The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-09-12
NEWS IN BRIEF
TIE EAST

NION. u udb NlibiCh a wv
Havemeyer, declining to furnish arms Tor the
New York police. There is trouble brewing
among the city authorities Of Brooklyn. n. l.
II ia stated that a large amount of the citys
securities cannot be found, for the reason that
the late Assistant Treasurer speculated WIZ
the funds, and the securities were gradually
absorbed. This gentleman makes counter
charges against other city officials whom he
claims are implicated in the affair....Ald
Nichols, of Philadelphia, has been sentenced
to nine months Imprisonment for extorting
exorbitant fees.
In the course of the investigations that have
followed the collapse of the Brooklyn Trust
COMPANY, it has been developed that Rodman,
the cashier of tho concern, and Deputy CITY
Treasurer of Brooklyn, has stolen about
$3.50, 600 belonging to the city. He has been
arrested, and will be prosecuted citi-
zens of Newburg, N. Y, are improving the
appearance of the old head quarters of Gen.
Washington, in that town. Secretary Of War
Belknap is cooperating, and has ordered thirty
cannon to be sent there, to be placed on head
quarter grounds. Two bank officers have
recently Observation-Disclosures II. Boyce,
President Of the First National Bank Of Lynn,
Mass, and J. II. Rosanquest, Cashier OF the
First National Bank Of Tarrytown, n. Y.
ILLEGAL investigation into the affairs of the
Philadelphia Morgue has developed the fact
that the Coroner has for a long time been III
the habit Of selling bodies intrusted to him
for burial. DIR. Hodges, of the Medical Col
lege, testified that he was in the habit of buy
ing these unclaimed corpses, and could sec
nothing reprehensible in 80 doing. Michael
A. Mcfarland, who spent his whole fortune IN
securing the acquittal of his brother Daniel,
for the killing of Albert D.. Richardson. has
Just died in a New York hospital. Having no
friends, he WAS buried in the Potter's field.
At Montpelier, Vt, Joseph Daniels shot Carrie
Dennison, and then killed himself. Love and
jealousy.
ions W. HORTON, tho Lancaster pa
forger, has been arrested in Providence, II. l.
In 1860 he was in the employ of a Philadelphia
banker, and. mysteriously disappeared with
Si1, 600 belonging to his employer, and it was
supposed until recently that he was murdered
and robbed. 49, Walter Snowden, a Pliladel-
phia insurance clerk, the other day robbed his
employers safe, then struck himself with a
dumb-bell and simulated Inconsistencies, to
make believe he had been robbed. The trick
WAS discovered sndIe confessed to the theft
"A boa. containing two men and a woman
was swept over the falls at Reading, Pa, the
other day, and one OF the men and the woman
drowned. 49,. Williamson, the principal in the
bond f~orgeries which have brought transac-
tons in New York Central bonds to a stand.
still in Wall street, has not yet been arrested.
So far, Sa2, 900 worth of the forged securities
have been discovered. and it is rumored in
Wall street that one bank has been swindled
to the figure of $500, 900.
TIL bond forgeries in New York'grow more
formidable every day. 1t is now believed that
81 900, 600 worth Of false securities have been
put on the market by the counterfeiting gang.
Edward Patterson, clerk for Keep d Cross,
New York bankers, has decamped with over
$4,000 belonging to his employers.
SEVERAL well-executed $500 counterfeit
greenbacks have been received at the Sub
Treasury in New York. Experts pronounce
them the best counterfeits that they have ever
seen. Few Of them are in circulation in New
York, and it is believed that they have been
oe> hcosir Az nv 'SGs- AL oAA man AdAAAtu
Sweet has been arrested at Titusvillc, Pa, for
passing one of these counterfeits.
THE WEST
YoUNG, the money-order counterfeiter, was
recently arrested at Arcola, ILL.,, and now lies
in the Chicago jail, wounded in the shoulder
by a bullet from the revolver of a Government
detective, for which there appears to be little
cause. He was accompanied by his wife,, who
clings to him in spite of tho disgrace which
has come upon her husband The night
clerk of the Briggs House, Chicago, recently
became enraged at one of the bell-boys of
the house, and threw him ont of a VIII
dow, breaking his leg in two places.
Supt. Washburn, of the Chicago police force,
is about to prefer charges against every de-
tcctive officer on his force, except one The
DeGollyer pavemcnt has been denounced as a
failure i'll Milwaukee and Chicago. e. One
thousand men employed at the Milwaukee
Rolling Mills are thrown ont of work by 4
strike OF the heaters of those mills, against a
reduction of wages....Th Territorial Peni-
Tertiary at Laramie City, W. T., was recently
destroyed by fire.
The land of Illinois il assessed BY the State
Board Of Equalization at an average Of s22. SO
an acre improved, and ss.47 unimproved. 80.
Several of the Iowa railroad robbers are said
to be in Lafayette county, Nc, and that the
citizens are afraid TO arrest them. "A sailor
named John T. Irving, and claiming to be a
relative Of Washington Irving, now in San
Francisco, has confessed himself the muir
dcrer of Benjamin Nathan. of New York, and
says he was hired to do the job by the son OF
the murdered man. The fellow is believed to
DO insane. The Texas cattle fever has
broken out among the cattle in the st. Louis
diaries. .Beane, the conductor Of the coal
train which collided with the passenger ez-
press on the Chicago and Alton railroad, caus-
ing a frightful massacre, has at last been ar
rested in Will county, ILL.,, where he has been
skulking ever since the disaster occurred.
His captor WAS Simon l.. Miller, a merchant Of
Monce, and an old friend of the prisoner, who
was tempted by he's 81, 900 reward to betray
him into the hands Of justice. Became is now
in Jail in Chicago, and will be tried for his
crime....A wonderful magnetic spring has
been discovered near WATERFOWL. Wis. REM
arkable cures of rheumatism, kidney corl-
plants, and other evils to which flesh il heir.
are reported.
ANOTHER railroad slaughter il added to the
frightful list of recent disasters-this time in
Michigan. The accident occurred Oh the De-
troit and Milwaukee road, near Muir station.
and was occasioncd by a freight train running
into the rear of a passenger train. Result
six persons killed and some twenty wounded,
all emigrants. .Freiburg and workum, re-
Gently expelled from the Cincinnati Chamber