The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-31
The Vice-President in Iowa
The Indians and the Black
Hills.
A Brave Cashier Saves a
Bank from being Robbed.
Boynton Swims the English
Channel.
Death of Barnum's Fat
Woman. F
Great Freshet ON Smoky
Hill River.
A Directory Publisher AT
seconds.
0 20 xH~1 TT-s-o-nsA r-
One of the University Crew
Drowned.
A Saloon Keeper in Dubu
que fined $1,000.
The Rev. Copeland in
Trouble in Memphis.
Accidents. Suicides, Muir
ders. Hangings. Fire,
Etc, Etc.

DEs MONIES, Ia, May 29.-Vice Presi
den Wilson failed to arrive yesterday, but
came this noon. A large concourse of cit
izens and official dignitaries met him at the
depot and escorted him TO the hotel where
public reception will be given this after
noon He goes from here to keokuk.
ST. PAUL, May 29.-There is no infor
nation at headquarters here of any con-
templated military movements from Fort
Lincoln other than for protection of the
Indian reservation. The Custer expedi-
tion outlined in Sheridan letter to Ger.
Sherman appears never to have been or
dered, and Clusters talk in New York and
elsewhere as to such expedition was PROB
ably based on Sheridan letter, or had re-
ference only to movements necessary to
keep the gold hunters off the reservation
Judging by past success, Gen. Terry is
understood to regard his present fnrces as
insufficient for protecting the reservation.
| Gen. Custer arrived here last night on
his return from New York.
SIoUH City, Ia, May 29.-Eight more
Of the Gordon-Evans party, who were cap
tured by the military. escaped, and arrived
here this morning. Indians brought re-
ports into Fort Sully to-day that five white
men had been killed and scaIped by hos
tile Sioux near the Black Hills.
The upper river is gradually rising.
OMAHA, Neb., May 29. Gen, Cook has
ordered that Gordon, leader of the Black
Hills party lately captured, be released
on parole.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. May 29.-An at.
tempt was made last night to rob the Ma,
tional Mohawie Bank, at GREAT Barring
ton, Mass. Several masked burglars en-
tered the home of /, n. Deland, the cash.
ier, and having gagged and handcuffed him,
compelled him to go with them to the
bank, where they tried to get him to open
the vault. Being unsuccessful, they took
rey enge by Iobbing Deland's house of al
its valuables, and then decamped.
NEW YORK, May ga dispatch from
London says that Paul Boyton, who start
ed to cross the British Channel from Cape
, Grisnez, France, to Dover, England, in hi
life saving suit, landed between Dover anC
South FOreland, this morning, having beer
! in the water continuously for twenty-five,
: hours and thirty eight minutes.
" LONDON, May 80. Further details O
E the earthquakes in Asia Minor show tha
> several villages were destroyed and ZOO
persons lost their lives.
BALTIMORE, Md, May 29.-Mrs. Boehm
the tat woman of Barnum's S show, died a
e her residence in East Baltimore yesterday
J. age 90 years. Her weight was 5S3 pounds
e her height, 6 feet 4 inches, and the spa
II around the, waist was II inches. She wa
. born in Licking county, Ohio, Her maid
en- name was Hannah Jane Duck.
q q ST. LOUIS. Mo-, May ga special t
: the Republican from Wallace, Kan, say
II about ten inches of rain fell there las
It night. Smoky Hill river has risen 10 fee
O and the dams at that place and at Fol
1t Wallace are partly washed away, but n
- damage is yet done to the railroad.
ID The town of Wallace is partly locate
d nn government reservation, and order
ii. have been issued by the department con
ls mander notifying nearly all the residen,
lie Of the place that they are squatters, an
Of must leave by the 18th OF June. The po:
n office and all the business houses and raj
Of road depots will have to be moved unde
y this order.
DETROIT, Mich. May 29.-Chaunce
y Moore was killed by the cars at Port HurC
: to-day.
New YORK, May 29.-By a fire ear
this morning. in the stable at No. 81
Seventh avenue, two men were burned
death.
BUFFALO, N. Y. May 29.-Last nigl
Adam Sting and his wife, aged respe
D lively about 80 years, were burned
death in their house at East Hamburg
: JOLIET, ILL.,, May 29-- Leslie Seymou
=, who recently issued directory of this cit
has been missing since NJ ,nday last.
= nc was in debt for suit of clothes, al
p Iwed his publisher, James Goodspeed,
u the Republican, several hundred dollar
and took with him a valuable horse al
4 buggy belonging to j. s. Palmer, Il
\ surmise is that he has absconded. Tel
grams have been sent to detectives in Y
rious places to be on the lookout for hil
nI New YORK, May 29.-The grand ju
= # the United States circuit court th
: morning, presented eighteen indictmeu
!. against Charles L. Lawrence. who was I
= ;ently brought here from England, ,charp
' with forging entries OF silk invoices. L
teen other indictments were also preser
Y ed against Lawrence Des Anges and othe
who are not vet in custody, for forge
and conspiracy.
e6- HARTFORD, Conn, May 30. = Fl.
re- Cameron, of the University crew OF Trim
~ College, was drowned yesterday, VIII
ms practicing in a shell, in company with
d, Hooker. the Captain of the crew, a
III. N. Sherman, also Of the crew.