Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-12
News Items.

AL uiSu.
,r The stockholders of the Louisvill
IS Cincinnati and Lexington short lin
&C road, on Tuesday reelected the oil
e Board Of Directors, who afterward
,. reelected the old officers of the road
Il A shooting ARRAY occurred at Bee
$ ford, Indiana, last Monday night, j
y which Willoughby Nugent, despers
do, was shot through the arm an
body, and is not expected to recover
! Nugent was terror to the neighbor
hood.
Patrick Rooney, submarine diver
was drowned on Tuesday, at the watel
works above St, Louis, by his appara
tus becoming entangled with some
spiles and beams under the water
which loosened the top of the cup Of
the helmet, letting the water into the
armor. He was two hours under the
water.
In New Albany, Ind, Tuesday
evening, a young woman named Sarah
Rooms, attempted to commit suicide
by wading in the river, but was res
cucd. She said she was sick and out
of money, and was on her way from
Alabama to friends in Illinois. She
was furnished with a railroad pass and
sent on her way.
The son and daughter of Mrs. Paul
Schisler, living in Iowa township, Iowa,
aged eight and ten years, were drown
cd in pond near their mothers house,
ON Saturday week. The boy fell in
first, and the sister, in attempting to
rescue him, fell in also, and both per-
ished before assistance could reach
them.
Two coal miners named Michael
McMullen and Alexander Durking,
working at a coal branch two miles
from Alton, Illinois, got into an alter
cation Monday night week, which re-
suited in Durking stabbing McMullen
in the heart, killing him instantly
McMullen was the attacking party. |
Durking gave himself up, and was re-
leased on bail.
The steamer Westphalia, which ar
rived in New York Tuesday, has the
largest portion of the great bronze
Tyler Dawson fountain, given by Hen
~ Probsco, for an esplanade in Cincin-
natl. Ferdinand Won Muller, with
part of the workmen, from Munich,
came on the Westphalia, for the pur-
pose of aiding in the preparations for
the celebration, which is expected to
take place about October 18th.
A fire, on the 9Th, at East Saginaw,
destroyed the buildings, wood and 9TH
er materials of G. Wenk & Co.'S lime
kiln; loss, $4,000, with no insurance.
The body of an infant was found
buried in some sawdust at Lawton, on
W ednesday last, which had evidently
been there for some time.
Charles Hollands house, at East
Saginaw, was entered by two unknown
persons, on the night of the 3D., and a
gold watch and other articles valued
at $500 taken. A youth named Hume,
aged fifteen, and heretofore of good
was arrested as being one
Of the parties to the burglary. He
gave bail in the sum of $500.
The Jackson Patriot shows up, in
a record nearly three columns long,
the past career and reputation of G.
c. Burt, an attorney, who was inAu-
entail in instigating libel suit against
that paper.
The sink hole near Trufant's, Mont
calm county, on Thursday week, Sec
ond time swallowed up large piece of
track. Trees are being felled and
large timbers thrown into the hole to
make sure foundation for another
mass of dirt.
The Indian troubles in Southern
California are abating.
New and rich sill Ter mines have
been discovered near Prescott, Arizo-
MIA.
Three persons died of yellow fever.
in two days, at Charleston, s. G.
Thomas b. Morris hanged himself
on Saturday night week, in a Boston
police station, where he was confined
for drunkenness.
The Hon. Marsh Giddings, the new
Governor of New Mexico, was. inaug.
urated at Saute Fe, on Saturday week.
He was serenaded in the evening by a
vast assemblage.
Daniel Cushman, aged ~ years, en-
ployed on board the steamer Saxon,
was crushed to death on the I'd, at
Boston, between the steamer and the
wharf. r rt,,f
The Governor of st. Thomas, W. l.,
has ordered shat $4,000 be appropriat-
ed for the relief of the suffers by the