The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-04-28

Secretary of the Board of Railroad and
w arehouse Commissioners to take effect
Immediately This resignation was the
result of political pressure upon the
Commissioners, who testify to his excellent
qualifications, but say that their party will
not brook his longer continuance in Office.
james Mclaughlin, of Boone county, is
to be his successor.
BALTIMORE, April 26.-At Annapolis,
this morning, in the case of Elizabeth G.
Wharton, indicted for an attempt to mur-
der Eugene Van Ness, nolle pros was en-
tered by the Prosecuting Attorney, thus
ending the Wharton trials.
MEMPHIS, April 26.--The town of Mari
ana, Ark, was nearly destroyed by fire on
Thursday. The loss is estimated at $50
900. as
PITTsBURG, April ga Washington.
Pa, special says Briceland, the convicted
murdered, who recently escaped from the
Jail at that point, was captured yesterday
evening in a. barn near Collier's Station,
West Virginia, by two brothers named
Caldwell. They had gone to the barn to
feed their stock, and noticing that some one
had been in the NOV, made an examina-
ton and found Briceland under the hay.
The prisoner made no effort to escape and
was returned to jail this morning. He
eonfesses that some one furnished him with
knife during his trial in the court house,
with which he cut the moulds for the KEYS,
but will give no names.
Topeka, April 26.-The Burlington.
Kansas, postofice robbery case, which has
excited much interest, was finished to-day
in the U. S, District Court by the sentence
of the accused, Jasper N. Gersey, to pay
nominal fine and serve. four. years ir
the penitentiary,
Iowa Cry, April 26.-The associated
press dispatches relative to Congressman
! Walden's unloading his salary steal have
been sent in the belief that Republican.
and Democrats alike reprobate theft anC
reject share in the spoils Everything
stated in those dispatches is true, viz
Walden drew and kept the money unit
named by postmaster of his own ap
i pointment for Lieutenant Governor
He then gave it at the rate of three cent
it was rejected 1t was then proposed tha
all the Congressman should unload b,
making Rankin's defalcation good Gen
Farnsworth, of Illinois, attempted tn,
same method of unloading as Walden anC
was therefor denounced by the Chicag
Journal, Tribune. Inter Ocean and Times
The course pursued by portion of tn
Iowa Press, and by the author of dis
patch of April "a, from Des Moines, dem
onstrates that tits the intention of partisa
press to make fish of one and fowl O
another, for they uphold Walden in doin
that for which Farnsworth has been dc
nounced. The dispatch last above referre
, to is dictated by spirit of miserable ma
! ice, as eyinced by the attempt to connec
Mr. John P. Irish, Of this city, with tn
Eads defalcation which occurred when MI
/ Irish was a boy ten years old. This cor
troversy. carried on through the Associate
/ Press dispatches, has resulted in falls
{ and disgraceful personal attack upon Nj
Irish, and having demonstrated that it
: the intention of the partisan press of low
to denounce corruption in the abstract, br
r fercely defend individuals, corruptionist
and thieves, it is now at an end.