The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-07-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

4uc LASe
Mayor CASTOR, of Boston, has vetoed the
order passed by the City Council for opening
the public library on sundays.--..The
Japanese Government are having fve-twenty
bonds and greenback currency engraved by
the New York Bank Note Company,
under the direction of Henry Clews 4 Co.
Monthly shipments are now going forward
to-Japan. About SIC, Oo0, Oe0 have already
been sent.....It may be authoritatively
stated, says a New York telegram, that there
is absolutely no foundation for the report
that Miss Nellie Grant has become engaged
TO a Scottish Lord.
PAUL E. LOWE, son of ex-Gov. Lowe, of
Maryland, has been bailed in $4,000, at
New York, to answer for shooting VIM. De-
vine-....The New York Erpress says a grand
national reunion of the Greeley editors is to
be held at Baltimore on June 9......Robert
Kirkwood, a prominent citizen of Pitts
burgh, was shot dead on his own porch,
while surrounded by his family, on June Fl,
by q man yamed Flanders, because he re-
fused TO fulfill q marriage engagement with
the sssassin's sistcr..-..In Philadelphia, last
week, a young man named George Welch
shet and instantly killed his mother, while
sitting at the supper table. He is supposed
10 be insane......The Saltwater wooden mills,
near Providence, R. l., were burned JUNE
%. Loss, $3.50, 900 ......Paris letters report
that Bismarck's ultimatum was neces-
sariiy accepted by France, and, in accord
ance Herewith, the French army is to
be cut down TO $4,000 men, and the
National Guard bound over TO keep the
pesce.
LIZZIE GARRABRANDr's death sentence has
been csmmuted TO imprisonment for life by
the New Jersey Court of Pardons.-....Two
persons were killed and several injured by
The explosion of a steam lighter at New
London, Ct, June 24.....Rev. E. L.. W. Jones,
a wealthy Pittsburgh clergyman, goes to
the SWorkhousc for three years for swind-
ling a widow lady--.Three boys, aged 3,
at Albany, N. Y, June %, while bathing in
the Hudson....A clever sharper named
Price has been swindling Jersey farmers
by selling them lots in C~ommunipaw that
did not belong 10 him. He realized SIS, 900.
STEPHEN CANBERLISG, one of New York's
Oldest lawyers, died in that city June IS,
aged S0..-..The usury law, which has stood
upon New Hampshire's statutes 200 years,
has just been repealed, and the rate Of in
terest fxed at 6 per cent hauncey
johnson, of New York city, said TO be the
champion sneak-thief Of the country, has
just received a ten years sentence in Sing
Sing.
AFTER exhausting a panel of $50 citizens
q jury was finally obtained in the Stokes
case, at New York, on June 26, and the trial
smuggled lace, nicely sealed in milk cans,
was seized on the steamer Russia, at New
York, the other day..-..In a three-mile
single scull-boat race at Worcester, Mass,
June 26, Ellis Ward made the best time on
record-2l:3S......The widow of the late James
Fisk, Jr., was followed and hooted at by a
New York mob, the other day, under the
impression that she was Josephine Mans
feld.....The New York straw goods house of
Baldwin, Rice Il Co. has failed for $I,000,-
t00O-.....H Harvard College has conferred the
degree of LID. on President Grant.
The West.
BY the explosion of a boiler within the
walls of the Ohio Penitentiary, at .Colum-
bus, on June 81, about fifty convicts were
more or less ip~jured-some half a dozen, it
is feared, fatally.....Henr Ryan, aged 10,
was drowned in the river at Dubuque, Iowa,
on June 20, willie bathing---James keagle,
an old mar of so years, hung himself in
sauganon county, Ill, last week...-.The
schooner Jamaica, bound from Milwaukee
TO Oswego, capsized and sunk in Lake
Huron, on June 20. The crew. with the ex-
ception of the cook, a woman, were saved.
......At Big Rapids, Mich, on June 20, Vim.
McGregor was caught in the machinery Of
a mill and torn to Pieces.....N. B. Latta, a
notorious counterfeiter, has been convicted
at Madison, Wis.....A San Francesca dis
patch Of June 81 says: DR.. 2. Rogers, re-
Gently of Chicago, appeared last night at
face shaved, the other half haqing beard
and whiskers. He announced that he did
it in recognition of man being half woman
and half man. He YVES arrested, and sent
to the insane ayslum.".-..An explosion &C.
Cured during the progress of a fire in q
liquor store in Chicago, OIL J une 81, killing
two ~patrolmeD, and seriously ipjuring two
others....A young man named Ivins-a
step-son of Hon. George H. Williams, At.
been arrested at Chicago for n $1,000 dia-
mond robbery, committed in Baltimore
some time ago.....Mrs. Gardner, a bride Of
six weeks, committed suicide at Milwaukee
by taking s~trychnine, on June 81.
PERRY Lrsros, a young farmer living neal
Bloomington, ILL.,, committed suicide las
week, by shooting himself through tn,
boay.....A corner in wheat, which
Chicago man named Harding had been run
ming, collapsed last week. Harding mournl
the loss Of about $500 ,000.
THREE persons-two physicians and
patient-were poisoned last week, in Wheat
land, Mo-, by the blunder of a druggist.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has Just de
cided that insanity is not a sufficient oaust
for divorce-...Mar McConkey, aged II
was killed at Oshkosh, Wis, by being strucl
with a piece Of the clipper of q single fac.
tory-....At Pleasant Hill, ILL.,, last week
James Ray killed Pat McGuin, BY shifting
him with a beer glass.-....The wholesale dry
goods store of Joll 4 Frank, in Milwaukee
was struck by lightning on the night of June
"a, and entirely consumed by fire. Loss
1926, 900 insured for $780, 900.
A Mrs. LOOMS advertised herself to deliver
a lecture against females suffrage, in PIatt's
Hall, San Francisco, ON Juno Is. When she
mounted the rostrum she was interrupted,
Missed and jeered by the leading female
suffragists. Hon. David Meeker demanded
that the disgraceful conduct cease, or that
the women be compelled to leave the hall,
for which Mrs. Emily Pitt Stevens, editrcss
OF the Pioneer, the suffragist organ, drew a
pistol on hin in the hall, demanding an
apology from him, but was compelled to put
it in her pocket by the bystanders......Mil
waukce was visited by a terrific thunder
storm on the night of June IS, which fairly
shook the city TO its foundations. A large
number Of houses were struck by lightning.
In the town of Greenfield a flock of twelve
sheep, lying under a tree, were killed by a
stroke Of lightuing......The railroad engi-
neers between Astoria and Cornelius, Oregon,
recently found marks on the rocks, leading
to the discovery of a box containing $57, 900
in old Spanish coin and a quantity of
jewelry.
Ar Springfield, I'LL, on June 26, W. F.
Storey, of the Chicago Times, in attempting
to step on the train for Chicago, made g