The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-07-18
More Frauds on the Reve-
nue..
The Co1ored People in FL
mira Jubilate.
The College Boat Races.
Accidents, Fires, Crime
Etc, Etc.

CHICAGO, July l7.-Last night was the |
warmest night this summer At l0:lS /
last night the thermometer at Chicago |
marked SO; at Lacrosse, Leavenworth, |
St Louis, and Cincinnati, 81 at Indian |
apolis 81 ~ Memphis, rs; at New Or
leans, 81 at Key West, 81 at Baltimore, |
70; at New York, 72; atPortand, "a; at |
Quebec, 5S; at Buffalo, -: at Detroit, 10; |
at st Paul 90.
At 653 this morning the thermometer
at Milwaukee, Chicago and St, Louis
marked 50; at Cincinnati, 81; Louisville, |
81; at Memphis and New Orleans, ST. at
st Paul, 70; Toronto, 62; Cheyenne, 5S; |
Corinne, Utah, So; San Francisco, So. |
There was rain during the night at Breck- |
enridge, MINI, Cleveland, o., Kingston,
Ont, Port Dover, Ont and Toronto.
Cloudy this morning in Canada, st. Paul.
and Lake Superior
ST. LOUIS, July l7.-Nine fatal cases of
sunstrOke occurred yesterday afternoon
and to-day, and more than double that
number are prOstrated by heat The
mercury at P NJ, to-day stood at 90 in
the shade A thunder storm passed over
the city tonight.
EVANSVILLE, July l7-Henry Schooner,
u
day
ROCKFORD, Ill, July l5.-Later advices
from the great storm of yesterday show
that theirownship of Barrett,in this county,
suffered severely Corn and small grains
were badly damaged, many farmers losing
all, while houses were filled with the hail
stones coming through the windows As
far as can be learned, the loss within the
six square miles of the township is over
800, 900.
SPENCER, Ind, July, Yesterday
evening very heavy cloud, almost green
in color appeared few miles south of this
| city, with almost incessant flashes of light
ming, Reports from that vicinity state
that il was a fearful storm, destroying
nearly all the best timber in the neighbor-
hood-the lightning crushing it into splin-
ters. Old settlers say they never saw
anything like it before Many people
were knocked over and otherwise injured,
though no lives were lost.
SAN Francisco, July 1.-THE Bulletin
publishes tables showing the present in
debtedness of the Central Pacific Railroad
COmpany-bonds, borrowed money and
unpaid interest-to be $l08, ,6lS, 200 net
earnings of the road for the year ending
June Both, 1872, the date OF the last Off
eial report, $5,056.4 1t is estimated
that 100000 per annum goes into the
hands of private spectators and not to-
ward the release of the company's obliga-
tions.
Il COLUMBUS, Ohio, July l7.-There have
been seven deaths from cholera in the pen
itentiary since last nights report The
average time of sickness was eight hours
The guards and outside attendants who are
not shut up in cells at night have been en-
tirely free from the disease.
/ LONDON, July H.-Reports have reach
ed here that several cases of cholera have
occurred at Vienna, and the authorities
are endeavoring to suppress the particu-
lars.
LOUISVILLE, July 17.-Advices to the
Courier-J journal report the cholera as
prevalent in Elizabethtown, Owensboro,
Millersburg and several other Kentucky
towns.
EVANSVILLE, July IA panic pre-
walls at Mt Vernon about the cholera.
Forty deaths have occurred within a week,
and eight or ten occurred yesterday The
people are fleeing and the most vigorous
sanitary measures are being enforced.
, New YORK, July 1.-THE announce
ment is made that the custom officers in
the recent investigations have discovered
such evidences of fraud on the part of a
we'll known importing house as to compel
the payment of about $500,000 penalty to
the government and the imprisonment of
at least one member OF the firm
To force the owners of Mansard roofs to
have them removed this year and replaced
by less infiamable roofs, the Board of I'm
derwriters have adopted a resolution lay
ing an additional premium of one per cent
upon all Mansard roofs after January, 1st,
1879
The grand jury has found indictments
against persons implicated in the recent
duel between Wall street bankers
Ninety dozen smuggled kid gloves were
captured by the police last evening and
two sailors of the steamship Caledonia
were arrested as the smugglers.
ELMIRA, July 1.-The colored people
of this vicinity to-day celebrated in this
city the passage of the civil rights bill Ii
f was very largely attended and successful
affair
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 17.-Frederiek
A. Shower, Jr., son of T. A. Shower, ap-
praiser in the Pennsylvania railroad com
2 pany s office, has been arrested for forging
his father name ON checks to the amount
of $4,000.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind July IT.-G A
Chandler contractor on the Anderson
. Lebanon 4 St Louis railroad, is reported
to have absconded from Ladaga early yes
; terday morning with $4,000, which wa.
handed him the night before
About noon, to-day, as a number O.
workmen were engaged in taking down ,
: building on Market street. partially de
( stroyed by fire, the main girder gave wa,
n and the whole mass with the men on it, fei
to the hall floor, distance of sixteen feet
: Geo. Scott was very seriously injured ant
: dozen others more or less hurt
/. DUBUQUE, Iowa, l7.--G. P. Ransom,
leading citizen of Rockford, Floyd, county
Iowa, was yesterday instantly killed by be
ing thrown from his wagon, while his team
was running away.
Maurice o Brien, for 80 years residen
Of Dubuque county, last evening left thi
b city with sulky hay rake, to 60 to hi
home some Is miles distant. This A, N