The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-06-14

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Marquette, the Bay City and East Saginaw,
the Holly, Wayne and Monroe, the Flint
River, and the Cass River-have been con-
solidated into one corporation, under the
name of the Flint and Pere Marquette Rail-
road Company.....John McLane, q Decatur,
Ind, broker, was shot and killed by a man
named Zimmerman, on the 4th inst, for al
legged intimacy with the ~latter's wife..-.The
fourth trial of Mrs. Glenn, the alleged In
d%ianapolis murderess, was commenced at
Lebanon county, Ind, on Monday, June ).
.....Andrew Bauer fell into q privy vault OF
the 81. Nicholas Hotel, at Pittsburgh, on
June 4, and was suffocated in tho cxcrement.
IAN unknown man was run over by q
train of cars at Bloomington, Ill, on June 4,
and literally torn to picces.....On June Z, ban
unknown Swede was run over and killed by
q construction train at Moline, m.--..The
switchmen on the railroads centering in
Chicago are on q strike for an increase OF
wages.
NEWCASTLE, Ind, had q SIS 900 FIRE on the
night of June 3.-..Late advices from Da-
kota Territory state that the workmen on
the Northern Pacific railroad rave no trou-
BILE whatever with the Indians, and the men
are all healthy and happy, with the work
rapidly prOgreesing-....The Oregon election
has resulted in the success Of the Republican
ticket.
The South.
MISS ELIzABErH II. Patterson, of Louis
| vile, has instituted a suit against the pro-
prietors of the United States Hotel, in that
city, for $50, 900 for alleged Islander. The
porter of the hotel told the proprietors he
saw men going into Miss Patterson's room
at unreasonable hours, and they refused to
| allow her to remain in the house. She was
| also discharged from q lucrative position on
| account of these evil reports-.-.Accounts
of tho freshet a few days ago, in Southwest
Missouri, say that whole farms were com
pleteIy washed away, leaving nothing but
rock and gravel. Live stock Of all kinds
were drowned in large numbers, and hun
dreds of yards of tho Atlantic and Pacific
railroad track were swept from its bed into
adjacent fields. A wall Of water 6vo feet
high rolled down Spring river valley, leav-
ing only devastation and ruin behind......
John Branham, who murdered his wife at
Owenton, KY, by splitting her head open
with an Ike was taken from the Owen
county jail, by 4 mob, on the night Of the
30th ult., and hung to the limb of a tree.
GEORGE F. CLARK, attached. to Noyes' cir
Gus, in making an ascension in q balloon,
at Memphis, on the 3lst ult., struck against
the jackson block, when the ropes support
ing the trapeze on which he was seated
parted, letting him fall 10 the ground, a
distance of fifty feet, cutting and bruising
him in a horrible manner. Little or no
hopes of his recovery arc entertained. His
parents reside at Columbus, o.
THE twentieth annual session of the In
ternational Typographical Union assembled
at Richmond on the Sd inst. Eighty-one
subordinate unions were represented, in
GLIDING three from the British provinces.
The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, VIM. ]. Hammond,
of New Orleans; Vice Presidents, E. c.
Crump, of Richmond, and Robert G. Streat-
or, of D~eseret, Utah Secretary and Treas
urer, John Collins, of Cincinnati; Cores
ponding Secretary, R. A. Hamilton, of Phil
adelphia.....A. o. P.-Nicholson, an old-time
politician Of Tennessee, has just had his
political disabilities removed.
A FIRE in Pulaski, Tenn, on June 5, de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of property-.-Jamos
Parker was killed, and several others in
jured, by the explosion of a locomotive
boiler, at Sanderson, Fla, on the 5th inst.
Washington.
Bora houses of Congress have reconsidered
| their resolution to adjourn on jun 3, and
extended the time to Juno 1O.-...The Score
| tary Of the Treasury has directed the Assist
ant Treasurer at New York 10 withdraw
| 81, 300, 900 Of three per cents ......It is an
nounced that the civil service regulations
respecting the appointment of clerks in tho
| departments are completed ,..... The United
States District Court at Washington has di-
rected the payment TO three parties OF the
proceeds of the sale of their property by the
government under the confscation act. This
ruling accords with the Amnesty law.
The President. On Saturday, vetoed the bill
to pay DR.. Milton Best, of Kentucky, the
value of his house, destroyed by Union
troops during the war. This closes tho door
sgsidst a large class Of loyal claims pending
"a Congress.
TEE latest advices from the capital leave
nc hope for the success of the supplemental
article to the Washington Treaty-....The
conference committee of the two houses of
Congress on the Tax bill have agreed to re-
port a consolidated tax on spirits Of 20 cents,
and TO fix the duty Of tobacco at 20 cents.
...,.Ex-President johnson has gone 10 Wash
ington, in response TO a summons from the
House Military Committee, TO testify with
reference to the missing Buell. csurt-martial
records.
TIE Presidents proclamation, just issued
in accordance with the amnesty act, dis
misses all penal prosecutions against those
persons coming under it's provisions, who, it
is alleged, held Office in violation of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States. Rumors that &c.,
rotary Fish is about to resign are again rife
at the capital.
Foreign.
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