The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-09-10
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B. s. Lindsay, Pres Board of Trade.
MONROE, La, Sept. 9.-Judge T. s.
Crawford, and District Attorney Arthur
l.. Harris, of the 18th Judicial District.
were assassinated yesterday, twelve miles
southwest of Winneboro, iu Franklin par
ish, while on their way to hold court at
that place. The bearer of this informa
ton states that they were shot seven times,
and their brains blown out The murder
ers are not known, but it is thought that
personal and not political differences led to
the assassination, as Crawford was Radi
cal and Harris a Democrat. Both leave
families
BROOKLYN, Sept 9-Judge Moore. in
charging the grand jury to day, said 1T
appears to me that it is getting to be re-
proach to public justice that man who
steals $50 is sent to the State prison, while
those who steal $4,000 are allowed to 60
| free
/ LOUISVILLE, Sept g. The Carrier- Jour
nal offers to pay the expense Of equipping
a company of militia to proceed against the
! ku-klux. Late advices from Omentea,
/ ny, state that three men confined in jail,
charged as ku-Klux, picked the lock with
a penknlfe and escaped yesterday morning
| PARIS, Sept. "a party of Mormon
emigrants who have just arrived here on
their way to America, have been notified
by the prefect of police that if they at
tempt to hold their religious exercises in
public they will be expelled from the city.
CHARLEsTowN, Sept. 9.-Some excite
ment has been caused here to-day by band
of negroes, who visited the principal mills
in the city, and by threats of violence
forced the hands to strike for So 80 per
day. The employers declined to accede
and closed their mills, throwing nearly two
thousand labOrers out of employment
New YORK, Sept 9.-While the list
regiment was parading through fourth
street. Williamsburg, this morning, bal
cony, crowded with spectators suddenly
broke down, and all were precipitated tc
the sidewalk. One person was killed and
fifteen more or less seriously injured
OMAHA, Sept. 9.-Private advices from
Badger Springs say the recent discoveries
there of lead deposits are creating great ex
citement. A large tract of land was re
Gently purchased by Omaha parties, there
who are developing it.
DEsMOINEs, Iowa, September 9Th,
latest news from the Rock Island Railroad
robbers is that they will be caught, if i
takes twenty years.
John Stanford, of Macon, was Instant,
killed on Wednesday, by falling from
hay-stack
The only child of Alexander Smith, O
Decorah, was burned to death by fallin,
. into tub of scalding water last Wednes
E day.
Mrs. Frater, wife of A. Frater, promi
nent grain dealer, of Harper's Ferry, Iowa
died on Saturday from the effect of an ov
. erdOse of chlorotorm, administered to re
: lieve an attack of neuralgia.
DETROIT Mich, September 9.-Nelli
/? Brown, courtesan at East Saginaw
= hanged herself in her cell last night, Will
under arrest for drunkenness.
Mr. c. Case, the Superintendent of tn
e building at Grand junction. who was hel
. responsible for the fatal accident there i
. the falling Of wall which killed two mer
i last week, published card asserting ths
it was due to the disobedience of his order
= by his subordinates, and claiming that h
K was not actually to blame.
m Canavan, the Muskegon scoundrel, th
morning pleaded guilty to the rape upo
the Jeannot girl, and was sentenced to til
State Prison for life and left at once ft
jackson, under the escort Of the Gran
., Rapids guard. No disturbance ensued.
d, INDIANAPOLIS, September 9.-Hi. Mil
cs nick, an ex-policeman and well know
Of rough, was shot through the neck at tt
bagnio OF Lizzie Douglass, by her divorce
husband Louis Linn He is complete
paralyzed, and will die.
Frank Muir, workman on the Palm
House Block, this morning jumped in
the cellar, thirteen feet, to avoid a fallil
derrick. He struck on loose plank, t,
forward and broke his neck.
MEMPHIS, Sept e-White, the hor
, thief, who escaped from Jail on Sunda
passed through Covington last night. II
sheriff and posse are still in pursuit of hi,
ic. SALT LAKE, Sept 9.-Highway robbie
m stopped the stage near Pleasant Vale
Idaho county, going south to-day, and to
>. Die the Treasure Of Wells, Fargo 6 CO. T
= robbers escaped.