The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-10-11
Crop Reports--Not SO Bad
After All.
The National Catholic Tenn
perance Society.
Terrible Cyclone in Florida
Suicides, Abortions, Rob
berry, Accidents, etc.

WASHINGTON, Oct 9.-One Of the con
sequences of the unfriendly feeling between
some Of the prominent colored citizens OF
this district, growing out Of their disagree
ments on the question of mixed schools. is
fight which occurred to-day the partici-
pants being Louis Douglass, son of Fred.
Douglass, managing editor of the New Era.
the colored organ in this city, and one
Greener, colored graduate of Harvard
college. The latter was, short time ago
dismissed from the position of teacher in
the preparatory high school, and has since
vented his spleen through the columns of
the Era; but some dissatisfaction arose in
the office. and Greener decided to sever
/ his connection with the organ He wrote
his own valedictory, and finding that it had
been omitted and merely four line item
about him substituted for it, he, in a rage.
( called at the Era Office and demanded an
! explanation In the heat of the argument
which ensued, Greener called Douglass a
| liar, preiacing it with an adjective not in
| cons0nanee with the requirements Of the
third commandment. Thereupon Douglass
/ knocked Greener off his pins Other par
/ ties interfered and took Greener away, and
/ thus the matter stands. The grand finale,
| it is said, is yet to come
! james H. Congers, the colnred cadet
midshipman who failed at the June exam
/ ination and who was given another chance
| to show his qualification before being final
| " dropped, has been again examined by
the academic board Of the naval academy
and again failed.
JACKSONVILLE, H. Oct 10.-Reports
dated October st, received at the office of
the National Crop Association are report
ed to indicate slight loss on corn in Hi
inois, Missouri and Ohio 1t is estimated
in the States mentioned respectively, at
IA 7-l0.7 lilo and $40 per cent, Reports
from all quarters agree almost unanimous
ly that but little damage has been effected
by the recent frests, but confirm the for
mer reports of serious injury by frost in
September, at which time much of TIE
corn was yet in milk The result will be
a great deal of soft corn, much of which
cannot be fed to stock. Reports tr IN
Iowa Indicate a loss on corn, as compared
with last year, only of six and one tenth
per cent, which would make the yield for
this year one hundred and twenty nine
million bushels As far as can be learned
the acreage of wheat sown this fall is con-
siderably greater than in 1872, and thus
far in most sections the weather has been
quite favorable to growth. Additional re
ports from Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Wis
consin Missouri Kansas aud Ohio con
firm the estimated falling off of the Irish
potato crop In the States above named
which i'll 1870 produced over forty three
, million bushels the loss at a given rate
would aggregate over sixteen million bush
els. Scattering reports from the cotton
States mention that much damage has
been caused to cotton by drouth and
/ worms, especially in Arkansas and Ten
nessee.
/ WASHINGTON, Oct l0-A telegram re,
ceived this evening at the signal office
from its observers at Key West and Punta
Rosa, Florida, state that a most destruct
, i've cyclone swept over those stations OF
t the 9th inst AT Key West the winC
reached velocity Of 50 miles per hour
and at Punta Rosa, Of 80 miles, At the
latter station the sea rose fourteen fee
above the mean tide level, overhowing the
land and washing away every movable
= thing The few inhabitants of Punt;
! Rosa are entirely without drinking water
New YORK, Oct l0.-The Nationa
. Convention Of the Catholic Total Absti
nence Union to night elected the following
officers: President, Very Rev. Dear
q Brine, of Trenton, n J.; Vice Presidents
: Rev Jno Ireland, of Minnesota and Rev
i NJ. Meehan, of New Brunswick. Tn,
a next convention will be held at Chicago
h Oct 1854 The President has summon
. ed meeting of the Executive Council a
Trenton,N, j., to arrange the year work
: CHICAGO, Oct. l0.-R. +. Burns,
k plumber, suffering from mania potu, at
n tempted to blow up his house with gun
powder last night. The damage Wa
slight, and no one was seriously hurt
t, Burns fed tie house aud the police are i
search of him.
DUBUQUE, Ia, Oct. I0.-Miss Reeves,
. seamstess, committed suicide at her hom
] in Independence yesterday, by taking
81 dose OF strychnine. She was seventee
h years of age Her mother has conveye
& the remains to Wisconsin for interment.
4 A man named Dougherty had one of hi
: arms torn from his shoulder while feeo
ing threshing- machine on a farm nea
Winthrop; his condition is prerarious
Il Ii. A. Littleton, former resident of thi
} city fell a victim to the yellow fever
4 aI 4Etna Insurance Company
d New YORK, Oct 16.-Maria Urbaiel
le who was taken into custody with two Spar
iards, charged with robbing the Bank {
Commerce, IN Havana, on yesterday, accus
ed the Spanish Consul of robbing her {
= money, diamonds and draft for seventee
thousand dollars. Her affidavit declare
these things were taken from her baggae
on board the steamship City of Mexico, III
der false pretences.
j. s. koke, of Atehison, kas, afte
searching many months for his lttl
daughter, FIVE years old, whom his vii
took with her when she eloped, found he
in Brooklyn yesterday, aud obtaining til
assistance of the sheriff, secured b
child. The case will be heard to-morroy
LONDON, Oct. I0.-ITnited States Ma
! shal Usher, assisted by bis Deputies, Row
land, Comstock and Copeland, made
wholesale arrest of abertionists this afte
. noon. Six men and one woman was cal
tured, and, before, Commissioner Halle
!, this afternoon, were held for trial t
morrow, and all but one committed
> default of bail. The parties have bee
advertising as private medical counse
I ors, etc.
! CLEVELAND, o Oct. 9.-J. P. Coss al
Andrew Peters, who were arrested son
-. time ago on the charge Of nrocurine ar
by abethng an abortion, causing the death
Mrs Barbara kaun, were before ,Jud,
- Abbey, of the Police Court, to-day p
ters was discharged Coss was bound oy
in the sum of 90 0n0