Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-26
News Items.

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were reported in Charleston Wednes-
day.
Al Anderson, of Tomah, Wiscon-
sin, was accidentally shot Tuesday
He died instantly.
Gen. Hawley declines to take any
part in the campaign in Ohio on ac-
count of sickness.
Horace Greeley lectured at Farwell
Hall, hcago, Wednesday evening,
on "Self Made Men"
Archbishop gSpaulding, who has
been lying i'll for some time in Balti.
more, was easier Wednesday night.
The last rail on the European and
North American Railroad, between
Bangor and st. Johns, was laid
Wednesday.
Twenty thousand people visited the
Cincinnati Industrial Exposition
Wednesday. The Exposition closes
on the 7th of October.
Three New Orleans Metropolitan
Policemen have just been sentenced
to one years Imprisonment for club
bling man severely.
The steamboat men of Cincinnati
held a large meeting Wednesday
morning to take action in regard to
the amendments to the new steamboat
law. -
Gen. Geo. w. McCook was in New
York, Wednesday, consulting a ply
stefan about the propriety of hts re-
turning to Ohio and participating in
the canvass.
A six hundred FOUNDER twclve-inch
rifle gun burst on the beach at For
trcss Monroe, Wednesday, during the
trial of new kind of powder. No
person was injured.
A solemn requiem mass for the souls
of the Papal Zouaves who fell in de-
Tending Rome one year ago, was celc-
brated in st. Patrick's Cathedral, New
York, Wednesday morning.
The statement made some time since
in Florida paper that the whole of
Orange county in that State had been
inundated is pronounced by State En-
gineer j. A. Mcdonald, who left Flor
ida, after the publication was made,
to be pure invention.
A pretty full delegation of promi-
nent citizens Of ST. Louis representing
the city at large, Merchants Elk
change, Board of Trade and Congress.
sional Districts of Missouri, left st. |
Louis Friday to attend the National |
Commercial Convention at Baltimore. |
Tom Carter, one of the prisoners
concerned in the outbreak at the Ne
vada State Prison, has been recaptured |
and another tracked and severely
wounded. The main gang were close
ly pursued by troops from Carson and
it is believetthat'l the bulk of them
will be recaptured.
The passengers room at the station
in Leslie was broken into OH the night
of the 10Th and some baggage and box
es of cigars stolen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Corbit, of Grand
Rapids, celebrated their fiftieth ami
versary of their wedding on the 18th.
j, Q. A. Warren, in lecture before
the Kent Scientific Institute at Grand
Rapids on "Silk Culture" asserted the
adaptability of the climate of Michi-
gan to the production of several va
rieties of cocoons.
The students in Hillsdale College
now number over 800.
AT East Saginaw, a debate between
Rev. S. Z. Wishara and DR.. Ballard,
IS announced. The latter maintains
that the use of intoxicating drinks as
a beverage is justified by the word of
God, and is beneficial to man, which
doctrine Mr.. Wishard controverts.
Plumbago has been discovered near
LAnse.
The Portage Gazette says: There
s some talk of making a winter route
rom Lake Mechigammi down the
Menomince River to the shore of
Green Bay. Forty miles of the road
S already built north of the Town of
Menominec. BY opening up this
ihoroughfare, our winter mails will be
received several hours in advance of
he time required to deliver them by
he old route.
A farmer at Forsstown, in Genessc
county, has captured an immensely
arge bald eagle, and taken the same
o East Saginaw.
Benjamin Hudson's son, aged eleven !
7cars, was thrown from wagon, which,
passing over his body broke his arm
n two places.
The Cleveland House, in the Town
hip Of Banks, was burned on the \