The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-30
A Republican Congressman
arrested for Murder.
A Republican Ex-State
Treasurer Convicted Of
Embezz1ement, =
Another Republican on
Trial for the SAM @ Crime.
The Black Hills Bubble
Bursting.
Other Interesting News
,a Items.
Terrible Ravages of the
Fire Eiend.
An Avalanche Of Crime.
Other Interesting News
. u Items.
Terrible Ravages of thu
Fire Eiend.
An Avalanche Of Crime

CHARLESTON, S. G, April 29.-Ex-
Congressman Bowen was to-day arrested
for instigating the murder of Col. White,
and was committed,
DEs MONIES, April 29.-In the case of
ex-Deputy State Treasurer Isaac Brandt,
tried for the embezzlement of public
funds, the jury, after being out 26 hours,
returned verdict of guilty on the second
count OF the Indictment, and found the
amount embezzled to be $1,000. On the
first count the verdict was not guilty as
charged. Brandt's counsel fled a motion
for an arrest of judgment, and appeals on
questions of law to the supreme court. In
the meantime Brandt will be sentenced
| for the offense. which is fine equal to the
amount of the embezzlement and impris-
onment in the penitentiary not exceeding
five years. There are seven more similar
indictments against him. 81
The trial of j. E. Rankin, late treasurer
of the Iowa state agricultural college, for
embezzlement of the funds of the institu-
ton in the year 1872, was commenced in
the district court here to-day.
OMAHA, April 29.-The party of miners
who were brought out of the Black Hills
by the military passed through here to-
day. They were generously furnished
free transportation by the Chicago &
Northwestern road to Missouri Valley,
Iowa, they being penniless.
Seyen hundred returned California
emigraats have arrived here in the last
J two days, and hundreds are en- route east
i LEAvENwoRTH. Ka, 29.-The following
Indian news was obtained from the mill
tary headquarters at Ft. Leavenworth:
One hundred and twenty five Indians,
, composed of thirty-two Cheyennes, two
!, Arapahoes and ninety-one Kiowas and
Commanches, will arrive here as prisoners
on Saturday from the Indian territory
Among them is the famous Medicine
Water, who commanded the band that
murdered portion of the German family
and took the four girls prisoners Also
the Arapahoe chief, White Bear
OMAHA, Neb., April 29.-W. P. Jenny
and party who have been appointed to
make an accurate survey of the Black
Hills country, passed through here TO day
en- route to Fort Laramie. where an escort
of six companies Of cavalry await their ar
rival.
New YORK. April 29.-Cardinal Nc
CloskeY will to-day unite in marriage Gen.
eral Adam Badeau, the United States
. Consul at London, and Miss Maria Elise
Niles, the daughter of the late Minister to
Italy.
Miss Ida Lillian Greeley, daughter Of
the late Horace Greely, will shortly be
! married, in this city, to Colonel Nicholas
Smith, widower, Of Kansas.
Y PEORIA, ILL.,, April 29.--Peoria is te
L.. apl for 4 @lo;,
\ early erection have already been taken
II felt.
E 1t has been ascertained that a woman
p named Mary Gable is the, mother of tht
y dead infant found in the lake few day
ago.
Ground was broken yesterday for tn
new Chamber of Commerce building.
a. MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 29.-Tele
g. graphic communication with Oshkosh i
almost entirely cut off. A few dispatche
1T have reached here from adjacent sections
O. About one third of the buildings in the ci
\, ty were burned. 1t is supposed the actu
he al value of the property Destroyed wi
el reach $2,500,000. 1t is thought that tn
+ insurance is fifty per cent. About 80
ii families, some of them poor, are burne
n, out Relief is much needed.
!" Boston. April ga building and cor
u tents on Bowker street was damaged $50
- 600 by fire tonight.
DETROIT, Mich. April 29.-At $40 thi
morning large fire, originating in the fat
he tory of the Weber Furniture Company, O
IS High and Montcalm streets, consumed th
Is factory, together with ten or twelve dwell
ing houses adjoining on Montcalm an
of John streets. Loss on factory building
he 5000, 600; machinery, stock and outbuild
-. ings, 100000: estimated loss on dwell
* ings and their contents, $4,000 to $50
is 000
MILWAUKEE, Wis, April ga fire
IN n, Oconomowoc this morning destroyed tt
nd Labelle House, the dry goods house
er. Ackley & Lardne and the dry goods stol
eT, of f. w. Webber. Loss, $4,000. Tt
Labelle House was insured except the fu
mt niture. The others were not insured.
It TORONTO, Ont. April ga fire tn
igs 600; Insurance $4,000. Three lives we
Is lost.
cr. QUINCY. ILL.,. April 29,-Mrs. Ingham,
ce, cancer doctor, and her partner, Doct
e'' Smith, were arrested yesterday afternoo
lists on suspicion of being the parties who pr
duced an abortion on young girl her
= recently, and disposed of the child in
n vault An anonymous letter to the cor
~ ner directed him to examine vault
q Third street, and doing so, he discover,
& seven months infant, wrapped in pie
of calico. A jury was Immediately SUI
moned, and is investigating the cas-
Suspicion pointed strongly to Mrs. Ingha
N and DIR. Smith, who were promptly g
- rested. The evidence thus far tax
A tends to confirm the general belief in t
= neigborhood where the child was fou
e that they are guilty. The mother of t
" infant is supposed to be girl named Nj
lie Kicker. who worked at the Farrhel
J Home, and who left the city for her hon
near Palmyra, early yesterday mornir
She will be brought here to-day for exal
EsS' y % nation There is considerable exciteme
$ re- over the matter, and it is believed
rect many that this is not the first affair
8 sus. !. which Mrs. Ingham and her associate hs
figured.