Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-08-15
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, August 14.-The CorOners jury
is setting upon the body Of Col. Gilmore
10 day. They returned a verdict of acciden.
tai drowning. The supposi,ion hat he had
been murdered was entirely %groundless.
The body was accidentally discovered by a
sailor named Noah NJ. Stone.
Woods Museum has challenged Nc Wick.
er's theatcr to play n game Of base ball.
The challenge from the Alderman OF the
West Division. to the Aldermen of the
North and South Divisions, to play the M
tional game. The challenge has been ac-
ccpted and the match will take place Friday
afternoon.
Arrangements have been made to hold a
Mechanics Fair in this city, from the 18th
to the 25th of September.
Constable Casper Tehering. was arrested
to day and held in $1,000 bail, on the charge
Of highway robbery.
IrEMs.-Grain is shipped from Des Moines
10 St. Louis by the the car load, at 40 cents
hundred pounds.
A meeting is talked Of in Springfield, to
discuss General Grants action in accepting
the war port folio.
Mrs. Gov. Oglesby's health is steadily
improving.
Fifteen hundred Indians attacked . train
Of 30 wagons five miles from Fort Phil.
AASosuCys w SuC ~ 1UUb.s 0UO 8lkSt y vSveIe
fisht, withdrew. taking of all the stock
Of the train. Lieut.. Jump and five soldiers
were killed. and two wounded. II 10 report
ed that sixty Indians were killed, but only
five bodies were left on the field.
Dexter has been sold 10 Robert Bonner.
for $4,000. to be delivered after the Chica
60 races, when Il IL understood he will be
retired from the turf.
A street car conductor in Cincinnati has
been sn1belzling about four dollars . day
from the fares.
No symptoms Of Cholera in Cincinnati
Number of mortality cases for the fret IL
days in August 13S.
The wheat crop Of Itinnesota promises
an average yield Of from 20 to IS bushels
per acre. knmors about the blight were
exaggerated.
General Logan made a speech Tuesday
evening in ST. Paul before a large river inn
provement meeting.
at . meeting in Minneapolis Monday eve
ming.
Several small buildings were burned in
Des Moines Tuesday evening. II was q
narrow escape from an extensive conflagra
ton.
The U. 8. Express Company have over
. million pounds Of freight at Fort Ellis
worth. kansas, for western points.
The cholera has disappeared from Fort
Ha,ker.
Father Desmet has left Leavenworth Tor
st. Louis To make preparations TO acc ,mpa-
ny the Indian Commissioners.
Greenhood s Neubauer, coal merchants
near Antioch, California. have failed for
$3.50. 600.
The propeller Magnet collided with the
steamer Bay State Tuesday night, IL miles
from Kingston, Canada West. and sunk in
five minutes 10 sixty feet oil water. Her
crew and passenger were rescued by the
Bay State.
CHICAGO, Aug. l5.-These is . great rush
to>dsy for the Fenisn picnic ~ Haas
Park.
A coffin consaining the body Of . woman
was found yesterday afternoon 1t the corner
Of Calumet Avenue and ED o..
An lsishmsn wss run evcs and killed near
Seneca on the Rock Island X. r., Wednes<
day last q about noon.
A tfotti6g match for . stake Of $1,000,
oesween Asdoc and Bull of>the Woods will
ONE on 1t DEXTER Park this a~nesnoon.
Inc funeral Of Col. Gilmore takes place
:. ocioce this afternoon from bic late ses>
idence. All the Government ~ofyiees vere
closed at Q o'clock.
The Board Of Trade assumed m. d.e...
Of the arrested members at the meeting ves.
terday Pa. Senator Mack in 90 sdaress "a
The Board ssid the clauses Of the Law undsr
consideration we're void.
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