The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-26
TelegraphIc Summary.

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if the week. There will also be a resolution Of
erred in Congress declaring the amendment rati-
led, and bills will be proposed to enforce its pro-
visions.
lered on Ninth street, by a notorious desperado,
named Halsey. Clark moving to Little Rock
Mill. Halsey rode up to the wagon and shot
Clark, in the presence of his family. The Cover
nor's of Missouri, Texas and Arkansas have Of
ferred large rewards for the arrest of Haisey.
Mrs. Shaw, passenger on the steamer Ozart,
was caught in the machinery near Pine Bluff, and
crushed to death.
ST. oLUIs, Feb. 19.-Jesse W. Heath, City |
Register old and respected citizen, died to-day.
A concurrent resolution was offered in the Leg |
isature, instructing Senators and requesting rep
in Congress to move in the direction
of giving the right of suffrage to Indians.
CHICAGO, Feb. ia heavy snow storm has
been raging all day, and much has been
drifted by the high winds. 1t is now clear and
growing cold.
BosroN, Feb. ia dispatch from Concord,
N. H., reports great frashet in the upper Con-
necticut valley, and much damage bridges and
barns having been carried away. The people are
alarmed and many families leaving their
houses for safety.
CIscIsNAr1, Feb 19.-The members of the
kentucky Legislature arrived here this afternoon,
invitation of the City Council. There was a
grand banquet at the Burnett House tonight.
ALBANY, Feb. 19.-The storm last night did no
material damage.
Notice has been given by employers that the
will be reduced on March 1st, and workmen have
resolved to strike,
New YORK, Feb. 19.-The 0'Neil Fenians
have, within few days, accumulated great
number Of arms at their headquarters, indicating,
it is said, an carly movement on Canada.
George Arensburg, compositor in the Times
Office, yesterday set 2,064 ems of solid minion in
hour. This is said to be the fastest type set
ting record.
CHICAGO, Feb All. L. Phepps, a farmer lv-
ing Lincoln, ILL.,, in fit of frenzy-eause
unknown-shot his wife through the head on Fri
day last, and then blew his own brains out.
In Beardstown, ILL.,, the 18th inst, des-
perate character named Wilcox, was beating a
drunken man in a saloon, when one of the propri
etors of the saloon interfered /; whereupon, Will
drew a revolver and fired, killing of the
proprietors and mortally wounding the other. The
murderer taken to Jail and on Friday night
the friends of the murdered man gathered and
quietly captured the sheriff, and took the keys of
the Jail for the purpose of taking Wilcox out to
hang him. He showed fight, having obtained
iron bar, when they shot and killed him and took
the body out and hung it to a tree.
BUFFALO, Feb. 21.- Commodore Stephen
Champlan, the last surviving commander in the
battle of Lake Eric, and who commanded the
Scorpion, from which the first and last shot of
that battle was fired, died this morning.
SAN FRANcIsco, Feb 21.-Robert Barton has
commenced libel against the Bulletin, and
claims $50 900 damages. The complaint is based
| telegraph dispatch from White Pine, pub
lished in the Bulletin of Feb 3, 1870 referring to
.
certificate of incorporation of a new journal,
to be known the SUM- filed in the County
Clerks office to-day. 1t is to be daily and weekly
in its issues. Capital 500 900. Trustees-Wm.
Bell Vim. McCabe, j. K. Phillips, and E. A
Stevens.
Coroner Jetterman resumed the inquest in the
case of Mareea McCann this evening. Mrs Nc
Cam died in the latter part of July last and was
buried. Subsequently it was ascertained that she
had been poisoned The body was exhumed and
arsenic found in the stomach. Her husband
was arrested, charged with her murder, but as no
evidence against him was elected at the Coroner
I inquest, he was discharged. A witness named J.
McCann. who could not be found at the time,
turned up few days ago, and testified tonight.
/ His testimony not material and the jury did
not change their original verdict
| BosToN, Feb. 19.-The trains many of the
/ New England railroads delayed by the wash
ing away of TRACKS by the heavy rains yesterday.
SkowHEGAN, Feb 2e.-The kennebec river is
at extraordinary highth The ice freshet is
without parallel in that section. Many bridges
| above washed away. The kenn bee and
Portland railroad is washed out in place for a
distance of fifty feet to the depth of thirty feet.
AUGUSTA, Feb. 21.-The freshet to-day was the
| most destructive known in the Kcnnebec
/ river. The water rose twenty-five feet above low
/ water mark. Immense damage has been done
along the river.
HALLowELL, Feb. 2I.-The whole business por-
ton of Water street is overlowed, and some
stores have six feet of water the first floor.
From one to two hundred houses hoated from
lilies are homeless.
CHICAGO, Feb. 21.-A Times New York special
says meeting of influential Ddndoerats opposed
to the TamEany ring held yesterday. The
| Legislature having adjourned over, the meeting
was largely attended by members and other lead
ing Democrats of the city and State. The ocea
sion developed greater anti-ring strength than
many supposed. The movement is directed against
Sweeny, Tweed. and Connolly, the Tammany
leaders. Among the leaders of the move ART
Samuel j. Tiiden, a. H. Green, Controller o
Central Park, who is said to be the anti-Tammany
candidate for Mayor, Sheriff 0'Brien, Congress
man John Fox and three State Senators. Th'
World has proclaimed to the knife agains
Tammany. The above leaders of the movt
have already received the popular title OF thu
Seven scalpers.
CHICAGO, Feb. ia Tribuae's New York spe
cial says very little ice has been harvested th
Hudson river. Agents for several companie
have gone to Maine and Canada to secure sup
plies.
Two thousand dollars in counterfeit five cen
nickles were seized yesterday in Brooklyn. Tw
arrests made.
Wall street operators predict considerable ex
, element in the gold market this week. Tn
bears are said to have made a heavy pool to de
press the price.
NEW York, Feb 27-Lsst evening heav,
rain storm set in and continued till midnight.
heavy tide then rose, and the Easements on eithe
side of the city were flooded, and much damag
was done to property before the morning cleare
up. Thus far it is the coldest day of the season
The Mormons held services at Williamsbur
yesterday. There a large attendance an
= much enthusiasm. They were addressed by newl
| arrived Missionaries from Salt Lake. The proI
osition to build Mormon Church on Grand stree
in Williamsburg, excites considerable indignatio
among the inhabitants.
Rev. Mr.. Cuyler preached sensation sermo
s on the late Voorhees, murder, last evening.
attributed the tragedy to liquor and declared ths
selling and murder go hand in hand.
: charged that men who sold the poison that craze
] the brain were accomplices in the crime. He r,
ferred to the Byron-Stowe scandal, and took o.
casion to cast volley of stones at the poet. L
= thought that the whole and only tue story
n Byron's life might be summed up in one syll,
4 BILE, ''gin.''
: Correspondence from Salt Lake City shows th,
the passage of the act to give the women suffrat
in Utah, was the work of both Mormons and Ge
e tiles, the Legislature being Mormon and the Go
ernor GENTLE. The two parties entertain differel
q views of the way in which it will work.
Alice Carey, the poetess, is dangerously i'll
0 paralysis.
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION OF TIL
HUMAN BoDY.-Mr. A B. Flowers,
s Alexander, La, writes to the Scientit