Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-01-25
Market Reports.
reported Expressly forthe AAsUs.1

NEW 1oRKt Jan. Z4.-Stokes was ar
rsigned to plead TO the charge of the mur-
der of Fisk, in the court of Oyer and Ter
miner, this morning, bu, q Postponement
was had, owing to the illness of Judge
IogrShsm. The Adj djournmens is sill Mon
day.
No one was allowed to leave the court
room tlA Stokes had been goue some ten
minutes.
Judge Barrett has granted an attach.
ners on the property Of Henry d. Conkliu,
secretary of the Market street Savings
Bank, on application of the receiver, who
deposes thA, Conklin Abstracted at least
$l25, 900 end hss sbsconded
A verdict is given against the Kricker
booker Life Insurance Company IN
the case Of 9 policy upon the life of sui
eide.
A professor of music, John B. Psnermo,
was assaulted snd robbed on Myrtle avenue
asst night, aud has since died. There is no
Glue TO shs mnrderer.
In the custom house Investigation today,
7. l.. Moore, large importer, testified that
high government official offered Grinnsll
g., 900 for the general order business.
| Grinnsll requested him TO leave the Office /;
witness was requested not TO name the Off
Ger who made the request. II Ia believed
the profits Of the general order business
amount 10 two or three hundred thouss nd
dollars annually.
j. Robert, an importer Of watches,
testified TO the loss of g case of watches in
November, 1870. He had paid the duty
| on the watches. He found the carmAn who
took the cases from the ship, to be an ir-
responsible person, whose bond was signed
By fictitious names.
LONDON, Jan. 24.-Ro.hsebild, Of Paris,
Simon Sina, Of Vienna, Thomas Gibbs, OF
London, and the German house of St Pc
tersburg, are arranging with the French
government for the immediate payment oi
three milliards Of frsncs of indemnify due
in 1874. The tobacco du,ies are the basis
Of operation. These duties yield 9 reve-
nue. Of 204 millions Of frsnos per snnum
and will be fArmed By Rothsch,ld and hi'
associates for thirty years. on condition o
the immediate payment of three hundred
milliards plus half milliard due mex
May.
A severe storm commenced yesterday
evening, lasting Gil night and raging viii
great violence. The gale OF times became
q hurricane, rain poured in torrents, food
ing the lower par, of the city. The Par
lament building was damaged by waite
penetrating the roof in several place
Decorations and furniture were destroyed
The storm ragged throughout the Britisl
Isles and reached some portions of the con
tinenl. Tne telegraph wires are prostrste'
in various directions. and communication
is interrupted at the channel and on tn
west coast. Excessively severe disasters &
the shipping feared, although partly OWN
10 the arrangement Of the wires no wreck
, are yet reported.
! New YORK, Jan. 24.-An army office
writes from the Texan frontier, Jan. l2it
/. that he has Just returned from she inierio
Of Mexico, where he he found the peopl
most unsnimous for immediate annexstio
to the United States,
WAsHISGToN, Jan. 24.-The Chicag
bank, according to the lases. official stat
, ment, shows 10 per cent. better rsser'
than the banks of any oIher city exceptin
. Albany.
RoME, Jan. 24.-The census of Rome
com pleted. The total population is 251
: 600.
4 DETROIT, Jan. PA! Eat Sagina
: yesterday, Mrs. Witt, having oceAsion
visit 9 neis Dor, locked her three childrt
!, !, oil less than four years old, in the hous
a Soon after she left, the house took fire al
= two of the children were burned to deaf
The Oldest escaped BY jumping through IL
window.
8 BosToN, Jan. 24.-Ths bark Ware
ID Hsllett, which sailed from this port I
Tuesday for Cape de Verde, put into Prime
o. ton hArbor the same nigh, in ooBssquen
Of q mutiny among her crew. Previous
= reaching the barbor terrible fight had o
ID curred on board, during which one man W
u, killed and another fatally injured.
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 24.-At 1890 this q,
?, p, ming the jury in the Wharton case broug
4. in verdict of mot guilty"
Il Mrs Wharton was admitted TO bail in Z
s. sum Of $4,000. upon an indictment for
tempting to poison Van Ness, and gave b
own personal rscogninsnce and $500 vi
u two sure,ies, ]. Crawford Neilson and N
Nellie Wharton.
Mrs. Wharton remains q few days in d
city, ai the house Of @ friend.