The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-27
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WEDNESDAY, OctobecZ5..
| Cyrus W. Field reached sOinahai from
/ DenveF on Monday, --,-,1 fran
The steamer scotia das arrived from
Liverpool. .C& - LA e.-1
The mercury stood at ZSo IN Clncinnati,
I yesterday. Weather. clear.
| THE. weather at Chicago Is again an
sessonably cold. 6
/ In Central Iowa the ice Is strong enough
for skating, thongh no snow has fallen. +
The machinists IN the employ or the
/ Erie Company. at Jersey City, stuck
4 again yesterday afternoon. 40 s-aa8 y
| s The tourneymen ta{lors OF New York are
vance Of wages after q two weeks effort. Z
Governor PalrnefSof Illinois. vest e3,iav
issued proclamatiensn naming Thursday,
November Is, as day Of Than ksgiVing. ~
The grand Jarys OF the UDited states Dis
trfct Court at Cincinnati was empanneIed
YESTERDAY and received the charge from
- 9sTs1s - aeEErET 1FrmE. aid 20
L a man calling himself Joseph KIN kead
SuTday, ssipposed to- to have sosn1ni ma ttea &
murder in Ohio last July.
The Kentucky Grand Lodge Of Gdd Fel-
lows nFet q LoqisyIIile yesterdSys IhR &c
of grarLt oaleers takes plaeetO-dayg svsG 3
The ssheriff OF Hamilton County, Ohio, :.
has been appointed receiver or Thayer's
Circus, at the suit of A. Henderson,. The
Court has ordered the property sold on
November9. Q.
Twofnew frAms houses ownedCby VIII
liam Wilson, on Monroe Street, near Bed
ford Avenue, BrookIyn, we're destroyed by
tire yesterday Fnornin g. Loss si2s39; q s par
Returns having been received from nors
ratifyfng the re-uhfon OF the Presby terian
Churches, the, two genera, assem- blies viii
meet in PlttsbueS on tNOgen1ber 18th, 10
count the votes and declare the result.
policeman Lawrene D Mcdonald, of New
York, was fatally snoL early yesterday
morning, In a quarrel, by Richard Maha-
oGsp1 BeR; PIopT%rstoE % esqs S Il ae
10 emit shows he had been drinking freely.
The freight house and depot OF the IIii-
nOis Central Railroad and business block
were destroy ed by fire onsMonday night at
firms and eighteen famil es were burned
out, Loss about $4,000, - - - II z
James H. Martin, of Lexington, Va, fell
shE0@gh hs S sscs EsX 81 te9 stss@er s
terday morning, seriously 1Djuring him
lelf. He was tazeR 70 the hospital. HeS;
with his parents, wsre emf grating to Ham
nibal, Missouri. His parents remained
Win illfnf aO0M I53Ha AkH E8Ak
published statement that-the Nebraska
Legislature ratified the FifteeHth Amend
meuta aSf a1fcn Is H11C9I1e cot. 1AEhL DOClys
adjourned Without action IN February.
Governor Butler will probably call an ex-
ira session tits wlnteF. 'e9o6la snI -
q In addition to Vorh ees and Crogan killed
by explosion at the Robenswood Factory.
IN Brooklyn, on Monday night, man
named Frnndy was blown thirty feet into
the air, and boy named Teek was fatally
only eomIiencsd Operations on Monday.
The building was totally burned. No IN
suIance. sbsAtttE# 4#FFlb# H#Mk
4 Several distflIerfes were seized IN Dixon's
Alley, Brooklyn, yesterday forenoon, by
IN armed force OF Deputy Internal Reve-
nue. officers. The officials were met by
crOwd Of ruffians, armed with bricz-bats,
sc, who were soon put to flight by the
police. The stills were captured and the
operators Iockedup. A- "a. sa4 4 j
A man named James Lilies, a deposition
in the Citizens Saving Bank. OF New York;
attempted to shoot the paying teller Of the
Bank yesterday, because he refused TO
hand over the money deposited to his ac-
count without the production of his bans
book. Two shots were fired, but did not
take effect, z4tllies, who is probably tn-
sane, was arrested. g. - 81 q
The murder Of Mrs. Wood, by her hus-
band at Roundout, on Saturday nigh5l last,
was a terrible butchery. He had struck
her eleven times with haIchet, the blade
of which was found covered with blood,
brains, hair. and pieces of flesh. 1t APP
for his hellish work, having paid ali his
debts on Eaturday, and written note in
".
She was woman very highly esteeme 10
The sieeplechsse, ~ miles. at Jerome
Park, New York, yesterday, was hotlyi
contested apd d., y as s,, won 9y oyster
stakes aga miles, was won by MaJora;
time, 3:i7L.s During this race Tasmania
bOIted and ran over Colonel McDan ell,
seriously tujuTing hims Selling sweep
stakes, rs miles, was won by Rupture;
time, 2:O254. Last race, for a purse of S560,
for all ages, mile heats, was WON by Cat.
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{ The Social Science Association COM
menced its eighth annual meeting in New
York yesl slerday. Tne opening address was
delivered by the PRESIDENT, samuel E:liott,
/ Yale College, on Industrial Schools. In
the evening Professor Dwight, Of CoiuIp
the Public Charities of \ ew, iYOriE ,aand A.
r. Spaford, Librarian of Congress, on the
Public LibriiTies of the United States.
The grand jury in New York, yesterday
examined jay Could at great les 9Th sAreia-
mas al e ont for Mr.. Henry Clewes aud
Colonel Frank K. Howe. It is asserted
that their testImOry' is wanted to explain
q joint transaction IA gold made with Gen.
Butterneld 10 the office of Mr.. Clewes.
SIR. VIM. Bslden, Henry +. Vail, of the
q so been subpenaed. The latter, Mr..
Fiske says, was in the gold pool, but bac<-
ed out at the last momen& hFf esff q.
Isaac Levi and John Clark, of Ripley
Street House, cincinnati, yesterday morn
Ing, while counting CO Interfeit money If
Wh1cn S1l 900 was found in their possess
fault of $1,000 bail each. Lyle Levi and
Mrs. RitterhOuse, a brother and sister of
Isaac Levi, were arrested, during Monday
night, at Osgood, hifley County, and
large amount of counterfeit currency was
found upon them. The Levi family, in
Ripley County, las been notorious as
horSe-thieveE, counterfeiters, &c, for the
last twenty years. The disease seems to
be hereditary.
On Monday night, VIM. Scott Giore,
while carelessly handling pistol ia a bar
room at Louisville, accidentIy shot Ed
ward BenSfnger in the head, Killing him
in stan Lls seaIOre was arrest ed and lodged
In jail. Yesterday morning a corOner's in
quest was held ofI lie body Of Bensiuger,
and a verdict rendered that Bensinger
came to his deaf h from the shot OF q pistol
in the hands of W. Sc0tt Iifore.l Thisnl orn-s
ing Glole was brought before the City
Court. He waived au examination and
was held to bail in $500 to answer any
charge that may be brought against him
In the Circuit Court. Glore and his friends
assert that the trigger was pulled under
the lpTesu a1ptlon that tue pistol was not
loaded. a t.Ftt-fs-,a.s- .-. - --f-sf-a -
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~ News from San Franciscu.aa
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26.zUnfound-.
ed rumors of the failure of several
/ San Francisco ca pitaksts were circu-