The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-07-19
M, Mercer county, Ohio, on the 9th Of July.

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Two men named Jacob Kimmel and Alex
ander Mcleod, and q youth, brother Of
Kimmel, had been guilty of violating and
subsequently numbering . girl IA years OF
sge, living in Celins, and were in Jail await
ing trial. A mob of between two and three
thousand people gathered at the Jail, over
powered the Sheriff, forced the doors, took
the three prisoners out Of town, and hanged
two of them, but, through the interpolation
of the brother Of the murdered girl, the
youths life was spared and he was returned to
prison. When the two men were being hung'
q farmer residing about two hundred yards
from the scene committed suicide ~ cutting
his throat with q butchers knife.....A hre
at indianapolis, July Q, destroyed Massler
Broe.' clothing house, involving a loss OF
$50 .OOO.. ..Leander 6tratton and H. Kennett
we're drowned at Lagro, Ind, the other day,
while bathing in the canal..-.The number
of deaths in Chicago for the week ending
July 10 was 372-an increase Of 104 over
the week preceding; 23l were children
under one year of age.
The stove manufacturers were in national
session at Cincinnati last week. John s.
Perry, of Albany, presided. The amount OF
capital invested in the manufacture Of
stoves in the United States was stated at
$50, 000, 900, giving employment to l50,ooo
men....W. D. Richardson, of Springfield,
has hired $50 of the Illinois Penitentiary
convicts for FIVE years, at 81 cents per
day.
Rev. SAMUEL J. Browne, who shot and
| killed the boy Schick, at Cincinnati, last
week, has been bsiled in 50,Ooo..""Two
! ladies were drowned in Walnut creek, near
| Topeka, Kansas. July 10, while b~athing"...
Two persons (colored) were killed at Madi-
son, Ind, July II, by q gas explosion:.-.
Oscar and Pliny Whitcomb, aged is and Is,
were drowned while bathing. near Geneseo,
| ILL.,, July I0.....Two mon were killed by
lightning at Believer Station, ILL.,, July
1I......And still they come. John Summers,
Of Milwaukee, while bathing in the canal,
July IL, sank to rise no more-slIve.....h
brother of the man Dorman, who committed
suicide near where the Mercer ceuntytOhiol
mob hung Kimmell and Mcleod, killed
himself by cutting his throat with a razor,
on the IIth inst. 1t is supposed that both
of them were in some way connected with
the murder of Miss Secore. The excitement
still continues high in that section.
The South.
THREE prisoners attempted to escape from
the custody of the Sheriff of Pope county,
Ark, a few days ago, and were fred upon
and killed by the sherif's guard Walter
G. Overton, long connected with the press oil
Louisville, and Of late the Washington cor
respondent Of the Courier Journal, died in
Louisville, July ., of fistuls....Thomas
Smith, colored, will hang at Louisville,
Sept. Is, for the murder Of Mrs. Braden in
May, IS71......W illism Cain was crushed TO
death at Louisville, last week, by an iron
mould weighing 1000 pounds falling upon
him while he was at tho bottom OF a pit
twelve feet VIM. Hagmann suicided
at st. Louis, July ., BY jumping into the
river from q ferry boat. About the same
hour, Mrs. Ellen Allen poisoned herself
with Paris green. Cause, in both cases
Whisky.
TIE caterpillar is playing havoc with
the cotton fields in some portions of Ala
bama ....John II. Lane, of Illinois, stopped
at Litch6eld, KY, last week, wrote on a
slip of paper, Old Death, l salute thee"
took a dose of morphine, and shuffled of
his mortal coil.
SEVEN persons were killed outright, and
several dangerously injured, BY . bridge
giving way beneath q railroad train, neal
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.,on the 11th
of July..-.The caterpillsrs, in unusually
the cotton belt Of Alabama, three weeks
earlier than ever before. The Same report
comes from South Carolina. There is much
depression among the planters in conso'
quebce.-..Stilson Hutehins has sold hi
one third interest in the 81. Louis Times Il
Henry Ewing for $50, oe0.
Washington.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 9Th inst
says: The sensations of tho day have beer
the suicide Of a War Department clerk, thu
literal carving up Of one negro by another
and the falling Of three derricks, each nearly
one hundred feet in height, at the new Stat
Department, among the laborers at work OF
the lower story. BY this last accident sew
eral were killed and many wounded 18th
District Court has awarded $1so, 900 priz
money for the destruction Of the rebel ran
Albemarle.
IT is announced that the postal cards viii
not be ready for q month yet.
Foreign.
IT is said that Victor Hugo has secured
communication of the sentence Of Henri
Rochefort to simple Punishment from
France, instead Of transportation To New
Caledouia... ... The last report concerning Dr.
Houard is that his release hiss becn ordered
by the Spanish Government--..It is ssi'
the great Catholic powers OF Europe hav,
agreed TO hold a concIave Of Cardinals, il
order TO have an understanding between tn
Cardinals and the Governments intereste,
in the Monterey is again in tn
hands Of the Juarist troops, who telegraph
forthwith that I" the revolution is practical
ly ended, the chiefs only keeping their me,
together 10 sec ure terms Of surrender from
the Government"
TIE celebrated German author, Rober
Prutz, is dead..-..The Berlin correspondent
of the London Standard writes that the in
creasing tide of emigration from Germany
to America causes considerable uBessines,
to the Imperial Government. Measures fol
the repression Of this exodus Of the subject.
Of the Empire are seriously contemplated
-....A terrible explosion, supplemented by a
confiagration, occurred 10 a -four mill al
Glasgow, Scotland, July ., by which eleven
persons lost their lives, and many more were
seriously injured .....Advices from the City
of Mexico TO July . furnish the following
bulletin of news: Assassination and kidnsp-
ping prevail everywhere. The Mexican
journals are full of complaints against the
%usurpations of the Government. United
States Minister Nelson was 10 sail for home
on the 18th, and will not return. The exc
cution of Yuclan. formerly q member of the
press, in Cuba, by the Spanish authorities,
created a great sensation in Mexico. Gen.
Resecrans has published q manifesto censur-
ibg the Mexican journals for having attacked
his projected railroad enterprise, complain
ing that, in spite of his known prediction
for Mexico and Mexicans, there is nobody
10 defend him. He calls on the patriotism,
honor and generosity Of the Mexicans to
take the matter of the railroad again under
consideration. The situation at Monterey is
unchanged.
A DISPATCH from Madrid says that DR..