The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-02-08
TELEGRAPHIC. :; :
The Radical Rascals still a
on Trial. i
Profits of the Gang over
Forty-two Millions OF
Dollars.
Honors to the memory OF
Archbishop Spalding.
Big Job in Los Angeles.
The Hanging of McNulty--
He speaks ga of an hour.
, protesting his in
! nocence.
r One of Mr.. Grants Mail
Agents sentenced for
1Oyears.
+ Murder near Dubuque.
o Abortion and Death in Mar
Is vim, Iowa.
e, e Shocking Confession OF Ev
ans.
IN Rosenwig again on trial ii
New York.
Abortion and Death in Mar
vim, Iowa.
Shocking Confession OF Ev'
ans.
Rosenwig again on trial in
New York.
Other Items, Etc.

WASHINGTON, Feb The Wilson
committee did nothing to-day, owing to
the absence Of witnesses.
Before the Poland committee tins morn
inc John / Blair was examined by Repre-
sentative Stevenson. Witness testified
that he was an original incorporation OF the .
Sioux City, Iowa Falls x Dubuque rall- /
road. with Platt Smith, OF Dubuque. John I
T. nunconbe of Fort Dodge. and W. ".
Walker. of Cedar Rapids, He detailed
the history Of the building OF the road, +
the legislation by Congress renewing the
land grant of 1886 to the State and the
LEGISLATION of the State giving the grant to
/ the road. He testified that not a dollar
was expended in procuring such legislation
either before Congress or the State Legs
lature. Witness never expended cent
for matchmaking any one. either member
/ of Congress or private citizen. There was
NOT single road across Iowa to day worth
the money it cost to build it Witness re
ferred to list of subscriptions and testified
that William B. Allison took ten shares.
He paid for his stock and never got penny
for his services The firm Of Samuel
Hooper also had stock.
MIR Stevenson undertook to re examine
; Sneaker Blaine as to his former testimony.
Dnrinc the examination the Speaker, upon
: being catechised in manner which seemed
I improper characterized Mr.. Stevenson's S
g conduct as unbecoming, and said it was
4 against common decency. He declared it
could be shown that Stevenson had an ami
mus against him Blaine
Mr.. Poland requested both to stop the
t contest. Mr. Stevenson wanted to exam
: inc witness relative to transactions oi
: Blaine of private nature, but MIR, Poland
t said that the testimony already covered
< the points.
- BosToN. Feb. The books OF tht
= Union Pacific Railroad Company arrived
% here this morning. B. F. Ham, Secretar.
" of the Credit Mobilier, proceed to max
: up the figures on which he is be exam
. ined. The profits on the Ames contrac
!. were S29. .S59. $50 on the Davis contract
"A &. SOP. 1876. and on the Howe contract
~ S.. l6S, ,232 total profits to the contractor
of the entire road, $40. 1925. .327, in stoc
and securities at their par value. Ih
- whole cost OF the road TO the compan
IL was one hundred and fourteen millions
ia. and the actual cost of the building wf
V seventy-o millions
nd BALTIMORE, Feb To-day being Il
'er anniversary of the death Of the late Mo
to Rev. Archbishop Spalding, mass was Gel
ca, brated with imposing ceremonies, lar!
he number of priests and deacons assisting.
On SAN Francisco, Feb "A petition
ir- circulating in Los Angeles asking COngre
'l'e to appoint a commissioner to examine al
ms report on the practicability of turning 9,
on orado river into Colorado desert. 1t
ing claimed large lake would he thus forme
III the influence of which would be TO recla
On the barren wastes adjoining, and redu
w. the temperature Of the atmosphere owe
re- vast extent of country.
ny !, PEORIA, Feb. T.-McNulty was hung
~; one O'Clock to-day He spoke for OF
,,n three-quarters of an hour protesting
ant innocence, and asserting that some ct
"a witnesses for the prosecution had sw,
falsely against him, The execution '
& witnessed by about loo persons. A la
crowed was outside Of the Jail. but th
curiosity remained unsatisfed. The bt
LIT was cut down in twenty minutes when
item was extinct and put in a collin by
It Of friends who will bury him.
re- CHICAGO, Feb. In the L. s. Go
. this morning Geo Canman. convicted
ress- robbing the mails. was refused new t
e, is and sentenced to a term Of ten years
lald- the penitentiary.
hing DUBUQUE, Feb. AT Torrisv
m OF Wis, Bill Ohern and Michael Conway
may into fight over an old feud, in WI
liant Ohern Killed Conway, smashing his i
solu- with n blow from a heavy sled st
md The murderer was arrested and lodged
rum Jail at Prairie Du Chen.
may Samuel Hughes and DR.. Phipps,
ehs,y Marvin, Iowa, have been arrested for
. tIle tn tempting to procure an abortion, their
,vort VIZ tim being the farmer l6-year-old vii
phar. BosToN, Feb. According to the
from tession of Evans, in 1858, he stole 9
ire is and killed his little niece in Derry, n,
e has aged years In 1861, he assaulted
egeta- cut the throat of girl of fourteen J
res of IN Augusta, Me, for which, by the
heal another man died in prison. In 186!
falling outraged the person of Isabella j,
,-;erar aged fourteen, and then killed her an,
o,,n 1s IS brother John, in Bnssey's Woods
~: - Boston. In 1872, june 10th, he il 81
'nilsl u ed with similar crime upon the ners
II anu woman found dead in the woods
emeoy Ftchburg, Mass, and during the We
res III. u e outraged and mutilated the person d
! ,unt NJ VI murdered Georgianna Lowering, a {
pt;va,s Sa twelve years, in Nerthwood, n Il.
Thou. NEw YoRK, Feb. 7-Rosenxweig
it with murderer Of Alice Bowlesby, whows
record victed and sentenced to seven yea
ave, and prisonment, and who under legal T.
Is. Let calties, has been brought here for
lehtted; trlal, was again arraigned to-day,
faith counsel hrst entered plea OF not