The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-07-23
TELlEGRAPTTC,
Testimony in the Adair r..
r. Robbery Case.
Cholera in Ohio and Ind,
Co1ored Lecturers coming
North to Instruct the
People.
Postmaster selling Official
sFsmps.
An Army Officer Dismissed
for Murder.
He will be tried by the Civil
Courts.
An Army Officer Dismissed
for Murder.
He will be tried by the Civil
Courts.
Accident to John p. Hale.
Collision on the N. w. r. r.

DEsMOINEs, July %. William A. Smith.
conductor Of the Inflated train, testified
to-day at the coroner's inquest on the body
of John Rafferty,, the engineer, who was
killed, that the train was wrecked two
and half or three miles west of Adair
station, and GOO or 100 feet east of Turkey
Greek bridge | was in the smoking car
near the front end. From the noise |
thought the engine was in the ditch, with
one or two cars piled upon it. Twas thrown
under the seat in front of me- Don't re
member which side of the car got out, but
know that [ reached the engine on the
north side. | went forward to see what
was up. The first person that met was
one of the masked men, near the baggage
car door, who pointed revolver in each
hand toward me and told me to get back,
firing at me at the same time. L backed
down as far as the sleeping coach before |
felt | was out of his way. There | met
Dennis Foley, the fireman, who said Billy,
hubbub, and the women and children were
crying. | told the passengers that L
thought the masked men were trying to
rob the baggage car, and tried to borrow a
revolver, but failed | could still see the
passing up and down on the opposite side
of the train think he was firing at me
also. Some of the passengers asked me
to get into the train, as those men were tlr-
ing at me, and | would be the cause of
some Of them being killed. | then went
into the sleeping car at the rear, still try
ing to get a revolver, urging the passen-
gers to keep quiet, as these men were rob
bing the baggage car. | went out Of the
ladies' car. up the bank, and thence to the
engine. Two balls passed through my
clothing while | was on the bank. These
shots came from the south side OF the train
did not see man on the north side then !;
did not see or hear anything more of the
masked men After the passengers had
/ got quiet, | went forward to investigate
( the cause of the wreck AT the hind truck
of the smoking car | found that a fish
| plate had been removed from the rail on
| the north side, thus disconnecting rail at
I both ends. A rope and strap were tied in
| the bolt holes of the disconnected rail at
the west end, and the rope was passed un-
der the south rail, across the ditch, and up
on to the bank A piece OF the rope was
also found on the bank, which seemed to
have been broken from the other. 1t was
/ a new rope, the size of a common BEDFORD.
/ The west end of the rail, when | saw it,
was only few inches from the south rail
! The hind trucks of the smoking car were
still on the track We had been running
/ Is or 20 miles an hour.
! CINCINNATI, July 22.-Three deaths
were reported from cholera to-day, one of
/ them a colored man, at the Good Samari-
/ tan Hospital, which makes the fifth case at
that institution within week The wealth
er isquite cool. The health officer to-day re-
ported several dangerous cholera morbus
cases from eating smoked fish The health
board has prohibited the sale of such fish.
PRINCETON, Ind, July 22.-There have
been 10 deaths from cholera on Indian
Creek river since Friday Mt Vernon
reports but fifteen hundred people left in
the place
| New ORLEANS, July 22-The Republi-
can says Hon j. Henri Bureh left for the
North last evening" by way of the Jackson
r. r., as the avant courier of committee
of colored men appointed ovisit the North
to explain to the people the events of the
last election in this State. Mr.. Burch is
announced to speak in Harrisburg, Penn,
on the first of August. Messrs. Ingrahanl
and Chester will follow Burch in week
or two. The party will rendezvOusa Sara
tago on the 9th Of August.
WASHINGTON, July 22.-Sir Edward
Thornton had an interview to-day with the
Assistant Secretary of State concerning
the Lord Gordon case in Minitoba.
1t seems postmasters in several States
have been furnishing the public with off
cial stamps of the postoffce department.
Letters under such official stamps are sent
from their points of destination to the dead
letter office, as they are known to be pri.
vate letters. One postmaster in Ohio re-
Gently received two hundred official stamps
and sold one hundred and forty. A circu-
lar of the Postoffice Department caution.
postmasters from selling and the public
from buying these official stamps.
r. S. Chew, chief clerk of the State De
partment, struck with paralysis several
weeks since, still lies in an apparently un-
conscious condition, and but faint hopes are
entertained of his recovery.
Second Lieutenant NJ. Frank Gallager
of the Second Infantry, recently tried be
fore the general court martial at Columbia.
S. c. for killing John McAnedy, a-dis
charged soldier in Spartansburg, s. c., on
lle Zu VI May idst, mas Deen dismissed tht
service The sentence has been approved
by the President, and the civil authorize:
will take cognizance of the murder, the
army trial being on a charge of conduct
unbecoming an officer and gentleman, only
NEW YORK, July -. Yesterday after
noon it was rumored that Roscoe, the sup
posed accomplice in the murder of Charlie,
Goodrich, had been arrested in New Yorl
and transferred to the Brooklyn police.
A letter from the American feet in Chi
nese waters, says Infrey, of the Ashulax
has been sentenced to two years suspen
! sion Commander Wilson, of the Yantic
Is being tried for drunkenness, and Lieut.
Rowland is to be tried for obtaining none,
under false pretences.
BENZ. Rathburn, whose forgeries in thi
state made him notorious thirty-six year
ago, died In this city yesterday, aged 50
The statement that there would be no in
vestigation by the deacons and trustees o
Plymouth church relative to the Bowen
Iilton scandal is untrue. The trial ha
only been postponed on account of the alb
senee of Beecher and a number of tn
committee. The charge filed against Bow
en- and Tilton will be fully investigated
The sessions will probably be held witt
CLOSED doors.