The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-17
VOL XXI.
u0KssSsED. TEagGgAMg.

MONDAY, January 4.
Tho steamer Caba has arfived from Liv-
erPooi.
The steamers Cuba and Lafayette have
arrived nom Europe.
Tao town Of Laporte, California. was
nearly destroyed BY fire on the lIth inst.
A storm OF snow and rain set in at New
York on Friday night, ana continued dur
Ing Saturday.
q typo setting match Is probable between
Geo. a. Barber, of Cincinnati and George
AbFsnsburg, OF New York.
The Erie Railway strikers still hold out,
and the company are advertising extern
siVely for new hands.
The lumber yard of Conklln {. son, and
their piers on Il ST River, RTooElyn, were
burned Saturdays Loss. $4,000.
BY a collision on the Btston & Albany
HaaF9a HabF on ss tIidsy THEY ana Eas asi9I Ba,o 0
OF Holy yoEe, was seriously Injured.
The Gaa Works baildings at Saratoga,
n. Y, were considerably damaged, on Sat
urdsy, by an explosion and escape OF gas.
Two wofklnen were Injured. .fre
Walter Graham killed Samuel otto with
an axe, in the woods near Rochester, New
XOrK, on Friday curing an altercat lon.
Both were wood choppers.
Rev. Benz. ]. Powell, Baptist Minister at
GTasshopper Falls, Kansas, suiclded Tues
~, Ohio. and three children In Iowa.
The total collections of,LnternaI Revenue
IL the Second District of Ohio, for Decefn.
ber, amounts to S333,42i being an in
crease over december OF The previous
year OF SI44s4j9.
It Is said that Mrs. James Gordon Benz
nett has purchased "A beautiful villa on
Lake Como, where she will hereafter spend
her summers. and where MIR. Bennett Ill
Join her IN May next.
A cable dispatch on Friday night con-
VCyed to Parepa Rosa the annOuncemt mt
| OF the death of her mother IN London, In
| consequence Of which another opera was
substituted for the one in which She was
Rev. DR.. Annes BlancSord.7o Kirk Street
/ congregational Church, Lowell, Massa>
| chusetts, and settled clergyman in that
| place for forty years, died on Friday even
| log, OF heart disease, at the age of sixty
The Burlington Il Missouri Railroad h
now completed to Omaha, and trains Will
| commences running to-day from Chicago
| 10 Omaha, Via the q itcayO q Burlington
Railroad, to connect with the UnioIA Pa
| clfic.
VIM. Hays has brought snita against q.
III. Rhea and Il. ID. Jones. securities. for
! damages for detention and loss OF goods
| suppose u belong 10 Perry Fuller, seized
| In st. Louis last September, at the instance
/ OF the First National Bank OF Washing
ton City. s4
/ The Boston I5St says thero has been a
| clerical error or defalcGtiOn OF some fifteen
| thousand dollars discovered In the City
| Treasurer's office, and that the employees
| uf the Office are held under arrest until
l restitution is made. No names men toned.
| Jacob BcpJamia, executor ef the estate
| of the 1ate Frank DE atur Forrest, de-
| ceased, minor heir of Joseph Folsom, has
| commenced an eje"tment suit against over
| two hundred defendants, for q portion of
i the Ranches de los AmeTicanos, Sacra-
mento County, California. the property
i Is valued at over s250,O00.
| Hiram Marks, connected with a circus
| troupe, was arrested in Cincinnati on q
| warrant issued by Judge LeaVitt ON q GER
! tifiei copy OF information Il led in the DlS-
| tricJ Court of Michigan, charging him
| with being engaged In the fraudulent inn
| portation of horses from Canada.
An inquest into the homicide of Conrad
| Oherichei, on New Years Day, In New
| YOIk, traces his death To Morris kehn,
| aged Is years, his father being an access
sorry. Both we re committed for trial. The
| boy admits the stabbing, but claims that
! IL was dCne in se!f-defense.
q stone wall, 100 feet long and 80 feet
high, in the rear of some buildings on
Third street, west OF Elm, In Cincinn natl
fell on Saturday morning about O'Clock
crushing SIX Kitchens. k ling one boy
| y ears ol in bed, slightly iujuring little
| giiI In tho same bed, and breaking the leg
of a woman who was making fire In one
| OF the kite ems. The wall has been con
| s.derod unsafe for two years