The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-07-19
DAHY JOURN e
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C0EDENSED TELEGRAMS.


Liverpool.
The New England Hotel in Cleveland
was damaged by fire on saturday night to
the amount OF $4,000. Insurance $4,000.
The cholera has made its appearance
In Hoooken and Jersey city, and a few
cases have occurred in New York city.
There. were four. eas es of sun-stroke in
New York city, and two in HOboken, on
Saturday.
The Griswold,I Hotel, two barns. the Pos,
Office and two stores In Windsor, Conn.
Were burned ON Saturday.
The 42thIetic cub, of Philadelphia, beat
the Oympics, of Washington, at game
OF base ban, by a score OF 80 to 81
+. a. Tyler and L. j. Dupree have pur
chas d the Interest OF MIR. Ainslee in the
Memphis appeal
There were four cases of sun stroke in
New York ON saturday, and three In Nor
wich ON Friday.
JF. Minerefn the employ of the VIII. t.
Collar Paeket Company. at Dubuque, was
drowned from the wharf boat on Friday
James Fisk Is understood to be fufnish-
ing capital for new ass OciatiOn for sup
plying telegraphic news. la opposition TO
the present system. D-tails viii be made
public soon.
Jno. Howard, colored, who was on trial
In Cincinnati for murder In the first de
gree, was on Saturday, found guilty OF
murder in the second degree. His sentence
was not pronounced.
Rev Mr. owens, OF Newark, N. J., re-
pSri5.I dead from the effects of a wound
received at Roekway, L. l., is alive ana
uninjured- AJ
A heavy storm passed over Peoria.
Illinois, on Friday afternoon. Houses,
trees, fences. sc, were blown down in con-
siderable numbers, Involving heavy Dam
age. No lives were lost.
The friends OF Calvin, sentenced to death
in Memphis, for murder, are circulating
petition to reprieve. A counter petition,
also, is in circulation for the law to take
It's course.
Two hundred Cuban patriots on Gard
neT's Island refused to disperse on We'd
nesday, and additional force has been ent
by Mar-haI Barlow. No violense is con
talnplaled. Only The dispersion of the
force is designed.
Miss Jennie Wheaton, aged is, and Mrs
Minnie McGregor, aged 20, were drowned
In the Merrimac River, at Lowell, on Sat
urday, while bathing. Mrs. McGregor
The brig Abbrie Hannibal was capsizad
by a tornado on Long Island sound on
Friday, and two seamen drowned. The
same tornado blew down house at Port
Chester, tere up trees. and did other da M
age there. IL also blew down two houses
IN Brooklyn, unroofed four more, aud did
other damage No lives lost.
The Coroa6r's Jury at Port Jervis fouI d
James Griffin guilty of eulpable negligence
fer not attending to his duty as engineer
OF the freight train, thereby causing the
deaths Of Halleck ana others. Griffin has
been arrested. The Erie Company has
settled with the injured on the Iatter's
own terms.
lack 1iiIey and Dan GIddlngs, two viii
laIns, fought fourteen rounds Of prize
fight, Saturday forenoon, near New York,
tor $40 Gldangs got terribly whipped
and the AFFAIR." terminated in "a Tree fight,
b. unfortunately none of the roughs
were killed, ana both fighters are alive.
An escaped murderer from Clinton made
his appearance, in charge of officers. at
Sing Sing prison on saturday. having
been committed on a sentence for larceny
In New York city The prison authorities
refused 10 receive him until he had served
out hiss@entonce in the Clinton prison and
Mrs. h ,berts was arrested, in Cincinnati.
for having cOunterieit money, and had q
preIiminary hearing before Commissioners
Holiday and was held to answer IL the
sum of IS Oo0. She was committed in de
fault OF bail. The decision as TO the 9th
ers who were arrested with her was re
servedIiIl Fuf sday.
Captain G. w. GIT leaves Memphis next
week for san Francisco and China dis eet
in the inter est of the Arkansas Emigra'
tiOn Company, by whom he is provided
with funds and letters of credit. II posi-
BILE, he will arrange for labOrers In Cali
tornia, but desis ms visiting China at once
a dispatch from Morris, Grundy County
Ill.,, says the Illinois River is now fifteen
feet above its usual summer stage, and
Itsing fast. The grOund is 50 wet in that
vicinity that farmers cannot get their har-
vesLing machines on the ground, and are
obi ged TO cut what grain is worth cutting
by Ii md. A dispatch from Des Moines
Iowa, also. says the rains OF the past weeH
have done immense damage to the crops
wheat aud oats suffering the most.
VIM. Lawrence, watchman at Hoboker
Ferry, was found Saturday forenoon, il
the canal at HOboken, shockingIy mutt
lated He had been murdered and throw
into the water. He leaves a wife and tou
children. Engineer Douglas and Parsons
second od Ger Of he propeller Osalatte
OF Providence. have been arrested on sus
picion 81 his murder, Lawrence, when las
seen, being in their company, and haviIi
q dispute with them.
The large quantity of iager seized July
9Th. III the saloon OF the Brothers Pfof, il
Boston, was re urned to them on Satur
day. The reason given for the restoration
was that the property would spoil before
decision could be reached in the courts.
different result was experienced by Matht
as Nicola, in Cambridge, whose entiT
stock consisted Of one keg of lager, wai
seized, and the owner sentenced to ,hre'
months 10 the House Of Correction, ant
fined nifty dollars. Judge Pullman, Pres
dent of the Senate, and recently appoini
ed to the judgeship, passed sentence.
A man naIned DIR. 4. J. Rngleman, hail
ing from Philadelphia, but formerly a wei
known citizen OF Madison, Ind, was ar
rested at Louisville on Friday night, b.
detectives Bligh and Gallagher, on sus
plcion of having IN his possession stoiei
property 10 the amount Of 81 O00 consistin
OF drugs, clothes, cashmere, Yesting, and
urge quantity Of sundry article. 1t
presumed that lie has been aecumulatIn
these stolen goods atthis point for the pa
year or two. EngIeInau had on his perso
$500 of ready cash. supposed to have bee
the proceeds OF illegitimate transaction
lie is a man about hny yes rs Of age, aboI
Il Eel nine Inches nigh. wears frol
s.nclaI teeth. ana is Ol darkisn con
ul.1ion,