The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-02-01
ooNDEsssB TEL seRAMs.

TUESDAY, February /.
Three buildings were destroyed by fire
In BelIair on SUNDAY morning.
A heavy snow-storm prevailed yesterday
throughout New England.
The last span of the Ohio River bridge at
Louisville was com pleied yesterday after
noon. $500
New Hampshire since Sat urday, giving
lumbermen hopes. rr
The Tennessee Legislature has passed
severe law Tor the punishment of masked
marauders.
The report OF The street Railroad Com,
81 500 during the last year.
Henry Kuk, while drunk, stabbed his
wife. perhaps fatally, in Cincinnati, yes
terday.
The trial of Philip Warhsm, for ihe
murder of David kitby, has be n going on
in Cincinnati for the past seven days.
Rev. Willard spaulding has been ten
dered the pastOrate OF the First UDlVer-
salist Church, at salary of $1,000.
The first through train passed over the
BOSTON. Hartford & Erie Railroad, from
FlshkIiI to Pine Plains yesterday.
large steam ssile5 l} sTPoqisa isf l Sel9teld9y
building. bat injuring NO person.
Afrei in Madison, Wis onsin, on SUNDAY
morning. destroyed property To the
amount of 5000. Fully ilsured
A fire occurred in GaIesburg, Illinois,
on Sunday morning, Involving u loss OF
$4,000. Fully Insured.
There is no truth in the report Of n rail
road accident satd 10 have occurred in Ter
sey City Saturday night.
Judge Lewis Caldwell. prominent iaW-
yel and author OF MaysyiIle, Kentucky,
died at Lexington, sunday night.
An unsuccessful attempt was made on
Sunday morning TO rob the ational Bank
at CoXsackste, N l.
Jane Elliott. co'ored woman; was
found dead IN the suburbs OF Nashville
yesterday, having ruptured blood YES e..
The failure OF Leroy Nichols & Co, bro
keTs, is announced, upon contra 't4 Tor
several thousand shares of Rock Island
stocks
Benjamin. q wealthy planter, at Hope
PIantatiou, on YaZ)O River, few days
ago. Cause, bad whisky.
John Mahoney, a railr ad lab ,rer, was
bellsburg, KY, esterdayt and literally cat
| In pieces.
The SteubenviIie accommodation train
knocked a woman from a bridge on Satur-
day morn ing, severely 1hJurlnS her,
though no bones were broken.
A constant stream of people passed
through the City Hail. at Portland, Me 4,
yesterday, to view The remains of George
Peabody, lying III state.
Governor Chamb arlain yesterday gave a
dinner TO the British Captain, Admiral
Farragut aud their officers. and other DIS
| tlnguished visitors
Fffz Gibbons, a brakeman on the NasL-
! vile and Chattanooga Railroad, was
Knocked If the train at Broad Street Tun-
mel, Nashville, last night, and killed.
| A young man named Menkley, of Ro-
| cheIle. Illinois, was killed by train, yes
terday, on the Burlington & Quincy r iiI-
road, Lear Aurora, IlnnOis.
Nearly four hundred workingmen were
discharged from the Boston Navy Yard
day named down his flag, aid lett for his
! home in Connecticut yesterday.
The employees in the Philadelphia Navy
continue at WORK and let their wages ac-
cumuIate tIit the appropriation oil is
| passed.
A suit has been commence by Evan
the accident at Willow Tree last week,
| against the Long Island Rail- oad Com
pany, for damages In ssOsaU0-
The jury in the case of Perry, tried for
/ the mnrd Or OF watchman siayes, in BROOK
| lyn, haye asain disagreed and were & ois-
] CHARGED by Judge Pratt az an early hoGr
on sunday morning.
On Saturday, Mrs. Cook, wife of the
! scoundrel who eIoped with Miss Johnson,
| received a dispatch from chicago, signed
| Horace COoK, saying, =. nave left for parts
| unknown. You VIA never see me again" /"
An entire family, consisting OF man,
his wife and two children, were horribly
| burned yesterday morning by the explo-
| sion of a keroseue lamp. One of the
| children died, aud the other is In a critical
condition. The parents VIII probaaiy re-
| cover.
| Henry Allen, formerly employed In the
/ SuD-Treasury building, New York, who
| has been under examination on caerge
I of having presented false and fraudulent
\ vouchers, with "A view to defiaud the Uni
! ted States, was yesterday discharged.
DR.. George F. Collins, a noted desperate,
| was arrested at Louisville and sent 10 Bull
/ hit County, on charge OF having shot a
I farmer named Perry Bishop, near Mount
! WashiC gLOn, who, from inability, had
! failed TO pay a small debt.
Reynolds, the murderer of VIM. Town
/ send, n grocer on Hudson Street n. Y,
! having walked from has dronKen orgie,
becomes defiant, and says that hanging for
murder IN New York is played out. 1t Is
10 be hoPed he win De hanged first.
II is reported from Topeka. Kansas, that
efIueuce OF a Startling character Will be
produceu before the Legislative Commi =
| tee, TO investigate the charges of eorruD-
ton agains. the Kansas CongressfonaI
delegation, especially against Senator
| Pomeroy.
The length Of the Louisville bridge.
completed yesterday, exclusive of the an
| prOaches, is one mile 1t has two main
| spans, one Of 80 feet and one 400 feet It
| has II draw over the canal. The butfdfug
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