The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-11-19
Eastern News by Mail.

ILLINOIS. Burglars entered the house |
/ OF Joshua Cantrali, on Fancy creek, near
Springfield, and having assaulted and
| beaten him, they tied him, his wife and !
two small children, ransacked the house |
and decamped with valuable gold watch
one hundred aud thirty dollars in money,
and other valuab!es. The police are in
pursuit.
While Mrs. Peter Malitor, residing
uear Houston, Minn., was passing
between the separator and the horse
power of thrcshing machine, near Chi
cago, her dress was caught by the tumb
ling rod, and she was crushed to death
in moment. The law requires that
the tumbling rod attached to threshing
machines shall be boxed, but in this
case the requirements of the law had
been neglected. - -
/ The report laid before the last annual
meeting of the Illinois Conference of the
! Methodist Episcopal church show the
membership of the church within the
limits of the confidence to be $4,000,
churches $50, local preachers 351, con-
tribntions for various purposes during
the past year $40 ,5i2.35
y great many weddings are taking
i
by the fact that premiums are to be
given at the next county fair. T. months
hence, to first, secoad and third best
looking babies three months old.
The Illinois Stae Journal says that a
farm near Springfield, which has been
in cultivation for sixty Years, produces
this year one bundled bushels of corn to
the acre.
Wor.hing and Roland patrics hard
ware store, Mrs. Pendletons Millinery
store, Mat. Mitchel's hotel. J. Dahlin's
grocery, and the past Office. at Menorka,
were burned on October 9th Loss
$4,000 to $4,000; insured for $4,000.
A new town, to be called Delaware,
is being laid on the Rockford. Rock Is
land and St. Lohis railroad between
Mcdora and Sheffield
Tom Fate, d.sperado, murdered
respectable young man named Omar Il,
. Clark at Fairfield
In Tazewell county there is corn
field of 20 600 acres.
The farmers of Scott county have or
ganizel themselves into club.
The corn crop Of Morgan county for
1870 for exceeds any previous yield.
Georeiana Mcdowell. notorious cJ-
prian, committed suicide lately.
Illinois Is the greatest corn and wheat
producing State in the Union.
Robert Vorts. shot his brother-in law
Henry Baldyin, Que day last week
IowA-Thc assessed value of property
in Dubuque, real and personal: is S5,,
53S l55.
The treasurer Of keokuk beneficiary
society recently dccamped with ss5(
which had been raised for the benefit o
: two widows.
Some coal miners, while sinking rev
Shaft III Scott county, found several goo'
Sixed branches Of tree, supposed to b
walnut, thirty feet below the ground.
The Sioux City 1fn,es claims tha
there has been more new buildings ercc
ted in that city the present year than IL
- any other town of three times 1T
;. population in the State.
There is large oil manufactory IL
successful operation at Iowa City.
lLeokuk has u stove foundry whlcl
daily changes ten thousand pounds 0
=7 crude iron into articles Of use and beauty
II Land within three miles of Davenpor
9 sells at two hundred dollars an acre.
Z Two or three weeks ago the Chicag
q and Southwestern Rsilroad ran it's frs
4 passenger train into Fairfield.
. Eddyville has bargaiucd with TIL
! bridge con pany at that point to pass al
persons free for one year.
: The Iowa Falls aud Sioux City Rail
i road have sold out to the Illinois Cen
trail.
Fires are Of almost daily occurrence il
y keokuk
q On the poor house farm in Biackhaw
p county two crops Df potatoes were raise
this summer.
7 The Iowa Deaf and Dumb Society ha
a been removed from Iowa City to Counc
Bluffs.
,, A woman in Clayton county has as
s serted woman's rights by stealing horses
;e MISSOURI crop of broom corr
/. valued at S3 600, was recently burned o
- the farm of Ii Larimoye,. three mile
IS south Of Mexico
a. A serious stabbius affray took plac
recently in Jefferson county, i'll whic
% Geo. ". Clayton, received wounds at til
,e hands of man named John +. Gordon
from the effects of which he died.
. Mr.. Z. H. Buren,, an old and csteeme
citizen of Jefferson county, died sudder
~ OK apopieAJ, "hile asslstliiS his uauS
ter to alight from horse.
.. A desperate encounter occurred latel
at Moorsville, between two men name
North and Morgan, in which both we,
killed. Cause, rivalry in business, bot
being painters
e Two men, named Stepler and Jenning
Of while at work the bridge at IS
a Charles, lost their balance and fell TO I'll
ID ground-a distance of seventy feet. Or
=, of them was killed instantly, while Il
:. other lived only few hours.
- kirksville has population of $50
to The Christian University at Cante
b. opened with 125 students in atten
pr ance.
IL 10 u - = 'iie nav i'.,s.