The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-04
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NEWS IN BRIEF
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qua, N. Y, and resulted in a verdict OF guilty.
80. vice-President Wilson is rapidly recover
ing his health. He is rusticatipg in the
suburbs OF Boston.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY has been sentenced to
pay a fine of 800, and the costs Of prosecu7
ton, as the penalty for illegal voting. The
colored men of New York are clamoring for
places on the police force. Tn Maine Re
publican State Convention nominated Nelson
Dingley, Jr., for Governor, passed resolutions
protesting against the granting Of che public
lands to railroads and canals, denouncing the
salary grab, and condemning all Credit Mo-
bilier transactions.
The election officers who received the vote
of Susan B. Anthony have been fined S55
each. Horace r. Clark, President Of the
Michigan Southern and Union Pacific railroads,
died in New York, last week, after a brief ill
ness. Mr.. Clark was q son-in-law Of Commo-
dore Vanderbilt. He was So years old....Ex
Police Superintendent Kennedy, Of New York,
is dead. Joe Burton, colored, was hanged at
Georgetown, Del, on Friday, for the crime Of
rape. Somebody at Louisville, KY, forward
ed to President Grant, at Long Branch, for
his son Jesse, a live alligator, four feet long.
Jesse declined the present, and the President
paid the express charges GID, leaving the
soon afterward became DETECTED and died.
PAssAIc, N. j., and PottsyiIle, Pa, were
each visited by a disastrous c~opfiagratior last
week. Forest fires have been raging in
Central Pennsylvania and Northern New
York. Thousands of acres Of valuable timber
have been destroyed. New York State is
actually without a Senate, or a constitutional
provision for one, the Legislature at its late
session, by a b~ungling piece Of legislation,
having abolished the Senate altogether. -.
Stokes trial has been postponed 10 October.
BEN BUTLER is making a lively canvass for
the Governorship of Massachusetts,, and is
confident OF being elected. Two stables,
one near Philadelphia, containing twelve val
usble t~rotters, and the other at Buffalo, filled
with fifty horses, were destroyed by fire last
week, the horses pcrishing in the flames.
Levin Tappan, one Of the early pioneers OF
the Abolition movement, died last week in
New York, sged S5....In a hurdle race al
JerOIue IaTk, new lOrh, ldet Wcth, OHe VI Tie
horses fell, killing the rider.
The trial of young Wslworth for the murder
of his father is in progress at New York.
The Juniata has left Now York in search Of
the Polaris and the missing Buddington party
Her crew numbers $50, and her ~equipmen
contains everything that is needed for Arcti
navigation.
THE WEST
The Northern Pacific surveying party wa
recently attacked near Fort Abraham Lincol
by about $50 Sioux Indians. In the fight tina
ensued four Indians were killed. =. The low,
Luthern Synod has resolved to exclude from
its church all members of the Orders of Ma
SONS, Odd Fellows, Red Men, etc. . While til.
Modocs were being removed from the penin
3 sula, Tule Lake, to Fort Klamath, one of the
Indians known as Curiy-headed Jack shot him
self, and has since died.
ALBEIT KEEP, Of Chicago. succeeds John F
Tracy as President of the Chicago and North.
western railroad. The wheat crop Of Cali.
fornia this year is expected to exceed %. 900. OOt
bushels. D.. h. Burlington, Iowa, was visited by Q
terribly destructive confagration on the morn.
ing OF the 18th of June. The Palmer Opera.
House, Courthouse, two hotels, and a large
number Of stores were destroyed, foul
blocks being burned. The loss is about
500. 600, half OF which, 1t is thought, is GOV.
cred by insurance. Two men were sleeping
together in a store at Santa Rosa, Cal. One
dreamed that a burglar WAS robbing the store,
and he took his pistol from his pillow and shoI
his bedfellow, killing him The town OF
Maysville, Mich, has been almost totally de.
stroyed by fire.
The managers Of the principal railway lines
running into Chicago have signed a paper
agreeing to issue no more passes except to
their own employees and their families travelling
on their W roads. All passes now outstand.
ing will be allowed TO continue in force until
their expiration, Dec. 81, and will not be re-
newed. The following roads have entered
into the agreement: Chicago and Northwest
crn, Chicago and Iowa, Chicago, Milwaukee
and 81. Paul, Rock Island, Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy, Chicago and Alton, Illinois Gen.
trail. .Michigammi, a mining settlement OF
800 inhabitants on the shore OF Lake Superior,
took fire last week from the burning woods
which surrounded il, and was destroyed. The
people to save their lives sought refuge in the
lake, but a number were overtaken by the
flames, and a dozen or more were roasted to
death. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad has promulgated its new schedule Of
rates, to conform to the new Illinois railway
law. The principle has been adopted Of fixing
a certain rate per mile for the various classes
OF freight, and then applying this rate by
sections Of two miles and a half up to twenty
five miles, and to sections Of five miles for
distances exceeding twenty-five miles. The
application of this tariff will test the effect
OF the pro rata provision, bring out
its merits and show its defects.....
Public advertisement was given in the Chicago
papers, the other day, that the corn in certain
bins in two North Side elevators was hot. The
announcement had an instant effect upon the
cornmarket, the price depreciating an average
OF II cents a bushel. las there are some 4,OOO.-
900 bushels in store in the city, the loss liz con-
siderable. The decline also followed the corn
IN transit between Chicago and New York, and,
to some extent, the corn at all points in the
East. Az D whole, there was probably a fall
OF ii cents per bushel on not less than 10. 1OO.-
900 bushels Of corn, equal TO the humiliation
OF value in the hands of the holders OF d, Co.,
900. The Tribune, in it's financial article, says
THE great feature in local trade and finance, |
to-day, was the panic and decline in prices Of
corn, wheat. and provisions. In fact, there
was 3 general crash in prices Of nearly all kinds |
Of products dealt in in this market. The ag-
gregate loss will be verv large, though but a