The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-02


and township officers on the second Tues
Iday succeeding the first Monday in Noyem
Der. Also to authorize the election o
township trustees for three years, whicl
Twas laid on the table. A resolution wa
also offered and laid on the table asking
Congress to fix the salary of the Presiden
of the United States at $25 200.
| New YORK, Dec.-l. The call for a mas.
meeting of 'longshoremen, last night, tilleC
the great hall of the Cooper Institute tC
|overflowing Among the audience wer,
George Francis Train and number of In
ternatlonalists, Communists aud other re
cognlzed agitators, couple of whom
sought to air their extreme views, but were
received with but little favor, and one was
hustled out of the hall. Of the speakers
previously announced, there appeared only
Richard OGorman and Colonel John X.
Fellows, who addressed the audience, both
expressing their sympathy with the trou-
bles Of the laboring classes, but cautionin 6
them against placing themselves before
public opinion as disturbers of peace and
violaters of the law.
! Troy, n. Y, Dec. 1.-Work will be re-
sumed on Monday next in the factories un.
der the old scale of employers prices, which
the workingmen refused to accept at the
time of the late strike. There are more
applicants for work than can be furnished
with employment,
MANCHESTER, N II. Dec. 1.-The man.
utacturing companies of this city, which
have been running on short time, began on
full time this week
CINCINNATI, Dec. IA Gazette Hunt,
ington, w. Va, special says sixty six em-
ploycs Of the Chesapeake q OHIO railroad
strnck to-day for wages earned in the past
four months. No trains came out from
except an engine with mail
car. The strikers declare that no freight
or passenger trains shall move until their
claims are liquidated
CONCORD. n. H., Dec. |. The Concord
savings bank suspended to-day after pay |
ing out 100000 to deposltors, who have |
been making heavy run on the bank for I
some weeks. The trustees have petitoned
he Superior Court to appraise the value
If the remaining securities in the bank to
determine the losses of unsatisGed deposi
ors.
New YORK, Dec. l.-Philadelphia dis
patches say that the failure of the sale of
1orney's Press to Colonel Mcclure was the
esult of brisk cable correspondence be-
ween Colonel Fornoy and a number of Re-
publican politicians in that city, the latter
,rofering their liberal financial support if
he paper was continued as regularp party !
ryan The question involved was purely 6
olitical, and the funds raised to purchase
D~ooe ,,;1l h. Jn,,o.oI Al |
hase of the Industrial Age, and making t
an independent daily, the first number =
which will appear January |, 1873.
The coroner held an inquest this after Il
Don over the remains of the late Mayor 4
lavemeyer, and the jury gave verdict t
nat he died Of heart disease. The funer- 7
takes place Friday. The several depart
lents of the city government today
iopted the usual resolutions.
RACINE, Wis, Dec. IA fatal accident
ccurred here to day, by ,ine bursting of an s
merry wheel, at the Racine Hardware IL
causing the instant death of 4
boy 10 years Of age named nobs0n, the
IN of the matron of the Taylor Orphan
.sylum. c
WILLIAMsPoRT, Pa, Dec. Barney T.
lcCue was convicted to-day of the mur- -
er of J.lDeEtre, on the l4th Of October II
st, at Mincy Dam. !,
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Dec. IA c. Fer
cr, Chief Of Police of Scranton, and Jacob
erber and j. H. Schlager were arrested I
l.day on a charge of the murder of Mich 5
II hernry, in Scranton. ,., sho 18th ult 4
ere brought here this afternoon. t.
NEW YORK, Dec. l,--Durng quarrel
n Tuesday night last between Henry Il
rown and Michael Mallory, private watch
zen on South street, the latter struck the
,rmer on the head with club, causing a
ound from which he died To-Day. Ma
my was arrested.