3rd Oct: Today In History

1865 -- 150 years ago: The grey team belonging to Warner Mills took fright this forenoon while attached to a flour wagon in front of the mill and tore up town at a furious rate. Luckily, the wagon became detached and prevented serious damage.


1890 -- 125 years ago: A. Kerns, manager of the Rock Island Plow Works, has returned from the state fair where the company had a display, including a new hay baler in operation.

1915 -- 100 years ago: Evangelist Billy Sunday has given definite assurance that he will come to the Quad-Cities to lead an evangelistic crusade within the next two years.

1940 -- 75 years ago: A one-armed bandit obtained $1,100 in a daring daylight robbery of the A.D. Huesing Bottling Works in Rock Island.

1965 -- 50 years ago: About 400 people attended Le Bal Moulin, or Mill Ball, sponsored by the Junior Service League of Moline. The theme of the party was carefully chosen to represent the early history of Moline, known in the 1800s as Town of Mills because of its flourishing flour, saw and cording mills.

1990 -- 25 years ago: U.S. Rep. Lane Evans, D-Rock Island, has been thrust into a key negotiating position that gives him new leverage to avert a reduction in force at the Rock Island Arsenal. Rep. Evans was named Tuesday as one of several House negotiators to iron out a final measure setting spending ceilings for the Pentagon in fiscal 1991.