The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-18
NEWS IN BRIEF
THE EAST,

In South Acton, MASS, q lew oaye "6o,
George Curtis, aged 8 years, took 3 boy named
Lane, 8 years of age, into the woods, and there
beat him with q club in q most shocking man-
ner. Lane was soon discovered, but died OF
his Injuries four hours after. The child-mur-
derer fed, but vas subsequently arrested
Young man and a young lady, accompanied by an
infant brother Of the latter, went out on the
Niagara river on the Fourthfor a boat ride, and,
getting in the current, we're carried over the
falls and dashed to pieces. The man and woman
were to have been married the next day.
Buffalo has been shaken by an earthquake.
Nc damage, but considerable scare. Frank
ii. Walworth, the Young maj who shot his
father at New York, and was convicted OF
murder in the second degree, has been SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life. The youth
full parricide listened unmoved to the dreadful
sentence, and walked from the scene OF the
trial with q firm step, and in an apparently
cheerful frame of mind. On his way to the
Tombs, after sentence, he said: 81 am glad
1 did not have to endure the long lecture I
had anticipated Judge Davis would infict
upon me. 1 thoroughly understand my posi-
ton, and did not desire any instruction in re-
lation thereto. I simply wish time to arrange
my affairs, and / shall then submit myself to
ny fate with all the ~equanimity I can COM
mand."
The young parricide, Frank Walworth, has
taken up his quarters in Sing Sing Prison..
The repairs to the steamer Tigress ut the
Brooklyn Navy Yard have proved such a bung-
ling job that the vessel is less seaworthy than
when she entered the docks, in consequence
of which the search for the Polaris is indefi.
nitely postponed. III is probable that the
steamship City of Washington will be fioated
and repaired. Had she struck 500 yards
farther to the left, on the Little Gull Rock,
her 700 souls would, beyond a doubt, have
followed the victims of the Atlantic. At the
time of the disaster she was running at the
good rate of nine knots an hour, notwith-
standing a dense fog prevailed, and the Cap
tain evidently had not the least idea of his
whereabouts.
III
A Two-sToRY house fell in Mt. Carroll, ILL.,,
the other day, and three persons were injured,
it is feared, fatally. Capt. Randall, of the
Twenty-third Infantry, and command, with SO
Apache scouts, recently surrounded a camp Of
Apache Indians in Arizona, and capturad
twenty-five warriors, with squaws and chill.
dren. The next day, Delchay's camp was sur
rounded, and he, with the remainder of the
once formidable band, to the number of 131,
surrendered. Delchay says it is impossible fol
the Apaches to evade their own traitors. The,
follow night and day. /. Sickness is reported
among the Modoc prisoners at Fort Klamath
Close confinement is commencing to tell OF
Capt. Jack and Curly-Headed Doctor. The
former is weak, gaunt, and complaining. -.
At Green Lake, Wis, on the morning of the
Fourth. a picnic party went out on the lake in
the sailing yacht Fl. 3. Harshard, on a fishing
excursion, and had proceeded but a short dis.
lance when asquall struck the boat, capsizing
it. The following persons were thrown into
the water and drowned: Mrs. A. P. Carman,
Mrs. Geo. Harding, Miss Jennie Ola, Mrs. NJ.
G. Russell and child, VIM. Bloxham, wife and
child, Mrs. John Baird, and q child Of the Rev.
MIR. Allen....The number Of Modoc captives
has been increased by the surrender of three
f ava ehS IL II I'LL cu.
Ia vast amount of property was destroyed
by the recent storms in Illinois, Iowa, Mis-
souri,, Ohio and Indiana. Houses, fences and
bridges were demolished, and in some sec.
tions serious loss Of life is reported. The
grain fields have suffered serious injury, the
damage in Ohio alone being estimated at up.
ward Of $1,000, 600.
A oMPAN with $500, 900 capital has beer
organized in Cincinnati for the establishment
OF a geological garden in that city. IA
Phoebe, Nevada, the other day, a desperate
named Harrington shot and killed four mel
because one of them killed his dog....W H
Hazleton, q prominent indianapolis lawyer
has ~squandefed the funds in his hands belong
ing to various trusts, and sloped for parts un
known, leaving his friends and bondsmen il
the lurch IA lively contest is going on TO
the Pacific terminus Of the Northern Pacif,
railroad. Seattle offers, by way of donation
land and money estimated at $1,000, 600, an,
is still adding. Taco offers the entire contro
OF the waterfront Of the city, and a larg,
amount Of land in case Seattle does not get th,
terminus Gen. Stanley, in charge Of tn
military expedition escorting the engineers o
the Northern Pacific railway, reports that tn
survey Of the road has been made to q poin
seventy miles west of Bismarck, Dakota. Tn
route trayerses q finely-watcred and fertl
country, and cuts through ample coal deposit
twenty-seyen miles west Of the Missouri
river.
LORD GORDON, who was lately robbed o
$4,000 in bonds, supposed by detectives t,
lure him over the border, was seized re
Gently, near Fort Garry, by two officers from
Minneapolis, and brought to disputed terri
tory near Pcmbina, where he was rescued
and the officers arrested by q squad of troop
from Fort Dufferin. 1t is said Gordon wa
made drunk and gagged by his captors. Thu
plan for Gordon's arrest was laid at Mime
apolis. where Marshall o. Roberts, of New
York, and representatives of the estate O.
Horace F. Clark have been for some time
Roberts and Clark some time ago gave bond
(S37,000) for Gordon's appearance in til,
suits with Jay Gould. Gordon is also wantet
by New York parties on other accounts. -,
A half mile of the Missouri Pacific railroad
track near Kickapoo, Kansas, dropped into thu
Missouri river q few days ago. II sank out Of
sight in the flooded stream in one lurch, ant
without warning. II seems that the river un,
dermined the track without the knowledge OF
railroad men. The water where the track MA.
situated is now 40 feet deep. Railroad mer
say it is the most fearful rent ever seen. The
escape Of trains was almost miraculous.
A 81. Paul dispatch of the 9Th says: The
steamer Aunt Betsy from Kalamazoo river
Michigan, by way Of the Fox and Wisconsin
rivers, arrived this noon. She left Kalamazoo
June H., The Chicago Tribune, of the 10tl
inst, prints reports Of the crops in variou,
sections Of Illinois, Iowa, Ohio and Indiana