The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-21
Congress Agrees to Adjourn
June 22d.
Row in the Peoria City
Council.
Suicide, Robbery. Murder,
Fire. Etc.

WASHINGTON, May 20.-A letter from
the Mayor Of New Orleans to Washing
ton gentleman says that unless the means
of relief for the sufferers in Louisiana be
increased to $l,00O,0O0, thousands must
perish. Even that sum is barely enough.
PHILADELPHIA, May 20.-The Centen-
NAL Commission, at meeting to-day, made
the following financial statement Total
subscriptions, $4, 405, 200; total expenses,
$l44,1l3: estimated expenses, $S, 10000.
The report concerning Congress refusal
to grant an appropriation says that without
the government aid that has been request
ed creditable celebration is impossible
and the responsibility for the success of the
Centennial rests with Congress,
Boston, Mass, May 20. - The Mill
river relief fund here amounts to $4,000.
The treasurer of the relief committee at
Northampton telegraphs that 100000 is
needed
New YORK, May 20.-Over $4,000 has
| been raised here for tie Mill river suffer
ers. A Northampton dispatch says that
when the Legislative Committee visited
the dam on Mill river, the contractor who
built the dam accompanied them, reading
that he had fulfilled his agreement, and he
was exonerated. Col. Wilson, who accom-
panied the committee as an expert, said
the dam was not built according to speci-
| fcations that the bottom of the reservoir
had not three foot foundation and was
constantly submitted to wash that must
result in disaster; gross and criminal ig-
nOrance appeared in its construction.
Joel Hayden said his father believed this
so strongly that he left standing orders in
the foundry for the men to leave the build
ing when they heard the word reservoir
shouted. The Williamsburg and Skinner
vile manufacturers make no movement to-
ward rebuilding, being apparently para
lyzed by grief and loss.
New HAVEN, May 2O-The legislature
in joint convention elected W. W. Eaton
United States Senator.
ALBANY. May 20.-State Treasurer
Raines has gone insane and been taken to
the asylum at Canandaigua.
New YORK, May 20,-In the Social
Science Association this afternoon, Willard
G. Flagg, of Illinois, read lengthy paper
giving the history of the farmers move
ment and its political effect. He said the
movement meant primarily the advance
ment in ability and intelligence of the till
ers of the SOIL an effort to reform abuses
and to carry a more logical conclusion oi
the principles of our Republican democra-
cy. 1t was the most irrepressible and pro
gressive democracy on earth.
CINCINNATI, May 2O.-The forty-thret
women arrested last Saturday and arraign
ed Monday were to-day brought into tn,
police court before Judge Merchant, ,charg
ed with violating the ordinance in regart
to obstructing sidewalks The testimony
r was taken and the case submitted withou
Y argument. The Judge dismissed the of
tenders owing to the absence of any bat
motives on their part, with an admonitiol
that on the next occasion they would be liza
BILE to punishment. The ladies marched
to prayer meeting and speeches were made
but their future action was not determin
ed on.
CHICAGO, May 20.-The trial of Proi
David Swing, on charges of heresy, whic
has been in progress before the Chicag
= Pres sbytery during the past fortnight, wa
concluded to-day by verdict of acquitta
the vote standing Is to At.
WASHINGTON, May 20.-General A.
O1SIY III tnG ~ ulLCA otdNCS .u1Eu uSE
to-day.
The House Judiciary Committee voted
6 10 4, for the impeachment of Judge Dul
rell, of Louisiana. Butler, Poland, Wilso
: and White, Republicans, and Eldridge an
Potter, Democrats, voting in the affirm;
! tive, and Ward, Tremaine, Frye and Cesl
ma, Republicans, in the negative.
The House of Representatives to-da
/ passed the Joint resolution, which passe
! the Senate yesterday, to adjourn sine d.
d June %.
GENEVA, ILL.,, May 20.-Hon. Williar
B. Plato, who died at his residence her
yesterday. aged sixty four years, was on
of the most prominent men in the Stat'
He was one of the electors on the Fremor
! Presidential ticket in 1856, and one of th
Lincoln and Hamlin electors in 1860; Wa
one of the original commissioners who bui
the Illinois State penitentiary at Joliet, an
served several terms IN the State Senat