The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1871-11-01

above the average, and her crop CT wheat
three per cent below the average in quantity,
as reported by tie department of Agricul-
ture.
At the recent jail escape in Mexico, NO., a
young.man from Charlton county, confined
on the charge of murder, refused TO leave.
He protested his innocence. and wants to be
vindicatea by the jury.
There are l. 175 Germans in Kansas. In
Illinois there are l03. .13S, and in Missouri
| Il3 6lS
Mr.. Frank Mokabee, a resident Of Jackson
county, was found hanging to a tree, dead,
recently. 1t is the impression thai lie was
murdered for his money, the thieves hang
| ing him TO avoid suspicion
| Two brothers named Anderson, who had
inst arrived at Manhattan from Iowa, were
burned to death by prairie fire last week.
| The board of trustees OF the agricultural
college of Arkansas have decided to locate
| it in Washington county.
The first business house re erected in Chi
cago, was that of w. d. kerfoot, real estate
agent, on Washington street, whose shanty
was up six hours after the fire.
Professor Agassiz is about starting on q
deep-sea survey of the ocean bordering
America, with dredging apparatus capa-
bic of working 1T a depth Of three thousand
athomS.
Five hundred children, were born OIL the
prairies about Chicago, the night after the
fire.
a fire at Brownsburg, Indiana, on the
10Th, destroyed five stores and three dwell
ing houses. Loss Sl5,0O0 or so, 900 insur-
ance $1,000.
Camps for The grading parties on the
Leavenworth and Denver narrow gauge
railroad were established afaHg the line of
Leavenwortl. The contractor expects to
push the work with astonishing raridity.
Fifty Thousand people are reported to
have attended the Kansas City Fair On the
10Th. Pilot Temple won the $1,000 premium;
time 2:3Q, 2:29 II and 2:33. The Fair has
already proved pocuniary success,-some-
thing remarkable for an agricultural insti-
tuition only two months in existence.
An explosion OF the boiler in the pottery
works of Clark Il Bro, CarrcltOn, Ind.
shock great mayy houses in the town, but
fortunately fifteen or twenty men in the
immediate vicinity Of the boiler escaped
without serious injury.
Pasner & Bros, meal ard marble dust
manufactory at Dayton, Ohio, was burned
on the 10Th, and the gentlemen Sustained
loss of s. COO.
John Evans OF Venice, Butler county,
Ohio, lost $1,000 in fiye-twenty bonds or
the 10Th, through the agency of burglars.
The pork and grain warehouses, as well
as the freight and ticket offices, OF the L. c.
and St. L. and w. w. and V. railroad CON-
panies, 1T Hagerstown, lad. were destroyed
by fire on the 18Th. Loss not stated, but
there was no insurance.
The total spinning capacity Of Great Brit
ain at this time is estimated to be 81 so ,22l
spindles.
Tie coal miners employed st David vii
liarn's coal banks, at Canton, ILL.,, have struck
Cor four cents bushel. They are ROW re-
ceiging three and half cents.
1t is said that Dawes, of Massachusetts,, is
TO be the chairman Of the colnI lttce OF
ways and Means in TIE House of RerroSen-
tat;yes, which meets in December.
That locomotive engineer who is always
getting down on the cow-catcher and snatch
ing little children from the jaws of death,
is now operating in Pennsylvania.
The furniture, books, papers and appur-
tcnances generally, of the Cairo chamber
of commerce, arc advertised to be Soid at
auction for arrears OF rent.
A lady in Baltimore has just received so
from the gas-light company OF that city, for
the loss Of an elm tree Oh ST. Paul street,
which was shown to have been killed by
escaping gas.
A passcr Of counterfeit currency, named
f. w. Mahoncy, is under arrest at E'ka-
d,r, Iowa. lie has been q merchant in that
nIacs and in fair standing, for something
like twenty wears.
FOREIGN.
An address has been issncd by the repre-
/ sentativcs OF the woEkingmen i'll London,
demanding the G paration Ct Church anu
/ State. The addrrs announces that meet
inos of the workiDgmcn will be helu
throughout England in support of this
/ movement.
Mr.. Bradlaw, at an IBimcnse meeting III
London on the 18th. declared that the Queen
WAS insane, and demanded Regency, to
he intrustcd to the judges OF Law and
Eoulty until Republic was established.
A rumor comes from Marseillcs that the
noIitical disturbances in Corsica are believed
to be inspired by BOnapartist partisans.
The Spanish Republicans held meeting
in Madrid on the 10Th, and denounced the
king and every form OF government for
Saain not purely Republican.
Advices from Odessa state that eight hun
drad buildings in the town of Ba2oostao
have been burned by ineendiary fires, be-
,icvcd 10 be the work of fanaticai oppressors
. ot the Jews. 4 great proportion of the in
babitants Of the town are Of the jewish
faith.
"details of the recent storms and floods in
China represent the loss of life AID property
as very great. At least three thousand
persons are said to have perished.
Cholera has appeared in Constantinople.
The final ratification by France of the
t treaty With Germany has been dispatched
4 tho rt