The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-09-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The East.

~ new IOrk uuIlhB huSuss,""soiS
nor Mario, the celebrated tenor, arrived at
New Y .,rk the other day-...The exact num-
bar Of lives lost by the sinking of the steam
er Metis, in Long Island Sound, can never
be ascertsined. Thirty bodies have been
recovered, and from fifteen to twenty per-
sons remain as yet unaccounted or......Over
"a quarter of a million dollars worth of
property was destroyed by the recent do
istructive FIRE at Erie, Pa...-..John Gregory
Smith having resigned the Presidency of the
Northern Pacific railroad, George W Cass,
of Pennsylvania, has been elected to sue
Deed him.
AIKEN, the New York policeman who was
detected in the act of committing a burglary
while patrolling his beat, and who confessed
to 8 series of similar crimes, has been SEN
tsnced-to twenty years IN the Peniteptiary.
.-..A New Haven, Ct, brute the other day
Drained his wife Int child with an IKE, and
then cut his own throat from ear 10 ear.
Fam and jealousy impelled him to the hor-
rid deco .....P Patrick Morrissey was executed
at Buffalo, last week, for the unnatural crime
of numbering his mother. The culprit read
a confession on the scsfoId, acknowledging
his guilt, attributed it to rum, and warned
those present to beware of intoxicating
drinks and shun evil associates......Dr.
Schoeppe has just been acquitted on his
second trial, at Carlisle, Pa, of the charge
of numbering Mrs. Steinnecke. The frst trial
res tied in a conviction and death sentence.
...-. In Portland, Me-, the other day, an in
FAINT child Of Mrs. Herrick lost its life by a
cat sucking it's breath while sleeping.
BILL FORESTER, the suspected murderer
of Mr.. Nathan, the New York banker, some
three years ago, was arrested in Washing
ton last week.....T The New York Tribune, re-
ferring to Senator Summers departure for
Europe, says "his illness, while serious, is
not regarded as dangerous. Among the in
cidcnts of his injuries in 1856 was an inAam-
nation of the spinal cord, the effect of blows
on the head. Out of this grew an abnormal
affection of the heart, which recurs with
overwork, and is only cured by rest and by
restoration of general health" ......John v.
Gerlach was found drowned, at Philadel-
phia, the other day. He leaves four discon-
ISOLATE widows to mourn his death.....The
Board of Education at Hunters Point, Long
Island, has ordered the Bible to be read in
the public schools every morning, children
whose parents object to the Bible to be al
lowed to remain from school until after the
reading.
The General Council of the InternstIonsl
Society will hereafter have its headquarters
in New York city, and Karl Marx, the most
prominent among the International ;eaders.
will henceforth reside in that city......T The
feeling is strong among the New York de-
tectives and reporters that Forester r, re-
Gently arrested at Washington, is the real
murderer Of Benjamin Nathan, and that a
chain of evidence will be worked nm that
cannot but result in his conviction. The
statue of Sir Walter Scott, designed for Gem
trail Park, has arrived at New York.
DR.. scHoEPrE, recently acquitted at Car
isle, Psy of the murder of Miss Steinecke,
has filed a caveat to the will of deceased.
-"..A box containing SIC, 900 worth Of conn.,
terfeit notes, and plates for the manufacture
OF the queer, was seized in a BROOKLYN ex.
press office the other day.
The West.
A COLLISION occurred recently between
two passenger trains on the Lake Erie d.
vision of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
near Independence, Ohio, resulting in Tho
death of five persons and the ~wounding of
twenty-eight, several of whom will prob
ably die OF their ipjuries.....An affrsy oc-
CURED last week in Virginia Civ. C,ss
county, Ill, between C. +. Diffenbscher
Circuit Clerk, and Mr.. Edward Milstesd. in
which the latter received a mortal vonnd
from a pistol shot.
Mosss W. FIELD, the Republican candidate
for Congress, has sued the Detroit Un;~. f.,
$4,000 worth of Islander.
A REPORT comes from the Indian Territorv
that two rival factions of the Creek Indians
had a fight recently, in which seven were
Killed and a large number wounded. The
dlmcuIty, II Is said, grew out Of the election
of a negro as Chief of the nation hv On 81
the factions.-..Great excitement has been
produced in Salt Lake upon the Reported
discovery that the entire soil of Farm valley
near that city, is auriferous, averaging son
per ton. The Josrnal says the whole sec-
ton OF land is rich with precious metals
......Mr. L.. B. Drew died at San Frapcisco.
q few days since, from the effects of a can,
Ger produced by a friend pinching his arm
10 months ago. He had submitted to three
amputations without avail.....Tbe news
from the West is full of accounts of Indisn
depredatIons. A Sioux City telegram state,
that q band of Indians who were enoaoed
IN the fight with Maj. Baker, in the YeIIow.
stone Valley, recently came into the Chev-
enne Agency. They report their own loss
az eleven men killed, and Bakers loss at
over forty killed and wounded, and saw he
was 30 badly crippled as to be Obliged to re-
r Man 70 Fort Ellis without having accom-
phshed the obJectof the expedition. The red
SKINS are still committing depredations in
southern Utah. In Arizona the Apacbes are
on tne rampage, numbering, robbinp and
stealing Indiscriminately. Lieuts. Riem ard
stewart have been murdered near Tpcso,
and Corporal Black captured and tortured
THE Texas cattle fever is spreading in
Nor an and adjoining counties of Illinois.
~"aon Samuel Caldwell, a prominent cit
zen o. Peoria, ILL.,, and late Representative
.n.ne legislature, has been sdjudged in
sane-"..Ine Art Exposition at Cincinnati
mas been largely attended, and has proved !
grand s. ccess. Murder and lawlessnes.
nave grown SO alarmingly frequent in Chi.
cago a. TO arouse the people of that CITY to
the necessity OF taking some measures for
mutual protection against the ASA sins and
robbers that infest the town, and with that
view a call has been published, signed nv
seventy OF the most prominent citizens. for
a puoiic open air meeting. Vigilance COM
niistees, lynch law, and other strong RENEE
dies are loudly talked of as the most effectual
iheans OF meeting the emergency.
Gen. SHERIDAN telegraphs from Duluth.
MINI. that the Yellowstone expedition,
started out by the Northern Pacific railroad
managers is a failure, the engineers refus-
ing to proceed further Than The norrt.;,.
OF the Yellowstone Valley, fearing an attacL
oy indians--..One Of the men Summoned
Tor juror in the Fair trial, at San Francisco
stated 70 the Court that he had been an
proached BY a person who offered him An .o6o
II he would secure a place on the iurv and
vote for the acquittal of the accused. Ths
briber was promptly arrested and held to
answer the charge of centempt...... Christian
hanerty has been tried at Chicago for the
murder OF a policeman in August last, and
to be hung.