The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-02-05
Hens Summary.


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district Of New Jersey.
The olympic Theatre, in Detroit, was
entirely destroyed by FIRE Saturday night.
Loss $4,000; insured for $4,000
-stanton'a brewery, in Troy, N. Y. was
burned on tho 26th, involving a loss OF $40
OOO.
The minsis Legislature has passed a
bill adding $1,000 to the salary OF Circuit
Judges.
There have been over one hundred deaths
in Montreal from smallpox duiing the last
1--we weeks.
Tho treasurer Of a German Protestant
church in Cincinnati, absconded three weeks
ago, a defaulter TO the church in $500.
The Bank Of Montreal il reported to have
lost $500, 900 from lending money TO New
York spectators who became bankrupt by
the recent "corner" in Erie shares.
"A Denver dispatch reports the killing Of
y man named Maguire Al Georgetown, last
night, In q saloon, by a wOmOn, who lie nowin
prison.
-Four large brewers of Belleville, Indians,
have made contracts Tor barley In Germany,
and hereafter will obtain their eupplee from
there
Gen. Grant reviewed the ire department
and police force Of Baltimore on the 23d.
subsequently he held reception at Barnum's
Hotel, and many called upon him.
Tho rnow is so deep in the numbering re-
gions Of Canada thatit ia almost impoesiblo
TO get out timber The prospect for a large
supply Of lumber II, therefore. not fevora-
Bile.
John Dewitt, the Ohio pedestrian, at II
o'clock, Sunday morning. accomplished IN
Chicago, tho hitherto unparalleled feat ~
this country, Of walking 1000 miles in 1000
consecutive hours, for a wager Of 5000.
Henry Herbert, a sailor and butcher, was
shot and killed by Thomas stewart, IN a
house of lll-iame In Chicago, on Saturday
night. Stewart and a girl named Eliza Riley
were arrested
1t il eatimatod that there ato at least one
thousand distillerieH In operation throughout
the country, aud reports received at the
Treasury Department show that the number
will be largely increased.
John Whalon and wife were f~earfully
burned in n houeo on Sand street, Brooklyn,
sunday night. They vent TO bed drunk,
leaving a candle burning near the bed, which
caught fire.
Tho tug Hercules on the Goth run down a
| small boat ia New York harbor, containing
Capt. Osborn, Of the British ship Yarmouth,
his wife and sister.in.law, Mrs. White, and
two sailors. Mrs. White was drowned.
The Central Pacific Railroad is com
pletcd 800 miles cast Of Sacramento, aud 10
within "a milea OF Humboldt Well. The
road will probably be finished before the 18th
Of April.
Robbers attacked lhe house Of ex-Shorin'
Reuben King, OF Rob.nson county, near Cum
hortson. N. L., and MORALLY wounded MI.
King and a visitor named g. i. Ward. Tho
perpetrators OF tho crime escaped.
One tbou.auJ miles of the Union Pnciic
Railroad are now completed and in opera.
ton. Only two hundred ana ~siNty.seven
miles remaiu 10 be built TO connect with the
Central road from the Pacific.
Tho safe Of H.. II. Morris, in Wurtzboro,
hnur sunday nlpht by burglafa, aud robbed
on $40 900 I'M i've and ten collar bills. The
money belonged to the town OF Mamakatiuc.
p.yo,ron .ta.gro Waiter. 80 Tin ,,ps.
II sitcmnicd 40 seizo a Ist}Ilerv Monday
night Fiftecp shots we're fired al him aud
his co npanions by the proprietors. The bul.
leta ri.rceI lila clothing. but inflicted no fur.
thor injury.
1Fo ,oit,, 4, c,,r.dts irnn foundrv Al
NJ NJ T. s"~ aSnln5od an ~ 5aJ
partially DESTROYING Tho building, %inIuring the
proprietOr. Jacob Conrad. fatally, aud scald-
INC "A man named George Rhinehait very Sc
yeTeiy.
-Blaisdel and EckeL convicted in Now
yorL of Ihe nisit removal of suirits. were
soutencad resner,iyeIy 10 three year, i'm.
prisonmcnt In the Albany penitentiary. Nc
Lean was sentenced TO six months imprison-
meul.
Monday ouernoon Henry Fitzherhcrt
ULo lad been arrested for ltrcony. dashed
through tho second story " ndow VI Justice
SitI. office. in Chicago. and fell upOn tie
pavement, sixteen feet below, lie was ~
seriously mJored that he dId soon AFTER
Several heavy uptown merchants In New
York recently held a meeting with a view Ia
stArting A hnnk. uuder the state laws, with a
rapitaI of - God. 600. tho bank 10 bo located
49, IL ,i,,,ity ~ If,t,, gtuura aud NOT 40
ns q bonL ns sspc.
oo d N'"N 'aa"''
Tho wife OF Charles Leiertai n cotton
broker, residing IN Brooklyn, elOpCd on the
29l with n Young man named Jared T.. Tom
Iinaon Of hhicngo. The lady took with her
- .,.,u, a. ~ o,,c,nt ~ 2ln nnn