Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-11-18
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General Summary.
Market Reports.
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NEw YoRK, Nov. l7---Tbe Tribpns sdi-
for holding lhe National Repubhcaa Con-
vsnsion for 1872 Is narrowed down to Gin
cinnati and New York.
The Executive Committee will make 3
selection January llGh next.
The owner Of Harry Bassett offers TO run
him against any horse in the world, for $780,
900 a side, from Que to four miles.
The Governor Ofers $1,000 reward for
the arrea of Ballard, who escaped from
Jail on Tuesday night, and who is considered
the mos. dangerous couuie!feIters in The
world.
Jay Gould has withdraw from Twesd's
bail bonds.
No signs OF the GrAnd Duke up 20 noon
to-day.
The reported meeting Of Governor Hoff-
man and he De nocrHtie SeuAtoTs o. Troy,
10 denied.
The fight among the hands Of the Ham
ilton chair factory yesterday, resulted in the
/ killing Of Joi u Bradley and lhs wouBdlng
oil several others
! Afhdavits have been taken by the Demo
cratic Reform Con mittee, showing glsrinR
! frauds by the inspectors of election IN the
First Ward. Startling developments are
expected.
More deaths from the cholera at the
quarantine TODAY. q
\ The commander OF lac Russian steamer
\ Bogantine reports the most severe Storm he
has ever known after parting company with
the Suiland, The missing vessels having
probably encountered fearful ssorm.
BuFFALo. Nov. II. TIE crew Of the
ba-k n C. Sherman, losi off Long Point
i arrived here to-day They drihed acrOs,
the lake in open boAts sgser twenty hovrs o
exposure 50 cold and heavy sea The
eap;siu he'd Ia the TER DE Storm.
HARrFoRn, o., Nov. l7.-Tbe Putnsu
Fire insurance COMPANY have fed Il Pelt
ton OF irvoioH'sfy bankruptcy.
OTTAWA, Nov l7.-The census rssurn,
tor 1871 show . total popuistlon IN the DO
minion OF 3,484, ,924, an average increase o
about l2k per cent since 1861. Tne pres
spI popu,Ation OF Ontario ia ,620,842 o
Qaebec, 100 sos; OF New Brunswick, l85,
III; of NoyA Scotia, 3S7 800. The pc
coutSge of increase IN ten years In Ontsri
: is 10 Lilo; an QseOec, W 10; in Ne'
Brunswick, l3} 10 Nova Scotia, II l.5.
MoNrKEAL Nov. I7.-Jobn Lee, q Nor
wegIan sailor, was hanged to-day in the jsi
yard, ior the murder Of Mrs Foster on tn
30Ih OF May lssi The priAoner preserved
| calm dsmesnor, and wSI apparently indid
: erent as 10 his tate.
!, ISDIAEAPoLis, Nov. 1.-THE three ne
, groes, murderers Of the Park family, nea
|. Henryville, Indiana, were taken from Jail .
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a mob Of $50 disguised persons, and hun
half q mile from the town.
> new YoKk, Nov ia Rsleigh, \
N c., dispatch Of the l6tn says, Sd men wef
brought there yesterday from Rutherfor
u aud Cleveland. on charges of Eu-Kluxioj
= Uai.ed States Commissioner name
70 oeogpns recently shot prisoner for tai
& ing saDey Io MIN. Several arrests hA'
a. been made Assy, and out of 200 ony
or are retained for Trial.
y, WAsRISGToS, Nov. I7.-Representativ
y. Schoheld aud Lansing, ofethe sub Ku klr
ss com mitiee, returned from their iuveslig
s,. ,ions in Florida to-day They ss. that
ifa Jackson county, in that State. there h
hd been seventy Eve murders since 1869 a,
W. that there are no white Republicans in IN
", coGnty. Although the condition of affairs
70. generriy bad, they seem to be improy
H. over the con itoin Of two years ago.
'Od Secretary Robeson has issued an ord
expelling ak more cadets from the ma,
r0' academy OF Annapolis for hazing, and say
=. "Let it be disnuctly undyrstood that
m academy must be purified o. the disgra
Ish ful practice aud defiant spirit which n
rus uvokes its action, by The dismissal ifpec
ssry. of ssery cadet who refuses the foil
10, obedience to'tbe regulations on this q
M. jec.."
=, The Secretary Of ibe Treasury has dec
ot ed that iron bRrges of foreign build can
be pssd on the Mississippi river in ;he U
sportatiOn of grain from St. Louis to \
'a'' Orleans.
The Cabinet meeting to day was OF tn
hours duration. The President received
visissrs to-day, being occupied in prspar