The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-30
By Telegraph.
REPORTED CUBAN EX.
petition.
TENNESSEE POLITICS.
Speculations Thereon.
THE FIRE FIEND.
Affairs in New Mexico.
Gold for the New York Gamblers.
The Egyptian Question Settled.
EL0PENENT and SHOOTING AFFAIR
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ESCAPE or A MURDERER.
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HE state Fair.
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SUCCESSFUL EXHIBITION.
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A MAN SM0THERED 10 DEATH AT |
tLT0N.
ELOPEMENT and SHOOTING AFFAIR
ESCAPE or A MURDERER.
'Ehe state Fair.
ASUCCESSFUL EXHIBITION.
A MAN SMOTHERED 10 DEATH AT
sLT0N.
GOLD l.3lk.


Que hundred and ffty.three men, mostl
Cubans, left this city on Saturday night 70
destination unrevealed. They got safel
aboard the Hornet and it appears certain
that the steamer put out to sea, yesterda
morning, carrying the 1873 men besides
good stock of ammunition, and of guns
viz: three GS FOUNDER PARROTS, two Napo
Icons aud two 32pounder..
CINCINNATI, Sept. 29.-The Tennessee,
Legislature meets on Monday next. III
programme is as follows:
! lst. Andrew johnson will be elected
| Senator.
ID. The 18th amendment will not be
ratified
! Sd. A constitutional convention will be
called at an early day, which body will ef
feet the eniranchisemento of all persons in the
State at the earliest possible moment, and
will not interfere with the civil and political
rights of the negro.
4th. In any event the bonds of the State
will not be repudiated, although an earnest
desire for such an event will not be
wanting.
9TH. The partisan legslating of the last
few years will te generally repealed
These are the main questions to come be.
fore the Legislature, and the convention
growing out of the fight over the Senator.
ship will be fierce, but the result can be told
in advance, The new legislature will con.
tain as able set of men as has ever been
found in the Tennessee General Assembly.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29--Jerusalem
church, on Cherry street, was damaged to.
day by FIRE.
FALL RIVER, MASS, Sept. 80, Dighton's
rolling mill and nail factory have been de.
stroyed by fire.
SrRMGFIGLo, Sept. 29.--Wm. 4. Rich.
ardson, Assistant Secretary of S0e, has
resigned.
CmcAGo Sept. 29--A FIRE on Archer av.
enue this afternoon destroyed property val.
ued at over $4,000. 1t was nearly covered
by insurance. Sixteen buildings we're to.
tally destroyed, and eight others badly dam.
aged.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 29.--Governor Pile, Of
New Mexico, has passed through here on
his way to Washington, on business connect
ry. He will appoint delegates to the Ma
tiona Capital Convention, and probably at.
tend it himself. He reports the condition
of New Mexico as generally prosperous, and
has taken measures to suppress Indian dep.
relations in the localities in which they ex-
ist by organizing companies Of mounted cit.
izeus. The Governor thinks he will have
the territory in thorough state Of defense
in a few months if the Quaker system does
not interfere with his plans.
SoUTHAMPEoY, Sept 29.-Ghe steamship
Deutschland. for New ork, took out E24,-
600 in specie on American account.
ST.. LOUIS, Sept. 29.--Indian depredatons
continue in Montana. Nearly every herd Of
stock hos been run off in the vicinity of Sill.
yer City, and some murders committed.
The estimated wheat crop of Montana is
55 900 bushels.
CoNsrANrINorLE, Sept, 29.--The media.
ton of the great powers OF Europe in the
matters at issue between Turkey and Egypt
has been satisfactory. None of the points
presented, save one, offered any difficulty.
PEORIA, ILL.,, Sept ga destructive fire
occurred at Canton, Fulton county early
yesterday morning, destroying the -four mill
and distiery of Powell & Atwater. Loss
10000, with no insurance. The cause Of
the Ere is unknown.
Another conhsgration took place at Moss
vile, Peoria county, on the same day, lay.
ing in ruins the warehouse and elevator OF
Geo. W. Schnebley. The fire is presumed
to have caught from passing train. Loss
$40 900; insured for $4,000 with Robinson
& Calender, Of this city.
The FIRE at Galesburg, some days since, is
heavier than at first reported, the loss reach.
ing $4,000, and was very near fully insur.
ed, mainly in eastern companies.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 29.-John Hoag, Ger.
man, of Kansas City, who few days ago |
very philosophically allowed his wife and
four children to leave with man named |
Chas. Munith, subsequently 1t seems, lost
his cOolness, and followed them to jackson |
vile, Ill.,, whittier they had gone. Finding |
them at the house Of his wife's sister, he shot |
his wife twice in the arm, bis youngest child
in the side, and Munth, the paramour, in
the shoulder, and then escaped.
CARBoNDALg, III Sept. 20.-Mr. IL. A. |
Organ, who shot Mr.. Medley il this city on
last Friday, after long and thorough in.
vesugatlon OF the case, in which twenty or
thirty witnesses were examined, was last
evening committed to the Murpbysboro jail
on charge OF murder in the first degree,
bail being refused. This forenoon. On being
taken out in order to swear out a petition
for writ OF hdbeds corpus, he is said to
have escaped from the guard, and is now c,
large Much blame rests with some one.
No particulars Of the escape we're give.
DECATUR, Sspt. 29.-The third day Of
the State Fair is continuance of bean,ifnl
weather. which has characterized the week
thus far. The entries are much larger than
at any previous fair, and articles from a dis.
tance are still arriving, while at the DEPOT
there are score of cars loaded with manb;,