The daily Argus., 1874-04-29
The Arkansas Bother.
Relief for the Louisiana
Sufferers.
Accidents, Suicides. Fire.
Murders, Etc.

| The President has received an applica-
ton from Baxter at Little Rock, for gov
ernment aid in suppressing the armed in
surrection existing there. Baxter says he
understands that the similar dispatch of |
April l9 never reached the President
Brooks has made like requisition The |
claimants have each two lawyers in Wash |
ington looking after their interests with the |
President
LITTLE Rock, April 2S-A Helena spec
ial says the attempt to raise Brooks troops
failed
LITTLE Rock, April %. The President
Having telegraphed Baxter that his requis-
lition for troops never arrived, Baxter re-
peated the same To-day the Baxter
troops seized the Lewisburg train to pre-
vent Brooks reinforcements reaching the
city. The Baxterites claim that the gov
ernment has decided in their favor. A Pine
Bluff dispatch says the Brooks men have
= assurances that the government will no lon
ger interfere.
New ORLEANS, April 2S.-Contribu-
tions have been received from Washington
City, Bath, Me-, and Manchester, n. H.,
of $1,000 each The committee is active
ly distributing supplies to all accessible
points.
:. The captain of the steamer Iberia re-
J. ports the people in the Teche district aban-
$ doning large plantations and going to the
highlands On the east of the Teche, where
they expected to raise 5000 hogsheads of
> sugar they only hope to save seed. The
= water is running over the Morgan railroad
for twenty-five miles. Iberia and St. Mar
, tindale are under water Three men were
drowned Monday, while crossing Pearl
river.
MONROE, April 2S.-The river is! reced-
ing slowly. The Garry Owen reports the
river falling all the way down. The water
is the highest ever known by two feet.
Planters from below report all inundated
below Cuba.
The river fell quarter of an inch last
night. Reports of disaster above and be
low accumulate hourly.
BALTIMORE, April 2S-Both houses
have passed a resolution appropriatlng
G S25, 900 for the relief the Louisiana suffer
o ers.
LOUISVILLE, April 2S-Four Thousand
- dollars was collected in two days for the re
lief of the Louisiana inundated.
CINCINNATI, April 2S.-Two Thousand
dollars worth of provisions were shippet
a from here to-day to the inundated Louisi
n
~ ana.
CHICAGO, April 2S.-The committee ap
pointed by the Board of Trade reports tn
amount raised for the relief of the Louisi
q ana sufferers by the overflow at $4,000
W They expect to raise $4,000 or $4,000 b
Saturday night.
WASHINGTON, April 26.-The Secretar
G.. of the National Grange to-day expresse
~ to the Master of the State Grange of Lou
u isiana 81 900 for suffering members Of tn
order.
Il BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, April 28-Mr. Au
). gust Bradley, agent of the Indianapoli
. Bloomington and Western Railroad, she
himself at his residence in this city tn
,. morning about 6:30. When found his bod
was lifeless. No one heard the shot, an
his family were not aware Of the TRACED
\ until they went to his room to call him II
Il breakfast. No cause is assinged for tt
81 rash act. Those who saw and converse
4 with him yesterday pronounce him pc
!. tectly sane lie was a faithful and mo
efficient agent, and was very much respec
81 ed bv all who knew h1m. A coroner 5 ju
81 was summoned, who rendered u verdi
a in accordance with the above facts. NJ
81 Bradley was a prominent railroad ma
81 and had at one time been Superintende
of the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne Ra
| road.
: The Paragraphs special from He
worth saws: Yesterday two Germa
named Fred Folger and Frank Bohms, !
siding about two miles from Heywort
engaged in dispute regarding divisi
/ fence, when the former shot the latter
the face with shotgun, some of the ST
lodging in Bohm eyes. Folger at or
fed, leaving his victim, as he doubtlt
supposed, mortally wounded. A warra
was sworn out and an officer dispatched
AND the fugitive. Bohm at once received me
ical attention but the extent of his injur
no has not been learned. His wounds {
very severe. if not fatal.
DETROIT, Mich April 2S,-At Winds
Il Can, this morning, the Coroner held
quest on the body of Robert Whitehou
r who committed suicide at the Ameri'
. Hotel. He reached the hotel last mig
M with Miss. Doty and her child. Separ
VA rooms assigned them, and afterwards
cut his throat with fatal and speedy res
He was the father Miss Doty's child. B
~ came from Lynn, Mass, last June, 1
y have been living in Detroit ever since
\ man and wife. He was oppressed wit
fear of arrest, as he left his wife In Ly
and then fea. SO excited him that, as
Coroner's Jury found, he became ins;
and while under an alteration OF mind
stroyed himself.
- ANNAPOLIS. Md, April 28-An oy
~ pungy was capsized off Thoman Point,
. day, and all on board flour mem v
drowned.
a JOLIET, ILL.,, April 28.-While Mr.. ]
N ley. a we'll known farmer, was burnin
~ stump, one of his children, who was 7
|SM ing near, caught her clothes on fire and
III fatally burned.
=" New YORK, April 29.-Obadiah Brt
- Congressman from the second distri
, , 1851, committed suicide in a hotel on
--ro.. ten Island last night.
prac- LoGANsPoRT, Ind, April 28,-A
,ntifc here last night destroyed two livery
deli bles and several houses and stores.
bstan- $4,000 to $l50,000; small insurs
nmon Supposed work of an incendiary. L
OBJ persons were arrested to-day cha
cam" with the crime.
,.lli- oPlai OTTAWA. Ont, April 2S.-A fire
'Is Iooss morning originated in the Kingston
'Oo'' stables, destroyed the Kingston Ma
the Johnston House, the Caledonia d
,E. an agricultural warehouse and nul