The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-08
A Republican State Officer
ON Trial for Fraud.
Accidents. Failures. Fires,
Etc, Etc.

l.
cratic state convention spent this after
noon in discussing the finance plank OF the
platform, and specie payment prevailed
over expansion.
The following are the points of the plat
| form:
l. A general invitation to consider
whether the prevailing corruption. state
and national are not due to the dominant
party, and to elect men not connected with
| these abuses and who are known to be
honest and capable.
2. The addition of the Fourteenth,
Fifteenth and Sixteenth amendments
marked the end of slavery; these have
been accepted in good faith by alt political
parties; the national government is gov
ernment of limited and delegated powers,
supreme within It's sphere, while the great
bulk of the rights of the people must find
their safeguard in the states and the peo-
pie themselves.
3. Opposition to the press gag laws.
4. Return to silver as the basis of the
currency of the country, with effective
Gle payments
5. Revenue tariff only; no government
partnerships with protected monopOlles.
6. Equal rights.
7. No sumptuary laws; official account
ability enforced by severe remedies.
g. Strict economy in public Offices.
9. The party in power is responsible
for the administration of the government.
10. State corporations supervisable
by the state for the protection of the peO
pie
The following nominations were ther
| 10 th1l,NT, pf AtJnnnan1lIS hay
ing formally declined to be candidate fol
any Office: For governor: K. W: Durant
E secretary of state. Adolphus Bierman
=. state auditor, NJ, Doran; state treasurer
Albert Scheffer; judge of the supreme
court, l.. Emmet; railroad commissioner
j, w, Sencerbox; attorney general, K
Jones The convention was entirely har
: moniOus.
: MADISON, Wis, July The Republic
an state convention met here at noon tC
T day. David A. Wood was chosen tempol
}. airy chairman. After the committees wer
n appointed recess was taken.
e In the afternoon permanent organlza
el tioa was effected, ex-Gov, Lewis for pres
+ dent. The following ticket was nomina
Ii ed: Governor, Harrison LudingtOn, {
n, Milwaukee; lieutenant governor, II.
:" Eaton, of Richland; secretary of state, t
e B. Warner, Of Pierce; treasurer, Hem
- B8tz, Of Manitowac; attorney genera
John R Bennett, of Rock; superintendel
re of public instructions, Robert Graham,
he Winnebago
le- BELFAST, July THE shooting for Il
ms cup presented by the mayor and citizens
ng Belfast took place to-day. Col, Glide
Ter sleeve won the cup over twenty-four o
M, ponents The score Of Gildersleev
nr- American, was 10; Lee, of Belfast, l
A Fulton, American, II; johnson Dublin, |
'sh Bence, American, II; Mckennan, Dubli
t Is II; Wylie, l6. The tie between Ameri
u u and Ireland was then shot Oft, according
D! the terms agreed upon. The men h
!" t"' three shots apiece. The result was aga
W a tie. Gildersleeve and Lees scores beil
~ w exactly alike. Each made two bulls-ey
an and centre, counting ]. The exciteme
les rose to a fever heat as they began to she
hat off the second tie and both men we
ch, cheered vociterously. The final result "
,od a victory for Gildersleeye, who made thr
ted bulls-eyes in succession, scoring lively
its Lee made 10. The victorious Americ
eed was widely applaudeu by the excit
zen spectators.
mic LONDON, July IA pigeon shoot
- match between A. H. Bogardus, of 1
nois, and Geo. Rimmel, champion of Ell
land, took place to-day at Hendon, a
was won easily by the former. The p
visions of the match were that each shol
,m shoot at fifty birds, thirty yards raise, fr
. five traps, five yards apart. Bogard
killed Sc birds to his opponent 30.
4s large crowd assembled to witness the ct
test and there was much enthusias
g Bogardus challenges all England to sht
,ort against him.
In the House of Commons this even
. John Bright presented a petition sigI
- by 10000 members of the Agricultu
w Laborers' Union and others, asking for
g extension of household suffrage to cou1
- and boroughs, and for a redistribution
~ Parliamentary seats. Mr.. Trevel,
90 moved the second reading of the hol
hold franchise bill, which was lost af
m discussion-26S to l6G.
- SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, July Tt will
a, remembered that the governor of Mis-:
ri, some weeks ago, issued proclama
e setting apart day for fasting and prs
" for rain to kill the grasshoppers. As a
quel. the following letter reached Goyel
! ! Beveridge this morning.
TCscoLA, Douglass Co. III July a. IS
To His Excellency Governor Beveridge, Spring
le to III:
Web Dear sir-I think the Governor of Missouri ha
ls re- erdOne The m liter. These tremen dous rains
nect be good to kill Missouri grasshoppers but are
ID is destructive tu Illinois corn prospects. lwoud
sus- TO have chance at remonstrance. Can't yol
up monster prayer meeting in the interest OF
Il Changers: Respectfully yours, enc;
[Signedl n, BoTTt