The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-04-11
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r. w. Colman. Of Memphis, shot
his brother.in- law, John Newell, last
Saturday.
Geo. Francis Train is in limbo in
New York Tor circulating obscene
literature.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has
appropriated sl,00D,000 TO the cen
tennary fund.
\ drunk man named Grouse, of
Smith,on, Pa. last Monday beat his
wife TO death.
Charles Nixon is TO be hanged in
New York for murder. lie has n
wife aud several little children.
Stokes expresses himself confident
that the efforts heing made TO save
him from the gallows will be success
/ ful.
In hurricane storm at Burlington,
( Iowa. last Sunday the house of A.
Steiger was blown down and his vile
aud children killed.
i Peoria dispatch says that Mrs.
Workman, wife of the Eureka Meth
odist minister. has confessed to- hav-
ing killed Mrs. Hedges. She says
she did j, in self,letense.
Judge John Wright, of Washing
ton City, is under bail in $4,000 Tor
the crime of forging powers of attor-
ney on endorsements on drafts, using
the names of dead Indians, for large
sums of money.
Rhode Island election took place
last week Henry Howard (Rep.)
was elected Governor by $500 ma
jorlty, with the remainder of the State
ticket, excepting the Lieutenant-Gov
ernor. for which there was no choice.
The Legislature is Republican.
The Directors OF the Bureau Ver-
itas of Brussels, Belgium, report $50
sailing vessels and steamers lost and
missing during January and Febru.
airy, being over eight daily in Janu-
AIRY and nearly twelve daily in Febru.
ary. Ofthese twenty-six were Ameri.
can sailers and twenty-one steamers
totally lost, against two hundred and
eighty four English sailers and twenty
three steamers lost
The Russia Gazette, of Moscow, an
nounces tragedy at Alexandroff
Moscow, in government of Vladimir
! A young forester named Ivanoff wa'
among the guests at ball, and as {
young lady, named Zonboff, passed
before him, conducted by her partner
to take place in quadrille, he dis
charged one barrel of a revolver a
her and then discharged the SECOND
barrel at himself and fell TO tn,
ground. Miss Zonboff, finding her
self wounded, fled into another room
Ivanoff, seeing she was still alive, aros,
to bis feet and picking up the fire arm
which he had dropped from his hand
staggered to the place where th'
young lady had taken refuge anc
again fired, this time killing her oil
the spot. The murderer is not dead
and has been removed to prison HI
appears to have been passionately il
love with his victim, whose parents
had refused to grant him her hand il
: marriage.
A newspaper correspondent, wht
went down to the wreck of the At
lantic yesterday, says: "The hull 0
the vessel has broken in several places
and the cargo has broken bulk. Bod
les of men and women are jammet
among boxes and gates. Limbs ar,
, strewn around, broken from bodies
by the continual action of the water
At the companion-way of the steerag,
were a hundred or more bodies lyins
in confused heaps, some dressed, bu
, many half-nnde. Children were cling
ing to mothers, and husbands clasp
ing wives. At the companion-way o
the steerage the bodies of men, OLE
and young, were together on tn,
stairs with distended nostrils, gaping
mouths, and staring, CLASSY eyes
giving some idea of their horrible
death in struggling to gain the deck
In the sleeping apartments We're mum
bers of bodies of men, with bcd-cloth