The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-09-17

EOklA. AL, E0tJIGuiuGl SC1biiA
day of the Illinois State Fair brings with it
large number Of people from various
points in the State. Peoria 5 seven rail
roads are full OF business. The trains,
regular and special, are heavily loaded
with visitors TO the fair, and everything
betokens a very large attendance. Still
the grounds do not show anything like
crowd as yet, nor was it to be expected so
early in the week.
GRAND HAVEN, Sept. l6.-The Iron
sides sunk at II 30 P. NJ, going down
stern foremost. The first boat which left
the steamer contained a majority of the
ladies and was capsized, only one Of the
passengers reaching the shore. The sec
ond and third arrived safely. The fourth
and fifth were driven ashore and overturn-
ed in the surf Eighteen bodies have been
identified. The names and residences are
as follows: q. H. Dennison, of Ada,
Mich Campbell and Smith, deck hands,
initials of given names and residence not
known; John Driscoll, clerk of the boat
John Hies, lumber and planning mill com
pany Mrs. Dewitt; Mrs H. A Nalen-
tine and son THE latter boy five years of
age, Captain Harry Sweetman comman-
/ der of the Ironsides Robert McGlue, first
engineer Of the boat-all of Milwaukee !;
Charles Wilmell, agent of c. E. Harling
! < Co, New York; Jeremiah Smith, of
Grand Haven; MIR F. H. Bieling and
wife, of Albion, Ind .; Mrs. Haselberth, of
Port Washington, Wis; Hearney and
Harry Hughes, firemen Edward lyle
and James Brown, greasers.
/ PHuADELPHIA,S Sept l6-An order has
been issued commanding the police to ar
rest, as vagrants, boys in the streets play.
ing on musical instruments.
( President Grant was entertained at the
house OF General Patterson tonight
A meeting of merchants to raise fund,
for the relief of the Shreveport sufferers.
is called for tomorrow
The Constitutional Convention reasseln-
bled this A. NJ, after a two months yaca-
ton. John A. Walker, of Erie, was elect
ed President by acclamation to fill the va
cancy caused by death of Mr.. Meredith.
The decease of the late President was an
nounced by Henry c. Cary in a glowing
tribute to his memory
MEMPHIS, Sept. l6.-There is no abate-
ment of the yellow fever, though its raw
ages are almost exclusively confined to the
northwestern portion of the city, adjacent
to the mouth of the Wolf river, where il
first appeared. 1t is impossible to obtain
reliable data In regard to the mortality.
The city authorities to-day took the first
step towards meeting the exigencies of the
occasion, the whole street force being put
to work, distributing coal tar and burning
It in the infected quarter, while citizens
met and reorganized the Howard Associa-
ton The exodus from the city continues
The physicians are advising all, who can
TO leave, and the trains in all directions are
crowded, The widest reports are circula.
ted throughout the country in regard tf
the number of the dying, but it is safe tt
say that since the disease appeared, tn,
number OF deaths from all causes has no
reached twenty on one day, and since tn,
flight OF terror stricken ones, there is les!
excitement than during the prevalence o
cholera.
WASHINGTON, Sept. Ex-senator Wes
, to-day received the following dispatch from
: the Mayor OF Shreveport sickness i
on the increase Do all you can for us
There is no money in the city treasury, ant
: the poor are on our hands, and. for lack o
funds, we find difficulty in burying them
CINCINNATI, Sept. l6.-The body O
General Edwin S. hlcCook was laid i tn
consistory Of the Scottish rite masoni
temple this A. NJ, and viewed by a vas
! number of people The funeral took plae
n in the temple according 10 masonic ritua
" in charge OF the Knights templars. Tn
relatives present were, Mrs McCook, tn
= mother of the deceased, Col Geo S. Nc
Cook, Mrs Davis, sister, Mrs Edwin
McCook, the widow, Dan McCook and
cousin of John McCook A son of Gov
ernor Burbank, OF Dakota Territory. an
other friends were present. After the SCI
vices, the easket was taken to the hears
e. e, and the procession moved to Newport bal
racks. The body was buried in Sprin
Grove cemetery.
8 Private subscriptions are being LIBERAL
made for the relief OF the Shreveport su
= ferers.
I BOSTON, Sept. lex Mayor Castor
In letter formally accepting the Dem
cratic nomination for Governor of Mass
chusetts, thus alludes to the prohibito,
liquor law AT time when the State
n. suffering reproach for partial and disho
u est enforcement of some of its own laws,
becomes our Immediate duty to seek to e
eeute such laws with honesty and impa
TALLY, or 60 repeal such statues as cam
be enforced. An experience of TWEEN
y years under what are known as prohibit
laws has proved that they cannot aecol
plish the great and beneficial purposes t
which they were enacted They have 4
ad- diminished the evils which they were q
!. signed to destroy, but they have broug