The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-08-08
COSDENsEB TELEGRAMS.

MONDAY, August 8.
Gold closed in New York, Saturday. at
I2lA.
One hundred Germans left New York.
on Saturday, for Fatherland.
A Labor Convention OF colored men will
meet at Saratoga on the Oath inst.
The City of Antwerp arrived at Queens
town on Saturday.
The weather In New York Saturday was
very hot, and several sun-strokes are re-
ported.
A fire in Providence. N. j.. on Friday
night, destroyed property to the value OF
A young German druggist of Cincinnati
committed suicide, Friday night, by TAX
ing strychntne.
Potter Palmer and wife sailed for En-
rope, on Saturday, in the steamer Vile De
Paris.
The sentence of sheridan, the wife muir
derer. of New York. has been commuted
to Imprisonment for life.
The next annual meeting of the .Ameri-
can Dental Association VIII be held at
White sulphur Springs, Va.
VIM. @. Coffin. Treasurer of the New
edfords Mass, Savings Institution, has
absconded with about $4,000 of the funds.
An unknown Norwegian was run over
and instantly killed, Saturday morning,
by a train on the Northwestern Railroad.
The Red Stockings, on Saturday, beat
the Olympics, Of Washington, &C base pail
white washed on every inning except the
fourth.
The Republican Executive Committee OF
Hamilton County, Ohio, have postponed
the nomination of county and Congress
sional candidates till september LIST.
VIM H. Hanna q prominent lawyer of
Bloomington, Illinois, was instantly killed
by lightning, while in bed, on Friday
night, and his wife by his side severely
shocked.
VIM. Murray. Jr.. a prominent citizen of
BellviIle. Illinois, suicided on saturday
afternoon. by shooting himself. Cause,
suffering from an tncurable disease OF the
throat.
The tug Tornado exploded her boiler on
Saturday morning, four miles from OsWe-
go, New York. The captain, engineer and
q deck hand were lost. The tug was val
ued at S12, ,OCJs and not insured.
By the accident on the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, Saturday night, Mr.. Pol
lard. contractor on the road and his
family, and MT. Hage, OF Staunton, were
badly wounded, also Mr.. g. j. Greens OF
Hanover County.
Valentine, the defaulting cashier Of the
Erie freight depot in Patersons N. J.,
whose accounts show mucn larger SEN
cheney than was at hrst reported ts said 70
have been seen recently IN CieVeiAnu. NO
steps have been taken TO secure his arrest.
The European delegates to the General
Conferences tf the Evangelical AiiancSs
IN at was to be held in New York, In Sep
tember, not being able to come on account
of the war, the Conference mas Deen posi-
poned for the present.
The ship Levanter, from London to BOs-
ton. was destroyC by IRE on the Goth uit.
near Grand Banks. The crew and psssen-
gers, after three days unsuccessful efforts
| to subdue the flames, left the vessel in
boats, and were picked up by fishing
shooner aud landed al MarDlehead.
@. c. harrington and wife murdered
their own child, it is alleged, near Usage,
Iowa. by smothering It TO death and roll
ing a log upon IL In tue woods. They have
been arrested Mrs Harrington is q daugh-
ter of Rev. A. 6 JuId, OF Delaware County,
Iowa.
John BecK, a boy aged sixteen, was kill
ed in Cincinnati, on Saturday, by a brick
thrown by deaf and dumb boy. named
Gilbert, who was being aQgaTYated ed by
other boys, while Beck was sitting quietly
by on the curb stone.
A terrible accident occurred SATURDAY
night on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad,
the next TO the rear car being throWn
down an embankment OBJ hundred feet
high, Shattertng the car tf pieces and kill
ing twelve persons and woundlng twenty,
some of them mortally.
/ A disturbance which bid fair to prove a
/ de- sperate riot, occurred in Boston Satur-
/ day night, caused by the arrest OF small
/ how. whom parties endeavOred to rescue
/ A policeman fired four shots into the
/ crowd, all of which took effect, woundina
/ seriously r. McShamOn, seven years old
/ in the leg, and q little boy, name un.
/ known, in the breast. An excited crowd
/ having stones began to fly quite lively
/ when the police being reinforced, the
/ crowd as dispersed.