Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-12-28
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Considerable excitement exists at Lebanon,
Ohio occasioned by an attempted conspiracy
to defraud life insprance company. man
named McFadden arrived at the house of
Frank Richardson. near Lebanon, on the nigh,
OF the 23th instant, and IL was given out the
next day that he had died of cholera. A coffin.
supposed TO contain the remains, was sent TO
Eaton, Ohio, and inferred at midnight. Sus-
pieions of foul play being aroused, officers
Were sent fr. m Lebanon, who examined the
grave and found the coffin to contain bro.m-
corn seed McFadden's whereabouts is not
known. DIR. Richardson is agent for life in
snranee comnany AT Eaton. Frank Ricdard-
son aLd B. M. BatcheIder are the parties in.
terested. They have been arrested.
The Old Colony and Newport railroad track
has been washed away for a considerable dis.
tance at Savin Hill, Dorchester, about three
miles from Boston, byStbe fearful storm which
prevailed there yesterday. Considerable dam
age mas been done TO goods in cellars near the
wharves, trees and chimneys were bio wn
down In all directions. and about forty feet of
the Eastern Railroad bridge across the Mystic
river, between Somerville and Chelsea was
washed away at high water, and all travel
suspended.
Jerome Glosson has been arrested in vii.
Transport, Md, charged with Killing Cilnto
Reuch, of that place, in the spring of 1861
The difficulty grew out of politics. Reuch
being an ardent svmpathizer with the South,
was ordered out of town by the Unionists and
in a disturbance which followed was shot
dead. Glosson was a Unionist, served in the
army during the war, and since it's close has
been living at Wiiliamsport. He has been re-
leased on bail.
A murderous affair occurred at Nashville
Christmas night between, a party of regular
cavalry and party of policeman The former
were cheering for Lincoln and the Union
when the latter came up with answering
cheers for JEFF. Davis. melee followed, in
which Edward Gregg. a soldier, was shot
dying in a few minutes. Sergeant II. Bishley
received n serions wound in the head. Great
excitement exists over the affair and a n um Der
of unofficer soldiers are out hunting for the
murderers, with threats Of vengeance.
The Conservatives in St Louis report that
President johnson declines to i'm terfere in Mis-
souri, affairs on the ground that each State
should be left free to preserve peace, and that
no interference Will be tolerated, unless the
United States laws are violated or the State
calls for help. This is the supposed ground
for General Grants order Withdrawing the
troops from Lexington.
man styling himself Colonel Brantley.
who bv real estate operations, negotiating
notes, and procuring endorsements on others,
recently victimiZed some citizens Of St Joseph,
Mo-, one to the amount Of about thirty tk ou-
sand dollars, and decamped, was traced TO
Chicago and arrested and was retur ned to St
Joseph yesterday.
1t is stated lat an alliance OF twelve tribes
OF Indians for common cause against the
whites in the Territories Of Dakota and Mon
tana, has been formed. The number OF war
riors is estimated, doubtless enormously, at
eleven thousand.
Our Consul at st. Croix, W. L., reports that
on account OF the pre- evaien ce of cholera. small
pox, and yellow fever at st. Thomas the Eng
lish islands have established a quarantine on
vessels from ST. Thomas of twenty one DAYS,
and the Spanish b islands forty days.
John Logan, aged about thirty five years,
was instantly killed In Philadeip phia yesterday
morning by the falling of a wall while engaged
in tearing ont the burned building at Twelfth
and Market streets.
The congressional excursion party from
Washington arrived at New Orleans last
night. and were received and escorted by a
large body Of ex-Confederates to their apart
ments at the st. Louis Hotel
Two hundred men have been leaving San
Francisco in small detachments during the
past ten days to assist Corona in Mexico the
whole TO be under the command of MAJOR
HenniBg. ..r
Maloney, who robbed a paymaster of over
$4,000 last summer, and was sentenced by a
court-martial TO hard labor in the peniten :
tiary, at Nashville, Tenn, escaped with two
other con nvicts Christmas night
To-day the witnesses whose names were
furnished the Lieutenant Governor, Mayor,
and private citizens in New Orleans, will be
examined by the eriot-investigatng committee
There Is great dearth OF money in New Or
leans for supplying the needs of cotton plant
ers. 1t is belle we'd tha' short means will make
the next crop as small as this year.
The Eastern lines are still down and no later
advices can be received from the cable. The
last European dates received were Of the oath
instant.
Colonel Sawyer, assistant adjutant general
OF General Sherman's staff, died at ST Louis,
Wednesday night, of typhoid fever.
General Sherman and his secretary passed
Cairo, yesterday, the former en- route TO ST.
Louis, the latter to Philadelphia.
The storm was very severe in New York
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