Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1872-07-02

Eben Howell was shot by James Nun
roe.
| The eleventh Stokes juror was sc
cured Wednesday.
| The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue and the tobacco men talk up thu
new tax.
The New York Orangemen have
permission to parade July IL, and ex
pect to have 5000 men in line.
Mr.. Koener, of Illinois, denies that
he is opposed to Greeley. Per contra,
he goes in for him.
In Benton County, Mississippi, a
man named Barnett killed Mr.. Muir
ray, whose daughter he had seduced.
DIR. Bratton, recently abducted
from Toronto and taken to South
Carolina, has been returned to Toron-
to.
1t is stated that negotiations for the
complete evacuation of French terri
tory by German troops has Teen
brought to favorable conclusion.
An international copyright treaty
between Great Britain and the German
Empire has been drafted at Berlin.
On Thursday week a tornado swedt
over a narrow belt of Lake Huron.
The schooner Jamiea was caught in the
midst of it when off White Rock, and
capsized, and the cook, Eliza Wealth
erhead drowned. The wind came
with not moments warning. Two
other vessels were entirely stripped of
their canvass.
A new military company consisting
of seventy-three men has been organ
lied at Grand Rapids. A. G. Whit
comb has been chosen captain.
Frankenmuth has organized an
"antitreating' society, believing there
by that very great incentive to in
temperance will be cradicated.
Port Huron has appointed commit
tees, orators, etc., to make all necessary
preparations for grand celebration of
of the 18th of July.
A woman aged twenty-five whose
name subsequently ascertained to be
Nancy Ann Eeastman, and who, from
her actions, is supposed to have been
insane, drowned herself near Port
Huron recently. She had removed
her clothing and walked out into the
water of the lake and sat down, reso-
lutely keeping her head beneath the
surface. In this same posture she was
afterwards found by a young man who
happened that way in fishing boat.
A boy aged nine years named Wells,
it is alleged, broke into White & Co.'S
hardware store at Hillsdale short
time since, and stole seven penknives;
after this he entered a cenfectioners
and satiated himself with candies and
small change, and then ran into the
hands of the officers.
The planning, single, sash and door
mill belonging to George Reed, at
Otisville, caught fire Wednesday
morning and burned down, together
with all its machinery and large
of stock finished up, which
was to have been shipped on the same
day. The loss will reach $4,000.
There was 81, 900 insurance.
The Missouri Legislature has finally
passed bill redistricting the State.
A boy named Miller, aged eleven,
was drowned at Milwaukee Thursday
while bathing.
Frank Milton, aged sixteen years
was drowned at Terre Haute Thurs
lay while bathing.
Samuel Curtis, of Chicago, killed
himself at Hamilton, New York,
Thursday morning. Cause, partial
insanity, resulting from losses by the |
chicago fire.
w. A. Bartlett, of Chicago, dcliv-
red an address before the College of
literature at Cornell University
thursday evening. 1t was the finest J
literary effort of the week.
The impeachment trial of Judge
lucas, which has been in progress be-
ore the Missouri Senate for some
lays past, terminated Thursday by the
withdrawal of the charges by the
and the court dissolved.
The Hersey Outline says: About
month since, so the story goes, a wife
md family were bargained away from
me man to another, in Osccola
county. The sum paid by the present
possessor for the wife and three child
rem was eight dollars. As the first
husband was very "poor stick" the
wife willingly made the exchange; but
she scenes to have had doubts as to
the family and herself being really
worth eight dollars to No. 1, for when