The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-03-25
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TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
Gold closed in New York. yesterday. at
1871
The ocean queen has arrived from AS
pInwalI with 100000 in treasure.
The WestphaIia has arrived from Liver
pool.
a number of the members Of Brigham
YouBg's fahiiiy have arrived at Chicago
Smoke is reported iSsuing from Mounts
Hood. Jefferson, and Three Sisters, Or
egou, ana an earthquakes is apprehended.
The Averman Mining Company have
levied an assessment ct twenty dollars on
each share. delinquent on a pril 2Sd.
Two persons were burned to death by the
explosion of a lamp, at Mortonstown, N.
Y, on Tuesday night. The lamp was over
turned which caused the accident.
Charles A. C. Duesenherg entered upon
the duties OF his Office as Consul General of
the Northern-German Confederation for
California, on Monday.
The Rhode Island Legislature, on Tues
day, passed the bill authorizing the Hart
ford q Erie Railroad to build road from
Providence to the state line. there to con-
meet wi. h their road to Boston.
Ten lady students gTaduated on Tuesday
night at the sixth annual Commence
ment Of the New YoFS Medical Society for
Women.
All the ship carpenters who were en-
pIoyed on stevens Battery, at Hoboken,
have been discharged because they oO-
jected to reduction in wages from So 90 to
s. 30 per day. Gen. Mcclellan has charge
OF the completion Of the battery.
Advic- s from st John, New Brunswick,
state that the snow there is six feet deep
on a level, and that the Canadians are de-
sertIng the Flats. as they fear a disastrous
Hood.
Coles, Smarter & Co.'s sugar refinery, on
Franklin Street, New York, was burned
on Tuesday night. Loss $4,000 on the
building, and much heavier on the stock
OF sugar ia the building.
The Democrats in St. Louis decline max
ing party nominations for city officers,
but propose TO try the Peoples Ticket !"
dodge
Advices from the plains report that 1t
Young lately surprised a party OF stock
stealing Indians, killed a number, dis
persed the remainder, aud recovered the
-stolen stock and captured lot OF ponies.
A party Of Sioux killed a soldier within
n mile or Fort Randall on the 18TH, al d
ran OF three mules. The Indians we've
pursued and scattered, but none killed.
st. Nicholas Hall at Saratoga was burned
on Tuesday morning. Loss $4,000; insured.
AI-o Van Duzer's dry goods store; damage
$4,000; also insured.
Another OF the Keepers of Sing Sing
Prison was severely beaten by cOnviets on
Tuesday. His life was saved by the sud
den appearance of the foreman of the shop.
The people of Chicago have voted for the
South Side Park by majority If 1906, and
for the West Side Park by majority OF
I42 The two Parks will embrace 2,OOt
acres.
Governor Palmer hes ordered special
election IA the Third Congressional Dis
trict Of Illinois, to fill the vacancy oc-
casfoned by the resignation of E. b. Was IL
burne. The day fixed is the Sth of June.
a special to the Chicago Tribune says
An aHray took place in Mrs. Aliens board
ing house, at Jacksonville, Illinois, Mon
day nj ht, in which a man named Hahn
shot another named Omstead, fatally in
JuIihs mn
An enthusiastic railroad meeting wai
he'd on Wednesday, at Waterloo, Iowa, Il
or anize "a company TO build a road from
MeGregor to es MOtnes, via Waterloo
The Rhode Island State Senate yester
day postponed the consideration OF th'
Fifteenth Amendment 10 the Constitution
of the United states, ui til the May ses
sion.
The Rhode Island Democratic State Con
vention, held at Providence on Welnes
dag, nominated the following ticket: Fo
Governor, Lyman Pierce, of Providence
for Lieutenant Governor, Wi liam IL. Al
len; for Secre ary of state, W Wiliam
Miller; for Attorney General, George \
Bliss; for Treasurer. Caleb Rider.
\ dispatch from Omaha says the com
muntcation published few days since !
the Chicago Tribune, complaining of th
detention and ill-treatment of passenger
on the Union Paclfs Railroad. was sfossl
false and gotten up by party interrste
in rival line, and signed without rea lin
by innocent parties.
Three robbers entered Mrs. schlenker
house on Monday afternoon, in the nort
crn part OF sincinisati They gagged MI
:ehlenker, who was alone. and escape
with s2,80I which NJ Sehlenker had ju
received for property. John Pierce W
arrested and confessed that he was one
the robbers. William Ellis was arrest'
on suspicion. and one escaped. The mons
has not been recoverek
a Oh esgo dispatch dated Wednesd
say: Lieutenant Ger ueral p. II. Sherid
and col j. ) Crosby, his chief of staff, I
rived here at II o'clock this forenoon, a
are reaiStered at the fremont House.
will leave in the morning for the West.
will b absent for a short t me, and "
then lrturn and establish his headquart
h.re. The Irish Rifles tender ed him a s
enatle nIs veniug, but he declined, as
time would be fully occupied during
brief stay.
A Pre- ceosItlOa TO Mayor walker
Pravfous tn the last ADril electi