The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-09-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.


tut GdNts
A large meeting of oil producers and re-
hners, comprising representatives. from all
districts in the oil regions, convened at
Parker's Landing, Pa, last week. The OBJ
lect was 10 devise measures TO curtail the
production OF oil SO as to enhance prices, as
1t is claimed that present rates are too low
to allow any profit to the producer, and to
this end = resolution was adopted binding
operators TO suspend work for six months,
which, il is b believed, will be generally ac-
g~uiesced in......The Spanish frigate human
cia, which recently arrived at New York
with yellow fever on board, has been con
demned by the Health Officer as a plague
ship. FIm'gatiOn is useless, and new cases
OF fever break out daily. Applications of
her commander for coal and divers TO clean
her bottom have been refused.
CONTROLLER CONNOLLY, of the New York
thleving Tammany ring, has disappeared,
and it is believed he has fed the country,
and left his friends to pay his forfeited bond,
amounting to over half q million dollars.
A pleasure barge on the Connecticut river
was recently struck by lightning and two
persons killed"...-The Executive Committee
of the Boston Peace Jubilee set forth their
liabilities at S65 200 and receipts at $40
000-leaving a deficit of $2lO, 900. 1t is pro-
posed, as a means of meeting this deficit, to
ave Il monstrous concert and ball. with
100000 81 tickets, six Of which, drawn by
lot, will draw the Coliseum. .... The most de-
termlned and desperate case of self murder
on record was that of Thos. Ii. Dupger, an
English lace importer, at New York, last
week, whlle laborIng under an attack of de-
lIrIum tremens. His first attempt was with
n LARGO Dppi1a faW bours ,r.-l. l.
went TO a drug store, n q state of ieshabille
seized a bottle OF poison, and IL
swallow It,. Three hours later he made an
Intellectual attempt on his life BY stabbinc
himself IN the breast with a ~carying-knife
and shortly after this he drove a large cooks
knife into his side to the depth of four
inches. The desperate man was then taker
to BelIyue Hospital, and about 9 O'Clock or
the same evening he jumped from a fourth
sto-y window of that building, and bv tn,
iall both legs were driven into his abdomen
producing instant death.
Or the forty members of the Irish Ban,
which visited the great Boston Jubilee. oul,
eight returned home, all the others hayiu,
obtained employment in New York ar,
b0ston-.".Frol. Peters, Of the Litchfel,
Observatory (Hamilton College, y. W. an,
"a sLlolutI new pan
et-the l24th of the group of asteroids
which he describes rs "bright, shining as
star OF The tenth magnitude" Hon. A, &
Curtin, our Minister to Russia, has arrive,
at his home in Pennsylvania.
THE bonded warehouse of Charles Ems
was burned in New York, the other dav, er
taillnS a loss of $3.50 900. ID. Hon. +. ]. liz,
geisoil, Minister to Russia under Presidep
P"ik, died at New Haven, CT, last weeL
aged A~.:Anothor bloody tragedy, grow
ing out OF the Philadelphia volunteer fr
company troubles, has been enacted in tina
city. James Dougherty and James Kane
members respectively of the old rival Nov
anehslnS eud Hope Companies got into al
alteration about some question conuecte,
slth the organizations, which terminate,
IN Kane disboweling the upfortunat
Dougherty with l bowie knife. Both wer
hard characters.
ihE wafer commissioners of Albany, n
l., nave been lmpeached, and are TO be trie,
upon the charge of having negIigently an,
wlIIiuiiy permitted the source of the CITY,
wafer supply to become the rcceptacle q
Nth from the cattle-yards, hog-pens an,
private dwellings,. The effects of IN.
Staten Island Ferry Company of New York
were sold at auction, last week, to Georg,
Law, for 1899 O00. The il-fated stesme
Westbeld brought SIT, 600. Victoria Wood
hull and FEMME c. Ciaflin appeared in III,
New YORK Bankruptcy Court, the other da v
and deposed Thai they did not own a dollar,
worth OF property-..A New York police
man was recently arrested in the act OF com
mlitng a burglary, while patroling his beat
IN" confessed to seventeen burgIarIes within
aleW montns..-.F Four persons were kilIc, q.
Tacony, Pa, last week, Nv a Iocomo,iyo
whiie~ attempting to cross tle railroad tracl
III carriage-"".At Philadelphia few da Y
"s', bridge gave away beneath an oil tran
OF - Cars, and shortly after a coal train a
20 cars came Siong and was precIpitated in
70 The chasm. The whole mass then caugb
hre ard was entirely consumed, involyIp
. loss OF S25O,0OO. Fortunately no lives wer
lost.