The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-09-26

THE press and people of Wisconsin are just
ly indignant at the increase of railway freighta
on all the principal lines in the State. 1t is
alleged to be the positive orders of the East
ern officers of the railroads for their mutual
profit and the oppression of the people, and
threats are freely made that it will be made
hot for the railways i'll the next Legislature
by insisting on a pro rata freight tariff, advance
of railway tax, and otherwise. Gen. Edwin
S.McCook, Secretary of Dakota Territory, ia
nous in the history of the late war as a MEM
her of the fighting McCook family, was assas-
sinated at Yankton ON the 18th inst byP. P.
Wintermnte. 9 banker. 1t appears that they
had had an alteration a few hours previous,
in which McCook gave Wintermu.e a we'll
merited thrashing. Smarting under the chas-
tisement, he went off and armed himself, and,
subsequently meeting McCook in the st.
ChariessH Hotel, where . railroad meeting was
in session.. deliberately shot him down in cold
blood The murderer fred -four shots at his
victim, only one taking effect, which proved
fatal. There was much excitement, and
. threats of t~ypching wintermute were freely
made.
EDWARD BEANIE, the freight conductor on
the Chicago and Alton railroad, whose negli-
gence caused the late disaster on that road,
has been indicted for murder by the Cook
County Grand Jury....The Chicago Board of
Public Works expended last year "A, 1S6, 4S6.
The advance Of freight rates by the Min
nesota railways has produced a feeling in
some sections which, if it continues to spread
tlrn,y~.X A. o. m - =.
the capital invested in railroads. Congress
man Charles b. Farwell, Of Chicago, has been
sued by Hugh Maher for the recovery of SO
acres Of land, valued at 81. 600 All acre, which,
it is alleged, was conveyed TO Farweil by
Msher to l~iquidate a gambling debt thirteen
years ago.. Samuel p. Freeman, City Clerk
of Fort Wayne, Ind, committed suicide last
week, by hanging himself to a bed-post. Do
mestic troubles, caused by too much mother
in-law, led him to commit the rash deed.
IowA's hog crop this year will amount to
about 100, 900 head. The skeleton of all
immense mastodon has been exhumed near
New Paris, o.
The notorious Lord" Gordon-G ordon was
recently arrested some 400 miles west Of Fort
NHo IN !" III ii Idi Sh q tbdl6 ~ |
Of larceny serious accident occurred on
the Detroit and Milwaukee road. fifteen miles
from Grand Haven, on the 18th inst, by which
two persons were killed outright, two more
are expected to die, the life Of another ID in
doubt, and seven others are wounded more or
less severely. The accident was caused BIZ a
bullock stepping upon the track thirty feet in
front Of the locomotive, which deliberately
stood there until thrown down under the
locomotive truck wheels, and suddenly throw
ing the tender, express, mail, and two chi
grant cars of the track. Six hundred people
were on the train, and il is miraculous that 20
few were killed. Great damage has been
done 10 the corn, tobacco and buckwheat CROPS
by tho early frost throughout the Northwest.
Eighteen bodies have been washed ashore
from the foundered propeller Ironsides, and
.wo persons are still missing. All the rest of