The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-08-15
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
THE EAST.
THE Government bonded warehouse in
Greenwich street, New York, was partially de-
stroyed BY fire on the 3Oth ult. Loss about
half q million. -. Newark, N. j., was visited
week by q terrific rain-storm, flooding the
streets and i~nficting damage to the amount of
$500, 900.
ward Schusterreiter murdered his wife by
cutting her throat, and then ended his own
life by taking poison. They we're two months
Jealousy was the cause. -. Unlucky
Boston has been visited by another serious
conflagration. involving q loss of $500. 900. 80.
vice-President Wilson is rapidly recovering his
health.
JOHN A. BELTS, a Brooklyn real estate
agent, has failed for 500, 600. IA man named
Schmech, his wife and child, were killed on
Long Island, the other day, while attempting
to cross q track in front OF a train Three
persons were killed, and another seriously in
jured, by q collision on the Allegheny Valley
railroad, near Cunningham, Pa, on the LIST
inst.
THREE hundred men have been enrolled at
New York for servive in Cuba against the
Spaniards. 49,. Ben Butler is said to be prepar-
irg an elaborate defense of the back pay....A
prize-fght between the bruisers Chambers and
Seddons occurred in the vicinity of Brooklyn,
N. Y, last Sunday, resulting in a victory for
the former. Fourteen rounds were fought.
FOUR men we're killed and two wounded by
an explosion in q coal mine at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, on the 4th inst....A horrible accident oc-
CURED at Butler, Pa, a few daps Ago.. Three
men were in a well boring for oil, when sud-
denly a vein was struck, the stream of oil
shooting q hundred feet in the air. Scarcely
had it spouted above the surface when the
fluid took fire, sending a blaze high into the
heavens. The three unfortunate men in the
well were, of course. burned to death almost
instantly, their bodies, when recovered, pre-
senting a horrible, shriveled mass.
THREE suits are about to be brought against
the Erie Railway Company, and a strong effort
will be made to throw the corporation into
bankruptcy. ...Leng Island City, N. Y, was
the scene of a terrific explosion on the 5th
inst. Two oil tank-boats blew up with ter
rife force, killing three men and doing much
damage to property. The subscription of
S160, 600 for the erection Of the second The
illogical Hall for the Divinity School of Yale
College has been completed. TIL National
Educational Association met at Elmira, n. Y,
on the 9Th inst. About one thousand dele
gate members were present, nearly every
State in the Union being represented. -. Mem
bers of the Grand Army of the Republic in
Hoboken, N. Y, compelled a saloon-keeper to
take down the German flag, which was flying
over an American flag, and reverse their posi-.
tions.
THE Liberal Democratic State Convention
Of Ohio nominated Judge Isaac C. Collins for
Governor. Two hundred delegates, repre-
senting forty out of the lightweight counties
of the State, were in attendance. 49, Consider
able excitement has been caused in San Fran
cisco by the discovery of the existence of a
secret Chinese society for the prosecution of
the traffic in Chinese women, sold for lives of
prostitution. Quite al extensive traffic of
this lind has been carried on, young girls be-
ing sold at prices ranging from 800 to S400.
Several members of this infamous organiza-
ton have been arrested. Ia Des Moines dis
patch says: 1t is now known that two of the
participants in the recent railroad robbery
were George Isaacs and a man named East.
They have been residents Of Taylor county,
iowa, for several years, and are well acquaint-
ed with the country through which the rob-
bers made their escape. They are desperate
characters, and it is believed that they are
secreted in a large scope of underbrush and
timber in that county. Crop reports from
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Northern Iowa are
very encouraging.
THE farmers Of Kansas, at their recent
State Convention at Lswrence-called to reor-
ganize their State Grange-censured the ac-
ton of the State Board of Agriculture for en-
couraging racing at the coming State Fair by
offering exorbitant premiums. 80. Chicago
commercial circles have just been agitated by q
stupendous "corner" in wheat, which resulted
successfully to those concerned in it, their
profits footing up about $3.50, 600. The affair
was engineered by Milwaukee men, 1t is
pretty certain that the low railroad robbers
have made good their escape. Cyrus Nc
Carly, Of Fulton county, Ind, the other day
fatally shot his mother-in-law, fired five times
Intellectually at his wife, and then shot himself
through the head. Causo-domestic troubles,
aggravated by too much mother-in-law.....
There are $50 Oranges in Nebraska. They re-
solve to take no direct part in politics.
RICH gold deposits have been discovered in
Alaska. Two coal-miners at La Sale, ILL.,,
were precipitated down the shaft Of a mine, a
distance of $50 feet, while standing in a bucket.
Strange to say, they were not fatally injured.
Virginia City, New, is rejoicing over the
completion Of her water-works. This aqneduct
is eighteen miles long....A special to the
Kansas City Times from Cherryville, Kan.
says Col. A. NJ. York has received intelligence
that more bodies have been discovered at the
Bender graveyard, and that 9 clue to the
whereabouts OF the Benders can be made.
The Ohio Constitutional Convention has voted
to adjourn until Dec. 2, when they will meet
in Cincinnati. The late Jesse r. Grants
household furniture was recently sold at auc-
ton, at Covington, KY, for 500. Mrs. Grant
will hereafter live with Mrs. Corbin, at Eliza
BEETHOVEN, N. J.
The magnificent new dry goods palace of
Field, Letter d Co, in Chicago-erected by
the Singer Sewing Machine Company at a cost
OF s6Oo,oo 0 and almost ready for occupancy
was partially destroyed by fire on the I'd
inst. 1t will cost about 500, 600 to repair the
Transportation item: 1t costs Sc
to ship two tons Of spelter from La Sale
Mendoza, H., by wagon, and SO to
tho same weight by rail....In Nod
away county, No., $4,000 head of stock
have been destroyed by the Texas cattle
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