The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-08-01
Latest News.

the 25th inst.
| A fire at Sidney. O., on the night of
the 4th, burned property tothe amount
OF $25.0O0.
A fire at Pawtucket, r. l., OH the
25th. destroyed property to the amount
of $40, 900.
Extensive forest fires were raging
on the line of the Long Island Rail-
road near Yahank and Lakeland. N.
Y, OH the 25th.
Two Frehchmen. living at:Wilkes-
barre, Pa, fought duel with rapiers
near there on Tuesday morning of last
week. They fought over an hour,
until one named Aubin was wounded
| in tile side. A French lady was the
cause of it. The affair will be renewed
so soon as Aubhl RECEIVERS.
A threshing machine boiler exploded
near Rushille, Ind, OIL the 23d, kill
ing three men.
AT a meeting of railroad managers
and superintendents, ticket and pass
enger agents. held in st. Louis on the
24th, after much discussion resolutions
were passed declaring no more free
passes or half fare tickets shall be issued
after August lst. Twenty-one roads
were represented.
The Catholic clergy of New York
are represented as now making extra
ordinary efforts to establish seclarian
schools. The Times notes it as part
of a plan to destroy the present public
school system as operated IN that city,
The prosecutions against the Ku
Klux offenders except in very aggrl-
waiting cases are to be discontinued.
Severe storms visited northern coun-
ties of England on the 23d, causing
great damage to property and crops.
At Williamsport. Pa, Isabella Nc
Bride, aged 10 years, was brutally
murdered on the night of the 22d, by
being shot through the head. Her
husband John Mcbride was found
[ weltering in his blood from severe cuts
in the head, but living. The old peo-
pie We're supposed to have large sums
of money in the house, which doubtless
prompted the murder. Thirty thou
sand dollars was found in the house.
The Attorney General refused to
recommend pardon IN the case Of
James Pickett, of Idaho, sentenced to
be hung in that Territory last Thurs
day for the murder Of an Indian
woman last August, with a miners
pick.
The recovery of John p, Hale was
regarded as doubtful on the 23d.
One of the survivors OF the wrecked
steamer Atlantic has brought suit
against the owners for 100000, as a
compensation for disablement from
frozen legs.
The Warden of Sing Sing denies
that Walworth receives better treat
ment than any OF the rest of the prls-
0nerS.
The number of votes registered in
San Francisco up to June Both was
42,642.
A gang OF hoodlums at Los Angeles,
on the ight of July 23d, made a raid
on the Chinese English schol and pelt-
ed the windows with stones, one OF
which struck the teacher, Miss Belle
Swift. Other teachers received slight
injuries.
At North Brigham Canyon, July
24th, a ranchero, named Cotton, and
his two sous, were killed by another
mnchero named Butcher, with rifle.
An old feud was thought to be the
cause.
One thousand Mormon emigrantS
have arrived at Salt Lake from Europe
in good health.
Two San Francisco boys fought a
duel with knives the other day about q
girl. One was severely wounded ii
the face.
Massachusetts refuses to pension
her retired Judges.
Ex-President Thiers will write
up the Commune war.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is al
Saint GATHERINGS, Canada, where
she will pass the summer.
Henry Grinnell has spent $500,
900 in Arctic explorations, ARD
firmly believes in the Polar Sea.
July l4th, at Springfield, Ill.
the thermometer marked lO40 ii
the shade.
The average annual loss by fir
in the United States is estimated tx
be about 5000, 100000.