Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-03-13
--latest NEWS.

The next trial for murder in New
York, is that of Charles Cordes, whC
fatally stabbed John Doran. in October
last, during a dispute about the Franco
German war. Robert Bleakley, whC
shot his niece, Maud Merrill, courte
IAN, will be tried afterward.
L. W. Ainsworth, of New Haven
Conn, has challenged Homer Lane to ;
wrestling match for $1,000 a side anC
the championship of America.
Bellevue hospital took fire on Mon
day night. The flames were quickly
subdued.
Patrick Kelley, missing confden
tlal collector of Arnold & Constable, is
believed to have been robbed and muir
dered.
The suit against the wife of Andrew
J. Garvey,, the Tammany ring plasterer,
to compel her to fulfill a contract sell.
ing property on Madison avenue, to Ira.
dore Wormser for $215,0 900, was dis
missed on Monday. WOrmser was to
Garvey's solvency. The latter was re-
fused and WOmsey refused to take the
title deeds.
The Senate adopted a resolution
offered by Mr.. Morton, that the COM
mittee on elections be directed to exam
inc and report at the next session Of
Congress the best and most practicable
method Of electing the President and
Vice President of the United States, to-
gether with a plan for the organization
of tribunal to determine all contested
questions connected Herewith, and that
the committee have leave to sit during
the recess of the Senate.
The Caldwell case was up in the
Senate Monday, and, after remarks bv
Mr.. Morton and others, Caldwell pre-
sented his defence in the shape of a le-
gal argument No definite action was
taken.
Prince Bismarck made a powerful
speech Monday in the upper House of
the Prussian diet in support of the bill
limiting the powers of the Roman
Catholic clergy.
Queen Paulina, mother of the King
of Wirtemberg, died on the 18th, aged
seventy-three.
The ice is going out in the Missouri
river. There is but slight rise of water.
A thousand feet of the wagon road
bridge on Loup Fork, at Columbus, was
carried away by the ice Monday morn
ing.
Radical deputies from Andalusia
have called meeting of the Andalusia
deputies in the Assembly to consider the
for setting up federal State
government in Andalusia, based on free
trade and free ports.
The Federalists are organizing
revolutionary central committee in
Madrid.
The Irreconciliables have made at
tempts to seduce the troops of the gar
rison from their loyalty to the Spanish
government, but without success.
1t is stated at the Navy Department
that nearly four times as much matter
has been sent to the forthcoming Vienna
in the government vessels as
was sent to the Paris Fair in 1867.
The Congressman are receiving their
extra S., 900 cash from the Sergeant-at- |
Alarms of the House and the Secretary
Of the Senate. Some of the first to ap- |
ply for the money were among those |
who voted against the measure in the |
House.
Professor John Torrey, of Columbia
College, formerly chief of the Assay |
Office at the Sub Treasury, well-known
ootanist and prominent member of the
society of the Cincinnati, died Monday |
evening. Professor Torrey was about
Eighty years of age, and had during his
ong life become prominently knewn
md acknowledged among all scientists
Is leader In his specialties.