The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-04-26
TELEGRAPHIC.
Mr. Grant in Kansas.
The Modoc Business getting
Rather Tame.
Kellogg and his usurpers
in Louisiana.
The Suspended Vienna
Commission.
The Asiatic Cholera in
Vienna.
Destruction of a Town in
Bohemia.
Raid on Sailor Boarding
Houses in New York.
Destruction of a Town in
Bohemia.
Raid on Sailor Boarding
Houses in New York.
Fights. Murders, Hangings,
Etc, Etc.

do. 4 large concourse of citizens, with
two bands Of music, met the President at
the depot He visited the State Universi-
ty, the dam which is being built across the
Kansas river and other points of interest
and then resumed his journey.
SAN FRANCIsco, April 25.-Generals
Davis and Hardie left this morning for the
seat of the Modoc war
A dispatch from Yreka tonight gives
news of the lava bed up to April oath
There is nothing particularly interesting
Colonel Perry and the cavalry have return
ned from 4 scout, unattached and convinc-
ed that no Indians have left the lava bed
Donald Mckay reports forty MOdocs en-
camped in the caves four miles southeast
of the first battle field The Modocs must
come out for water and Mckay Indians
are posted to pick them of.
Donald Mckay just returned from camp,
saws the Modocs have left the lava beds
but there has been no fighting since the
l7th
The epizootic is spreading Cinnamon
are employed to carry and haul burdens.
Street car travel is greatly interrupted.
But half dozen cases have proven fatal.
Topeka, Kan, April p. Three citizens
returned to Hutchinson, yesterday, from
| journey of 200 miles to the southwest,
crossing the Cimmaron and Canadian
rivers, visiting Camp Supply, and return
| ing through the Comanche country travel
| ing in perfect safety.
! WASHINGTON. April 25.-It is denied
at the Indian Bureau that Cochise is off
| his reservation and committing depreda-
/ tons When last heard from, a short time
ago he was still on the reservation on
which he had been placed by General
! Howard and expressed his intention of re-
manning there,
New YORK, April %. "A special from
/ New Orleans says 'Goyernor Kellogg
sent the State militia into Targiohohia
parish, installed the officers. scattered the
mob who had collected and restored order.
| He has secured a steamboat on which Is
mounted twelve pound howitzer for ser
vice in the rivers and bayous and has or
ganiZed battalion Of cavalry. He has
also directed the Attorney General To pros
ecute Governor McEnery and others under
the usurpation act and also for treason
and has offered large reward forevidenct
that will lead to the conviction of thost
who were engaged in the recent massacre
in Grant parish.
| WASHINGTON, April 25.-The commits
sioners to the Vienna Exposition have beer
suspended, and LeGrand B. Cannon, Theo
dore Roosevelt and Charles F. Spang, nov
in Vienna, and jackson ID. Schultz, VIM
H. Aspinwall, Samuel G. Ward VIM. T
BlOdgett and james Renwick will act unit
the suspended Commissioners are removed
or permanent ones appointed. The scien
ti6c and honorary Commissioners do no
come under the operation OF the suspension
order.
NEW YORK, April 25.-The manufac
, turing city of Joachenisthal, in the noun
tains of Bohemia, was destroyed by FIRE ol
the LIST of March. Out of $50 houses il
the city. $50 were completely burned, an,
500 persons made houseless. A magnif
cent church, founded in the early days c
the Reformation, was prey to the flames
as was also valuable paintings by Luca
Crarach and Albert Durer.
VIENNA, April 25.-Twenty cases c
Asiatic cholera were brought to the ho:
! pital, FIVE of which proved fatal. An effol
is being made to conceal the fact of tn
appearance of the disease in this city.
New YORK, April 25.-The Evenin
, Post has letter from Newfoundland whic
e states that clause in the charter of tn
f New York. Newfoundland and Londo
: Telegraph Company, which has passed a
g most unnoticed, provides that at the en-
S Of the first twenty years the governmeI
|, of newfoundland will have the right t
. purchase the line at a certain valuation
n The first twenty years terminates in lST,
The company recently applied to the go'
}. ernment to have this clause rescindet
: and their possession be thus continued fl
V the next thirty years, but the government
n under the most eminent legal advice
i London, learned that they have right
! purchase the line at cost without payiT
t, anything for the good viii, and have r
/ fused the request.
To-day it transpired that Oyer and TIE
l. miner Grand Jury had found indictmen
against 127 keepers of sailors boardil
houses, charged with violation OF the a
r of Congress, known as the new Shippil
Of act, passed in 1872, for the protection
u sailors. About six o'clock ten polieeme
I'd armed with warrants, made a tour of d
\. fourth and sixth wards, and succeeded
t. arresting 50 of the indicted parties. Il
IN arrests produced much excitement and b
st for the overwhelming force Of police ]
IS slstance would doubtless have been mad
ea The arrested parties are locked up in o
AZ street police station and will tomorrow
al arraigned at the Tombs.
~ y. PORTLAND, Me-, April 25.-Two lab,
u. ~ ers at the alnlshouse, named Michael s.
sn aa livan and John Warren, quarreled Il
M e morning. about 2 woman, and the fornl
.or was kilied oy . niow from the fist OF t
Ier latter. Warrenis 55 years Of. age and. /
we a wife in the State prison. Sullivan !
raj sixty years of age and leaves a wife \
IRE child in the almshouse.
an an SAN FRANCISCO, April 2s.-John
Il Murphy was exec uted at Stockton too
air for the murder of Patrick Murray five ye
yer ago.
she New YORK, April 25-The board
es, police granted Officer Henderson peru
ely sion to bring suit for damages against