The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-24
AN INHUMAN MOTHER.
She Murders her own Son.

CINCINNATI, Sept. 23.--The news from
Jackson, Miss, this morning is that the two
corporals and seven privstes now under
guard aud la ~losS confinement. wore I'M
questionably implicated in the attempted
escape of Col. Yerger. A commissioned
officer of the 7th United States infantry hal
been known to visit Mrs. Yerger's house, il
company with certain Col. Johnston, o.
New Orleans. on the special business Of Sc
curing the escape OF lerger. Three thous
and dollars were to have been paid in the
event Of success. The plan was for one Of
the privates to give his uniform to Yerger
who, in this disguise, was to escape from
camp, the sentinel TO desert at the same
time. Since the discovery of the plot, Mrs
Yerger has not been permitted to visit her
husband, and he is closely guarded, and not
allowed to confer with any one, save through
the bars of his cell.
ST JOHN, n. b., Sept. 23.-Further in.
vestigations concerning the discovery of the
skeletons of q woman and child near Lock
Lsmond, leave no doubt that double mur.
der has been committed.
PARIS, Sept. 23.-Prince De lie Tour D..
Anerque, the French Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and Mr.. Burlingame. of the Chinese
Embassy, have made arrangements for es.
tabGshing improved relations between
France and China on the basis Of mutual
conciliation, and the French government
has sent out instructions to its represent
atives in China to act in accordance with
this policy.
The specie Of the Bank of France has
Increased 100000 francs.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 23.--Gen. Sheridan and
Col. Forsythe, of his staff, Senator Thur
man, of Ohio, and two daughters, and d
McKenney, of the Central Pacific Railroad
en- route for Vera Cruz, Mexico, are in this
city.
A report comes from Morine, ILL.,, a Ger.
man settlement few miles east Of here,
that Philip Stomel was hung yesterday by
some excited neighbors for attempting to
outrage his niece, only years old.
Major General Turner, United States
army, was married here yesterday to Miss
Blanche Soulard General Sheridan and
other officers Of note we're present.
SPRINGFIELD, Ills Sept. 23.-Governor
Palmer, in speech to the colored people at
their celebration yesterday, in this city, said
substantially that he believed the Fifteenth
Amendment would soon be adopted, but
whether it was or not, that when the Constl.
tuition, as it now is, comes to be construed
by men imbued with the spirit of the age,
it would be decided that all citizens, under
our form of Government, had the right to
vote. The Fourteenth article makes the
colored people citizens, he further said, and
that if colored man should come TO him
recommended by the men most interested as
being the most suitable man to appoint to
an Office, which he was by law required to
6l, he should appoint him, as he had no
doubt he had the right to hold the office ur.
der the Constitution, as it now is, rightly
and justly interpreted.
LONDON, Ontario Sept. 22.-At2 2 O'Clock
Prince Arthur, with Gov. Young, rode to
the Industrial Exhibition grounds, where
addresses were presented by the agricultural
and art societies. The Prince and Sir John
Young then went through the exhibition,
where an enormous crowd we're present. An
American flag, which had been hung in the
decorations, was pulled down and torn to
pieces, at 9 o'clock. Much excitement pre-
| vailed.
NEw YoRK, Sept. 22.-Mrs, Halpne, the
wife of mechanic, living in .Brooklyn,whle
IN tit of insanity, yesterday afternoon,
Killed her son, boy years old, BY cutting
him over the head with hsichet. Her
daughter Alice, attracted BY the bows cries,
broke in the door and was elso attacked, but
managed 10 secure the hatchet and bring in
the police, who took Mrs. Halpine into Gus
tody.
DEs MONIES, Sept "a mass meeting
of the Irishmen of Iowa will be held at 0,
tumws on the 24th inst, under the auspice
! of the Eepisns,
An Omaha pispat:h says: "General Al
CUR left for Fort Bridger and Salt LAKE We,
4 terday. =,
i Several companies of troops will be ausl
ternd AT Sherman Rarrseks drx;.- a - !