The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-05
TelegraphIc Summary.

from Cuba, by order OF Marshall Serrano.
NEW York, Jan. 29.-The Heralds
Havana special Gays that the steamer
Montezuma arrived from Neuvitas. Gen.
Peullo had returned to Neuvitas. He
did not reach Guyana aud was beaten by
the insurgents He lost thirty officers
and 800 men killed. The Montezuma
brought 120 wounded soldiers and two
colonels. There was severe fighting ten
leagues distant from Santiago. The
Spanish lost one officer and four men. A
mule train engaged in carrying provis-
ions for the estates near San Luis, was
ordered to return because the insurgents
were in force between the Spanish troops
and Santiago.
Advices from Neuvitas to the Oath,
state that Gen. Medera had been reliev-
ed from command of the army and Gen.
Jordan appointed. The late fight with
| Peullo was on the 1st of January, near
Gueamora.
An organization has been commenced
by Democratic soldiers, at Brooklyn, en-
titled the Grand Army ofthe Constitution.
other officers have joined. Gen. Geoffrey
was elected to command. Application to
fourteen Camps in the State.
William Townsend, grocer, No. l91
Hudson street, was murdered in his own
store last night, in the presence of his
family, by a loafer named Jack Richards,
whom he refused lodgings. The murder
er was arrested.
A FIRE last night, in the bonded ware
house of Mason & Co., did muchSdamage.
Leferts, Bergen farmer, was robbed
by highwaymen last night, at Hyde Park,
Long Island, of $4,000.
Twenty persons are in the State prison
for an outrage upon the person of Miss
Beck, a school teacher, in Westches-
ter Co.
The Custom House officers seized eight
thousand dollars worth of struggled silks
last night near the docks of the German
steamers at Hoboken.
The government tax on on the legacies
of the late Edwin A. Stevens was paid
yesterday The amount was 50, ,464 OF
This does not include the legacy to the
widow, which is exempt.
The steamer Stars and Strips, from
Port au Prince, has been detained al
quarantine Two of the crew have the
yellow fever. The Captain died on the
passage. Officers report much agitation
at Samana on the question of a Provis
ional Government. Hayti will probably
sustain Calbralen for Governor, in order
to defeat the plans of President Baez, tt
cede the bay to the United States. The
French war steamer lost forty of hel
crew by the yellow fever at Port a,
Prince.
/ The Spanish Consul here officially con
tradicts the report from Havana of the de
feat of Gen Jordan near Guaymaro, ant
5 denounces it as entirely without foun
, dation.
The Sunday papers urge the Erie share
holders to have their shares stamped be
= fore Monday night.
+, Elk Gov. Darling, of Victoria, is deat
e New York, Jan. 30.--A general strik
among piano makers in this city is i'm
minent.
The plaster mill of George Stragn, a
Williamsburg, was burned early thi
: morning. Loss $4,000. The foreman
e was severely injured.
KEY WEST, Jan. 31-Gonzales Gas
teuon. editor of the Foce de Cuba, Will
> standing on the porch of the hotel, wa
:, fire on him with pistols. He returne
}. the fire, and had wounded three c
:. his assailants, when he received she
. from which he died in fifteen minute
:, Several arrests were made.
e LOUISVILLE, Jan. 3l.-David Roac
II shot and killed his brother Benjamin.
q a wealthy cotton planter at Hope Plar
tation, Yazoo river, the other day. II
u temperance is supposed to be the cause
IS GALEsBURG, ILL.,, jan 3I.-A FIRE SUI
day morning burned Cadiz Block, con
a prising several business establishment
Loss, $4,000.
q NASHVILLE, Jan. 31.-The Legisl;
u ture has enacted a severe law to punis
$ masked marauders.
n CHICAGO, Jan. 31.-To-day was jud;
ment day in the Recorders Court. Thirt,
eight criminals received sentence of in
= prisonment aggregating two hundre
y and eight years. Judge McAllister W;
1t especially severe on burglars and the
st abettors, one professional bailer of thicv,
receiving three years in the Penitential
for perjury The notorious Robert
/" Lowe alias Handy Andy was sentence
- to ten years. The latter made an ine
he Ieelual attefnpt 10 escape Wnlio Dell
r. conducted from the Court room to IL
Jail.
a. BUFFALO, Jan. 31.-At two o'clot
this morning kerosene lamp explode
d, in the house of Nicholas Bliss, settir
IN fire to the furniture of the bedroom
: Bliss, wife and two children were drea
- fully burned. One child died and Il
other is in critical condition. Bliss al
ed his wife will recover, but are much d
Is, figured.
10 LOUISVILLE, Jan. 31-Dr Geo.
Collins, noted desperate, was arrest
~ to-day for seriously shooting farm
e named Perry Bishop, of Bullet coun,
John Mahoney, railroad laborer, "
d. literally cut to pieces by train passi
!, over him.
- The last span of the Ohio River Bird
= was completed this afternoon. It will
ready for the passage of trains in f
le- days. The length of bridge, exclusi
90 of approaches, is one mile. It has be
onI CIV rpopt1s l,.sll:-