The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-02
3aHm @THE WEEK.

3aUw @THE WEEK.
The East.
"a ALBEIT S. DUsEEIuiY, New YORK lawyer,
committed suicide, July ~, BY shooting
-rhimself. 1.-The effects Of the defunct New
York Standard were eeld at auction in New
IoY5fk, July 10, and brought $1,000 THE
Western Uaion Telegraph Company purpoee
ereetihg q building on Broad way and Dsy
streets, New York, to cost 81 500 000....-Two
trains collidedhon the Central road, near
Pittsford, N. Y, on the 18th OF July, by
which three persons we're killed, three NOR
tally wounded, and several seriously injured.
"a Among tho killed was Mr.. E. B.. Smith, a
~l weff@known bookseller of Detroit, and one
sEtssf, thsleading business men Of that CITY,.
Ex-Congressnsno Thatcher, the Oldest grad
uate of Harvard, and the Oldest Mason of
the United States, died at Bangor, Me-, July
3. ~ aged 9s.@....The large paper mill Of J. B.
ii sheffield, At saugerties, NY, was destroyed
.rffby fire July l9. Loss, $500 200; insurance,
80 S$I05 ,o0o.,....At a meeting Of the directors Of
Ill The Atlantie and Pacific lrsilroad, in New
@stYork, july 10, a lease Wa effected of the
Missouri Pacific and its branches, giving to
assffe former cempany some 500 additional
= fmiles ofroad!i;a liz haE .+iy'2
G3Ii TzxsE young ladies were drowned while
.ats bathing in . pond at ,Millbnry, Mass, on
July sos. Exeayations on vanderbilts great
, II, Nav York underground railroad, will begin
in September, and its completion is prom
Used within two years 1.-TWO Sing Sing
IN ~ I~convicts attempted to escape from
prison lastweek by slowing themselves away
in garbagabsrrels. They forced themselves
through Tte filth, andEeovered themselves
up, leaving a small aperture to breath
through. When the driver stopped at the
dumping grounds to unload, one of the
e prisoners leaped out of his barrel, pushed
/ Gss sSs1 jn s5i ss,af w. sssC a! ssa
~headed, and before he was aware Of it he
was almosti in the prison yard again. The
other convict rose up to peep out, and both
of the culprits were seized and marched back
to their cells in o sad plight. t1'
THERE was a slight frost in some parts of
New Yezk NJ. ahes night fgulyo 22."..An
effort is to be made to liberate Stokes on
bail......J Josephine Mansfield, the artful siren
who infatuated Jim Fisk, and ultimately
composed the death of THAT cratic gentle
man., went to Saratoga the other day to
testify in the Barnard impeachment case.
She was treated as an outcast, being refused
admission to the hotels, and when she took
a. ~ sSoe III IA ia a. "a VI
- ladies who had assembled TO witness the
judicial proceedings Immediately left,
TIE last remnant of the eight-hour move
,aiaian ant in New York has sucoumbed to dire
necessity, and the working en with very
no fsvaexceptions, are now employed under the
old ten-hour rule. f1t has been a costly
strike to both employer and employee.
The notorious ex-Alderman Billy McMul-
len, of Philadelphia, for a long time Presi-
dent of the celebrated Moyamensing Hose
IL Company, Nand a ward politician of the low
order, was shot the other day by an ex-
convict named Maria, and dangerously
wounded. ..... The health authorities of New
York are making vigorous preparations for
q strict quarantine, in anticipation of the
arrival of the cholera.
In the association college regatta at
Springfield, Mass, July "a, Amherst une1-
pectsdly took the honors,, Harvard
being second. Harvard led until the
last half mile when. AMHERST made
a magnificent squirt and crossed the line
-. was, second, Amherst Agricultural third,
'' Bowdoin fourth, Williams fifth, and Yale
sixth. The results we're wholly unexpected,
the favorites being beaten in both races.
w Amherst followed Middietown closely in
the freshman race. Mrs. Jane Lance, of
TltIsoufSn, Wnlle suffering from an dttdck
of typhoid fever, jumped in the river ls1
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
arispeachment at Saratoga, is dragging along
Dif' slowly. The testimony is very strong
against, the accused, and he will probably
be convicted..-.The extensive buildings Of
the Erie railroad III Jersey City were de-
stroyed by fire on the night of July "a. The
loss will roach $600, 900 insurance, $400,00o
!Ls'A All the books and papers pertaining to the
q -nshops were consumed. YI'. n
oi g'iSh s'g5t- The West. 5,..,,
uEni SCoI..J.7F +. wooD, Assistant Postmaster at
igf j indianapolis, is q defaulter to the extent Of
RE71 $4y6e0.-..An exciting trot took place ovel
7cf the Cleveland course on July n, between
e. Goldsmith Maid, American Girl and Lucy.
'tnos Tho Maid won in three stright heats. Time
70 n2;l9iafs,t 2:ls.o rrir39isb ri :1-Iza
'wnEIAssvErsr proprietor Of tthb the Metro
", pplitan Hotel, Jacksonville, killed a guest
,cf Last, week, by . blow with his FIST, because
sIhe refused to pay for his breakfast.....A 70
port comes by way Of San Francisco thai
all the white settlers at the forks of ths
ga river oskeena, in British Columbia, have
ca gfbStii 1aassacred by Indians ...A terrific
storm passed over Keokuk, Iowa, and it,
ncighborhood on the night Of the ed o
July, doing damage that can scarcely b,
a, . estimated. Families were driven from theil
homes by the food, horses we're drowned i.
their stables, and . complete wreck mad
of almost everything located on the low
lands.
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sas.,sETlr. tive GhippsEssI ndians,vho murdered
Miss Macarthur were forcibly taken from
the Brainerd, Mimi, Jail, on the night o
July -, and hung to Q tree in the street
49, The eEecntion was witnessed by the entir
"a population Of Che town, who. fully approved
t'-7 Of tic Summary proceeding. Two boys
aged 10 and Is, were drowned at Davenport
Iowa, July %, while bathing in the river
making seven persons who have met thei
death there in that manner this season ..
BY ths fall Of q hosting machine in Mac
ncale 4 Urban's safe factory, at Cincinnati
July "a, Julius Urban, brother of one Of tn
.aeIzptoprietorsL usssinstaltlS killed, and tire
s,sA,@thsrss 1srs injuned.....N M Psulus, of tn
-sss ifssasA Band WAS rcb6ed.of $I;ese by SOM
ny sdtoit~ thief who entered his room, at GIN
,sd,a olnhatf.,Ss Miss oodal1, who 10 hsveiinr wifi