The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-07
Death of Judge Edmunds.
Accidents, Crime, Etc.

HARTFORD, April 6.-Ingersoll Demo
craft is elected Governor by an increased
majority. Both Houses of the Legislature
are Democratic.
LATER AM April Returns to the
Courant from all the towns in the State
but seven give the following result: In.
gersoll, 45, 956; Harrison, SO, ,292; Smith,
l4564.
BosToN, April 6--The eleventh ballot
to-day resulted Whole number of votes
1874 necessary to choice 9S; Dawes 81 !;
Hoar 81 Curtis So; Adams 7; Banks
Washburn, Whittier, Phillips and Pierce,
one EACH
New YORK, April 6.-Judge Edmonds,
a well known lawyer and spirtualist, is
dead.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 6.-Judge Perkins
decided this morning that unless separate
schools are provided for the colored chill
dren they shall not be debarred from any
public school,
New YORK, April 5.-Yesterday, Mr..
Laimbier, one of the Commissioners of
Charities, laid communication before the
First Board of Charities, stating that Viii
liam NJ. Tweed is treated at Blackwell s
island more as an honored guest than a
convict. Il found," says Laimbier, that
Tweed has room on the second floor of
the center building, luxuriously furnished
which he occupies, and in which he 1e-
ceives his visitors. | went into the room
and found there William Dewey and Mr..
Tweed's son. Without a keeper, within
| fifty feet of the front door of the principal
entrance, positively say that any man
| could have gone out of the door, which
was unlocked, without the possibility of de-
lection, as no keeper was in the hall of the
first or second story for period of several
minutes. The responsibility of this state
of affairs rests with Commissioner Stern
The board refused to take action yester-
day, but the subject will come up again at
the meeting tomorrow.
NEW YORK, April 6-Mr. Stern, one of
the Commissioners of Charities and Cor
rections, and responsible for the considera-
tion that is now shown to Tweed on Black
| wells Island, says that Tweed is in the
safest and most strictly guarded portion of
the prison, from which he could not escape
unless twenty two keepers, constantly on
guard, were bribed. Furthermore, he does
not think it devolved upon the Commits
siOners to make a martyr of Tweed, or
to exercise any unnecessary severity to-
ward him during the term of his imprison-
medt
Foster S. Dewey, who was formerly
Tweed private secretary. and now his bus
| mess agent, says the room occupied by
| Tweed was certainly more comfortable than
| the cell, but its furniture was not worth
more than $50. 1t became question with
| the authorities as to whether or not some
relaxation of the prison discipline in his
case was not an absolute necessity for his
health. Tweed was extraordinarily corpu-
| lent, and to enable him to move about with
any comfort he was obliged to have his
body tightly bound up with cloths. AL
ready In Ill health, his sentence had had a
crushing effect upon his nervous system,
and his condition at present was really pit
liable. If strict discipline was enforced,
his sentence to imprisonment in the Peni-
tentiary would be equivalent to sentence
OF death. Twelve years imprisonment
for misdemeanor was sentence unpar-
alleled in the annals of law, and counsel
were very confident that it could be SET
aside when an appeal was made to the
higher court of the State.
| OTTAWA, ILL.,, April Chris. Walters,
German saloon keeper in this city, was
tried before Esquire Leavens and jury on
Saturday, for selling liquor to one John
Foley, notorious drunkard. The Jury
brought him in guilty and fined him one
hundred dollars and costs, and his license
to be revoked. This is considered quite a
victory for the crusaders Several of them.
with Rev. Mr.. Baum, were in attendance
during the trial
| 7. w. Horn, German carpet weaver.
died very suddenly on Saturday. He was
troubled with severe toothache, and put
creosote on cotton and swallowed consider
able, and after taking some physic, il
caused his death.
OSHKOSH, Wis, April 6.-The dead
body OF child, few days old, was found
yesterday on the corner of Pearl and Pine
streets in this city. The Coroner's jury
found verdict that the child came to its
death by strangulation, at the hands of
persons unknown.
CoRRINE, Utah, April 6.-J. Bernstein,
an old and respected citizen here, was
found murdered in his dwelling this morn
ing. His family were all absent, visiting
at the West. 1t appears that the old man
went home at about II o'clock at night.
He started to 60 into his bed room to re-
tire, when blow from an AK in the hands
of an assassin, who was concealed behind
the door, felled him to the floor. A slight
scufHe seems to have followed, but the mur-
derer made sure work. burying the AK
deep in Bornstein's head. Deceased was
found in the dining room, adjoining his
bed room, his pocket book by his side,
empty, and his watch gone, showing rob-
berry to have been the motive.
COLUMBUS, April 6.-Faiek, a railroad
employe, falling from the top of car this
morning at the depot. was crushed, four
cars passing over him.