The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-06-11
Walworth Indicted for
Murder.
Accidents, Fires. Grimes,
Etc. Etc.

| General Sherman with his military, and
Attorney General Williams with the judi
cial authorities, will exercise every possible
| effort to capture and punish the culprits
| The Attorney General expresses the opin-
ion that the murder was committed by fel-
ons and outlaws who infest the locality,
and that it will be almost impossible TO
capture them The War Department has
received no dispatches on the subject to-
day.
PARIS, june l0-The sale of journals
in the streets of cities and towns in the de-
partment Of the Rhine have been prohib-
tied.
1t is said that Count Won Arnim the
German Ambassador, has been recalled be-
cause he made unnecessary calls upon
President MacMahon
VERSAILLES, June 10.-In the Assem-
bly, this afternoon the Left submitted an in
terpellation in regard TO the suppression of
the LaCorsaire newspaper by orders of the
military governor of Paris. NJ Gambetta
caused tremendous sensation by reading
a ministerial circular, dated the 4th inst,
and addressed TO the Projects of Depart
ments. The document inquiries minutely
into the position of the Provincial press
and suggests conhdentially the employ
ment of subsidies and such other means of
F influence as can be brought secretly to bear
for its control. Mr.. Beule, Minister of the
Interior admitted authentically of the cir
cular and accepted the responsibility for
issuing the same.
ALBANY, June I0.-The Court of Ap-
peals by a unanimous opinion grants a
new trial to Stokes. There are two opin-
ions written, one by Grover and the other
by Rappallo The charge is held to have
been erroneous on the point that the law
presumes murder from the fact of killing,
r and calls on the prisoner to mitigate and
0 Justify; also that there were errors in ex-
cluding proof Of threats by the deceased to
kill the prisoner also error in permitting
{ Mrs Morse to contradict Jennie Turner in
4 the relation of matter called out by the cross
: examination of Jennie, namely, as to
o whether she left Mrs. Morse against her
wish, and because detectives were said to
be after her, soon after the homicide.
}, There were other points discussed, but
G these are the principal ones.
n NEW YORK, June l0-When Stokes
was informed of the decision of the Court
}, Of Appeals granting him new trial, he
!. expressed himself well pleased, but added
! might possibly be untrue, and the disap
u pointment would be all the greater if such
proved to be the case"
! Mr. Dos Passos, bis counsel and several
! relatives and friends soon arrived at the
Tombs, and there was great deal of re
T. joicing among those interested at the ia
vorable decision of the Appellate Court
Dos Passos says: Upon the next tria
we will prove to the satisfaction of the New
n York public that there has been gros
4 misapprehension of the case from the day
of the tragedy, and we will be able to es
tablish the fact of his innocence by evi
dence of an overwhelming character
Bets on the final decision are in favor o
= Stokes.
MILWAUKEE,, June l0.-The receipts Q
wheat to-day ware nearly quarter of mil
lion bushels against torty-two thousand O
u the same day last year. The receipts thi
N. year exceed those of last year by over thre
h million bushels, and shipments by thre
py and q half million.
= CHICAGO, June 10,-Those city journal
which gave currency to the rumor that
wheat corner had been originated b
+ Messrs. B. F. Murphy and B. f. Aller
Ill have in the fullest manner retracted III
ew charge. Mr.. Allen, who has just bee
y elected President of the Cook County M
-. tional Bank, and owns majority of il
stock, comes here from Des Moines to d.
vote himself exclusively to a legitimat
D. banking business, and knew nothing of tt
ave rumors OF the corner until after the &C
@ mn. Journment of the Board of Trade on SUI
vsll gay lie was formerly partner of b. ]
'Os' MURPHY, which firm is now dissolved.
DUBUQUE, June l0.-Henry C. Tuttl
- clerk in the Cresco, Iowa, postofice, a
rested on charge of mail robbery, W,
/, to-day acquitted, nothing being prove
| against him.
Iowa CITY, june I0.-L. NJ. Rice
. prominent citizen of this place, has becon
90 insane, and will be sent to the lunatie as
lum.
,n EAsTPoRT, June l0-At the gas wor
= to-day young man named Hiram La
- renee went down into the gasometer to
off the water. The gas overcome him a
he fell from the ladder into the wat
His brother Edward went down to g
him out and he too was suffocated and fe
ON Another brother, named James, tied
nes. rope around his body and was lower
ack- down, but had to be drawn up immediate
ST. LOUIS Jule l0.-Agnes Donnelly
II, young lady who was with Mrs Fore VII