The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-05
Trains Stopped.
Business and Travel Sus.
Pc nded.
Suicide. Accidents, Crime,
Fire, Etc.

CHICAGO. Feb. 4.-The Episcopal Do
cesar Convention to-day elected Rev.
James DeKoyan Bishop of the Diocese of
Illinois.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 4.-The General Coun-
Gil last night adopted resolution ex-
tending the hospitalities of the city to
senator elect johnson on his arrival Sat
urday.
BANGOR. Me-. Feb 4,-Samuel F. Her
sey, member of the present congress and
elected to the next, is dead,
NORWICH, Conn. Feb. 4.-Ex- Govern
or and Senator VIM. A. Buckingham
died at his home in this city at midnight.
Topeka, Kan, Feb. 4.-The house
passed the bill appropriating $4,000 for
the relief of settlers in the district devas-
tated by drouth and grasshoppers. The
| Chief Clerk announced that Mr. Bricker-
dicke had thirty car loads of provisions
en- route for Kansas.
HUNTINGTON, W. Va, Feb. 4.-The
ballot in joint session to-day stood: John
son q, Walker %, Brannon Is, Price 15,
scattering 6.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Feb. 4.-The vote
for senator in joint ballot to-day stood !:
Ramsey 54, Lochren 81, Davis 80, Pills
bury S, scattering 7. This is much the
largest vote that Davis has received. His
accessions were trom the Democrats, but
it Is believed he will not get enough from
this or any other source to do him any
good.
The committee of the house appointed
to investigate the charge of attempted
bribery OF one of the members of the
house by friend of Ramsey, to induce
said member Ingerson) to vote for Ram-
sey, made two reports this morning. The
majority report transmits the evidence
taken in the case and makes no recon-
mendation, but leaves the house to decide.
The minority report says that after full
Investigation it is the opinion of the MI
nority of >he committee that bonahde
offer Of $500 was made to said Ingerson
by w. Fl. Dyke provided he would vote
for Ramsey for senator and appropriate
action is recommended for the punishment
of Dyke. The evidence was quite contra
dictory and it is understood that none Of
the committee believe that Ramsey knew
of or countenanced the alleged attempt Of
Dyke to bribe Ingerson. The latter was
partially drunk when his conversation with
Ingerson took place and he asserted thai
the nature of his conversation was miscon
structed by Ingerson.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. specials from
Wichita, Kan, say that a terrible storm
occurred there Tuesday night. Mrs. Nc
Adams was frozen to death on the stree
while returning home from neighbor' S
One man was brought in from the prairie
: frozen stiff, and it is feared that many 9th
ers out in the storm shared the same fate
The cold was very severe.
e DEs MONIES, Iowa, Feb. 4-One of th
most fearful storms ever known in thi
state commenced on Tuesday morning, an
e ceased this morning. Yesterday all tn
= | freight trains were abandoned on all th
b roads. On the Des Moines and Fol
Dodge Road no tr aims we're sent out. U
the Winterset Road the passenger trai
for Des Moines got stuck when two mile
Il out, and remained there all day. Th
Rock Island passenger train, west, worke
its way as far as Kellogg, where it was lai
up at dark. The narrow guage sent OF
= no train. Telegraph wires were disable
=, in all directions. Trains on the Nortf
western Road are showed in betwee
Grand Junction and Jefferson.
eerr DUBUQUE, iowa, Feb. 4.-All the raj
s roads emerging from this city have bee
a snow bound for the past twenty-four hours
le likewise the wagon roads.
We The storm has abated. and was one
q = the severest experienced for years, contil
Id uing for forty eight hours, with snow Il.
lg ing furiously and extreme cold weathe
81 the mercury dropping to 20 below zel
I'd this morning.
ht Business is almost entirely suspende
5d 5d the streets deserted, merchants witho
h, mail orders and bankers without mail
m m express remittances.
at The train from Chicago, due last nigh
ss is working this way, and is expected
reach the city at 2 p. m. to-day.
The river roads are inoperativcs OWL
n to the blockade A train is showed in
" Bellevue, unable to move either wa
, Seven dead locomotives and trains a
scattered along the Iowa division of {
Illinois Central railroad.
A passenger train is snow bound on
prairie, two miles east of Jessup, and I
n tempts to reach it from the nearest stati
= are extremely hazardous. Thirty passe
,s gers are being furnished with fuel a
: provisions.
= The railroad companies are making v
y Gus efforts to raise the blockade, the vi
having died away to favor operations. I
Y farmers are snow bound in the city, uual
to reach home few miles from town.
Instances of suffering aud freezing
sho 10 death are expected, from the severity
re- the storm.
1ct, E MADISON, Wis, Feb. 4.-The hes
'us- snow storm here yesterday. blocked up
the trains which had suspended yesterd
!. To-day the railroad authorities are bui