The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-06-12
The President at West
Point.
Wa1worth Indicted for
Murder.
AProspect for a Prize Fight
Accidents, Fires, Crimes,
Etc, Etc.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill, June ll.-A con-
vention Of the farmers oranges and clubs
Of this county is called to assemble in this
city on the oath instant, for the purpose
of deciding what course to pursue regard
ing the nomination of county officers The /
County Central Ccnmittee of the Farm
ers' Club is also notified to assemble at the |
same time.
MI PLEAsANTs, Iowa, June 1.-THE
Grange pic -nic held in this city to-day was
a grand success in point of numbers. |
There were over six hundred wagons in /
the procession, and it is safe TO say that /
ten thousand persons assembled on the fair |
grounds. Every Grange in the county was |
represented and many from adjoining /
counties. Each Grange carried banners /
with suggestive notices and caricatures |
MEMPHIS, June li-Hon Jacob Thomp- |
son Is recovering from an attack of the |
| cholera
There are "A interments to-day, against /
Is yesterday There is but little excite |
ment in regard 10 cholera, and but few
| persons have left the city. 1t is generally |
/ believed that the severe rain of last night |
will have beneficial effect
/ NASHVILLE, June ll.-There is a CON
tiuued abatement in cholera 1t has proved
conquerable in nearly every instance 1t
| is decreasing
New YORK, June ll.-A special from
| Boyle's Camp says that Capt Jack, in an
interview with Gen. Davis, said Bogus
Charley and Shacknasty Jim killed Gen
Candy. Allen David, a Klamath chief,
advised them to kill Gen Candy, SO they
did 1t, / am telling the truth. | did not
Kill him. had it done, but did not do it
don lie. Bring the men that saw NE
do this thing | want TO face them. II
had my chains off | would tell ali the men
who did these things.
WASHINGTON, June lI.-Hon. Felix 7.
Brun0t, Chairman of the Board of Indian
Commissioners, and Thomas c. Cressey
to-day started to meet the Sioux in council
on or about the 10th inst They will af-
terwards visit other portions of the Indian
country,
| PoUGHKEEPsIE, June H-President
Grant and party, Gen. Sherman, Secretary
Belknap and others witnessed the cavalry
drill at West Point this afternoon. There
was tmortar practice and FIRE works to-
night Several Of the board of visitors
leave tomorrow, and on Friday the diplo-
mas will be awarded
BLOOMINGTON, H.. June I0-A horri-
!. bic shooting affray took place at Decatur
on yesterday at about 6 clock in the even
ing. Fred. Bickes, hardware dealer who
has for some time past been a hard drink
! er, shot his father in the head with small
! revolver Biekes, Jr., who keeps store in
the building where his father resides, had
been on a drunken spree, and went into
| Ha{1 Oh g.
invited TO partake, when he commenced
abusing his mother, using the worst of Ian
guage His father ordered him to desist,
: when he drew pistol, leaned over the Ia
BILE and shot his father in the face The
ball entered the cheek The wound is Sc
rious, perhaps fatal Young Biekes then
: stepped away, placed the pistol to his eye
and fred, the ball lodging in his brain
The doctors thought an attempt to remove
the ball would Immediately prove fatal
No hopes are entertained for his recovery
New YORK, June Il-Frank W. Wal
worth was arraigned in the Court of Oyer
and Terminer to-day, on charge of hav-
ing murdered his father He pleaded,
4 through his counsel, Judge Garvin, not
guilty. The counsel for the defense are to
arrange with the district attorney for the
day of trial. which will be in about two
lweeks.
:, . This morning Nathan Britman shot and
d killed james McAdams, an employee Of
J; the Pennsylvania Il. r. Co., in Jersey City.
4 Eli Brown, notorious western robber
: and eounterfeiter has been sentenced to
five years in the State prison, for stealing
watches and fourteen hundred dollars from
Thos. Willes.
4 DOVER, June 1.-THE jury in the case
! of DR.. West, charged with numbering a
negro, came into court at six o'clock this
morning, with verdict of not guilty, on
the ground of self defense.
ST. LOUIS. June 1.-THE second depos-
it of four hundred dollars side in the
y coming prize fight between Tom Allen and
= Mike McCoole was made last night at Tom
Kelly's saloon. McCoole has gone into
light training near the city, and Dublin
Trix will arrive and take charge of him in
- few days. Allen will probably go into
training near Cincinnati.
MIDDLETowN, n. Y, June 1l.-Lewis
K. Myers, a dentist of this place while
drunk this evening stabbed, it is supposed,
fatally, his father in the breast near the
heart, with sharp instrument.
NEWARK, n. Y, June 1.-THE passen-
ger train and freight train came into col
lislon at East Newark this afternoon
Both engines were demolished and the
baggage car telescoping a passenger car
one engineer was fatally wounded, and .
large number of passengers cut and bruised
A can of powder, weighing a hundred
and twenty-five pounds, exploded vester
day at the house OF George Edm1nds ,
coal miner, at Steubensville, Ohio. KILN,
three of his children, and fatally woundin,
another The can had been placed in
a cupboard by the father, and in the absene,
/ Of the parents, the children set fire to it.
PHILADELPHIA, June Il.-Geperal Johl
Sidney Jones, who was confined. in the in
sane asylum at Harrisburg, and escape,
this forenoon, is supposed to have gon,
nj West, on foot, to preach his peculiar doc
a trines Of salvation.
r CINCINNATI, June Thames NJ Nc.
q Dermott, butcher, was shot dead in the
Sixth Street Market. near Elm street, a
1880 this afternoon by w. G. Daniels
: alias Mackey, Me. .Dermott was standinl
on - HE Ill u.--Lo Il -.