said city of Moline are desirous of settling the differences between ihem by referring the same to George Downs a pructable bridge builder. Now therefore this agreement, made and entered into by and between J. A Bullen Co. partv of the first part and the city of Moline byS. W.

Wheelock its Mayor, and Mell C. Follelt its Cltv Clerk duly authorized for that purpose by the City Council of said city of Moline, party of the second part itnessed That said party of the first part for and in con sideration of the premises hereby covenants and agrees to and with said party of the second part, that they the said A. Bullen shall, and will without delay. alter, change, take from ahd ai to said bridge until said George Downs shall xronounce said bridge to be built, constructed and complete in accordance with said contract in every particular, except as to the time of completion. And that they shall and will pay said George Downs for his services in said atter.

And the city of Moline for and In consideration of the premises, hereby covenants and agree to ana witn the said J. A. Bullen Co that it snail and will, upon said George Downs reporting to its City Council, that said bridge is built, constructed. and completed In accordance with said contract in every particular, except ms tothe time of comple tion, accept and pay said J. A.

Bullen Co. for sam oridge accordance witn terms or sam con' tract, in witness hereof the said J. A. Bullen Co have hereunto subscribed thetr firm name and the city of Moiine has hereunto all xed Its corperale seal and caused thete presents to be subscribed by its Mayor and City Clerk, this fourteenth day of ueceiiioer a. d.

iasa Done in duplicate, J. A. Bcxlkn Co. S. W.

Wheelock. Mayor. Mell Follett, City Clerk. seal Upon motion of Aid. Hill the council adjourned.

Mell C. Foixett, City Clerk. Herman Ross, a Swede man employed in assisting to move a large paper cutter in The Dispatch office this morning met with a very painful accident. In moving the cutter it slipped and Ross' right arm was caught between the cutter and the edge of a step. The arm was terribly bruised and the skin and flesh torn off considerable.

Dr. Dunn dres sed the in jury. Let Them Go We offer for the next ten days, ladies' black diagonal dolmans, all wool, fur trimmed, Worth $12, for 9, Worth $13, for $10, Worth $16, for $13, Worth $18, for $15. Ladies', misses and children's cloaks, sacks and ulsters, at an equally great reduction in prices. Hull Bros.

Charles Derby, recently arrived from San Francisco, and Nwho was formerly chief botanist to Queen Emma at Honolulu, is in the Salem (Mass.) alms-house, afflicted, as is alleged, with leprosy. cheeky manner. She entered a grocery house in this city and asked the head clerk if a certain gentleman was good for some merchandise. As the gentleman named was one of our prominent citizens, the clerk replied that he was. and gave her the goods asked for.

After she went out the clerk thinking the matter rather strange, telephoned to the residence of the gentleman and found that the woman wat obtaining the gooils under false pretences. He followed her up and she surrendered the goods without a word. Telephones are useful instruments in more ways than one. A New Invention. Mr.

O. D. Walcot has invented a novel combination of four drill hammers. The hammers are placed in a solid circular shaped hub of iron, something after thi- shape of a hand windlass. Two cranks are attached and the machine is worked b) two men who turn it just the same as they would turn a windlass to elevate earth from a well.

The hammers strike the drili in regular turn. When a hammer striken the drill it rebounds, and dropping to one side, passes on around again. The hammer operated by two men will do as much work as four hammers operated by eight men, a saving of six men. Mr. Walcot made the hammers for Skelsey and it will be used by them in their work in th slough.

Christmas. Instead of having the regular services on Christmas eve, the M. E. Sabbath-school will have a Christmas tree. It is thought better to have it this way, as it will afford a great deal of pleasure for the little ones, as well as for the old folks.

Presents will be hung on the tree, and at the proper time will be given out, so that every little one may go home with some remembranc of Santa Claus, and of the Christmas oi 1882. Mrs. J. G. Franklin, of Barstow, will celebrate her birthday anniversary on Christmas eve at her house.

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"The Naiad a fairy opera, will be presented for public patronage and de-lection for four nights, commencing Wednesday evening December 27th. It will be given by home talent under the management of Prof. Clark." The opera is beh presented to lurge audences at Rock Island at present, and is spoken of as being fully equal to' any opera given by profeasionats this season. Smith's Genuine Colored Minstrels, a local organization, will give an entertainment on New Year's evening. The company ire hard at work rehearsing an excellent program, and a creditable entertainment may be looked for.

The following excellent companys have-been booked by Manager Cram Leavitte-Rentz-Stanley Company, for Jan. 9th. "One Woman's Life, with the peerless Bertha Welby as the star, Jan. 13. Wm.

Horace Lingard Devotion Company Jan. 19. Chas. Gardner's -'Karl Combination," Jan. 27th.

GOSSIP. The Jesse James combination were not allowed by the authorities to play in Adrian, Toledo, nor Battle Creek last week. Charles L. Davis has told a Troy reporter that he wears $57,000 worth of jewelry. He may have to pawn some of it before another year.

John T. Raymond asserts that he once heard a play read in which two rivals for the hand of the heroine swallowed a slow poison and then threw dice for an antidote. Lately in London, Carl Engel, aged sixty, and the greatest authority on music in Europe, married a chaiming young girl and committed suicide on the same day. Bob Miles has bought an interest in the Minnie Palmer combination, to take effect January 1, 1883, an' will look after the interests of the company in this country while the star is abroad. Fanny Davenport is still much distressed at the thought that her flesh continues to increase.

Cold potatoes, soaked in vinegar, is her chief diet. This dish she adopted after reading that it brought down Lord Byron's flesh. Mamie Gilroy, the famous child actress with "Only a Famous Daughter," is but six years old, and has been an actress over three years. She played with Modjeska when she was in America before, and was a great pet with the charming lady. And now it is hinted that the rock upon which split the barb of friendship of Mrs.

Labouchere and Langtry was really Morrissey. Mrs. Labouchere said she would have to insist on drawing the line somewhere, and she drew it on Jimmy. Miss Anna E. Dickinson is said to have resolved never again to appear on the lecture platform, nor on the dramatic stage.

She is now living quietly at Honesdale, 4 ith her mother a venerable Quaker lady of eighty-seven and younger sister. The following is the most applauded joke in Mr. Pinero's new play, "Girls and Boys," now running at Toole's Theater, London: "When a man goes courting, he 'hangs about when a man commits a murder he 'hangs and when he's condemned for it, he 'hangs about' an hour." Mr. Max Strakosch has been getting iuto trouble at Fort Wayne, Ind. He announced Minnie Hauk as his tar in Carmen, and Minnie did not put in an appear-auce, and Max, also kept out of town.

An immense audience had assembled, and, though Mme. Seguin-Wallace sang Carmen, a number of indignant Fort Wayne folks demanded their money back. Mme. Nilsson says that this is absolutely her laut, farewell, hope-to die if-I-ever-sing-again tour, or words to that effect. "In two years I ill seek home and retirement, which I love," she said to an interviewer, "ard though 1 have lately resumed the old work it is only for two years, I assure you.

Then it will be not au revoir, but good-bye forever to my good public." A funny incident occurred on Tuesday evening at the premiere of Siberia. The scene is a settlement in Siberia. The convicts have just successfully revolted. A large sleigh enters, bearing a courier with dispatches. All No! Deception is successfully practiced and the courier orders the driver to go on.

But it was no "go on." No aperture had been made large enough to drive through, and the horse, frightened and balky, refused to turn. Pulling and tugging were to no purpose, and finally the convicts, who were hiding, had to step out and bodily lift the sleigh off the stage. It and then the hero, the leader of the revolt, stepped forward and spoke the next lines: "Freedom It was the work of God." The audience was convulsed with laugh ter. 5. F.

News LeXter. STAGE NOTES. Lillian Russell still remains very ill, so ill indeed, that she has been unable to appear in New York. Delia Clark has been secured for the "Alvin Joslin" Company, to take the.place of Mrs. Melville, who is quite ill.

McKee Rankin has leased a New York theater which will be converted into opera house at an outlay of $150,000. Harry Webber and company will opet: the opera house at Sheldon, Iowa. Christmas night, playing "Flint and Steel." J. E. Moore isthe manager.

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