The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-01-20
NEWS ITEMS.

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Mace aud Allen have signed articles for
. prize fight on the 10th Of April next, for
$4,000 aud the American championship.
The errA.ic Rev. Mr.. Cooke ;bas mystsri
ously disappeared, aud is supposed to have
gone West to commence life anew.
DR.. Harris says there is no small pox in
be public schools of New York. but another
report says the disease is raging at Huuter
Point.
The Erie Railroad employees strike for
their wages still continues.
The gambling houses in New Orlean
have been closed, in conformity with u
recent act of the Legislature.
The bill granting State aid and the right
::f way for branches to New Orleans Of the
Chattanooga Railroad has passed tie Louis
lana House. 1t meets with opposition from
The New Orleans press.
+. T. Wallace: lawyer and real estate
owner and speculator, was arrested in
Cleveland for forgery Monday night. bu
escaped from the officer, aud was rearrestedt
at Meadville willie on his way TO New
York. Over S24.t00 Of forged paper has
COME to light
Hou. Lot NJ Morrill, was Tuesdsy re.elee /
cd United States Senator from Maine.
The House of Representatives of Rhode
Island Tuesday passed o resolution ratify-
lug the. fifteenth amendment to the Consti
tuition OF the United States by q vote of fifty
seven 10 nine. The Senate passed the reso-
luton last Juno.
The Kentucky Senate Committee on I'M
provements Tuesday reported the Cincin-
natl Southern Railroad bill, and recommend.
ed its passage. No vote was taken.
In drunken broi, in Lo ,i-ville, on Mon
day night, Edwin Price was ,ttrusk on the
head with stone by Taylor Chiffon.
Price died Tuesday morning. Chiffon was
bound over TO the Criminal Court.
In Cincinnati, George Seel, o; German,
undertook taking iorty-one pints of Md
Gated warm wa'er in less than "a hours
to cure The rhumatism. He began at seven
O'Clock Monday morning, and at twelve h.d
taken tweniy.nine pints, and was sufferIn,
excruciating pain. Tuesday morning he
died. A man named Ascherhorn, who pre-.
seribed for him, was .arrested. He says it
is a recipe procured from butcher in the
o ID country.
In addition 10 the prize 6.ht between
Lafltrty and Siddou, light weights, which
is to come off within fifty miles of St Lons
on the 25;h inst, ma tch has been made
between James c. Gallagher, oI Albany
n. V, and George c. Carey. OF Hartford,
CT, 10 be fought at the same time and 10 the
same ring.
A fire occurred at Rnchest er. Mlnnsota.
Monday night, which destroyed five bn lid
ings on Broadway. Loss $4,000; insured
Tor $4,000 mostly IN Hartford and New
York.
On Monday, at Princeton, Illinois, two
yonng ladies, aged fifteen and sixteen named
Carrie and Elmira Parker, walked eighty
miles in eighteen hours and twenty-ihree
minutes. 1t was done for purse of one
hundred dollars, conditioned on their ac-
complshing the ieat in twenty hours.
Patti has recovered, and will give her
FIRST concert at Cincinnati on the 22d inst
Trains began TO ran ON the Little Miami
road Tuesday night. also on the Marietta
and Cincinnati. Other roads are all riehts
A shooting atfray occurred at Sardi., Mis-
sissippi, a few days ago. between +. NJ.
Bennett, merchant. and Adelph McCracken,
Express agent, during which the former
was shot through the shoulder and danger
ously wounded.
While the steam fire engine Long John
was passing through Washington street
tunnel, Chicago, Monday night, on the way
to fire, at high rate OF speed, sho rar
against an abutment and was almost totally
demolished. John J. McClintock, Alexan
der McMorgan and James Enright, the dri-
yer, foreman and engineer, were seriously
injured.
Undercothing in large quantities at Lam