The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-10-20
GEOGRAPHIC. Z
The Election of Allen as
Governor of Ohio claim
ed with certainty.
The Farmers of Iowa give
the Salary-Grabbers a
Terrible Shaking mp.
The House of Representa-
tives still in doubt.
Meeting of the California
State Grange.
]
Great Wind Storm in
Chicago.
E .#
The Old Parties Busted
and a Peoples Ticket
Nominated in Chicago.
A Bishop Killed while a
Prayer in Church.
r Defa1cations, Erauds, Acci
s dents, Fires, Suicides, etc.
The Old Parties Busted
and a Peoples Ticket
Nominated in Chicago.
A Bishop Killed while at
Prayer in Church.
Defa1cations, Frauds, Acct
dents. Fires, Suicides, etc.

CHICAGO, Oct 20.--A private dispatch
from Columbus Sunday morning says pos
itively that Allen is certainly elected Gov |
ernor, by not less than 600 majority, and /
that the balance of the State ticket is in |
doubt The Democratic majority in the |
legislation on joint ballot is l9.
CAIRO, Oct. 20.-The steamer Mary (.
Poe, of the Carter line. Red river packet,
burned, Saturday, 100 miles above Mem
phis Four lives lost-one cabin boy,
chambermaid. and two lady passengers
The boat and cargo total lost. Boat val
ued at $4,000. Insured for $4,000 Car
60 valued at $75, 900 Insured for $4,000
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct 1S,-The Steam
er City of Augusta sunk last night IN
White river just below Augusta, Ark.
Water three feet over main deck. No lives
lost. The Underwriters steamer Eekert
was sent for to relieve her.
| DEsMoTNEs, Oct 1S.-The latest returns
| do not materially change the Republican
majority in this State for Governor. The
Senate will be Republican, thirty FIVE !;
Opposition, fifteen. The House stands
now forty-nine Republican to forty two
| Opposition, with nine counties to hear from,
which will reduce the Republican majority
to nearly tie.
| Especial Dispatch to the \. Y. worid.l
SALEM, Or, Oct l5.-Mr Nesmith, the
Democratic candidate, has been elected to
Congress from Oregon by $500 majority
over Smith the Republican nominee. This
is rebuke Of Grants Indian policy and
Hippieism in the United States Senate
This is Democratic gain of 6,5T4 over
Grants majority In Oregon last November
II. FL. G.
:, San Francisco, Oct. ls.-The State
Grange, at San Jose, yesterday, elected
officers for the ensuing year. Addresse:
we're delivered by Gov Booth and Worth!
Master J. W. A. Wright.
Six Thousand people attended the grea
four mile race at Oakland to day. Ih
D first heat was won by Joe Daniels; time
e by miles: 1:5S, 1859, I:56a, 1:4SS total
6 T:42. The second and third heats wer
won by Thad. Stevens; time, T:30, T:4G
I The race was won by Thad. Stevens; 10
/, Daniels, second. and Ballot Box, third.
# CHICAGO, Oct, l8.-During wind storr
b passing over the southwest part of the cit
y last night, portion of the walls of tn
:. new maleable iron works was blown dowI
e causing loss of $1,000. Several sma
II fencing, including that around the Brid'
well grounds, was blown down, and tret
laid low Queens circus tent was blow
down during the performance, causir
,e much alarm, but no one was hurt:
. A notorious pugilist, Mike Madden, an
!, another, named Taylor Higgins, of tn
Is city, left last night, with a select crowd
he roughs, in carriages and wagons, to me
a at Roberstown, the scene of the Darne
Fitzgerald fistic show, and fight for $50
A large police force of this city, in citize
rd dress, have gone after the roughs, to pr
ty vent the fight in Illinois. If uninterrup
st ed, the bipeds will afterwards enjoy bu
h dog fight for S25.
~ The man shot by Police Captain Forres
at cf Lakeview township, has been identlh
he as q. W. Davidson, Kansas farmer, ju
1t released from the hospital, a quiet, peat
mo- able man, sick and destitute. The pape
urge further investigation and the ART
III of Forrest
ne CHICAGO, Oct 1S.-The police arrest
OF the prize fighters, and the crowd acco
nd painting, at Grand Crossing in this eoun
hs This stops the fight
he CHICAGO, Oct ls.-A meeting of le;
eat ing citizens, including representatives
the Republican and Democratic city a
rec county committees and several city ney
,us papers, was held at the Grand Pacific
md tel this evening, and ticket nominal
,ve for the ensuing election. 1t was CON
lth nation of all parties in opposition to
un- so-ealled Peoples party favoring the G
eral license, and of those favoring Sum
ug- recognition and enforcement of the exist
ock laws, the Temperance, party, lndepend
,hn party, law and order party and the Rep
lican and Democratic parties, and nomina
for Mayor, L. L. Bond, Republican [
eet Treasurer, David A. Gage, Democr
n City Collector, Alex. Morrison, Repu
. can +; City Attorney, j. N. Stiles, De
crat; Police Commissioner, Reuben Cls
|S land, Republican Clerk of Criminal Go
~ w. X. Sullivan, Republican Cot
Treasurer, Philip Wadsworth iRepubic
County Clerk, j. w Brockway. Repu
can. 1t is said that the ticket will be
ported by the Tribune, Inter Ocean, Jor
al Post, Mail, and Free Press.
New YORK, Oct. 1S-Private adv
received from the French settlement Of
Pierre give information Of the assass
ton of Monsignor De We're, the first Z
op of that Diocese. The Bishop was 1
dered in the sacristy of the Chapel of
Jean de Dieu, having been stabbed in
heart and lungs while at prayer.
dlrks were found on the floor, and
nm Peiletier, cousin of the Bishop. was Oh
Hill ed with the crime and arrested. 1t is
the crime was melted by the fact that
= op De We're inherited all the fortun,
Peileuer father, wealthy Frenchl
ana once an extensive stakeholder il
Messagerie Steamship COMPANY.
murdered Bishop was conseeratei in
ust last by Archbishop Dupanloup. a
16r, leans France.
This afternoon Frank r. Sherwin.
for some six months past, has been /
business ostensibly as a banker and
er but mainly in what he calls THE
ma Syndicate stock operations, . was
saS rested and his bail fixed at $50. .Ooo bs
hOSs ing unable to furnish the amount was