The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-07-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned From the Telegraph.
Thursday. July 4.

two boys murder their own mother,
stabbing and cutting her to pieces.
DIR. Livingstone says the Nile is q.
600 miles long. This is the largest
river in the world.
A woman and man of Paris will be
executed because of belonging to the
commune.
The Michigan Democratic Conven-
vention endorse Greeley.
There were 20 deaths from sun
stroke in Boston yesterday.
The thermometer was 102 in New
York yesterday. Nearly two hun
bred eases of suD-stroke were report
ed yesterday, aud sixty deaths by
sun-stroke occurred between midnight
and eight O'Clock this morning. One
hundred and six deaths from heat have
occurred within the past few days.
Two men burned q child to death
for reyenge upon its parents, at Cleye-
land.
Saturday, July 6.
Ex-Seeretary Wells is out for Gree.
ley.
"A Chicago policeman conldn't ar
rest two men, and killed them.
The Fourth was celebrated through
out tho South for the first time in IL
years. 1t was celebrated in the Eas.
tern States on q grander scale than
usual.
Two lions and 80 monkeys escaped
from Robinson's meuagerie. at West
Haven, u. Y, yesterday. They are
still loose in the woods.
At Mammoth Park to-day Long
fellow won the Jersey Jockey Club
purse, mhe heats, 3 in 5, making the
first heat in 143k.
Last evening trains on the Saakhof
Railroad, on Long Island, collided be-
tween Fresh Pond and Bnstwicks
Station, Three persons were killed
and many injured.
New York had SO fires Yesterday.
There were also 81 cases of sun-stroke
and "a deaths.
A Geneva (Swetzerland) special
says a brilliant celebration was held
there yesterday. The American flag
was salnted in the morning with one
hundred and one guns, aud there was
a grand American banquet in the
evening. United States Minister
Rublee presided, supported by Caleb
| Gushing and Charles Francis Adams.
Mr.. Adams responded TO the toast
The day we celebrate. In the course
of his speech he made many happy
illusions To the work which has been
just achieved for a settlement of the
1iaLanta claims. Mr.. Gushing re-
piled to the toast-Her majesty. Queen
Of England. was enthusiastically re-
ceived by the assemblage. The day
wound up by n ball and brilliant dis
play of fire works.
A terrible fire is now raging IN
Constantinople. One thousand homes
in the poorer quarters and in the su-
burbs of Scutari had already been de-
stroyed. When the telegram was
forwarded there was 10 indications
given that the fire was under control.
Sunday, July 2.
Three children were burned to
death by the explosion of a kerosene
lamp at Seymore, Ind.
Three men killed by lightning at
Boston.
Ten men and a boy persisted in a
burning coal mine at Linneville Ohio.
A New York woman in a fit of
insanity, choked her daughterto death.
There were % deaths from sun
stroke in Philadelphia yesterday; SO
in New York.
Bndd Dobic offers to match Gold
smith Maid against Bonner's horses
Dexter and Joe Elliot, for the best
three in five heats mp, subject to all
rules, for 5000 and $4,000, or any
Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania or New
York course.
A Baltimore dispatch announces
the arrival of q large number of del
egates to the Democratic Convention,
among them Senator Kelley of Ore
gon. It seems to be the general be-
lief that Greeley will be nominated.
Monday, July 6.
New York dispatch says the
deaths for the week ending at noon
to-day 1863; the largest recorded iuthe
history of the city.
Seven or eight sudden deaths have
occurred in Washington during the
week-two or more of them fromthe
effect of heat.
Tuesday, July 9.
Franklin, n. H., had a 5000 FIRE
yesterday, in which a boy persisted.
Rev. Samuel j. Brown, an aged
Methodist preacher, of Cincinnati,
shot and killed a boy yesterday for
invading his grounds to recover a ball
which had been knocked over the
fence. There is talk of lynching the
reverend shootist.
The fire in Constantinople is check
ed.
Stokes is still on trial for killing
Fisk.
Up to last night an immense crowd
had already assembled at Baltimore
to attend the National Democratic
Convention to assemble there to-day.
Wednesday, July 10.
Josephine Mansfield testified in the
Stokes trial yesterday that Fisk threat
ened TO kill Stokes.
The National Democratic Conven-
ton met at Baltimore yesterday.
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