The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-05-09
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HoosIER RaagE, n OF b most notorious
of Western CRIMINALS. hiss been arrested IN
New York Tor robbing . man Of $4,000.
Mrs. Hen1s6sy, of New York, during . fit of
the other day, murdered her two little
children. Fire insurance was not profitable
in the yeaxof The Boston fire. The President
of the Co1sention Of Underwriters ut New
York says Aast TIE companies Of this country
lost &C, s29,s6s in 1872 The total loss in the
Boston fre xas &c, 0oo, 900, Of which $50, 1885,
$40 has besn borne blythe insurance companies.
....Usury hws are not likely to last much
longer in Nav York State. The Grand Jury Of
New Yorkcity, who learned the utter i~nutility
of the Laws IN the effort to enforce them,
recommends the Legislature to abolish them,
and this suggestion has resulted in the intro
duction of a bill for their repeal, which has
passed the Senate by q vote of II to 70. Z
Ar Albany, N. Y, Collector Bailey has seized
% locomotives and 80 passenger and three bag
gage cars of the New York Central and Hud-
son River Railroad Company for non-payment
of taxes..Ea sEif%s $50 as sls As'
ALBERT ". SMITH is under sentence Of death
at Springfield, Mass, for the murder Of
Charles D. Ssckett. s s4
ANOTHER enormous bank defalcation has
been brought to light in New York. F. L.
Painter, the Cashier of the Atlantic National
D..l k.n h .n~.rl&;nc ,-;kb tba fupdr Of
the institution for over five years, during
which time he has succeeded in squandering
over 500, 900, Being hopelessly involved, he
delivered up the keys of the safes and vaults,
confessed his crime, and aided the Clearing
House Committee in investigating the affairs
of the bank, pointing out the evidence of his
crime with ascoolness that was most extrsor-
F. L. fainter is the most self-possessed rascal
in the annals of crime. The bank is hope
lessly bankrupt, and has been stricken from
the Clearing-House list ia heavy defalca-
ton is reported in the New York Postofice.
The Purchasing Committee Of the Board
of Indian Commissioners have just purchased
in New York ~, 600 =butcher-knives and 1,50O
skinnine fscalping ?lknives tor the noble red
men of the far West. A few thousand rifles,
revolvers and tomahawks will probably be
added to the last....I is rumored in New
York that the Atlantic and Great Western and
Erie railroads are to be consolidated 49,. Carl
Schurz sailed from New York for Europe last
week. The formidable league which was to
have been formed in New York for the en-
forcemsnt of the Eight-Hour law has as
sumed the shape of q secret session of
twenty-seven delegates from various trades
unions, which resolved to do nothing until
next year.
TAINrER, the d~efaulting cashier of the At
lantic National Bank, of New York, has been
confined in jail. He is anephew, by marriage,
of August Belmont.
LIZZIE Ness, 9 girl Of IA, WAS brutally out
ragged and murdered near Pittsburgh, Pa,
last week. Two Swedes, now under arrest,
are believed to be the authors of the horrid
crime.
II WEST. @
A PARTY of four persons-WilIiam and
Joseph Fslkington, and John and Thomas
Mitchell, from Macoupin county, m.-were re-
Gently murdered by Indians in Southwestern
Kansas. ). cincinnatis manufactures last year
amounted to s143,0 600, 900, a gain over the pre-
ceding year of 1880, 600. The borax mines
in Southern California are being extensively
worked, over 200 claims having already been
located. The first shipment of crude borax,
4,5O0 pounds, has just been made.
AREronr comes by way of Denison, Texas,
that a Government train Of eight wagons for
Fort Griffin had been captured by Indians IS
miles from DeDison, and four of the eight
teamsters murdered. q
ONE Of the Modoc squaws captured by Gen.
Gillem states that in the first fight an Indian
picked up . shell and chewed the fuse, when
it exploded, blowing his head OF, cutting
John Schonchin in two and killing another.
john j. Murphy has been hung at Stock
ton, Cal, for the murder Of Patrick Murray,
five years ago.
A general outbreak of Indians in Eastern
Oregon is threatened 80. Business in San
Francisco is seriously interrupted by the cpl
zootic....A terrible calamity happened at
Otis, Ind, q few nights ago. The house Of q
man named Klees caught fire and burned so
rapidly that an old gentleman by the name of
Kreist, with his daughter, Mrs. Klees, and
five children were burned to death. Mrs.
Klees could have escaped alone, but vent into
another room endeavoring to save her chill
dren and was lost. Mr.. Kreist was lying with
a broken leg perfectly helpless, and could do
nothing but await his fate. Mr.. Kees and his
brother-in-hw, Mr.. Kriest, escaped, but were
severely burned. So great was the heat OF
the fire that the bodies were burned to ashes,
only afew bones being found. -. Chicago had
five suicides during the week ending April %
Arthur Arnold. aged 16, son of Hon. Isaac
N. Arnold. Of Chicago; was drowned in Rock
river, near Dixon, IL, q few days ago, by the
capsizing of . small sad boat.
TIE horses Of the cavalry at the lava beds
are disabled by the epizootic. Without cavalry
the Modocs cannot be surrounded, and il they
break up into small, struggling bands, as it is
thought they will do, they cannot be pursued
untilthe horses recover The City Council
Of Chicago has passed, and the Mayor ap-
proved, an ordinance requiring all liquor
saloons to be closed at II O'Clock in the even
ing....A report comes from Fort Garry, via
Toronto, that there has been severe fighting
between the United States troops and Black
foot Indians, and hat large. Numbers of the
former were killed. 1t is feared that this is
thebeginning Of a general war with the Biack-
foot tribe, who number several thousand, and
are well armed and equipped. Tho stage
between Hamilton and Phoebe, Nevada, was
recently robbed by highwrymen, who killed
the driver, but did not modest the passengers.
-.A young haciman named Benjamin Frank
lin MurEhy has been appointed a cadet at
West Point from the First Illinois District