The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-16

ago, $500, 900 worth of Arizona diamonds
were received in New York......F Forty thou
sand dollars worth of smuggled silks were
seized in New York the other day......A new
oil we'll took fire at Titusville, Pa, recently
and fatally burned four men......Sime
Leland, n of the well-known Leland
brothers, hotel proprietors, died at New
Rochelle, N. Y, last week.
TaE Continental Sugar Refinery, in South
Boston, has been destroyed by fire. The
loss is $500 ,ooo..-.The Grand Jury has pre-
sented an Indictment against L. J. Jen.
nings, of the New York Times, for libel on
Gen. Kilpatrick..... Cen. Diven has resigned
the Erie Vice Presidency.
The West.
TIE contract for concrete stone 10 be used
in the founda ton Of the new Custom House
in Chicago has been awarded to the Lsmont
Qll.l Stone Company, at s2.65 per cubic
yard--.There is quite n excitement in
San Francisco over the diamond discoveries
in Arizona, and many are preparing for q
rush TO the diggipgs .....A little child of Dr..
keuch'er, of Springfield, ILL.,, wandered into
the doctors office, and drank some poison
GUS drug, from the effects of which the lit
tie fellow died.....Lieut. Wheeler's great
SARouitAou las tGlb 0dlt Luxe,
Utah, for Northern Arizona and Eastern
Nevada. The party comprises $50 men
and extensive outfit, mules, wagons, sup
plies, etc.
TIE motion for q new trial in the case of
Mrs. Glenn, the Tasi~.spolis murdersss, has
tecu uverrulsd, and she is again sentenced
to the Penitentisry for life. The Southern
heiiroad Company has negotiated $780, 600
worth OF seven per cent. bonds of the city
81 Cincinnati, at q per cent, being the
first installment of sic 900, 900 which the
city has voted to the project......Th boiler
IN . stone quarry at Aurora, ILL.,, exploded
last week, blowing the proprietor, Blasey
Berthold, $50 feet, literally tearing him to
Pieces.--.Dr. Andrews, of Indianapolis, has
been elected President of the Indiana Uni
versity, at Greencastle, in place Of Bishop
Bowman.
ADvIczs from the Cheyenne Indian Agency,
in Dakota, represent that there is a general
disposition among the redskins of that tribe
70 make trouble, and that's general outbreak
70 immiDent......The German Catholics of
C~incinnati, in meeting Assem- bled, nave ex-
pressed their Indignation at the expulsion Of
the Jesuits from The exact To-
caiIty OF the diamond fields recently discoy-
ered somewhere out West is puzzling the p-
initiated. TITS said by some they are near
the northern line of New Mexico and
Arizona. Parties in San Francisco have
been te!egraphing 10 Denver, COL, asking
for Information, but the Denverites seem te
De as much in Vie derk as the 'Friscans,
A FoLIucE officer named O.Mara was won.
tonly murdered in Chicago, on the 5th inst.
by a notorious rough named Rafferty,. The
murderer is under a-rest.....M Miss McLaupb-
TN, OF Dayton county, Iowa, kindI,d her
last FIRE on the 9Th inst. She used kero-
sene....-The assessed valuation of the real
and personal property of the State of Iowa
for 1871 is $34s, ia, 53l-sn increase in one
year oil $l3,lS0 ,53l......A grain elevator. con-
tanning I55,eoO bushels Of corn and 81. Ooo
bushels of wheat, was burned in Chicago on
the 9Th inst. Total loss about $I2O, 600.
CHIcAso's mortality roll for the month of
July foots up q total of 1,372, Of whom over
half were children under one year of age.
The deaths in June numbered sl3....Tbs
wife Of Mr.. John Mathewson, a respectabIe
? farmer OF Fulton county, Ill, was foully
murdered by some unknown person, last
week, while the family were engaged In
harvest work some distance from the house
""..one OF the most terrible hailstorms
ever known recently passed over LYON
county, Iowa, causing immense damage.
HaiEstones tai to fourteen inches in circum-
terence poured down for thirty minutes.
rlddling window-giass, and, in many in
stances, passing completely through the
shingled roofs OF houses.
CLrsros R. wIssLow, son of Admiral
Winslow, of the Navy, committed suicids
BY shooting himself through the head, at
Ban Francisco, on the It'll of August.....T The |
saw mill Of John McGraw, of Portsmouth. |
Mich, the largest and most complete in IN |
country, was totally destroyed by fir. o'
The Ito Of Auguet, together with 1000 .ooo
teet OF lumber. Loss, $500, 600; insured for |
Sl75,oeo".-Wm. Hewitt, one of Cleveland,
w-slthiest and best citizens, died last veet
9: Bright's disease of the kidneys.
The South.
ANNIE GIBSON, of Nashville, committed
suicide, the other day, by hanging herself,
Tucker Ballard, Marshal Of Crab Orchard
Ky, shot Martin Delaney dead, last week
While attempting to arrest him.
THE troubles in Pope county, Ark, still
continued at last accounts. and many DC ple
are leaving the country. Armed bands Of
militia are still at large, despite the Gov.
crnors proclamation calling OF them n die.
band. Gov. Hadley threatens 10 put the
county under martial law....Ths evidences
taken before the Frontier Commission au.
thorized by Congress, and now sitting A.
Texas, duplicates Gen. Cort,n.s
in assisting the thieves in running off TIL |
from Texas into Mexico. 1t also establis,as |
fact that eighty miles of the most E.rt;,s }
river frontier in Texas is unsettled on sc. I
,ount Of the insecurity of life and property Q
rom these Mexican raids. Aayiccs f,o,, {
Charleston, 8. C., state that the drought n ]
excessive throughout the State, that The Q
are almost Parching up, and that IL s
ain doea not fall soon there will be nothing .
eft for the c~sterpillars to eat. The cotton 2
roP IN some sections of the State will be 1
n entire failure.
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TEE investigations being prosecuted by tho o.