Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-07-20


cost a New York broker seventeen
thousand dollars.
The Philadelphia directory beats
that of New York for John Smiths.
The New York thievs are emigrating
to the West.
The President walks about two miles
per day.
Daniel Pratt has footed it over three
thousand miles and cheated" two hun
dred railroad conductors.
George Francis Train is off for Paris;
knowing that he alone can settle the
commune trubles. 80 -
Weston says that he will not accept
a challenge from any one, preferring to
take his strolls alone.
A citizen of Boston proposes to
make tour to the west on horeback.
Marriage rings are no longer given
in Connecticut ~ Att.S fs3s
A Richmond lady wrung the nose of
the judge who fined her fifty dollars for
theft.
The bad boys of Dubuque wake up
honest folks by pulling bellknobs off
An Ohio farmer has three hundred
and twenty acres Of pumpkins.
A dispute about coner lot got lot
of coroners together in Cincinnati the
other day.
Cyrus w. Field is not making the
fortune predicted, but is doing well.
A ten-acre mellow near Davenport
has yielded heavy crops of grass every
year for thirty'nine successive years. &
The Delawre peach crop this season
will be the largest for years.
The prospects of an unusual yield of
corn in Kansas is very promising.
Friday was the hottest day of the
season in Pittsburgh, the thermometer
indicating 105 degrees in the shade.
One hundred and thirty six divorces
were granted in the Cincinnati courts
during the year ending July. %
A large lot ofnarrow gague railroad
iron arrived at St. Louis Friday for the
Denver & Rio Grand Railroad.
Thursday evening several hundred
German immigrants departed in special
trains from the Jersey City depot to
seek homes in Minnesota.
In Pittsburg, Friday, j John McClusky
fell on a circular saw, and had an arm
cut so bailey that it was found neces-
sary to amputate it.
Jackson Wood, one of the Oldest
citizens of Greenville Township, Ind,
had leg nearly cut off at the ankle by
a moving machine on Friday.
c. j. Estabrook, of Denver, and S.
o. Copp of st. Louis, were drowned in
Turin Lake, Colorado, on Wednesday
evening by the upsetting of boat.
A report from North Platte says
the Indians drove off few head of
horses from a rancho one mile south
of the town. The cavalry started af-
ter the Indians, and succeeded i'm cap
turing the horses, but the Indians
escaped. -.
l.. p. Shepherd, who shot and kill
ed his brother-in-law William Bloin at
Leland, Illinois, last Saturday, while
the latter and his brother we're "clean.
ing out" Shepherd, after a two days
examination before the coroner's in
quest, was discharged on the ground
of justifable homicide.
A terrible hurricane visited st. 10
seph and vicinity, Missouri, Thursday
night. Houses were blown down and
unroofed in every part Of the city
Four or five persons were killed by
lightning and falling timbers and many
more or less seriously wounded. The
loss of property cannot fall below two
hundred thousand dollars.
1t is stated that Red Cloud, the
Sioux Chief, has threatened to drive
all the whites from the vicinity OF
Fort Laramie, and that an additional
force has been asked for protection.
The Missouri, Pacific and Iron
Mountain Railroads claim to be ex.
empt from taxation by their charters
and proceedings have been instituted
to test the question before the courts
of Missouri.
Pine Wood factory, in Hickman
County, Tennessee, owned by s. l.
Graham e. Son, was consumed by fire
July 18th. All the machinery and a
large amount of cotton we're destroy.
ed. Estimated loss, s125,OOO; no in
surance. The fire was accidental. II
was one of the most successful cotton
mills in the State and manufactured
large quantities of goods.
A fire broke out July 18th in Prices
clothing store at Maquon, Knox Coun