The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-07-12
OF THE WEEK.
The East.

DAVID MURPHY was sentenced, at New
York, the other day, 10 be hanged IN Au-
gust Within three hours after sentence
hrd been pronounced the Supreme Court, in
session in an adjoining room, granted the
culprit a new trial......The convicts-some
200 in number-in the Albany IN. ~ |
Ponitentiary threatened a serious revolt on
June q. For a time they refused to obey
orders, but the military having been ordered
in, the fractions culprits concluded to re-
sumo work.
REV. DIR. NELLIGAN, Vicar General OF the
Diocese of the West Indies, and resident Of
Nassau, N. p, has mysteriously disappeared
from Brooklyn, where he was visiting.
In a contest for the cadetship of the Naval
Academy, rendered to the members of the
schools Of his district by Congress man Reb-
erts, of New York, and for which there
were a large number of entries, the prize
was won by a ragged newsboy, named John
O'Keefe.
The Tom Thumb party, consisting of Tom
and his wife, Commodore Mutt, Minnie
Warren and othcrs-in all thirteen persons
arrived in New York June 80, having
been absent three years, and completed a
voyage around the world. They travelled
5000 miles-3I, 900 by sea; gave l,4ll en-
tertainments in different cities and towns,
in all climates of the world, without losing
q single day or missing q single performance
through illness or accidents.
TIE Boston Jubilee commenced its third
week Monday, July l, with a large falling
off in chorus, orchestra, and attendance.
The feature of the day was the Irish band,
which was enthusiastically received, and
glorifed by the Celtic population. Its
music is not highly spoken of, the fault in
this direction being accounted for in its
recent organizatio4, and consequent want Of
time for proper training Estimates of the
cost of the East river bridge are now fixed
Il 81, 500, 900 ......0wing to the intense neat,
the price of ice in New York city has been
advanced about 40 cents per 100 pounds..-..
Tho new directors of the Erie railroad have
commenced suit against Jay Gould for $l0,-
0O0, 900 on account Of the alleged misappro-
priation of funds belonging to the company
during his management of its affairs.
TnE New York Senate, sitting as a Court
of Impeachment, has decided to remove
Judge McCunn, the vote being unanimous.
......It appears from statistics gathered at
the Pension Office that there are living at
tho present time two widows of Revolu-
tlOudIy oOiuicIb VIM dIc uuuci ~ yCoio Va
&ge, and that the oldest surviving widow
has arrived at the age of lis years....The
great running race at Long Branch, July 2,
resulted in a victory to Harper's Long
fellow, over the horse Harry Bassett, the
distance run being two and one-balf miles,
and the time 4:34. The horse Littleton, also
owned by John Harper, won the mile heat
race and purse of 5000.
Tine West.
TIE excursion train, consisting of eight
crowded passenger coaches, returning to
Chicago from the Liberal Republican and
Democratic State Conventions at Springfield,
Ill. on the night of June rs, narrowly escaped
being wrecked six miles north of the latter
city. Some diabolical wretches had placed
ten heavy railroad ties across the track.
Fortunately the engineer deserted the OBJ
struction in time to avert an accident that
must have resulted in an appalling destruc-
ton of life.
has for the fourth time been convicted, and
sentenced to q life term of imprisonment.
An effort will be made to secure still
another trial.-...At st. Paul, Mimi, q few
nights ago, a burglar invaded the bedcham-
Der of q young lady, and while rummsging
about in search of plumber, awakened the
occupant. Naturally she screamed for
help. The burglar seized and attempted to
choke her into silence, and in the struggle
that ensued the young lady got one of the
rascafs fingers in her mouth and bit 1t to
the bone, causing him to beat a hasty re-
treat.
MRS. CAMPBELL, of Chicago, was poisoned,
last week, by a laundering druggist....
Three youths-Charles Koch, Frank Stumpi
and Herman Friedrich-were drowned at
Milwaukee, June 20, while bathing.
Three men working on the st.
Joseph (Mo9 bridge were precipitated into
irrepressible interviewer" reports Mrs
Glen, the Indianapolis murderess, cheerful
hopeful, and confident of a new trial and
ultimate acquittal.. .... East St. Louis, Ill.
was thrown INTO a fever of excitement, las,
week, on account Of a rape committed upon
a beautiful young girl Of respectable family
by q negro. The brute was arrested, and
narrowly escaped lynching.-...Two young
ladies were drowned at GAINESVILLE, Wis, re.
Gently, while bathing in Rock river......C Gin.
cinnati has just completed the first narrow.
guage (three feet) street railway in tn.
country---..The Newport and Cincinnati
bridge was opened TO pedestrians, June 80
n --..Col. Loonis, Chief of Artillery 10 Gen
Rosecrans, and Captain of the celebrated
. Leomis Michigan Artillery, is confined a
: the Soldiers Home, at Milwaukee, a mer
wreck, rapidly wasting away with ~softenin,
OF the brain......The Kiowas, Arrapahoes
and Apaches, in Colorado and New Mexico
are reported as being very uneasy, AM
fears are entertained that these tribes will
combine for an extensive worfsre on tn,
frontier settlements. The moral suasioI
policy is being applied to these intracta5l,
savages with, it is alleged, some hope of
successful ISSUE.
News of a most foul and unnatural muir
der comes to us from West Point, Iowa. A
Mrs. Washer, them mother of seven children
was deliberately murdered in that villag,
by two of her sons, aged IL and I6. Tn,
lady had parted from her husband, DR.
Washer, some time previous /; and, the Doc
tor being absent from home, she took occa.
sion to visit her children. She prepared to
return to her " home Saturday, June 20,
but the two sons persuaded her to remain
over till Sunday. She stayed, and at 8
O'Clock Sunday morning the two boys muir
dered her, stabbing her in the back, breast,
and throat. After killing her, they dragged
her body to the barn and covered it with
hay. The youthful matrIcidA are in prison.
--..C. MI Iaylor, City Marshal OF Baxter
Springs, Kansas, was murdered last week
by Col. Boyd, the Mayor of the wn....
The same old story. Thomas W. Dunn, of
Jacksonville, ILL.,, in a playful mood pointed
a pistol ct his sweetheart, Lizzie Voorhees,,
just to frighten her. He succeeded admira-
bly,, for the pistol wen off and sent a bali
into Lizzie's head, infiicting a dangerous
wound.-...Another boy, Robert Dole-the
999th this season-was drowned at Mil
wsukee, last week, while bathing. John
Brennan, at Toledo, Ohio, met his death in
similar manner, July 1.-THE new ILL
nois liquor law, which went into effect July
l, is creating the utmost CONSERVATION among
the saloon-keepers in the rural towns.