Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-08-31
Market Reports.
[Reported Expressly for the ARGUS I


New YORK, Aug. 30.-Enily Augusta
Post, q young woman who was left eS sta
tion house in Brookly lyn yesterday By DR..
Perry and Madame Van Busklrk, died this
morning. She is believed to have been the
victim of msl practice. The Doctor and
Madame will probably be arrested.
Steamship Java from Liverpool has ar
rived.
Another examin alton was u Gde to-day ct
the house of DR.. Rozenweig, and resulted IN
ths discovery Of important letters, blank
death and stlh-birth certificates, and long
lis. Of prescri pt,ons. The report that the
murdered girl was the niece Of The doctor is
not confirmed The case Of Rozsn weig mas
aroused feeling of indignation. The nnu-
Der of abortiousts in the city, of both sexes,
is known to be large, the newspapers ha7-
ing business advertisements of no less than
twelve of these practitioners The city press
are demanding q general cleaning out OF
these embellishments by the police.
The steamship Manhattan, from Charles
ton, arrived al this port early last evening.
and was ordered to the lower bay By the
quarantine officers. The passengers, some
fifty in number, will not be permitted to
come up to the city until Friday or Sstur
day. There is great vigilance exercised by
the officers of the quarantine to guard
against the introd uction of contGgion in the
city.
The streets of the city are in feaEful con
dition to breed pestilence, and the public
are constantly urging upon the authorities
speedy measures for cleaning filthy locsuons
Brooklyn and Jerses City are in like condI-
ton. The city physicians Ct Jersey City say
| the place would become aferiile plague apo
if ever visited by cholera.
! WASHINGTON. August 30-Com missioreI
| Douglas has to-day addressed circular tC
the internal revenue officers, en- dining upon
them renewed attention 80 the enforcem meut
Of the laws.
The demand for the new loan is $4,000
600 in excess Of the allowance.
DEs MONIES. Aug. 39.-J. Il Crawford il
the Republican candidate for Representative
| from Wayne county, and H. B. Wood, o
! Clay county, is the Republican nominee
for Representative from the Seventeeuti
| District.
Hon. II. c. Bulls, Repubiiosnnominee fo
Lieutenant Governor, having rendered hi
resignstion as State Senator, the Governo
has returned it with request 10 make i
prospective. He does this on the grouBu
tha1 the state constitution technically forbid
a proI' n ;ed vacancy in the Lieutenant Gov
ernorshlP, and Dr. Bulls being Preside
pro tenn. OF the Senate, Lieutenant Govorno
Walden having resigned, ex-officia fills tha
: position.
, John G. Merrill, State Librarian, is quit
low with typhoid fever,
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mologist, leaves here to represent Iowa i
: the National Pathological exhibition 4
= Richmond next week
Almost frost occurred last night
The mercury is down to 81 Q this nooi
LOUISVILLE, Ky. August 3I.-This morl
, ing, a little after ten O'Clock, the upper hot
Il of Whitney, Brown & Co.'S out-story grs
warehouse, on Main between First and &
cond streets, gave way under the weight
s a large auantitY of sacked wheat and loot
q oats. The grain and wreck Of the tlo
J. went down, crushing the floors below IN
\ the cellar, aud carrying with 1t three ina
'r Lawrence Graft, q white porter IN til
r establishment. and two coiored wi
= were working on the secoI
:. floor. The bodies of the white and O
r. of the colored men were soon recovere
la and active search is being made for t
Id others Neither men recovered. They we
IT. maugled, and ii is probable they were stu
:, ned and then suffocsted in the immen
TO- pile of grain 10 which they were buried.
is is reported that two prominent Main strt
Od merchants had just stepped out of the bui
ing when the crash occurred, and they wa
90 thrown out into the street BY the concussic
which also burst the doors of the bui
m ing and shattered the glass in the windo'
Ish Yesterday morning Ell Carr was crush
,us to death under freight car at the Oh
Falls Car Works. Workmen we're jack
10, up the car to pull the trucks from under
ara when one of the jacks slipped and the {
n" came down. All escaped but the man ne
st ed. He was from Cleveland, Ohio.
OMAHA Aug. 3l.-A letter from Fl
City, Saline county, Nebraska, says jar
'a Barnes, O well-known citizen of that cour
living about twenty miles up Nemaha '
lev from Falls City, was murdered Mon'
night. He had some difficulty with 90