The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-28
Death of Admiral Shubrick.
The Republicans ignore
their Promises in Rela-
ton to Woman
Suffrage.
How the Civil Rights Bill
takes in Nashville.
Temperance Victories in
California.
Petitions in Favor of Re-
newing the Reciprocity
Treaty.
The Small Fiddler Nuisance
to be Suppressed in
New York.
Seduction, Elopement. Sui
eide, Murder, Fire, etc.

WASHINGTON, May 27.-Rear Admiral
Shubrick, senior officer on the retired list,
died here to-day The Secretary of the
Navy, in a general order announcing his
death, directs that military and naval hon
Ors be done his memory at all navy yards
and stations in the United States on the
day after the reception of the news.
| The House Committee on Judiciary were
to-day discharged from the consideration
of the petitions Of Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Susan B. Anthony and others, asking Con
gress to give women the same rights of
! suffrage as negroes have. Also from the
consideration Of the petition asking for
woman suffrage in the District of Colum-
| bia.
NASHVILLE, May 27.-In a meeting Of
the Board Of Aldermen last night reso-
luton was introduced that in consequence
Of the probable passage by the House of
the civil rights bill, which would materially
interfere with and nearly destroy the sys-
tenn of rublic schools, therefore the school
committee be instructed to suspend work
on the new school building till further no
tice After discussion the resolution was
referred to the school committee Most OF
the Aldermen appeared to favor its pas
sage. The bill will come up in the meeting
next Thursday.
SAN Francisco, May 27.-In ffteer
elections under the local option law in thi,
State, the anti-liquor people carry eleven.
OMAHA, May 27.-Henri Rochefort left
here for Chicago to-day.
New YORK, May 27.-Captain J. Nc
Laughlin, of the clipper ship Herald O.
Morning, from Liverpool, reports that OF
the 23d ult., he passed the pilot house o.
the French steamer Europe, abandoned by
! the captain and crew, and subsequently
abandoned by the salvage crew put ABOARD
the vessel by the captain of the Englisi
steamer Egypt, which received her pas
sengers in April last. The pilot hous,
had the name Europe and must have be
come detached as the vessel went down.
The absence of stages on Broadway af
fords such relief to that thoroughfaart
that there is a general desire that the strikt
of the drivers may be continued lonj
enough to secure a substitute for the an
cient and numbering stage.
A meeting of the produce exchange wa
held to-day, favOring a reciprocity treat
between the United States. Canada an
New Foundland. Hon. Erastus Brook
addressed the meeting. claiming that tn
repeal of the treaty had cost the countr
millions of dollars. A resolution wa
adopted expressing desire to impress 0
Congress and the government the real in
portance of the cOnsummation Of such
treaty.
The Police Commissioners have issue
an order authorizing the arrest of all stree
musicians under l6 years of age.
MONMOUTH. H., May 27.-An inmate
the County Poor House committed suicid
yesterday, by hanging himself. He Wa
insane.
The residence of Col. J. ". Davidso
caught fire at u clock to-day and but fl
the usual promptness of the Fire Depar
ment would have been totally destroyed
The loss is small
Boston, May 27.-J. Henry Castel
has been arrested on suspicisn of murde
ing Julia Hawkes.. 1t is reported that
was very intimate with the deceased.
ELG1N, May pa tramp writing ma
ter of the name of Howard, has induced
little girl, aged Is, to elope with him fro
this city. Her friends are very anxious
to her whereabouts. 1t is alleged tn
W 110WdTu Is uIdTTleu u1du.
= PEORIA, ILL.,, May 27.-Thomas Moran
). lad about | | years of age was drown
- while bathing in the lake last night, al
= up to the last accounts the body had u
Il been recovered.
DOwAGIAC, Mich, May 27.-By f
tere this afternoon, caused by some ch
=, dren building tow fire in barn belongi
1ot to Mr.. T. Keatley, the barn, together wi
m, all its contents, excepting a horse we
lru consumed, and it was with much Difficult
. that the dwelling house and its confer
were saved The loss has not yet been
ceTtalned.
- FORT MADISON, Iowa, May 27.-T
body of a man floating in the river at Gu
cy, ILL.,, has been identified, from pap'
! found about his person, as james Mars
who was drowned opposite this city !;
,~ November.
IL LANCASTER Pa, May 26.-The fune
of Hon. Julius L. Shuman, member
), the Legislature from this county, to
place at his residence at Washington b
ough yesterday. He came to his dea
under melancholy circumstances. On Z
day evening an intoxicated man nam
Jacob Wilmer, at Washington borou,
was abusing his wife and threatend to
her, when Mr.. Shuman entered Witme
GS ~ house to protect her from his abuse. "
600 mer then fred the revolver with which
C00 had threatened the life of his wife at 81
Goo Goo man, the ball taking effect in the abdou
900 and lodged in the spine. After linger
9@ @S for twenty four hours, Mr.. Shuman d
900 on Saturday evening. Wilmer is in j
VSS S0 TOLEDO, Ohio, May 27.-An incendi;
0On fire in Sears 4 Hollands linn her yard