The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-08-08

has openly expressed an opinion that it would
be safer for the prisoners to be kept in con-
fnement than liberated on bail.
THE resources and liabilities Of the Illinois
national banks are the same-41, 116, 471.6S.
king Cholera slew 176 Cincinnatians during
his s%ojourn in that city, period of SO days.
NEARLY all the railroads centering at st.
Louis have abolished the free-pass system.
Charles A. Russell, the murderer Of James
Crotty, was hanged at San Francisco on July
5....Gov. Austin, of Minnesota, has gone
to Washington to lay before the State Depart
ment a full statement of the Gordon kidnap-
ping affair. 1t is now claimed that the recap
ture of Gordon was effected on American soil.
THE Iowa Capitol Commissioners have
notified the Quincy, ILL.,, contractors that they
! will not wait any longer on them for stone for
the new Capitol, and they have sent hands to
Iowa City to quarry stone for building, at the
Quincy contractors expense.
SUNDAY liquor-selling has been suppressed
in Cleveland. The Indianapolis Sentinel, of
July 2s, says: 1t is settled beyond a doubt
that hops in the State of Indiana, IS a whole,
will be satisfactory" The steamer Jennie
Howell was recently sunk in the Ohio river.
Three lives lost.
Two prominent citizens of Manitoba signed
the bond of Merriam, the only one Of the al
legged k~idnappers whom the court admitted to
bail. Immediately on his release he was ar
rested on a civil process at the suit of a lawyer
whom he had retained to conduct his defense.
The necessary security was given, and Mer-
riam was again released. Senator Ramsey. OF
Minnesota, has started for Washington, to
urge the State Department to intercede in be-
half Of the prisoners. The complaint and
been filed in the Office of the Clerk of the
Court, at Salt Lake. The complain.
ant sues for $500, 900 damages, ali
mony pending the suit of 81, 900 pei
month, aud go, 900 for counsel fees.
George Redwood, formerly Colonel of the
Louisiana Tigers of rebel renown, ha.
been sentenced, at Detroit, to two years il
the Michigan State Prison for cmbezzlement
AT Rogersville, Ohio, during the trial of
man calling himself i" JEFF Davis" for ontrag
ing the person of a 9-year old girl, the lights il
the room were put out, the prisoner was drag
ged out of doors, shot twice with revolvers
dragged by his heels two squares, and hanged
to a tree till he was dead. Iowa grain an6
cattle dealers are sending their shipments east
ward by way of st. Louis, instead of Chicago
since the Inauguration Of the Illinois RAILROAD
lava stage was stopped near Grass Valley
CAL, on the night of the 9th ult., by high
waymen, who blew open the Wells 4 Fargo
treasure-box and obtained IS, 900.
The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Com
pany have been ordered by United State,
Judge Hopkins to cease their b~ridge-buildin,
operations at La Crosse, Wis, until the sui
involving their right to do 80 is decided.
The new census of Iowa shows the populatio,
of the State to be about 1900. 900. Thre,
persons were fatally, and six seriously, iniure,
by the explosion Of a furnace in the Chicag,
North side Rolling Mills, on the Goth nit.
The damage by the recent fire in the low,
State Pen~itentisry, at Fort Madison, will reacl
$4,000. The State loses $40, 900, and tn,
contractors $50, 200.