The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-10
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Georgia Repudiates Car
pet-Bagism.
Two of Kellogg's Men Re-
sign.
An Unprov oked Murder of
Indians by Kansas
Militia.
Post Office Robbed.
A Woman Dies Suddenly
under very Peculiar Cir
cumstances--A Physi-
clan hints at Stran-
gulatiOn.
A Villain Captured.
Freight Trains Wrecked by
a Blnndering Dispatch.

AUGUSTA, Ga, Oct $50 far as heard
from only three counties in Georgia-I4ib.
erty, Newton and Glynn-have gone Re
publican. The indications are that the en-.
tire delegation in the next Congress will
be Democratic. ..'-
New YORK, Oct 9.-The State Execu-
tive Committee of the Independent Tenn
perance party have withdrawn the nomin-
alton of Judge Groo and DR.. Sutton for
Governor and Lieurenant-G Governor, and
decided to accept the regular Prohibition
State ticket, headed by Myron H. Clark.
LITTLE Rock, Oct 9. 9.-Senators Dorsey
and Clayton, Judge Mcclure and other
leading Republicans, leave here tomorrow
to attend the Chattanooga convention.
New ORLEANS, Oct 9.-Messrs. Burke
and Packard have resigned their positions
on the Advisory Board. The vacancies
will be filled by the respective State Cen
trail Committees. Burke resigned because
he is candidate on the parish ticket,
Packard resigned because his duties as
chairman of the State Central Republican
Committee require all the attention and
time that his official calling will permit
him to bestow.
| The Picayune, in reply to Gov. Kellogg S
letter, publishes a .reiteration Of its former
statement and makes additional charges,
fortifying them by eitations from records
and dates to show the inconsistencies OF
Kellogg's letter.
ST.. PAUL, Mimi, Oct ga dispatch to
the Press from Fort Garry to-day says the
mounted police near Fort Benton had bro
ken up camp and were marching to Fort
Ellis. The whole force is ordered to win
ter at Fort Pelly. 1t is believed that they
have accomplished nothing.
WASHINGTON, Oct 9.-The commission
appointed to investigate the facts relative
to the recent alledged murder Of five Usage
Indians by the Kansas militia, have sub
mitted their report to the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs. They find that the at
tack on these Indians was unprovocked
and utterly unjustifable, and presume that
when the attention of the authorities OF
Kansas is called to the evidence in the
case they will not fail to direct a return of
the property captured from these friendly
Indians, and it is recommended in any
event that the government OF the United
States should see that the Osages are re-
imbursed.
BUFFALO, Oct. GA United States de-
tective to dayarrested Thos. Ballard, alias
John Davis, one of the most expert coun-
terfeiters and engravers in the country ;
also Elizabeth Ballard and Ann Adams,
his accomplices, In their possession was
found $4,000 in counterfeit money of va
rious denominations, together with presses,
dies, plates, etc.
JACKSONVILLE, Ill, Oct 9.-The post
office at Prentice, in this county, was brok-
en- open by BURGLARS Wednesday night,
and considerable quantity Of postage
stamps and some money was stolen.
PRINCETON. ILL.,, Oct ga terrible ac-
cident occurred at Boyd's Grove, fifteen
miles south of here, the other day. The
little daughter of John Daugherty, aged
10 years, while out herding cattle, tied a
rope around her waist that was attached
to cows horns. The animal, becoming
frightened, ran, dragging the child several
rods through the brush. When the little
girl was found life was extinct and her
body frightfully mangled.
DEs MONIES, Iowa, Oct 9.-The wife
of Eli Grover. of Jefferson township, this
county, had prepared to retire when she
fell upon the floor, and in few moments
expired. Her husband, who was in the
room at the time, asserts that she had
tried to produce an abortion, and this was
the cause of her death. The woman had
been in excellent health up to the time of
her death, and the affair is regarded as
very mysterious. A coroner inquest has
been called. The physician states that
the woman's appearance denotes strangu-
lation by violence.
DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 9.-Yesterday a
party of hunters from this city, when in
the woods at Warren. Macomb county
came upon Elisha Woodruff IN .fogrante
delictu with a little girl under II years old.
They captured him and brought him before
justice, who put him under bonds for fu-
ture trial.
! New YORK, Oct. 9.-The Cincinnati ex,
press train No. s, due in Jersey City at {
O'Clock last evening, did not arrive until
G. 40 clock this morning. The detention
was caused by the wreckiDg of two freight
trains on the Delaware Division, three
miles east of Stockport. The collision re-
suited from the blunder of dispatcher on
the Delaware Division.