The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-22
Great Demand tor Corn in
Kansas.
Suffering in the Grasshop
per Regions of Dakota.
Murders. Accidents, Fire,
Etc., Etc.

ing and demonstration of workmen and
others in favor of the release of Fenians
still held in prison by order of government
was held in Hyde Park yesterday. Speech
es were made urging the liberation of pris-
oners, and denouncing their confinement,
as an act of injustice on the part of the
government. Several detachments of po
lice were stationed in the vicinity of the
park, but the demonstration passed off qui-
ety.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, March %. The Rou-
manion government has issued orders for
levy of one hundred thousand troops
This warlike measure excites comment
here.
New YORK, March 22.-Weather this
morning clear and intensly cold. Ther-
mometer 15o above zero. A despatch from
Havana states that j. Sharkey. convicted
of the murder of Robert Dunn, was ar
rested on the Goth at Santiago De Cuba,
where he had gone, from Havana, for the
purpose of starting for South America
He will be brought back'to this city, when
argument on a writ of error will be heard
and if decided against him he will be exc
cuted
CHICAGO, March 22-The Tribune says
''it is now definitely established that the
Sioux treaty was affirmed by the senate
April 29. 1868. and was proclaimed by
Andy johnson Feb "a, 1869. This dis
poses of an attempt to evade the stipula
tions of the treaty and get into the Blacl
Hills region upon the plea that the treaty
was never ratified. 1t is furthermor,
stated that the president will soon appoin
three commissioners to visit the Siou,
country to discover whether that tribe il
willing to negotiate for the cession of tn,
Black Hills country. Inasmuch as tn,
; government has now done all it can TO opel
the Black Hills country to those who wisi
t. go there, it is incumbent upon th
Black Hills expeditions now fitting out t
await the result of the application to tn
Sioux.
Sioux CITY, Ia, March 2O.-The Jour
nal of to day states that it is positively in
!: formed that decisive steps have been take
/ by the president i'll regard to opening til
. Black Hills to white settlement, and tha
!. the Indians are willing to dispose OF thei
interest in that country. A MIR. Collins,t
Ualena, has been commissioned to procee
West and bring to Washington represel
n tatives of the Sioux nation to carry out tn
e negotiations These facts have bee
l. vaguely alluded to in the telegraph, bt
- will soon be developed aud made publ
Probably before the weather is favorab
y or roads in condition for any expedition
IG to start out, all other impediment will /
* removed.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, March 2O.-Tl
Council Bluffs, Kansas City Il StJoe Ra
20 road has been shipping from here for Il
~ last month an average of fifty carloads
corn per day to Kansas and Southwe
Missouri. The demand for corn Is equal
100 car loads per day, at fifty cents, b
n; corn can't be had. Shipments to Tex
:" will not commence before the first OF Ma
when rise may be expected.
Sioux CITY. Iowa, March 20-The e
- rollment of grasshopper sufferers In Sout
t., ern Dakotais nearly completed. Col. NJ
Clure reports that in Union, Yankton, a
Clay counties he enrolled 2, 400 persons e
or ltitled to government relief. He will c
y. roll BoDhomme county the coming wet
ed which finishes the district assigned to hi!
he he LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, March 90
we shooting affair occurred ON the North Es
~ ~ ianade last night, in which +. Hinslt
nd President of the Kansas Fire In urau
NJ Company, and Judge Pendry. somewt
nj nj noted Washington lobbyists, were C,
nd cerned. For months Pendry has been {
n, gagged in an intrigue with Mrs. McNul
,1s ps widowed daughter of Hinsley's The |
sh, ter obtained copies of letters from 2,
AN dry to the widow. and had arrang
hat for their publication. pendry first cal
esq at the Commercial office, aud upon lea
ing that publicity, at Hinsley's reque
would be made of the correspondent
II went to the widows residence to obt
~ an interview and demonstrate with
% father. Hinsley refused to see him, {
q from the front door of his own residen
which adj ins his daughters, fred st
gun as Pendery was leaving. TwoOr tn
bird shot took effect, one penetrating
m Judges cheek. One barrel loaded "
- buck shot, missed fire. The affair crea
A intense excitement in the upper circ
= Mrs. McNulty seems to haye accep
= Pendery's advances, but AYERS that
W criminal intimacy has existed. Peude
version does not materially differ fl
|, \ hers. The letters are iull of gush
amorons suggestions.
10 % DETROIT. Mich, March 20.-Thurs
Veb- afternoon German cabinet-uIaker, n
8 re- ed John Close, was visited in his shop
lect- - - . Ill r.: e 40, - d
d il t"o u1eu, VINO I"poeo uiin VI Voo VI
sns- and beat him so that he died last night
One year ago, school teacher nal
IS. Alden, in Warren, was found to have