The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-06-28
TW WEEK.
The East.

Miss TENNIE C. CLAFLIN has been elected
Colonel ofthe Eighty-seventh regiment Of
New York recruits (colored) -... During a
floral concert in Henry Ward Beecher's
church, New York, on the 14th inst, Miss
Margaret Rich ardson was fatally burned by
the explosion of kerosene Iamp..-..Thrty
persons were poisoned at d New York board
ing house., on the l4th inst, by eating Gust
ard. One has died, and others are IN q
dangerous condition. 800. cambridge Wad-
leigh Republican) is New Hampshire's new
United States Senator, vice James ". Patter-
son......BySthc falling of a new smoke-stack
in process of erection, at West Conshocken,
Pa, on the 18th inst, six persons were killed
outright, and eight wounded ....Four cases
Of sun-stroke in New York on the 14th inst.
IAN attenpt was made to burn the Cuban
headquarters, in New York, on the l4th inst.
THE steamship Rhein, which arrived at
New Yofki on the l4th inst, had on board
the German Imperial Band, Herr Strauss,
Mime. Pescha, Leutner ZEN route for the Ju-
bilee), and the wife and daughter of Horace
Greeley sturi7piUi,F" 800 .
New YonK and Brooklyn, and their sub
urbs, were visited by a fierce hurricane on
the evening Of the l4th inst, doing consid-
cradle damage to property. Many persons
were injured, and in Brooklyn three were
killed outright......Th citizens of East New
York have been annoyed by ~incondiaries to
such an extent that they lave formed q
vigilance committee, and propose to deal
summarily with these dangerous fre-bugs.--.
La Grave, the swindling New York mer-
chant, carrfedsawaye some $500, 900. Detect
ives announce that he has lied to Europe--..
The New York Orangsmen, have determined
to parade on July IL, fully armed for any
cmergency.-...The water in White Lake,
Sullivan county, N. Y, near Port Jarvis, has
receded several feet the past few days, and
is still rapidly sinking. The lake is on the
mountain-top, and has probably found a
subterranean outlet......B By the explosion OF
a locomotive near Hornellsville, N. Y, on
June I5,tSbsPersons were killed and one
wounded sfh
The International Peace Jubilee, which
opened at Boston on Monday, June II, may
be set down as a success. The telegraph
informs US that the audience was immense
and enthusiastic, and the chorus, though
gigantic, proved perfectly manageable,
The notorious bank robber, Dutch Heinrich
an inmate Of Sing Sing, has become a ravin.
maniac.-...Rev. o. B. rockingham, of New
York, has been Illuminating from his pulpit
against the striking laborers-..There i.
much tribulatisn in Pittsburgh, produced
by the announcement of a fatal case of un.
doubted Asiatic cholera..-..Tom Thumb ha.
sailed for Europe. 1t is announced that
Thorn IS has sailed down $500, Oo0.-...Ad irec
tor of the st. Petersburg (Russia) Prison
Commission was in Pittsburgh, the other
day, picking up prison statistics.
GEN. SIcKLEs is said to be the coming Presi.
dent of Erie-.....The smallpox has broken
out in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa, and the
students are scampering for home......Th
sugar ~refiners of New York have struck, and
the refineries are idle.
THE employing manufacturer of New
York have resolved to resist the eight-hour
movement 10 tho bitter end......Since Jan.
1, I42,05I emigrants have arrived at New
period last year..--.The trial of Stokes, the
slayer of James Fisk, Jr., opened in New
York, on-Jpne lathe venerable Peter
Cooper, Of New York, has given the shirt
cutters $1,000 TO aid them in their strike......
At the recent Convention of Railway Man
ayers of the New York Central, Erie, and
Pennsylvania Central railroad lines, an
agreement, ives, made to sell hereafter no
more passenger tickets for political meetings
or State fairs at reduced rates.....Joseph
Jcfferson's condfien, it seems, ID not 30 bad
as was at first supposed. The great artist is
said to be daily improving, and there is
every reason tothope that his eyesight will
be completely restored within a very short
Period....Anong the gentlemen spoken of
tor President Of Erie are Gen. Geo. B. Nc
Clellan; 7. B. Blackstone, of the Chicago
and Alton road and James F. Joy, of the
Michigan Central. 1t is the impression
that Gen. Mcclellan will be the successful
The West.
NorwIrHsrAnDISG the late frosts, California
will produce, this season, over eight mill n
gallons of wine, and more than her usual
quota of brandy.....The assessed value of
property in California ia over 5000 900 900,
= But three polvgamous marriages occurred
in Utah for the month ending June I......
&c. Gordon, a wealthy citizen of st. Louis,
while spreading q %tarpaulin over a newly
made wall of an addition to his residence to
project 1t IRON the storm, last week, slipped
and Tell, rupturing a bloed-vessel, and died
in half an hour. Bennett Peters. a former
"eHithy citi5en OF CuIuaSv, aud tire In ,cuppI
and proprietor of the once famous Red
Jacket Bitters, has just enlisted as a private
soldier in the regular army.
By the explosion of the raft boat d. A..
Mcdonald, on the Mississippi river, oppo-
site McGregor, Iowa, on June Is, about
thirty persons were killed, and a great
many manned 1.-THE murderer of Hon.
Sharon Tyndale, of Springfield, ILL.,, has at
last been discovered in the person of James
Kennedy, an Illinois Penitentiary convict.
Gov. Palmer has just pardoned the culprit
out OF prison, in order that he may be put
on trial for the deed. The credit of unearth-
ing the author of this foul and mysterious
murder Is sail to belong to MI. Charles 7.
Askins, a 81. Clair county, H., farmer, who,
obtaining a faint clue, pursued it fer
months, m tie face of the most discouraging
obstaclesIeven after the professional de-
tectives had abandoned the scent-until he
has succeeded in establishing a chain of tes-
timony which, it is claimed, cannot but re-
suit in the conviction of the man Kennedy.
"A Mrs. Logan, residing near Rockford,
Ill., last week, in q fit Of dependency, su-
perinduced by domestic tro lbles, threw her
babe into the river, and then jumped in
herself, both being drowned lin boring an
artesian well, at Jacksonville, ILL.,, on the
18th inst, . vein of water was struck, which
burst up with such tremendous force as to
drive off the workmen. At last accounts the
anger was still in the well, and the w..er
squirting mp through a four-inch pipe to the
height of fifty feet
REPORTS as TO the state Of the winter wheat
sown in five Of the prominent Northwestern
States indicate tho failure of the crop. In
many instances the crop has been plowed in,
being useless but as manure, and in the re-
naming cases the yield has scarcely been
one.third or one-half of that of last year..
Studebaker Brothers, extensive wagon man
ufactory, ut South Bend, Ind, was burned
Mondsy,,June IL. Two adjoining dwelling
houses were also consumed. Loss, $50, 900.
-Four persons were killed and twenty
Injured by the wrecking Of a construction
train near Paxton, ILL.,, June 17......At Gin
cinnati, q few days since, Rev. J. j. Thomp-
son. pastor of Christie M. Z. Chapel, had his
had milf onon i'll lAl-l -l-