Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-04-26
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r. special from SIOUX City. says the steamer
-iloa. FL route for ~. Louis with discharged
soldiers from the varion@ forts an me Missouri
river struCk s snsg Saturday about thirty
nile above this place. ano- while sinking, her
boiler exploded. kIili1E and wounding larg'
uHraber Of persons. Fifiy are reported missing
A rsrort was circulated in Harrisburg. Pa,
on Fr,tay tina; white and black children wcuIt
o. admitted to the same public schools The
mere rur1Ur created go much excitement that
Public dsEIal was made by the bJard Of direc-
tors OF the public schools
IL FULTON county. Illinois. last week. a little
son q J. l.. Harris, aged about thirteen years,
wss found suspended by his neck with a strap
IN hIs tathsr's barn, quite dead DC the same
siay son OF Colonel Tenney was found hang
irg II a similar manner
A f.w days since several Distinguished COL
Crsd men. Lieut.. Gov. Dunn, Of I4oui>Iauf ex-
President Roberts. of Liberia Bassett, minister
40 Hayti; and Bown,ng. OF Washington.
were eEteTtained al Union League House III
Philadelphia
On Suudsy five children living near Graft.
Kentucky. We're possessed H. eating wild carrot
one Of them, az d twelve wears died after hay-
IrE shcut tor y cOnvulsiOns. The remaining
four children are still alive but in a critical
condition
The fire IN the woods on Long Island, which
has been burning for week was extinguished
Iast Thursday night. The fire burned over
three miles and very large quantity Of valua-
ole timber wss destroyed.
The seventeenth of May has been fixed as the
date for the meeting OF the Old and New
School Ge' e-aI Assemblies OF the Presbyterian
Church IN New York city. when the quest ton
Of reunion will be finally settled.
The woods AZ the head of Tenth avenue
New York. near Washington Heights. are
burning. and a fire last night threatened the
New York Tribunc and Sun ofices- The
Poushkeepsie IN \ y Morning NeicS ONCE was
burned yesterday
In New York George Dalton. OF the firm of
Fearing DsitOn, brokers, blew his braine out
IN his carriage on Saturday afternoon, while
m W m He han haan
Specializing
Joseph GRAFTON and Ben Miller, two river
pilots met IN drin king saloon IN Louisville,
Ky, Friday night, when GRAFTON drewa re-
yolver and nred three shots into Miller, killing
him instantly.
DIR. George W. Howell, q Philip ielphia phy-
sIcan, committed suicide by shooting himself
IA the bathroom of his residence He was
iaboring under depression caused BY pecnniary
difficulties.
on Saturday New York policemen received
cable dispatch stating that rich relative in
England dIed the DAY before, leaving him
~9o,o'S in gold He promptly resigned,
Dispatches from Omaha state that the Union
Pacific and Central tracks are but twenty five
miles apart. BY May first il Is expected that
trains Will go through to Sacramento.
Patrick Philip Haggerty, charged with
stealing money from letters taken out Of the
Lowell post office, has been held for trial, In
the sum OF 5000 bail.
The boky of Miss Sophia II Howe. of Boe-
ton, who mysterIously disappeared from her
nome last January, has been found in the water
power ponds.
A party of engineers have been locating a
railroad to connect the Columbia aud Port
Deposi. railroad with Delaware city
Lens Dlllman, In trying TO escape arrest.
was shot and killed by the st. Louis police
friday
The Odd Fellows Of Portland. Maine. cele.
brafe the semi-centenLial aAniversary in that
city to-day
An immense Cuban sympathy demonstra
ucn viii take place at Philadelphia this week
An immense FenIan demonstration took
Place IN Lawrence. Msss.. yesterday.
sOnambulistIc female has been considered
ghost II Chicogo for a month past.
They are gong TO move the bed of a ri yer in
thIc- 10 get building room for Dayton.
Mere snow is reported on the line of the
Mon Pacific Railroad.
Nebraska is being extensively settled by
Canadians