The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.
THE EAST.

Upward of $3.50, 600. Among the animals lost :
re several of the most rare in the country,
which il will be difficult il not impossible to ,
eplace, including two girafes-the only ones
N the United ~states-costing $4,000. His
natural history collection is said to have been
he most valuable in this country. This is the
bird time the great American bowman has
been burned out-the first time in July, 1865,
and again In March, 1865. .Csthcart Taylor,
,itv editor Of the Philadelphia Press, has been
convicted of libel.
SUSAN b. A NrHoNY and thirteen other females
who voted at the late election at Rochester, n.
Y, have been bound over for trial before the
United States District Court II is now
known that seven persons persisted in the fire
in Center street, New York, on Christmas eve
....The roof Of q car-wheel factory fell in
Philadelphia, during the recent snow-storm,
burying q number of workmen, Of whom three
were killed outright and several others badly
manned. During the services in the Seventh
Ward Baptist Church in Williamsport, Pa, on
Christmas, the floor and ceiling gave way, pre-
cipitating 500 people into the basement below.
Fourteen persons we're killed outright and
forty more injured, some of them seriously
and probably fatally....A wrestling match
at New York, recently, for $500, between Harry
Grace and Homer Lane, the former was VIC
~torious, and was declared champion of America.
NEW lori city has decided to issue s5,0Oo,-
600 worth of city bonds for the purchase Of
land for the Riverside Park....In the Stokes
trial at New York, the other day, the accused
testified in his own behalf. He admitted that
he shot Fisk, bnt did not intend to kill him,
and said the shooting was in self-defense, Fisk
having drawn his pistol first I b people OF
New York have been somewhat sgitated OF
late over what they claim to be evidence of q
concerted plan for the destruction of the city
by the Internationalists. Many Communists
expelled from Paris are lurking around, and
their movements have excited much suspicion.
The recent epidemic of fires they are unable to
account for except on the theory Of incen-
diarism. Extra men have been engaged by
the fire department, and additional engines Or
dered insurance managers are alarmed, and a
further advance in insurance rates is limited at;
vigilance committees are talked about and
there is q probability Of q vigorous movement
~ phpliCo6ioh VI tAS SONNN
ties in New York and vicinity. The late
snow-storm in New York was the heaviest ex-
perienced for twenty years.
STATE TREASURER MAcKEY has purchased,
for 800, 600, q controlling interest in the Pitts
burgh Commercial. New York had As fires
for the week ending Dec. %, involving . loss
of 81, 157, 800. The source of the money that
put the New York Tribune back in the hands
of Whitelaw Reid is Hon. William Walter
Phelps, a recently-elected administration Con-
gresham from New Jersey. He is a warm per-
sonal friend of the present editor of the Trib-
une, and is immensely rich. He has a banking
house on Wall street.
TIE highest price of gold in New York in
1872 was 115ss, and the lowest l0s. John A.
Brown, an old and wealthy banker of Phila-
delphia, is dead, aged 49,. The buildings of
Colts Willow Ware Manufacturing Company,
at Hartford, Ct, were recently burned. Loss,
s7S,0o0.- Susan B. Anthony refuses to seek
release from imprisonment by giving bail. and
has been sent back to Jail. Her companions
gave the bail asked, and are at liberty until
their trial for voting begins ut Albany. . In
New York, during 1872, there were S,445 mar
riages, and II, 1893 births of living children.
The deaths exceed the births by nearly II, 600.
III total death roll is %, 941, being G, 600 in ex-
cess Of last year. TIL new scheme for the
Rapid Transit road in New York proposes to
make the building thereof the province of the
city. The road is expected to cost $50, 600, 900.
The loss by the burning OF Days Fifth
Avenue Theater. in New York, on New Years
day, will reach $500, 900. For q time the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, adjoining, was in imminent
danger, and a wild panic seized the guests and
employees, who rushed helter-skelter in every
direction; but by the strenuous exertions of
the firemen the flames were restricted to the
theater building, which was consumed in an
incredibly short time.
II WEST.
ME-. WILLIAM E. CRAMER, the veteran edi-
tor of the Milwaukee Wisconsin, made the
hearts and stomach Of the newsboys of that
city exceeding glad on Christmas day. by ten
dering them q sumptuous dinner at the New
hall House.
The Chicago, Millington and Western rail-
way Company, for the purpose Of constructing
a railroad from Chicago to Muscatine, Iowa.
has been organized. d. The Louisville, New
Albany and Chicago railroad WAS recently sold
at auction to George l.. Schuyler, Of New
York, for 50, 600. 80. Twelve parsons were re-
Gently buried by q snow-slide at Little Cotton
wood, Utah. The heirs Of John Bostwick. of
Madison county, Ill, have brought suit in the
Superior Court, at Chicago, for the recovery of
the ownership to %, OOO, 900 worth of real es-
tate in the southern suburbs of that city.
The st. Louis Democrat publishes q list of
disasters OF the Western rivers during the
year just closed. tn pecuniary loss is set
down at 80, 225, 200. Fifty-eight lives were lost
by explosions, and 365 by falling overheard.
Mack Milligan, of Colorado, is the latest luna
tic who claims to have discovered perpetual
motion. Large deposits Of coal have been
discovered in the vicinity of Puget Sound,
Oregon, near the western terminus of the
Northern Pacific railroad. As an aid to the
efforts of those who are working to get Col
orado Territory admitted into the Union, it has
been proposed to increase it's population to an
approximate standar by annexing to it the
most thickly settled portion of Wyoming Ter
ritory. The Wyoming people have taken great
alarm at this, and are sending to Washington in
dignsnt protests against sach ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad
has been completed to the west line Of Kansas.
This company has built 362 miles Of road since
March last. In August 50 miles Of track were
aid-the largest months worth ever done on
any rilroad in this country. The entire
length OF the road, including branches, is 40
miles, all graded, ironed, and equipped since
1869. The Ohio and Mississippi railroad is
negotiating for the purchase Of the Louisville,
New Albany and Chicago railroad.
A YIRE ct Galesburg. III, recently. destroyed