The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-30
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A careful estimate of the losses at Indi-
anola makes the total loss 100000.
The Peoria, Pekin & Jacksonville rail-
road will remove its general Offices from
Pekin to Peoria in Noyember. ~
As far as known l73 lives were lost at
Inaianola. Large contributions are COM
ing forward for the relief of the sufferers
by the recent floods.
The farmers of Woodford county have
nominated A. NJ, Whitaker for county
treasurer, Harrison Davidson for survey
or and J. +. Lamb for superintendent of
schools.
D, Hawkins, lawyer, of Ann Arbor,
Mich, dropped dead in hotel at Ottawa,
on Monday, where he was in attendance
On our supreme court. He was ninety
years of age.
Chas Degrath, arrested in New York
| Monday last, on an order from the govern
or of Illinois, escaped by jumping from the
train near Altoona. He was indicted in
Cairo, for perjury.
Notice has been served on Rev. Hoff-
man that charges will be preferred against
him at the October conference, to be held
| in Springfield. Another protracted and
scandalous examination may be looked for.
Silas c. Corliss, freight conductor on
the Chicago and Northwestern railway,
made misstep and fell between moving
cars, at Mt. Vernon, Iowa, at o'clock
Tuesday evening, and was instantly killed
He lived in Clinton and was unmarried.
A dead man was found in field near
Buda, in Bureau county, Tuesday. The
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least two weeks. The back of his head
was badly cut and bruised, and the sup
position is that he was murdered. The
deceased could not be identified.
| The body of Frank LaFountain, the
young bank teller, of Monroe, Mich, who
so mysteriously disappeared three weeks
ago, was discovered in cornfeld, Tuesday,
two miles from that city, where he had
committed suicide. His revolver was still
lying upon his body, where it fell. Three
of its chambers we're empty and the pistol
was cooked ready tor another discharge.
The Massachusetts Republican state
convention nominated Rice for governor
Horatio g. Knight for lieutenant Cover.
nor, Charles Endicott for treasurer, Julius
, L. Blake for auditor, Charles r. Train fol
attorney general, and H. B. Pierce fol
secretary of state The platform praise!
Grants administration, opposes thirC
term and favors return to specie pay
ments.
? A large and enthusiastic meeting il
sympathy with the Fall River strikers wa
held in Albany N. Y: Tuesday evening
!; John Swinton presiding. Addresses wer'
a made by MIR, Swinton, P. j, McGuise, j
: A. Wolff, Miss Lemonte, Mrs. Ward anS
: Mrs. Bell. Resolutions were passed
e strongly denouncing the mill owners anC
!. expressing sympathy for the strikers.
+ On the 18th, ,ofSept Mrs. Catharine Dick
l son was murdered at or near Norwich, Conn
!. On Monday evening Richard Robertson
!, was charged with the crime, and, upol
4 being arrested, he swallowed large dos
of muriatic acid. The physician in attend
ance says there is but little chance of hi
recovery. He has confessed the murder
His accomplice, Mrs. Margaret Farrell
is in jail.
A Cairo despatch of the 29th says
"Major Charles J. Allen, OF the Unite
States engineers, arrived in this city las
, night, and this morning he took the tu
Caiche, and went up the Mississippi t
, look at the channel and take sounding'
=. :. The river above the city has for sever:
= weeks been cutting away the bank, whic
= threatens not only the embankment of th
i G. & st. l.. r. r. above the cross-leve,
j but part of the Mississippi levee, whic
J protects this city. Some Of the people hor
that the government will come to our aid.
A telegram from Chester. s. c., 90
instant, to the Charleston News, say
''Rev Dublin j. Walker, formerly scho
n commissioner of Chester county, and no
= a member of the state senate, was co
. victed to-day in the court of session
: : Judge Mackey presiding, on the charge
= issuing fraudulent school certificate
, $40. They jury that rendered the verdi
was composed of one white man and elev
Y colored men. Walker is the leading COLI
ed preacher in this section. Six of t
jury that found him guilty were commun
10 ants in his own church.
re- The society of The Army of the Tenn,
81 + see met in Desmoines, Iowa, on Wedn,
us day. Gen. Sherman presided. Preside
Grant, Secretary Belknap and other MOI
lbles were present. Judge Cole deliver