The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-11-11
EASTERN NEWS.

uoipii, cilafSeu With mlruerlDT his
wife, attempted suicide in the Del
aware county jail the evening he
fore, and then confessed that he
murdered his wife by strangling.
Stephen Waterman, member Of
the State Legislature Of Rhode
island, shot himself in the head at
Providence on tie 3D..
From Chicago, Nov. 3D., it is
stated that the total registration OF
the city is less than 1900, or one.
halfthe number of last year. The
registration it is Thought will not
go beyond 1900.
The Ch;cagoans have nominated
third ticket fer city and county
officers, headed by Er. X. :. Davis
for Mayor.
In Chicago, twenty-five hundred
wooden buildings are now i'll course
of ferection in the Ncrth Division,
GOO in the South, ard $50 i'll the
West. Permits tcr the erection Of
permanent buildings of stone ard
brick continue to be issued daily.
George Il. V Williams, Second
Deputy Commissioner Of Internal
Reve,,ue, las been engaged by the
japanese Minister for three years,
at a large salary, to 90 to Japan
and organize an internal revenue sys-
| tenn similar to tliat OF the United
tateS. He is to start January 1st.
Mayor Thomas, long connected
with the .AttioH0f IptcWJeactr
died Nov. 1st, at " ashington.
The internal Revenue receipts
for the fiscal year amount to Sis
| 9oO,13O.
Judge RarEard, of New York,
stated in court Nov. 3D., that he
was determined. upon adjustment
/ Of the law for imprisonment tor
debt or as a witness, and that lie
| doubted not that the murderers of
Nathan ard Rogers would have
been discovered but for fear ON the
! part Of some one who had seen
! them of indefinite Imprisonment.
\ member of the Committee oi
seventy, of New y ork, states that
Judge Ledwith sold out to Tam
many during the Rochester Con
| vention. His reward is a heavy
peculliary consideration, besides the
Supreme Jidgeshir.
The Congressional appropriation
for removing the Hell Gate obstruc.
tions is exhausted, and several
workmen have been discharged.
1t Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Nov 4th, terrible explosion tool
place at the railroad depot, the 10
comotive boiler of the train explod
ing. George Nolkner, engaged il
shoveling coal into the tender, wa
blown into the air fifty feet and fel
two hundred yards distant, man
gled corpse, having no clothing on bu
one boot. Adam Shilling, foreman
was killed, the top Of his head being
blown off. Adam Wanele, laborel
was injured, but to what extent i
not known. II. Burt, fireman, i
injured.
Fred. Douglass was unalimousl,
nominated as the Republican can
didate for the New York Assembly
on the 4th inst, at Rochester.
The President recently appointe'
Geo. FL. Blake, of Pennsylvania
Minister Resident at Constantine
pie, vice McNe eagh, resigned, an
John Hunt Hawes for Hoksdadi.
From Washington, Nov. 3D.,
dispatch states that five hundre
troops have been ordered to Fol
Leavenworth for assignment to tn
Eighth Cavalry.
That V. G. Powell, late clerk i
the Second Auditors office, charge
with conspiracy with n. b. Stoke
and others to defiaud the State, we
released on SO, 900 bail.
The same dispatch states that tt
agent at Fort Gibson represents ths
there are over eight hundred whit
tresspassers from Kansas on tt
Usage Reservation. The surveyor
,.o1o,,tIx- eo,,+ fo tho ncoro oouof,