The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.
THE EAST.

A PASSENGER tram on the f1ttsbufSh anu
Erie railroad ran off the track near Morayia,
Pa, the other day, and was precipitated down
embankment thirty feet high. Two of the
coaches were burned, but all the passengers
succeeded in getting out alive. Twenty OF
them were injured, but nom seriously.
THE trial of Stokes for the murder of James
Fisk, Jr., was brought to a close in New York
the 4th inst, and resulted in a verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree. On re-
firing, the jury stood ten for murder and two
for m~anslaughter. They were absent three
hours. On the announcement of the verdict
the prisoner was visibly affected. He turned
ghastly pale, and threw his arms in the air with
q gesture of utter despair. Financial advices
from New York and the East express the belief
that the ruling monetary s~tringency must soon
give way to an easier feeling.
Stokes was brought into the New York Court
OF Oyer and Terminer, the other day, to re-
ceive his sentence. The prisoner was asked
what he had to say why the sentence of death
should not be passed upon him. Stokes said
that he had not violated the law Intentionally
that the testimony upon which he was con-
yicted was manufactured and perjured. Judge
Boardman. then, in a feeling address, in which
he alluded to the prisoners youth and social
surroundings, sentenced him to be hanged on
Friday, the 2Sth day of February next, being
the longest time that could be legally allowed
the convicted man. The prisoner looked gen.
tlemanly, and bore the scrutinizins gaze Of he
thousands of spectators led by morbid curiosi-
fv He waa asbr pola Tho cr,,patl,r Of
most of the spectators was with Stokes, and it
is believed that Gov. Dix will exert executive
clemency.
A BITTER and exciting journalistic war is
raging in New York. A dispatch of the 9th
inst. says: All the papers in the suit of the
Tribune against the Times and the Brooklyn
Union have been served, and the Tribune will
press for trial as early as possible. There is a
prospect of a lively row among the newspapers
in the next few weeks. The Tribune and the
World are making common cause against the
Times. and savage compliments are exchanged
daily. The Herald is not in the fight at present.
but will probably take a land on the side of the
Tribune and World. The Journal Of Com
merce approves the T,ibuae's course in bring
'NAts anu Aio thit II liz.
suffered from stories similar to that which
causes the present row. Deaths in Brooklyn
the past year numbered Il. Gas. 49,. Mrs. Sophia
NJ. Hiltsman and William J. n. Sheppard were
foully murdered at Morayia, n. Y. by join
Hiltsman, husband of the former. -. Stokes
has been taken from his luxurious quarters in
the Tombs, and confined in the murderer's
cell. One ground on which the verdict will be
attacked by Stokes counsel is the remark said
to have been made by one of the jurors. be-
tween the first and second trials. that he would
be Juror next time then You will see what
will happen to Stokes"
The Democrats of New Hampshire have
nominated James A. Weston for Governor.
1t is said the Erie Railway Company is about
to sue Drew and Vanderbilt for the restitution
OF money of which it is claimed they defraued
the company-..Henry c. Bowen. of the Brook
lyn Union, has sued the New York Tribune for
a large amount because the Tribune copied
from the Brooklyn Eagle an article alleging
that Bowen was responsible for the scandal
about Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in regard to
the Woodhul-Clafin publication against him.
..-.Stokes, the New FORK murderer. has been
removed to his old cell. 1t is said this is the
first instance in 81 years in which a prisoner.
confined in the Tombs and convicted of
murder, has beeen allowed 10 occupy any
but a condemned CELIA diabolical at
tempt at wholesale incendiarism was dis
covered and frustrated in New York the
other day. Irvine merchant named Kidd had
carefully prepared a train of fuse connecting
his premises with adjoining buildings, whereby
they could be set on fire. He was arrested.
ana his Office boy testified to seeing him max
ing the fuses. Three large warehouses we're
involved in this attempt, and but for the dis
covery a heavy confagration would have en-
sued, as trains Of fuse were nearly all laid in
the upper stories and from roof to roof. ...
A meeting of old soldiers of the war of 1912
was held in Philadelphia on the anniversary of
the battle of New Orleans. Only twelve
answered to ~roll-call.
THE WEST.
The works of the Northwestern Fertilizinp
Company, in South Chicago, were DESTROYED
by fire recently, involving a loss of S175. 600.
The fine residence of ex-Gov. Dewey. at
Cassviile. Wis, was burned recently. Loss.
S75,000.-. The ooal-miners' strike at Spring
field, ILL.,, has ended, the workmen having ac-
cepted the old rates. 4. Two brothers. named
William and David Clarkson, both butchers.
aged respectively 60 and II. were found frozen
to death in their bed in Pike county, ILL.,, re-
Gently. They were known to be extremely
misery. and it seems that. notwithstanding
they were wealthy-being worth 2O.OOO. had
money in their pockets. and an abundant sup
ply Of fuel at hand-they froze to death be-
cause they were too stingy to burn their wood.
Their deaths were certainly most extraor-
dinary..-.A Morgan county. H.. farmer. has
brought suit for So 600 damages against the
Chicago and Alton Railroad COMPANY. for
communicating the Texas cattle fever 20 his
stock. .Frederick Rupp, editor of the Beell-
vile Qll.) Zeittng. recently committed suicide
by hanging himself IN the doorway of his
Office Decatur, ILL.,, has been excited over
an attempt of some fiend to poison a family by
putting arsenic in the well. All the family,
consisting OF seven persons, partook Of coffee
made from the poisoned water, and were only
saved by the arrival of prompt medical aid. 100.
Delphi, Ind, has had her little blaze, for which
she pays sos, 900. The officers of the Masonic
Lodges Of Oman publish a card rcpudiating
the gift concert scheme advertised in that city
Ito aid in building a Masonic Temple.
Two steamboats,, a ferryboat and several coal
barges were sunk by the ice at Madison. Ind.
Loss, $4,000.
The town Of Wadena, Clayton county, Iowa.
was recently the scene of a horrible murder.
A party of young men, while under the infu-
ence Of liquor, seized a youth of II wears.
named Garrett Dorland, and, procuring a
horse, they tied him, M~azeppa-like, OH the
back Of the beast and galloped him up and down
the streets of the village. Having satisfied
their spirit of deyiltry, the fiends finally cut the
thongs that bound the now unconscious how