The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-05-04
NEWS ITEMS

The military authorities Of Fortress Mon.
roe have received orders to remove the ne
gro squatters from farms near Hampton
Va, ,
During thunder storm in New Orleans,
Sunday, several houses were struck by ligh
ming, and one negro woman killed.
Rev. Father Perche was consecrated Bish
op of 81. Louis, in New Orleans on Sunday
Bishop Rosecrans offic:ated, assisted by
Bishops Foley and Fehan.
In u house of ill-iame iu Louisville, Mon
day, John II. Morton, youth of nineteen,
son OF a banker, snot and killed gam bier
named Dan Powers. Jealousy was the
cause. Morton is in jail.
Wm. Henderson, a well known citizen of
New Orleans, died on Monday, aged 62.
The formal opening of the South Paciac
Railroad to Springfield, Mo-, took place
yesterday.
Schrack Il Cos varrish factory, in Phil
adelphia, was entirely destroyed by fire
yesterday. Loss $4,000.
At twelve O'Clock Sunday night, forty
men took John and Levi Snine out OF the
Glasgow, Ky., Jail and hung them. The
death Of young Proctor and James at the
hands Of these men, while assisting the sher
| lit in an attempt TO arrest them, go exasper
ated the community that they took the law
in their own hands and lynched the muir
derers
\ VIM. H. Dunlaney, prominent me mber r
Of the Virginia Bar. died suddealy Monday
evening in Alexandria.
A fre at the Wisconsin State Prison at
Waupnn. Monday, destroyed the shops. -
There were no escapes. Damage about
$i5C, 1000.
The Board of Missions orthe Protestant.
Episcopal Church is in session in San Fran
cisco.
! From nearly all parts OF California comes
intelligence OF short crops. In some places
the grain will not pay Tor harvesting.
Governor Senter, of Tennessee, denies
the reports of his. intended resignation.
Fetcher.is to remain in Boston as mana
| ger OF theater
Speaker Blaine declines to be candidat
for United States Senator from Maine.
Near Quebec, Sunday, the steamers Ger
many ard City of Quebec coliied. The
latter steamer sunk in deep water shor,
time afterwards. Two lives were lost.
One day last week Col. A Payne and Mac
Stap!eton, two ipfluetial citizens of Monti-
cello, Kansas. quarreled about some trivial
matter while drinking and agreed to settle
the difficulty in a dark room. Payne had a
knife and Stapleton a revolver. Some ciii.
zcns, on hearinga pistol shot, burst open
the door, and found Stapleton with bis
throat cut, and Payne shot through the
lungs. Neither was killed, bnt there is
little hore of the recovery Of either.
c. j. Lnthy, o gardener, at Memphis,
"pi'e uI'enP'iuS W suOot CuICkeN, snOt
land killed himself.
The slaughter and packing house of Mil
Ter, Connable & Co., at Xenia, was burned
to the ground on Saturday night. Loss
$4,000. No insurance.
John Crsoling, lunatic, escaped from
the insane asylum. at Harrisburg, and
drowned himself in the Susquehanna.
The burning of the New York Printing
Companys office Sunday night, caused
loss of about $I5O,OOO.
At Princeton, ILL.,, April 3Oth the Nation.
al Hotel and other buildings were destroyed
by fire. Loss $4,000.
AT Des Moines. Iowa, Monday, Gilcbrist
planning mill was burned. Loss $4,000.
The Governor of Illinois has offered
$1,000 reward for the appr ehension and
conviction of the persons concerned in
the recent lynching of Hank Leonard, q
Salem.