The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-08-06
Crops are promising in all parts of the

Crops are promising iu all parts of the
State.
A double bodied giil is giving exhibit
tions throughout the State. She sings, /
talks and eats with both heads, and walks
and dances upon either two or four feet.
She is educated and accomplished d"-of
course
Kansas City has become notorious for
desperadoes. Lately, man named Will
liams shot one named Worden, and crush
ed the skull OF another named Mason.
The latter IS dead, and the former is in
critical condition, and Williams is in
Jail. The next day Jim Hall stabbed and
killed Timothy Harlan, (this makes
eight stabbing affrays in which Hall has
figured in > and George d. Campbell,
| from Knoxville or Dalton, Iowa, was
murdered by an unknown party, and his
body placed on the railroad track and run
over by a train.
James Morrissey was shot dead by
Amos Lewis at circus performance in
Salisbury.
John Hartman, ST. Louis lawyer, has
been arrested for swindling prisoner
client out of $3.50.
Mad dogs are at large in ST. Louis.
Nellie Star, an inmate Of ST. Joseph
house Of i'll fame, kept by Mollie Gilpin,
tried to end her wretched life by taking
arsenic. Her life was barely saved.
A son of Joseph Whittenburg was
kicked to death by mule, with which
he had been plowing, in Charlton county,
last July.
A bed of yellow ochre has been found
on the land of Mr.. Harris, near Knob
Noster Several car loads have been
sent to the East.
A man named Bayley was killed by one
Jordan, ten miles from Knob Noster,
lately. The particulars of the affair are
not given, but it is stated that the dead
man was found in the harvest field with a
bowie knife in his hand, aud a scythe
thrust through his heart.
On the ed uit, two little boys, Jas
Ross, aged seven years, Anthony Finley,
aged nine, the sons of laboring men,
were drowned in the river at Kansas
City, while bathing.
q Two children, sons of Mr.. Herndon,
in Savannah, were SO terribly burned with
kerosene on the 21st ult., that one of
them died, aud the life of the other is
despaired of.
On Thursday the 10th ult, at Roche
port, colored woman named Eliza Hol-
land, residing near Cheltonham, St Louis
, county, fatally stabbed James Madison,
her son-in- law, who against her will had
married her daughter.
, ILLINoIs.-A citizen in Chicago de.
tected burglar cutting through win
| dow blind, and fired pistol through the
. window and killed the thief Instantly.
| The heirs of S. A. Douglas are en-
deavoring to recover possession of the
! douglas tract in Chicago, now owned
3 by several parties. 1t is valued at ST.
. 200, 900. 4 flaw IN the conveyance is
t relied upon to regain it.
4 Twenty-seven firms are losers by late
fire at Mendoza, the whole loss amount
t ing to 100000.
, Miss J.. Petrie. of Griggsville, has
: charge of the man route between Naples
and Hannibal, and it is said performs the
y business we'll
/ The old settlers of Morgan, Cass ano
Scott counties have a reunion in August
In Lee county, wheat, oats, barley, po
I tatoes, timothy, hay and late planted
! corn is, or will be, a failure with but few
exceptions.
Harvest in Southern Illinois is about
4 over aud the yield is more than average.
The peach crop in some localities is fail
ure and in others there will be fair yield
A can of coal oil exploded at Canton,
and SO badly burned Mrs. Laura Ridge.
: way that she died in nine hours.
, Three foundlings were picked up in
Quincy within a week.
, Springfield projects new line Of rail
road to st. Louis by way of Linchfeld
!. The residence of j. Dunlap, of Jack
sonvillc, valued at SIC, 900, was destroy
: ed by fire on the 26th uit.
Mrs. Meithel, German woman living
near Woodstock, in a fit of temporary
insanity, terribly mutilated with a razo
4 her son, aged 18, and her daughter. aget
q s, and then committed suicide by cutting
her own throat.
II In Cairo, on the oath OF June, Ed
o We'll and A. Meyers attempted to fore.
D. Lipstein, of Columbus. KY, to retrac
l. something that he had said, and were beat
IS ing him when Lipstein shot We'll deae
If and severely wounded Meyers, who vii
recover. They had all been partners il
Y business at Columbus
e The editor of the Augusta Sentine
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