The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-06-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

TIE Democrats of Pennsylvania have
Hon. C. r. Buckalew for Gov
rno r...... Strikes among the workingmen eff
New York still continue, with no prospect
asspeedy settlement of the troubles......
Brick Pomeroy has mandanused each men,
Der of the New York Board Of Auditors, to
compel the payment of his bill for city adj
vertisips Efhe claim mounts TO between
$l0,e01 and $50 Co.,. While some work
men veFes feaming an oil well near Oil City,
Ia, last week, there was a sudden flow
of oil and gas, and an explosion occurred
in the derrick, blowing the men outside to q
considerable distance, and setting them Oh
fire. Two of them were killed, and two
seriously burned.
SEVERAL employees on the Delaware and
Lackawanna railroad have been arrested
or embezzling the company Of large sums
Of money during the past two years.-...The
great strike of the New York workingmen
continues, with every prospect Of success.
......Late advicos from New York state that
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett, the founder
and proprietor of the Herald, is hopelessly
i'll. His death may be expected at any
moment.....The first jury i~mpanelled un-
der the New York State law providing that
the reading of a newspaper shall not be a
capital offense in a juror, has been drawn
at Pulaski, in that State.
The strikes in the Eastern cities for eight
hours labor and ten hours pay have been
practically successful. The effect upon the
employees will be less serious han was al
first expected, since but few contracts have
yet been made without reference to the pos.
sible advance in wages---.The New York
Court House Commissioners o Saturday
discharged all the workmen employed on
the new court house building. The men had
not received any wages Ter the past Mint
The Daily Register has been Be-
lected asethe official paper of New York city,
at $3.50 a year. The successful bidder was
never heard Of before......Dr. William Pitch
or died ct Hudson, N. Y, or the LIST inst,
from poison introduced into his system while
attending an erysipelas patent.
GEO. LAvERr, convicted of murder in the
second degree for killing officer Lambrecht,
has been sentenced, at New York, to the
State prison for life...... VIM. II. Wadleigh,
discount clerk in the Merchants National
Bank, Boston, is q defsulter to the amount
Of $751;, 600. Fred. Douglass residence at
Rochester, N. Y, was burned on Sunday,
June 2.
Ar Rochester, N. Y, OF June S, a floor Of
a brewery gave way, with a largo quantity
Of grain, and an immense mash-tub filled
with boiling liquor. Five men were fatally
injured, two of them being scalded to death.
ION Monday night, June 3, Mrs. Jane
Farley, in a fit of jealous dependency, cut
her throat at a friends house, in New York,
dying in q few moments.-.-Tho German
Brewers Association met at New York, on
Wednesday, June 5. Brewers were present
from every State in the Union. They repre-
sent a capital of $500, 000, 080......Herr Franz
Abt, the great German composer, is on a
tour out West, where he is being feted like a
prince
ELEVEN thousand dollars in United States
bonds was burned in the house of Frederick
Douglass, at Rochester, on June 2....The
w~orkingmen of Boston are about to inaugu-
rate a movement looking to the establish
ment of the eight-hour system. The Phila-
delphia mechanics are also beginning to sgi-
tate the matter,....Arfred Eugene LaGrave, q
Brool,e rtreet fNew York; merchant, has
left for parts unknown, leaving unpaid debts
amounting to $500 900. A. 7. Stewart, II.
B. Clafin & Co., and other large dealers, are
sufferers......A Bridgeport Conn dispatch
states that Capt. Colvocoresses, Of the United
States Naval Retiring Board, who was muir
dered on the night Of June 8, was robbed Of
his watch and about $le, 900. Capt. Colvo-
coreeses had insurance on his life amounting
to over 500, 900.
The West.
CAPT HENRY DEXTER, u of the oldest
steamboatmen on the Western waters, dice
at Evansville, Ind, last week, from an over
dose Of morphine......The indianapolis Jour
nal has passed into the hands of a new stool
company, headed by MI. Redmour, late O
the junction railroad Phillip D. Banks,
mail robber Of Des Moines, Iowa, has PLEADED
guilty to ten indictments......The annua
report Of the State Insurance Department O
Ohio shows u life insurance companies il
the State, and the totalamount of life policai
now in force 10 DO about $l3o, 00o, 000....A
Mrs. BrndyIi wife Of Hon. Alex. RItchelPi
coackman, suicided at Milwaukee last week
by cutting her throat......Joh Barclay hal
been found guilty Of mu-der IN the frs
degree, at Columbus, Obi, for killing Charles
F. Garner ...... Hon. N. Camden, of Park
ersburg, has beep dominated by the Demo
Gratis for Governor of West Virginia.
JOHN s0rER is under sentence of death, a
Popaac, Ill, for the murder of William
Aoilings.....P. D. Banks, of Page county
Iowa, has been sentenced TO ten years il
the penitentiary for robbing the mail......l
little girl fell into . barrel Of scalding slep
at Peoria, ILL.,, last week, and was 80 badly
burned that death ensued shortly after
ward.-..H enslee, the wife-murderer, hal
been sentenced 70 twenty years at hard la
Dor, at jacksonville, W.....The Suprem,
Court,of, Indiana has affirmed the decision
of the Franklin Circuit Court, by which
Werner Bailey was sentenced to imprison
ment for, life for being an accomplish o
Macdonald Cheek, in the murder of Thos
Harrison, near Lawrsnccburg, in iS70......A
son of Col, Taylor, Paymaster United State
army, stationed at Leavenworth, Kansas
was foully murdered in that city, by som,
unknown parties, oil the night OF the Sis
ult. -Lsa,
TnE.vieinity Of Springfield, ILL.,, was visit
cd by an unprecedented rainfall on the nigh
of the I'd inst, doing a vast amount Of dam
age..:..A terrible thunder storm, accompa
MED BY rain and wind, passed over TER,
Hsute, Ind, last week, doing immense dam
age. The Office Of the Gazette was unroofed
1T is announced that the murderers o
Hon. Sharon Tyndalo, at Springfield, Ill.
have been discovered, after a years cease.
less search by shrewd detectives. Charles
Cumming and James Kennedy, at presen,
serving out sentences in the ~penitentiary
are said 10 be the guilty parties......Joel +
Griffin, postmaster at Omaha, Neb., has plead
guilty to the charge of appropriating to his
private use mail hacks belonging to the
the p ,stal service--..Auburn, Ill, was visit.
ed by q destructive fire on the 3lst ult. LOST
about $50 200. No Insurance..
LARGE portion of the village of South
Scion, Madison county, Ohio, was destroyed
by fire on juno /. Loss, $40, 200; partially
insureds.-.0n fhe 22d Of May the Apaches
murdered Theodore Pritz, a herdcr, almost
within sight Of Prescott, and ran off 200
sheep. Prits formerly reported for the press
of st. Louis. His body was horribly mutt
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