The Rock Island Argus., 1879-05-20
TELEGRAPHIC.
{ ITsEsgraDAsd tOtas ROch1.land Argue
Io-Dav'S Dispatches.
FOREIGN.
FRANCE.

FRANCE
PARIS, May 20.--The Republique Fran.
Cause pronounces the statement that Min
listers Maddlngton and Lepere cannot re-
main 10 the same cabinet, an idle inven-
ton.
AUSTRIA
VIENNA, May 2O.-Negotiations for the
transfer OF the administration of Eastern
houmella to Governor Aleka Pasha has |
been satisfactorily concluded. Russia has |
promised that, as soon as Aleka Pasha ar
riyes IN Phillippopolis, Gen. Stalypin will
remove the Russian headquarters else |
where.
ENGLAND.
LONDON, May 2O.-Paisted is at New |
Castle to arrange match with Nicholson. |
| Wallace Ross is unable to obtain an op- |
ponent in England and has started for |
America to participate in the summer regat- |
tas. He also hopes to make match with
Courtney or Riley. He promises to return
to England 10 the autumn, when he may
try for the championship. Hanlon has
returned to Scotland and will resume his
traing to-day. He is still favorite, 100 to
so was taken on him Monday.
The great northern handicap race to-
day, at the York spring meeting, was won
by Castle Reagh; Tenter Gate, second;
Knight Templar. third.
X. u, Threlfaall, cotton manufacturer,
of Preston, has failed; liabilities $4,000
pounds, +. g. Smith, iron monger of
Middlesb9rough, has failed; liabilities Co.
/; 900 pounds. Loy, Solbe Il Co, mer-
chants in the Spanish trade, OF East
Cheaps, q. e. have failed. W. Pollak &
: lllO SuVonnS X 40 hCth cfI I(DEtn--
. dam, have failed in consequence of the
failure of the Africsnische Handelsverei-
nigung; liabilities of the latter will fall
heavy on the Meiningen bank, the Darn
stadt bank and the bank OF Rotterdam.
One of the directors of the Africanische
HandelsvereiniguGg tried to commit sui,
4 eide at Antwerp. He is now under sur
veillance in the hospital, as it is expected
his extradition will be demanded Another
director Of the same company fled To Spain
=, with his family. The latter, whose name
, lis Pincoffs, is a man of great commercial
aud financial Influence. He was member
of the first chamber and one of the leaders
< of the liberal party.
Peruvian advices, official and others con-
tradlct the Y alpariso kilograms about the
progress OF war and call attention to the
fact that Chill has control Of communica-
tious. The news therefore is necessarily
s. one sided.
A correspondent. who was just travers-
ed the Danube from Giurgevo to Buda
Pesth, telegraphs that the Danube is very
high a short distance above Bases, where
the Austrian shore becomes low and fat
@ The food extends great distance inland
- Between this point and Belgrade the
river is from FIVE to fifteen miles wide
At Belgrade it is fully twenty miles wide
Nearly all the Austrian villages, between
q Pesth apd Baseias, have water in tht
: streets. Riverside Inhabitants say th'
water Is already within two feet OF tn
highest point recorded and still! rising
ER The foods continuing SO late in the seasc
must cause great damage to crops. 4
!. grain and other growing produce in Rot
u mania. Bulgaria and Austria, Hungary
not within reach thigh water are l0okin
D finely and promise beautiful harvest,
We The bondholders and shareholders c
'' tho Erie Railway Company to-day receiN
the report Of the construction trustees u
} to Sept. 3Oth 1878 Resolutions wei
u, unanimously adopted approving I'll
report and accounts, also expressing tt
site satisfaction of the English proprietary thi
= large interest in the company bonds az
stocks is being taken by the Atnerict
- holders from whom the meeting trusts II
board may be gradually strengthened
y the addition of high class of businc
men having substantial holding in Il
company. There was no dissent from Il
|U generally favorable view taken by Il
IN trustees of the present condition OF t
auS property. Sir Edward Walkin and vario
speakers expressed their friendline
towards the arrangement with Allan
& Great w estern Railroad Company, il
can be made without pref juiioe to the b!
:, railroad proprietors.