The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-19
TELEGRAPHTC.
Louisiana Legislature fully
Organized.
Beveridge makes another
Removal at the Peniten-
tiary.
Labor Troubles in the East
Eigin Watch Factory Tenn
porarily Closed.
The Recent Arctic Wave.
North and South.
q Gang OF Counterfeiters
Broken up in Wisconsin.
Efendish ATTEMPT to destroy
q Church.
The Recent Arctic Wave.
North and South.
q Gang OF Counterfeiters
Broken up in Wisconsin.
Efendish ATTEMPT to destroy
q Church.
Destruction OF DIR. Wal
1ace's House in Monmouth.
Accidents, Suicides. MUIR
ders, Fire, Etc, Etc.

New ORLEANS, April 1.-THE house
completed its reorganization by selecting
Trezavent clerk and other conservative of
dcers. The terms of the award were car
ried out in the Senate by unseating Elan,
Democrat, and by seating L S Good, Dem
Ocrat, in place of Crozer, colored Repub-
licau. The joint resolution recognizing the
Kellogg government was adopted with but
two dissenting votes. During the day
large numbers of reform bills were INTRO
duced.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,. April lit is quite
certain the Governor is preparing to veto
the bill providing for the payment of mu-
nicipal railroad bonds known as Cum
mings's bill, and it is believed he will ap-
prove the scalper BILL
The Governor to-day removed Maj.
w ham from the Penitentiary Commission
and has appointed to fill the vacancy Capt.
Il d NOleman of CentralIa.
WILKEsBARRE,P Pa April II A processi IN
numbering 1000 miners paraded the
streets to-day No riotous conduct was
manifested. The object of the procession
was to intimidate those who are tired of
the strike and wish to resume work.
LOWELL, Mass, April l7.-Agents say
in less than a week 5000 operatives will be
discharged owing to the gradual giving
out of warp in the mills.
ELGIN, ILL.,, April 1.-THE watch faoto-
ry closes to night for two months vaca-
ton. This will throw about 800 persons
out of employment.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 17.-There was
heavy frost and ice last night: killing veg
eatables, and severely damaging, if not
killing, the fruit.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, April Is. "A heavy
west and northwest wind has been pre-
vailing here during the last thirty six
hours aud extending as far south as Mont
gomery, Ala. This morning the ice here
was quarter Of an inch thick. The
e weather is very cold. The ice is one eighth
of an inch at Corinth, MISS All exposed
, vegetation is frozen here this morning. L
is believed that all the fruit, cotton anc
/ wheat in this and adjoining States are Sc
!, riously injured, if not entirely killed.
:, The thermometer went down 10 26
y here and AZ at Montgomery, Ala. this
morning.
CINCINNATI, April II. Reports frou
!. the weather of the last two days has beel
}. the coldesr, for the season, known il
years, the thermometer ranging from IL 6
r to 25 . above zero. Early fruits ar
, thought to be killed, and tobacco seriousl,
l. injured.
e CHICAGO, April 17.-Dispatches iron
Il various points in Michigan, northern Iii
? nois and Iowa state that owing to tn
il severe weather that has prevailed fo
!, forty eight hours, small fruits. apples an
:" peaches are in many cases killed, and ever
E the trees themselves The thermomete
s. has ranged 8 : to 20o above zero.
JACKSONVILLE, Ill, April l7.-Tht
cold last night was even more intens
,e than on the night before here Thi
Is morning the ground was frozen two inche
8. deep. The freeze must be very destrut
a tive TO gardeners and fruits of all kinds
A light storm passed over this city las
Of evening.
PEORIA, April 1.-THE weather is col
er and wintry. Fears are entertained tha
is the sudden change has done much damag
mt to the fruit crops.
n ELGIN, ILL.,, April l7.--To close the VIII
is ter with, snow fell here to-day, and tn
r., r. ground is frozen hard, stopping vegetatio
IT, and out door work.
MADISON, Wis, April 1.-THE "bli,
Mt zard" continues, the wind blowing pei
II feet hurricane from the west. with snow
a The thermometer is ten degrees abov
IL, gs zero.
is CHICAGO, April 1.-THE Signal Servic
.r. this morning reports the thermometer Is
,e, above zero at Pembina; 200 at Brecker
" ridge; l70 at Duluth l5o at St Paul
,ts So at Escanaba l7o at La Crosse; l6
at Milwaukee; 2O0 at Chicago; 23o Ke
: kuk rs at Omaha: Al at Cheyenne
=. 267 at Leavenworth 250 at St. Louis
$50 at Memphis So at New Orleans
23o at Louisville 23o at Cincinnati
2 2l ? at Pittsburgh; 2lo at Indianapolis
D l67 at Grand Haven 1So at Toledo
, I6o at Cleveland; l5o at Buffalo 26
at Oswego; 2S7 at Albany; 29o
Montreal.
: High winds prevail throughout a gre;
= ter portion of the country.
~ Snow last night at Grand Haven, Cley
y land and New York city, and this mornil
q at Cleveland, Grand Haven, Chicago az
' Milwaukee. Rain last night at Boston.
MADISON, Wis, April H. An extensi
- haul Of counterfeiters was made at Bose
u Del, Wis, yesterday afternoon. The d
+ tectives of the Uuited States secret serviC
s. in CONJUNCTION with United States Marsh
= Oakley, of this state, have been worki
n up the case for some time, one of their nu
" Der being an apparent confederate of Il
. counterfeiters Yesterday the trap W
, J sprung and II. Robinson and his wife, re
dents of Boscobel, at whose house the cot
. 20 terfeitiDg was being done. and Fra
,eb, Brown and George Ellison, alias Pcnr, We
8 re- arrested, together with some $4,000,
set i. complete fifty and twenty-fv cent fir
sps- fractional currency, with engraving toe
printing press, ink and all the necesss
g. outfit of counterfeiters. The parties VI