The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-06-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

The East.
DURING a fire at Ithaca, N. Y, recently, a
bridge upon which q steam fire engine was
placed, gave way and preciptated the en-
CINE and some fifty persons into the river
below. Many of them were seriously IN
iured. though none killed outright-....Sev-
seral vessels have arrived in New York dur
ing the past week with smallpox prevailing
among Storage passengers. The captain of
one OF the vessels seemed to think tho dis
ease was fostered by the dirty habits OF the
emigrants, who were chiefly Poles. Nothing
short of physical violence could induce
them 10 wash, and the men deliberately ate
s9ep fhrpished them, thinking it cheese.....
AsEf ioaded with six men capsized on the
N~onbngahela river, near McKeesport, Pa,
on the oath inst, and four of the men were
drowned. They were all emigrants, who
had just arrived from Europe.--..lt is eeti-
mated that over e, 700 men were on a strike
for eight hours of work in New York the
18th inst. Many factories are closing up
rather than yield to the demand.....The
German brewers of the United States VIII
hold their twelfth annual congress In new
York, commencing the 4th of June and ex-
tending four days. .
TWENTY THOUSAND emigrants arrived IN
New York the week ending May IS. This
ID the largest weekly arrival on reoord."...
The steamship Adriatic made a trip be-
tween New York and Queenstown recently
in seven days and sixteen hours...-.This is
the fastest time ever made between these
two places-...A man named Crawford,
brother-in-law TO Commodore Vanderbilt,
ohot q nol;na~ap IN Nov York on the NIGHT
of the 44th inst, because he would not re-
lease the Commodore's colored coachman,
whom he had in custodY.....Dibble, Worth
4 Co., cotton brokers of New York, sus-
pended On Saturday, having been cramped
by the withholding of large amounts of cot
ton by Southern dealers. 1t is said that
other cotton merchants, who have contracted
to deliver in time, are embarrassed, and
more suspensions are expected....The peril
to life by working in the East river c~aisson,
at New York, was forcibly illustrated on
Friday. A laborer, named Daniel Pearson,
went TO work, and though he felt the i'll
effects of breathing the powerfully-con-
-dspSed air, he continued until the close Of
iwerking hours, when he was seized with
lpArSlyeis Of the limbs, accompanied by in
Tense pain in the head and abdomen. His
death followed the next day, and the Coro-
ner was called upon to investigate whether
such sacrifice of the mans life was legiti-
mate.
TIE tug Epsilon exploded her boiler in
East river, New York, on the 9th ult., kill
ing six persons, including the captain and
engineer 1.-THE strikes among the work.
ingmsn in New York still continue. The
Npisno-makers, cabinet-makers aud pattern
makers are the latest strikers for the eight
hnpv cvofnno nv ArJraw Tvrr nf
Boston, has been held to bail in SIC, 900,
charged with procuring an abortion, result
ing in death, on Sarah Brown, d young
woman belonging to Fitchburg.....The
boiler of the Gordon Company's Bleaching
Works, Philadelphia, exploded on the 9th
ult., killing the engineer and w%ounding five
other persons......A riot occurred in Jersey
City, on the 9th, between a body of eight
hour strikers and men who had taken their
places. Three men were woundeded. Tho
riot was suppressed by the police.
OVER thirty thousand persons were more
or less injured by the explosion of the tug
Epsilon, at New York, on the 9th ULTRA
terrible triple tragedy occurred at New
York on the 18th ult. One Trefsy, q baker,
stabbed his wife fatally with a dirk, and
then stabbed her paramour, Franz Linde-
man, winding mp by cutting his own throat.
All three will probably die....-Lyman Ire
maine, John D. Townsend and Henry Daily,
Jr, have, been retained as Stokes counsel.
..-Ovsr 10000 ~workingmen are on a strike
for eight hours, in New York. They are
quiet and confident of the ultimate success
of the movement.....Bids for supplies for
the Indian Department were opened in New
York on the 2sth ult. Bids for q, OOO, 900
pounds of beef on the hoof, delivered at diff
fersnt agencies during the year, ranged
from $1.& to 81 per 100 pounds. An award
pounds. Bids for 81, 500, 900 pounds Of -four,
,deiivered at the agencies, range from $2.85
TO "a per 200 pounds..-..Capt. Samuels'
famous yacht D~resdnaught, which original
ly Cost $4,000, was sold at New York, the
other day, for $4,000.
TIE Brooklyn Schutsen corps will start on
June 20, for Hanover, to take part in the
German National Schutzenfest, in father
land--.Two mines Of the Delaware and
Hudson Company, one at Carbonate and
the other at olyphant, Pa, have suspended
operations in order to reduce the production
Of coal. The two mines throw out of en-.
ploy 700 men and boys, and decrease the
production OF the company 5000 tons per
day--...Faber & Co.'s lead pencil manufac-
tory was destroyed by fire, in New York, on
the 10Th ult. Loss, 100000.
HgT The West.
PRor. HENRY 6. MOVES, of the North
western University, at Evanston, ILL.,, died
recently at that place.....John Rever, Of
Lyons, H., died on the 24th from the effects
OF q pommeling, at the hands of Valentine
Hoffman..~.One million three hundred and
iorty-four thousand dollars will be required
TO run the county government Of Cook
county, III during the coming year,. The
schooner Robinson was run into BY the
propeller Manistee, on Lake Michigan on
kne 18th inst, and sunk in ten minutes,
She was loaded with 10000 bushels of corn.
The crew were saved......A terrible tornado
passed over q portion Of Adams Co., ILL.,, on
the 24th inst, unrooing houses. barns
trees, &c, and doing serious damage. A
severe gale also occurred absut the same
Time near Burlington, Iowa, which caused
much inJury-...Land Commissioner Ed
munds, OF Michigan, has been acquitted by
the State Senate Of that State.....The vii.
iage Of Hayesville, near Ashland, Ohio. los,
rs entire business portion by fire on the
24th inst.
a NAN was found dead, hanging in q
small window of a barn in Chicago, on the
24th. His head was covered with blood and
badly bruised. The fingers of the left hand
were gone. 1t is supposed that he attempted
70 crawl through the window when drunk,
and that he was attacked by a horse inside
me barn and suffocated in his effort to re-
tease hiHself....J 7. Weswell, book-keeper
IN tne Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail-
road shops at Aurora, H., was run over by
the switch engine at that place and instantly
killed on the 18th inst......Tw w trains col
hded on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
enc railroad at Joliet, ILL.,, on Sunday, by
winch several passengers were seriously in
!ured-none fatally.....Mr. John ]. Cham
pi9n was thrown FROM his buggy, at Spring
held, Ill, on Saturday, and fatally injured.
Two boys named Mann and Hight were