Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-07-27

: Baltimore roughs kill each 'othe
4 with brick bats.
Lucy Stone will not lecture afte
next winter, having made fortune.
Stoneman, of cavalry fame, ha
leased hotel in Baltimore.
Copper City, Nevada, was founde'
on the 18th of May, and now contain
one hundred and twenty-seven houses
"Silver Sam" is the name Of New
Orleans burglar who writes communi
cations to the dailies.
Philadelphia has more wooden-leg
ged citizens than any other city in the
Union.
| The model of gallows was sent to
the Patent Office from Indiana, the
other day, by Hosier genius, who is
after patent.
Temple, of Quincy, has reared no
less than thirteen young Temples in
honor of his native town.
A gentleman at Council Bluff un-
dertook to marry the next week after
burying his wife, and they feathered
him.
For undertaking to put arsenic in
stead of mustard on his meat, Mrs. G.
II. Webb, of Elgin, repineth in prison.
Twenty prisoners recently under
took to break prison at Leavenworth,
but were driven back by showers of
hot water.
George Nudher is the name of a
Vermonter who has been taken by the
sheriff for burning two churches.
The boarding houses of South Bend
are troubled with board bill jumpers.
The Boston gymnast who can hang
by his hands for an hour, is beaten by
a Colorado thief who hung by his neck
three days.
Matrimony is so scarce in Delaware
that young ladies jump at an ordinary
offer of a home and bonnet.
Address him at the Columbus Pen
itentiary. His name was Marvin, he
wanted to get rid of rival in love,
and resorted to a shot gun.
Two freight and coal trains on the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
railroad collided Thursday afternoon,
six miles west of Morristown, N. j.
The engines, three freight and twenty
coal cars were completely demolished.
No lives were lost.
DIR. George G. Blackman, a distin-
guished surgeon, was buried at Avon
dale, hear Cincinnati, on Friday.
The tobacco crop of Montgomery
county, Ohio, promises to be the best
since its cultivation in that locality.
Emil ReuAy, jeweler, residing in
Menda, Iowa, accidentally shot him
self dead on Wednesday week, while
hunting.
Chas. H. Hurley was caught in the
belt at Martin, Knight & Co.'s lumber
mill, at Anota, Minnesota, Friday, and
instantly killed.
Petitions have been forwarded to
Washington from Kentucky, urging
the appointment of Col. Given to sue.
coed Commissioner Pleasanton.
Carl Diehl, manager of government
railways in Norway, is about to visit
Canada, on an invitation Of the direc.
tors of the narrow guage railroads.
The whole business portion of the
city of Truckee, California, on the
Central Pacific Railroad, the great
lumber district of the Sierra Nevada
! was destroyed by fire, Thursday. The
loss is immense.
A man named Bernard Walker, dice
suddenly in Quincy, Illinois, Friday
He was cooper and went down celia
after some hoop poles while overheated
and the cold chilled him so that he fe!
dead instantly.
The Galena Gazette of the 21st say
} letter has been received in that cit
from Hon. Z. b. Washburn, Ministe
to France, which indicates beyon
question, that he will not come HON
this year. He is suffering from agu
and is about to visit Carlsbad for I'll
benefit of his health.
: Nearly one hundred thousand ba
t rels more of salt has been inspected
Bay City thus far this season, that f
!, the corresponding period last year.
n August LIST, Bay City will vote {
the question Of raising $4,000 for W
n ter works.
e Henry Shucks, while engaged in
e ing a saw at mill in Grand Rapit
on the 21st, was badly mangled abo
IT the arm by the sudden starting of 4
!, machinery.
]. William Prout an old resident
s. Quincy, died there on the Goth, at t
ID age Of eighty-six.
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