The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

Springfield, Mass July "a, Amherst 'une1-
pectedly took the honors, Harvard
being second. Harvard led until the
last half mile, when Amherst made
a magnificent squirt and crossed the line
one and a half boat lengths ahead. Harvard
was second, Amherst Agricultural third,
Bowdoin fourth, Williams fifth, and Yale
sixth. The results were wholly unexpected,
the f~avorites being beaten in both races.
Amherst followed Middletown closely in
the freshman race. Mrs. Jane Lance, OF
Of typhoid fever, jumped in the river last
week. She was rescued, but died soon after.
.....The trial of Judge Barnard by the New
York State Senate, sitting as a court OF I'M
peachment at Saratoga, is dragging along
slowly. The testimony is very strong
against tie accused, and he will probably
be convicted 1.-THE extensive buildings OF
the Erie railroad in Jersey City were de-
stroyed by fire on the night of July "a. The
ALI the books and papers pertaining to the
shops were consumed.
ALLISON & Co.'s car works, in West Phila-
delphia, were destroyed by FIRE, July Is.
Loss, $500, 000......Th Catholic Protectory,
at Westchester, n. Y, was burned July Is,
involving a loss of $3.50, 0oo. .....B BY the burn
ing of the Erie railroad buildings, in Jersey
City, the company has, it is estimated, sus-
tanned q loss of $500, 900. One man was
killed outright by falling walls, and another
is missing. The losses by this calamity
have caused a serious depression in Erie
stock. 49,
Two boats-one containing a boy and a
girl, and the other carrying two men
drifted over Niagara Falls on the 26th ult.
.....Hon. Alexander W. Randall, ex-Gov-
~ernor of Wisconsin, and Postmaster General
under President Lincoln, died at Elmirs,
N. Y.,o the 25th ult., aged So years.
The sugar refinery of Berger, Hurlbut 4
Livingstone. in New York, was recently de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $S50,oOO. THE
Brooklyn city authorities seem determined
to enforce the Sunday law, and have COM
menced by sending two saloon-keepers to
prison for twenty days as a penalty for its
violation ......E x- Congressman Harry Hib-
bard, of New Hampshire, is dead.
A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE occurred at Hunters
Point, Long Island, en the 30th ult. A
number Of canal boats and the Standard
Oil Works were destroyed. The total loss
will reach q half million dollses.
BURKARDT HETZLER, of Rochester, New
York, impelled by the green-eyed monster,
shot Jacob Goetzman dead and then com
mitted suicide.-..Gen. Fitzpatrick has sued
the New York Times for libel, for reporting
that he (Kilpatrick), when acting as Minis
ter to Chilli, "tried to force en- abandoned
woman on Chilian society and was recalled"
1.-THE Mayor of Yeddo, Japan, and a
number of Japanese AMBASSADORS attended
fhA =, -
which has been built for the Japanese Gov
eminent, at New York, last Henri
Drayton died in New York on the 3lst ult.
BY the death of this eminent artist tn dra-
matte profession is deprived of its finest
singer and the operate stage of its best
sctor...-.A general meeting of the Roman
Catholic clergy and laity is to be held in
New York city, the object being TO protest
against the enforcement of the British law
of 1929 expelling Jesuits from that King
dom
Tine West.
The two Chippewa Indians who murdered
Miss Macarthur were forcibly taken from
the Brainerd, Mimi, Jail, on the night of
July %, and hung to a tree in the street.
The execution was witnessed by the entire
population Of the town, who fully approved
PtotSCui VIZ ucnpy
aged 10 and Is, were drowned at Davenport,
Iowa, July %, while bathing In the river
making seven persons who have met their
death there in that manner this season......
By the fall of a hosting machine in Mac
neale 3 Urban's safe factory, at Cincinnati,
July "a, Julius Urban, brother of one of the
Proprietors, was instantly killed, end three
others were injured.-..M. Paulus, of the
french Band, was robbed of 81 900 by some
sdroit thief who entered his room, at Gin
cinnat. Miss Goodali, who is travelling with
the band, was relieved of $500 in a similar
manner......Th m Of Carthage, Ind,
have abolished all liquor saloons in that
town, and the thirsty Carthaginians will
hereafter be compelled to resort +. she pri-
vate bottle. Some sixty indignant matrons
visited the various dram shops and besough,
their owners to abandon their vile business
and, failing in their mission, they formed
in solid phalanx, on the evening OF July %
marched to the misery mills, one after the
other, smashing tho furniture and leaving
h4voc behind them in every case.
TEE lynching case at Brainard, MINI, ha,
stirred up the enmity of the Chippewas
and the India s Of that tribe, at last &C
counts, occupied the town in large mum.
bersj threats of vengeance being frequently
heard. Three companies of troops were or
dored there to preserve the peace....Th
Red River Indians are becoming restless
again. They decline to enter into an,
treaty with the Dominion Government, ant
propose to stop all mining operations. Al
extra military force will be necessary Il
prevent open insurrectiou. .-s
TnE house of Mr.. j. L. Ramsey, of Va,
Writ, Ohio, was blown down by O tornad,
last week, killing Mrs. Ramsey and a youn,
hnr opl co-.-r-
the house.-..A horrible accident occurred
near Detroit on the 26th ult. A bow wa
thrown BY a vicious horse, and, the halle
becoming fastened around his neck, he wa
dragged for some distance by the apimal
when bis head was actually severed from
his body and cast several yards distant.
Crop reports from various points in Hi
lois, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska make
most favorable showing. In Central Illinoi
recent heavy rains have lone some damage
but q good average yield is promised.
hKas named Stack died at Ottawa, Ill.
last week, from effects of drinking corrosive
sublimatA and alcohol, in mistake fol
whisky.-rGeorge B. Hsmiiton, of Dubuque
lowe, has accepted a bet from John d. Bush
Tor Sa,ooo on the Presidential election. The
~sger ~ $loo on each State, except Florida
$ioe that Grant will not carry three States,
and S4oo that he will not carry ten States.
-,;..Mrs. simon Goff, an estimable lady re-
shiDg near Sterling. Ill, recently died from
the effects OF chloroform, which she inhaled
Tor the purpose o fhaving a tooth pulled.
ANOTHER raft-tug explosion has occurred
on the Mississippi river, near McGresor,
iovs, Involving tn destruction of six lives
and the manning of some dozen more.....,
By a railroad accident on the Ksnsas.p.-
cifc railroad, in Kansas, recently. i've mas