New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-10
MISCELLANEOUs.

MISCELLANEOUS
The Katie a Total Loss-Sulcide of Re-
cIuse-Shocking Wife Murder.
MEMPHIS, November ga dispatch, re-
ceived here at late hour last night, an
n0unced that the Katie had broken in two
amidships, and would prove a total loss. 1t
was thought here until the receipt of that
dispatch that the damage was slight, and
the wrecker Eckert had been telegraphed
for to raise her. She had 375 bales of cotton,
30 barrels whisky, $50 boxes cheese, shipped
here and insured on open policies Of con-
signees.
The steamer Katie was about two years
old cost $l93, 0O0 and was owned by Miles
Owen, of this city. She was insured in Gin
cinnati for $4,000. and in New Orleans
companies for $4,000.
lSecOnd Dispatchl
MEMPHIS, November ga dispatch from
Helena says that the cargo of the Katie will
be saved, except the cotton in the hold,
which will be slightly damaged, but ulti-
mately saved. The machinery, furniture
and state room doors are all that can be
saved Of the boat
Fort MONROE, November 9.-Colonel
Titus G.. Rice, reCluse, who has been liv-
ing ON an old barge here since the war, com
mitted suicide last night about nine o'clock,
by shooting himself through the head with
a Henry rifle. Some twenty years ago he
was a prominent citizen of Richmond, and
colonel Of the famous Black Horse Cavalry.
During the war he acted as a government
pilot on the James river. Ho was a native
Of Connecticut, and was about seventy
years old.
TERRE HAUTE, November 9-Last night
Avery Plummer and wife, of Elllsberg,
Jefferson county, New York, were passen-
gers on the westward bound express train
over the Vandalia line, and should have
left the train at this point and taken the
morning train for Evansville, whittier they
were bound, but they failed to obey the in
structiOns of the conductor, and he found
them on the train after it had started west
from here,
He arranged for them to stop at Marshall,
the first stopping place, and TO return on
the next train this way. Before reaching
Marshall he missed the aged couple, and
searched throughout the cars, but failed to
find them. Men were sent out who hunted
for them all night. At daylight they found
their bodies under Clear creek trestle.
They had mistaken the stopping OF the
train, as is customary at that point, Tor
the stopping place, and had slipped off,
falling on jagged rocks tiftytive feet below
the track. They must have been instantly
killed.
SALT LAKE, November o.-The great
trespass suit of the Emma Mining Company
against the Illinois Tunnel Company was
decided by the jury in favor of the plaintiff.
who obtained nominal damages in the sum
of $4,000. This decision practically settles
the whole question Of title, although it has
been understood for some days past that
the Emma Company have bought out the
tunnel interest
ST.. LOUIS November 3.-Dr. Samuel
Ashman, living in Topeka, Kansas. in a fit
of drunken frenzy, on Wednesday last, shot
and killed his wife, and chopped OF her
breast in an insane attempt to cut her heart
out Ii required ten men to capture and
convey him to jail, so great wece his strug-
giles.
PORTLAND, Me, November 9.-Perry
Hasty, of Saco, committed suicide at Pablo
Station this afternoon. by swallowing a
portion Of his shirt.
Weather Report.
WAR DspARgMES3,I
Office Chief sigma, officer,
Washington, November 9, 1872, as ?. NJ
PROBABILITIES
In the Northwest and thence over the
western lakes brisk nOrtheastcrlY to south
easterly winds, cloudy weather and rain,
extending tomorrow to the lower Ohio val
ley and Michigan; on the lower lakes and
thence to the upper Ohio valley, and III
new LH5Idult CltdL NG6LJLlOL tILL'A IItI LiaL y
winds; in the Middle and South Atlantic
States nOItherly to eastery winds, cloudy
weather and light rain; clearing weather in
the Gulf States with nOrthwescerly winds.
Warning signals continue at Duluth, and
are ordered for Chicago, Milwaukee and
Grand Haven.
River Intelligence.
SOUTHWEST PASS, November ?, 6 7. III
Barometer 1890 " IND northwest, light.
No arrivals. Sailed-Ship +. Patten.
SHREVEPORT, November 9.-Weather
clear and cool. River stationary. Arrived
May Lowery. epart6d-Royal George
for Alexandria. No prospects of q rise at
present.
VIcKsDURG, November 9.-Passed down
Mary L. Poe at : p. NJ I; Governor Allen,
at F. NJ Passed up-Ouachita Belle, at
IL A. NJ; Pargoud, at P. NJ. Weather
clear and cool. River falling.
MEMPHIS, November 9.-Weather clear
and warm. River stationary. Departed
Shreve, for st. Louis H. c. Jaeger, for
New Orleans; Dardanelle, for Arkansas
river; Mary Boyd, for White river.
PITTsBURG, November 9,-Monongahela
rising slowly; SIX feet six inches in the
channel. Clear and cool.
CAIRO, November 9.-Arrived-MoIlie
Ebert, from Cincinnati, at 2. P; City of
AlIOD, from OF, LOUIS, DIT > "a nj 16S TON 1t,
from Louisville, at II A. NJ Glercoe, from
New Orleans, at ?. NJ; Indanola, from
New Orleans, at P NJ. eparted-Molie
Ebert, for New Orleans, at 10 A. NJ. Glen
coe, for St. Louis, at 3 P. NJ. River risen
sixteen inches. Clear and cool.
ST. LOUIS, November 9.-Arrived-Belle
of Shreveport from Shreveport; Ames and
Susie Silver, from New Orleans. Depart
ed-Kellogg and Pauline Carroll, for New
(lrlaouo. 1Ialonn for VirlyS hI1px piyrar
falling slowly. Weather clear and plea
SAINT.
LOUISVILLE, November 9-River falling,
with five feet scant in the canal; three feet |
in the chute. Weather clear and cool De-
Tor New Orleans.