The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-11-08
DAEHzY BabURNAL
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has arrived at New York
The Directors Of the Grand Trunk Rail
road were in Cincinnati on saturday. -
The Allen -RcCooIe difficulty about the
Stockholders Will be probably settled
A IRE in Kent, Ohio, on Saturday morn
ing, destroyed $4,000 worth of property.
Fully insured.
unveiIing of the Vanderbilt Bronze Statue,
on Thursday next. ~
4. Turner, one Of the gang of counter
feiters in Jersey City, was held for trial.
on Saturday, in New York.
5inelqirs Sine & stqgs works SR Iye65y7iiPth " 6 nl
day night. Loss $4,000.
Otis Tufts, a well known machinist of
Boston, died suddenly last night OF heRrtt
disease, aged sixty five. ....
Zazoc Pratt, the millionaire. on Friday.
married you g lady recently employed
as folder on the Turf, Field and Farm.
The first Injunction restraining Foote g
Co. from selling $4,000 gold, purchased by
them for ]. J. Pardee during the gold
panic, has been discussed. Is tee. aE tEs &.
Johu DamerfeIe. Chief Fire Engineer Of
Boston, and Alderman Haines, were in
Cincinnati on Saturday. looking into the
workings Of the Fire Department
Thomas NJ. Berry, a well known lawyer
of baltimore, was found dead in his room
on Friday afternoon, with 9 discharged
pistol in his hand.
The further hearing of the case enjOln-
ing the expulsion OF the Bible from the
Cincinnati Public Schools has been post
pOned, by Judge Storer, TO the 18th inst.
A block of buildings containing a hotel.
store and dwelling house, at Greek Center,
Warren County, n, Y, was destroyed by
an incendiary hre on Saturday morning
Loss Sl0,OGO. ssa. Ee.s #trr.t &
Mrs. Dodge. of fStephenstOwn, New York,
on Friday last, split open the head of q
scOundreI named hen. Cressey, w no enter
ed heI house and attempted To VIC ate her
person. ee aT
The stable and box mandatory of
Elisha Delano, in Duxbury, Massaehu-
sets, together with four horses, hay and
grain, were consumed by fire Thursday
night Loss s4,CUO.
A passenger train on the indianapolis
and Cincinnati Road backed into a loco-
motive on Saturday afternoon. The rear
passenger car was crushed. The passen-
gers escaped by jumping out. Nons were
hurt. The locomotive was damaged.
Mrs. Coleman and her son, living about
eight miles from Charlottesville, Virginia,
We're bTutally murdered Friday might
They were found Saf urday morning with
their heads split open NO arrests have
yet been made.
Among the passeng gers by the steamship
City of Paris, for Liverpool, on Saturday,
was Geo. Peabody Russell, nephew of the
late George Pee body, who goes to bring
the remairs OF his uucle for burial at
Dahvers, Massa jhusetts.
Thomas McLa ughIin, Frank AIulvey and
John Flannagau, have been arrested at
Boston, each CHARGED with attempting to
poison the trotttng horse Frenchman,
owned by the Messrs. Porter, and valued
at 1000.
While Workmen were engaged In exca-
waiting a culvert on North Broad Street,
Philadelphia, on Saturday morning. tee
earth gave way, burying three OF them.
Two were taken ont aliye, but the other,
George Keyser, was dead.
AtJohnsonviIle, Tenn, Thursday night,
d. Ford, q brakeman on the Nashville &
rom one freigt car to anotheT ni fei beg
tween the two, and was run over. His legs
died soon after the accident.
On Friday night an unexpected raid was
made by the state cOnstables upon the
Boston lager-beer saloons, eight or ten be-
ing visited and the stock seized. The sud-
den enforcement OF a prohtoitory law AFT er
an efeetiOn generally considered adverse
to prohibition quite bewilders German
citizens and tha people generally.
Gov. Geary has issued the death warrant
of John Fields, convicted of murder in
Lecoming County, and 5. K. Taylor, of
Haekenburg County, convicted of murder
ed executed Decem Der 4th--the former at
Wtlhamsport, and the latter in Butler.
J.H. Schroeder ard ]. NJ. Baum were on
trial in New York, Saturday, before the
United states Commissioned. for buying
% goo SIN uggled cigars. They we've arr ested
on the evidence of one Aloeyn, Cuban,
formed on the purchasers.
The New York Grand Jury is still inves-
tigating the gold conspiracy, but there is
no longer the great array of witnesses In
attendance at first No indictments
have yet been presented, and IL Is fear ed
the whole Investigation may prove farce.
The schooner GerriLt Smith, of OSwego,
bound to Detroit, with railroad iron, Is
ashore at ronGeau. The schooner Me-
trOpOlis, OF Chicago, is also ashore at the
same place. The gale Still continued Sat
urdGy morning, and numerous marine
disasters may be expected.
The Rochester Theatre caught fre. In
the green-rOom, Saturday morning, and
burned TO the ground. Several stores ad-
Joining were damaged. Loss about $4,000
Thomas Carr, Manager of the Theatre,
lost all his property, and barely escaped
with his life. Davenport lost part OF his
wardrobe.
The Lake National Bank at Wolfbar
". H, was broken open Friday night and
robbed or all its valuable contents, In
cludtEg money, notes, bonds, and private
deposits. Loss large. The bank was or
ganized in May, 1850. It's capital was SIS,
coo, and IL had a considerable surplus. The
losses will fall heavy upon private depoS-
itOrs
one G. A. Stephens has recently victim
lied several persons In New York by pre-
tending to sell them United States bond
at a reduced price, in order to raise money
of which he pretended to be In need. Ii
each case the victim found that bogu
I'VE hundred dollar bond on Lyon County
Iowa, had been substituted for the 52
bond. Two dupes appeared against Ste
phens, Saturday, and he was remRndeC
for trial.