The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-03-25
TELEGRAPHIC.
Kansas Ka1dwe1l Kaves.
Another Dishonest Post
Office Official.
Stokes wants his Judgment
Record Amended.
Fosters wife not expected
to Live.
Sickles gets s75, 900 for 81
Little Job.
Accidents, Fires, Grimes,
Etc, Etc.
Fosters wife not expected
to Live.
Sickles gets $4,000 for Il
Little Job.
Accidents, Fires, Grimes,
Etc, Etc.

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with requisltion
A terrible tragedy occurred near Boards
town last Saturday q. II. HalIstauser.
one of the oldest and most esteemed citi-
zens was sitting in his office about half
past seven P. NJ. with his unmarried son,
ID. W. Hallstauser, when married son.
j. Hallstauser, entered the door and with
out speaking, pulled out d navy revolver
and shot his brother The ball entered
his left breast and lodged under the shoul-
der blade. The wounded young man rose
from his chair, and as he did so he re
ceived another shot entering near his
shoulder when he fell forward. receiving a
third shot in the crown of the head the
ball lodging under the right ear.
/ ALBANY, March 24.-In the assembly
this evening the Judiciary Committee were
instructed to report an amendment to the
constitution allowing taxpaying female cit
/ izens to vote
/ BosToN March 24-Fred ". Cropper.
clerk in the post office, was arrested for
stealing money from letters.
/ DUBUQUE, March 24.-At Monona.
Iowa, on Saturday night, an Englishman
named Blaybeen shot and instantly killed
Human ingalls,, young man who. under
the influence OF liquor, was trying to re-en-
ter Blaybeens saloon, from which he had
been torcibly elected,
/ A heavy snow storm has prevailed here
all day.
/ San Francisco, March 24-Alexander
j. Fewick who was TO have been hanged
at San Diego next Friday for the murder
/ OF Charles Wilson, suicided IN Jail to-day
by taking poison
/ st. JOSEPH, March 24.-The engine on
I the mail train going north on the Chicago
4 Michigan Lake Shore Railroad. ran off
/ the track this afternoon tive miles south Of
/ Bangor killing engineer j. Reynolds fire
/ men u. McCortney and Oscar Culver, and
a brakeman who fell under the engine as it
turned over in the ditch The accident
was caused by broken journal on the en-
glne- No passengers were injured.
/ AUBURN, \ Y, March pa reward
Of $1,000 is offered by the Sheriff of Cavu-
ga county, n y, for the capture and re
turn Of Eugene Albert Perry. who effected
/ his escape from the Jail of this county on
the night Of the l4th inst. bv knocking
down and killing the iailor Perry is de-
/ scr1bed as being about thirty years Of age
+ five feet eight inches in height with light
brown hair and light moustache. which
has been colored Perry has an Indian ink
band printed on his left wrist and star
/ pricken between the thumb and forefncer
Of his left hand
/ New YORK, March 24.-Nr. Dos Pas
/ SOS, counsel for Stokes. made application
/ to-day in the Court Of Oyer and Terminer
/ for an order to show cause why the iudg-
ment record in the case should not be
amended ON the ground that it does not
include material evidence. The court took
the paper.
/ The widow of Foster, hanged ON Friday
/ last, Is utterly prostrated and not expected
/ to live.
/ The Erie investigation to-day developed
/ the fact that General SickIes got seventy
! five thousand dollars for his services in
connection with the change of dictatorship
/ WASHINGTON, March 24.-The Vice
/ President laid before the Senate the fol
! lowing
Hon. Henry Wilson, Vice President of the
/ nlted States:
SIR I do hereby very respectfully
notify you and through You the Senate Of
/ the United States that | have resigned and
/ do resign my seat in that body as Senator
from the State Of Kansas, and that have
forwarded by mail, postage prepaid, and
addressed to the chiet executive officer of
that State, at Topeka Kansas, my resicna-
ton in the following form, to wit
/ UNITED STATES SENATE CHAMBER.
March oath. 1873.
To His Excelency, the Governor of Kan
sas, Topeka, Kansas
SIR i hereby respectfully tender YOU
my resignation as a Senator Of the United
States from the State of Kansas, to take
effect Immediately.
/ Very respectfully, your obedient serv-
ant ALEXANDER CALDWELL.
| have also delivered in person to Hon.
Thos Osborne, Governor of Kansas, now
IN this city, duplicate Of the paper for
warded, whose acknowledgment of recent
thereo. is herewith enclosed.
/ Very respectfully, your ODD t serv t,
ALEXANDER CALDWELL.
| Mr.. Window submitted the following,
which was laid over.
Resolred, That the Select Committee on
transportation routes to the seaboard be di-
reeted to inquire and report to the Senate
at its next session as to the nature and ex-
tent of the obligations existing between the
of the country, and whether any and what
additional legislation is necessary to guard
the postal service action on the part of any
or all of said railroad companies.
GEORGETOWN DEL, March 24-This
morning while the daughter of John Lank.
a respectable gentleman residing near Re
holboth Station, was returning from the
house of her uncle, she was accosted by a
negro named James Green, OF Burton,
who tore off her clothes and violated her
person, After the assault Burton fed and
ohe girl, who is only Is years old, man
aged to reach her father residence where
sue made known the facts Burton was
louhd IN the woods and captured about
TWO mhes from the place where he COM
mltted the outrage and in custody of off
GERS S5t Feaehed a, tins city this evening and was
ioogtu II Jaii 10 await trial in April He