Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1872-03-19

es Albert Harvey, colored, was arrcs
0. ed at Lima, Ohio, on the 7th, for Il
a. murder of his wife at Indianapoli
is nine years ago. 1t is claimed tn;
}. Harvey killed his wife during the r.
r. bellion, and Immediately afterward Ell
: tered the army, and it was suppose
i that he was dead. lie was living wit
t his fourth wife when arrested.
Hillsdalo people talk of esablishin
a gas company.
Emigration is setting in strongly a
Gratiot county.
Tecumseh haspaid out about $50, 00C
in round numbers for DIR sscd hogs thi
season, and about $4,000 for liv,
hogs.
The bridge of the Northern Contra
over the Kalamazoo at Albion will use
upwards of $4,000 feet Of square tim
Der.
Jacob Miller, the man recently in
jurcd by the fall of frozen earth
boulder at the gravel pit, Albion, sup
posed at the time to have received
fatal injuries is recovering.
Charles Kimble, while at work in a
tamarack swamp near White Oak, in
Ingham county, had his leg broken
on Monday week by the falling upon
him of a tree.
G. j. Assink, of Grand Rapids,
whose saloon was burned ON Tuesday
last, has been arrested for arson.
Lumbermen in the western counties
are fearful that the streams will not
contain water enough to float their
logs.
A new jail is to be constructed in
Wexford county.
A house at Traverse City occupied
by Capt. Green and VIM. Patterson
was burned on the ID Nearly the en-
tire household goods and wearing ap-
pearel of the two families were con-
sumed.
The government Of Prince Edwards
Island has been defeated in the House
and was dissolved on Monday.
Workmen are now engaged in re.
storing the police and fire telegraph
wires in the north division of Chicago, |
and will complete the work this week.
The district delegates chosen in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, to
the National Republican Convention
were instructed to vote for Grant and
Colfax,
The Medical Department Of the Uni.
'ersity of Pennsylvania held its COM
nencement in Philadelphia Tuesday
Eightythrec graduates re-
,eived diplomas.
Detectives reached Louisville Tues
lay with Frank Mattcrer, brought
rom Portsmouth, Ohio, on n charge
If committing highway robbery near
Louisville four years ago.
All the new railroads in Missouri
ire to get $4,000 mile subsidy, and
shall pay into the State Treasury ono
md one.half per cent Of the gross re-
'cipts, within two years after receiving
he subsidy.
A wealthy farmer named Jacob
Wolf, sixty-fye years Of age, living
lcar Erie, Pa, suicidcd by hanging
tuesday. A brother also wealthy,
lung himself a year or so ago, and ar
ther drowned himself in the Ohio
The Supreme Court of Kansas,
Tuesday, set aside the verdict in the
Iedlicott case and ordered new
rial, mainly on the ground that the
over court admitted as testimony the
ying statement Of Ruth, the murder
d man.
A young man named John Wallace !
vas shot and killed by Mr.. Harvey
n Saline, Kansas, Monday night. Wal
ace was on spree and made noise
before Harvey's door, whcreupon the
after shot him. Harvey had to be
guarded to prevent mob from hang
nc him. He is now in Jail.
a mass meeting of colorcd employees
of tobacco manufacturers in Richmond
Tuesday, adopted resolutions depre-
eating the hardness of Congress in
of the tobacco tax, and ask
ing that this question, on which the |
sustenance of SO many poor of the
State depends, be at once acted on.
At six o'clock Tuesday evening a
man supposed to be G w Kirk, re-
spected citizen Of Clark county, Ind,
WIG left home day Of two since dc.
claring that he intended to commit
suicide, threw himself head foremost
under a moving freight car, in Jeffer-
sonville, Ind, and was instantly killed,
his head and shoulders. being terribly
mangled.