The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-23
TELEGRAPHIC,
Escape of Harry Genet, the
Convicted Ring" Grim
inal.
Forfeiture of Bail by other
Ring" Criminals.
Oakley Halls Trial Com
menced.
The Farmers will make
their own Plows.
orkingmen in Chicago
Petition for aid.
Accidents. Fires, Murders,
ETC.. Etc.
Oakley Halls Trial Com
menced.
The Farmers will make
their own Plows,
w orkinemen in Chicago
Petition for aid.
Accidents, Fires. Murders,
ETC.. Etc.

New YORK, Dec 22.-Harry Genet
the latest convicted member of the late
ring, was permitted to visit his wife. by
the deputy sheriff in charge of him, last
night, and has not been seen since, He
was to have been sentenced to-day. The
highest penalty for the crime of which he
is convicted is three years in State Prison
5 and a fine of 50, ,604 Genet counsel said
: that they would proceed to perfect their
bill of exceptions.
: An order was given by the court on Sat
! urday for the confinement of Genet in the
!, Toombs until sentence had been pronounc-
ed, but the order of the Court was entirely
ignored by the Sheriff The latest rumor
, in regard TO the escape is that Genet en-
barked on his own yacht, which had been
: loaded with provisions and filed with
; friends i'll readiness for his flight.
r Judge Daniels issued an order, return
able tomorrow against Sheriff Brennan
: and Deputy Shields, requiring them to
: show cause why they should not be pun
2 lshsd for contempt in not producing Genet
: in Court Sheriff Brennan had been mott
C fed on Saturday by the Assistant District
g Attorney that Genet would try to escape.
/ Sheriff Brennan offers reward of FIVE
: thousand dollars for the recapture of Har-
ry Genet, who escaped from the deputy
last night.
The cases of Michael Norton, Thomas
[. Conner, john j. Walsh and George S.
Miller, the Court House Commissioners
under the ring, were called for trial, on
charges of misdemeanor The defendants
failed to appear, and their bail was forfeited
Andrew j. Smith. who was indicted for
the same offense, pleaded mot guilty
Smith counsel described his client as the
last rose of summer, left blooming alone :;
all his lovely companions are faded and
gone"
The following correspondence explains
itself:
New YoRK,2l Park Row, Dec. 1888.
h Hon. 4. Oakley Hall:
SIR hereby give you notice that the
trial OF the indictments against you in the
court of Oyer and Terminer-upOn the
!, trial of which the jury heretofore disagreed
\ will be moved on Monday December y
inst. Yours, &c,
FRANCIS C. BARLOW,
Attorney General,
December Is, 1878
Y Mr.. AHorney- General:
SIR u hereby accept your notice, and
will be as ready to meet you then as | have
hitherto been. Your obediant servant.
A. OAKEY HALL.
The trial of ex- Mayor Hall was com
mencel to day, and the work of procuring
i, jury is progressing.
=, e WELLINGTON, ILL.,, Dec 22.-At the late
= Farmers Convention held at Decatur, in
ly telligence was received that the plow man
ufacturors Of the State had resolved that
Il a.
only through their authorized agents and
not direct from their manufactures The
, farmers are therefore arranging another
:" method of escaping this middlemans tax,
and to that end J. s. Armstrong, Treas
urer of the Illinois State Grange, visited
Millington last Saturday, and arranged
B. with r. N. Mason, plow maker here, tC
commence the manufacture of plows fol
the various grange organizations in the
State. The money for carrying forward
n this enterprise, it is proposed by the farm
ers to loan at the rate of 800 each with
out interest. The water power of thi:
place affords Mr.. Mason excellent facili-
Gu ties for his mandatory, and no pains viii
be spared to manufacture so good and
zo cheap plow here that farmers will re
~ ioice at having made this arrangement.
,r CHICAGO, Dec % In pursuance of the
ck resolve of the laborers' mass meeting al
Turner Hall, West Side, yesterdays a GROVE
Of about three thousand marched in rreg
. ular professions from the North and Wes
Sides, this evening, carrying the Ameri
can and German flags, and few trans
IN parencies with signihcan: notices in Eng
lish aud German. The crowd assembled
on the streets and were addressed by sew
eral unknown communistic speakers, whom
a they alternately laughed at and applauded
ent and the crowd maintained good numoreC
Inc Inc order. A strong body of police were pres
ali ent, but nothing occurred occasioning thei
al service.
et ef' A committee of workingmen, headed b.
the a young lawyer, presented resolutions t
ee the Common Council in a moderate ad
md dress, asking work from the city for tn
s. unemployed, or, in lieu thereof, food an
mil shelter at the city's expense.
The resolutions met with much symps
- thy in the Council. and the matter was re
ferred to the Finance Committee and
special committee of three from each d
vision of the city, with Mayor Colvin a
chairman and this committee fixed Il
morrow afternoon to meet the working
\ mems committee
J, When the workingmen's committee re
ported their reception, and the action b
the Council, the crowd dispersed peaceabl
Y. to their homes,
PHILADELPHIA, Dec 22.-The dock |;
borers struck against the reduction
wages from thirty to twenty cents an houl
Some men are working at the reduction
and the strikers threaten forcing them {
quit work
The striking stevedores assaulted thos
remaining at work after the reduction
wages. The police dispersed the rioters
arresting the ring leaders.
SHERIDAN, La Sale Co., ILL.,, Dec 22.-
Word comes to this place that Mr.. Hal
we'll known farmer living in the town
Freedom, some miles southwest of her
was found dead last Friday morning in Il
G road seven miles north of Ottawa. H
- face was buried in the mud, which had fr
zen hard around him, and his wagon bt
was on his back. One of his horses w
,s down, and both were so tangled in the ha
80 ness as to prevent their getting turtle