The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-07-26
REPORTED ENGAGE
MENT.
SkirniShinS.
81 Deaths from SunStr0ke i'm New
Fork up TO noon.
Thunderstorm at Minneapolis
Tribune Office Damaged
--One Man Killed.
Fatal Accident at Day
ton, Ohio.
GEN. sCEENCK NOMINATED FOR
COaGRLSS.
GEN. sCEENCK NOMINATED FOR
COaGRLSS.
[Reported Expressly for the AEsUsl


LONDON, July 26-lO3 a. m.-Business on
the Stock Exchange is steady, and the mar
ket is divested OF nythiug like speculative
,>ctivity.
Consols opened at So
B,1Dds, 81.
The rumors relating to the PrtssIsn and
French eecret treaty Is unsettled.
News rom Berlin informs Us that the
Prusslaus are concentrating powerful
force at Nav euce The PrUssisus arc using
balloons for observations.
The Post and Standard, in their last edl-
tious, give space 10 considerable comment
and rioIcule of the Times statement OF the
existence Of secret Prusslsn trench
treaty. They characterized IT ss bad Freceh
written by German. The Times reiterstes
authentically, and declares 1t has proof and
viii produce 1t.
The Belgian government has ordered the
detachment of FarrsguI's feet stationed os
the coast to leave Antwerp, that the neu-
.rallty law may be fully maintained.
The commaudsut OF Ghenr has informed
the feet commander thst the neutral ideas
of the government would not permit the
prese nee on the coast of any foreign feet.
\ late letter from the squadron mentions
the breaking out extensively Of smnlI pox
thror gh the fleet.
a correspondent states that Napoleon is
suffe ring an attack of dys e..tery.
The reported engage mt ut ana Of l,eOo
Prussians. and a like mum Der OF French
troop near Chauteau. tt ris. yesterday, Is
exaggerated Moth ing official has yet been
received.
PARIS, July 2G "A large number Of
worxmen are engaged this uorniLg on 'he
f0rtifcations of this city.
Tie Journal Marseills the organ OF the
peece party, having been entirely deserted
bv its patrons, has suspended publication.
Some of it's editors and reporters have gone
,ato the French army.
Switzerland is full of German emIgrants,
who have fed from their country 10 escape
military duty.
Official reports have been received to the
effect that Gen. Bering resisted recon
noisance of Prussian forces at Needsham,
near Baden. One Bave-isn officer was
taken prisoner, and two Prussisns sNe re
ported wounded.
! New YORK July 26.-The death rate is
increasing nlarmingly; 35 sunstrokes up to
uoon to day.
New YORK. July 26.- The rumored
evacuation OF Rene is here considered equal
to the alliance on the part OF Italy with
France Some reasons exist for belief that
Spain is allied on some side, hut neither
Italy OF Spain are credited with strength
enough to weigh materially in the cousid-
eratlon Of the strength of the conteudInP
powers.
ST. PAUL, July pa terrible thunde,
storm visited Minneapolis early yesterday
a NJ Five buildings including the Tribun,
ofice were struck and more or less damaged
and q man killed.
The Mississippi River is at an exceeding
" low stage, al large steamers have grea
difficulty in getting over bars below thi
city.
1t is expected thee Lake Superior an
r Mississippi River railroad will be complete
{ to Duluth this week.
= DAYTON, O., July 26.-Daniel W. Heitt
!, the well known banker of this city, com
! mitted suicide yesterday evening.
An employee on the Dayton & Mictiga
: railroad ives knocked off car BY Ls
e bridge Yesterday, and his skull fatally frNc
n tured.
e A drunken man named Jones was ais
knocked down by su engine on same ros
yesterday and fatally injured.
, An old woman named Gibbons, Will
drunk, locked herself up in close ROOT
Yesterday and died from suffocation.
The congressional convention Of the 2
district will probably unanimously tend'
:. Gen. Schenck the nomination. and urgent
q request the withdrawal Of his declination.
Another meeting of German citizens,
raise money for Prussia, was held last nigh
y and q considerable sum was subscribed
II CINCINNATI, July 26 1t is announce
q. that the Free Religious Association vi
hold a convention here in October next
concentrate and organize the free religion
element Of the west.