Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-08-08
THE NEWS.

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Falls on the evening OF the I'd. A larg'
piece of rock. weighing not less thar
100 tons, fell from the prcrip.ce on Goa
Island, three hundred feet from the British
side of the falls. Four persons were at TIN
foot Of the precipice at the time, three o
whom were injured-G. W. Parsons, o
Cleveland, it is feared fatally; F. G. Williams
of New Haven. had an arm broken and
boy named Hovey leg broken.
| -AFrench war steamer named Tonnerre
from Vera Cruz to Havana, put into quar-
antihe with yellow fever on board at New
Orleans on the Sd. There is no fever in tn,
city. Deaths last week, 106
1t is announced in dispatch from
Washington of the LIST, that Governor Cum
ming will-probably not depart for Utah be-
fore September. The Administration is
quite we'll satisfied with Mormon affairs, a.
they stand.
The latest intelligence from Minhesoty
states that six thousand Indians were as
semblcd at Yellow Medicine, and that the
Indian agent at that point had but thirty
soldiers. The hostile Indians had forced the
Agent to surrender the squaw of Ink-pa
du-tall's son. -.
"A terrible tragedy was enacted at the
Highlands, Nav York, on Saturday morning
shortly after daylight at the Sea View
House, Never sink Albert 8. Moses, a young
man who was temporarily in charge Of the
bar, being murdered by the book keeper OF
the establishment, James P. Donnelly. sThe
Coroner's Jury found that the deed was
committed by Donnelly, and he was accord
ingly committed to the Jail at Freehold te
await his trial, which will come IF during
the ensuing month.
"A young man named Theodore L.
Tompkins, about twenty three years Of ages
4 resident Of IIoboken, was so badly beaten
in vile drinking den In Mulberry street, in
New York, on Saturday night last, that he
died early on Sunday morning. An inquest
has held, and several arrests were made on
suspicion of the parties being connected
with the transaction.
The bark Monasco of Warren, Me-, from
Gottenburg for New York, was totally lost
near Buren,, Newfoundland, on the 21>t
inst, together with fifty Swedish steerage
passengers. The captain and his wife, the
crew and six passengers were saved.
Missouri ELEorIoN.-A dispatch from St
Louis of the 4th says scattering returns from
city and county indicate Rollins majority in
the city 1900 to 1900. The complexion Of
the returns from the county indicate that
Stew; TT has carried the State by 5000 ma
jority. Stewart was the Administration
candidate for Governor. Rollins, his OPP.
ponent, was the independent American can.
didate. Il
KESrtoxy ELEcrrox.x-The American can.
didates all have majorities in May sville.-
The American majority In Mason county
will probably be 45o. Clayas majority in
Ashland District is los; and Daruby (pem J
for Senate so majority.
Mrs. Cunningham was again arrested at
New York on the 4th on charge of felony.
1t appears that at the trial before the Surro
gate, Mrs. C.'s Council limited that she was
enciente by DR.. Burdell. Suspicion was
aroused and plan formed - entrap her
s"roueh her own physician, DR.. Uhl. A
marked child was borrowed from the Belle
vue Hospital, and on the night of the Sd
Mrs. Cunningham pretended to be delivered
of it. The arrest is at the instance of Dis
trict Attorney Hall.
AT Camden, N. j., on the evening of the
18th, D. W. Belisle, editor Of the Jvurua1,
shot D. Hineman, formerly editor of the
Democrat. The wound is not dangerous.
The rolling mills of the Camden Iron
Company, near Johnstown, Pa, were de-
stroyed by fire on Saturday night, causing
loss from 100000 to $1,000. There was
on insurance of s5l, 900 on the propDty.
Senator Rusk committed suicide at his
residence in Texas on the Goth by shooting
himself through the head with rifle. No
cause assigned
-Dodworth's distillery near Cincinnati
was destroyed by fire on the night Of the 3D..
No Insurance.