The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
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Sandwich Islands to the United States. The war
among the New York newspapers wakes warmer
daily, and some s~anguine persons are anticl-
psting duels in consequence. 1t il said the
Times is about to bring q libel suit against the
World. for q recent publication in which the
private life of parties connected with the
Times is freely ventilated. Bowen. of the
Brooklyn Union, threatens half a dozen
suits against the Tribune. The COM
positors of the New York Tribune, at
a meeting the other day, approved the
proposition that the printing offices in the
United States give one or more pounds of old
type each for the purpose Of making a statue
of Horace Greeley, to be erected over his
grave in Greenwood, and ask the compositors
of the country to give the proceeds OF l,ooo
ems, set up ON Feb. 8 next, the sixty-second
anniversary of the birth of Mr.. Greeley, the
money to be forwarded to the President Of
the New York Typographical Union No. 6, at
% Duane street, New York, of which Union
Mr.. Greeley was the first President...-
The billiard match for the championship of
America, played at New York on the 9th inst,
between Cyrille Dion and Maurice DAILY. was
won by the former, by a score of l 500 to ,1i7.
Largest runs: Dion 156, al, 125 and los;
DAILY, 159, 153, III, 124 and los. Fifty-nine in
nings were played. Napoleon, it is said, made
several Investments in New York during the
past year, and owned nearly a million dollars
worth of property in that city. MR.. Carr
and her three children were burned to death,
in Delaware county. Pa, last week, by the eN-
plosion of a lamp.
Woodruff AND CLAFLIS have again been
confined in jail at New York, in default of bail.
The statistics of enormous dealings on the
New York Stock Exchange last year have been
published. The registered sales of tibet wenty-
seven most prominent stocks amounted to
S. 900, 900 shares. valued at nearly double the
bonded debt of the United States. The largest
transactions were in Pacific Mail. their extent
covering ffty-ive times the amount of its cap
ital stock.
Mrs. LYDIA SHERMAN, the Connecticut Bor-
gia, has been sentenced to Imprisonment for
life at New Haven. She has made a full con-
fession. in which she acknowledges to having
poisoned eight persons. three of whom were
her husbands.
THOMAS C. DURANT. in behalf of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company, has commenced suit
in New York against Cakes Ames and James
Brooks to recover shares of Credit Mobilier
stock alleged to have been fraudulently OBJ
tanned. -. The debt of New York city increased
81, $50, 900 last year.. ..Ex-Mayor Daniel c.
Kingsland, of New York. is dead. aged IS
years. Thu trial of William NJ. Tweed is in
progress in New York. The BOSS" expresses
himself confident Of acquittal. The widow
of ex-President John Tyler is about TO sell her
estate on Staten Island. and repurchase the
old Tyler estate in Virginia.
THE New Hampshire Republicans have NOM
mated Gov. Straw for reelection The
Directors of the Erie Railroad Company have
authorized the issue of so. 900. 900 seven per
cent. convertible bonds, for the purpose of
laying a double track along the line of the road.
TIL VEST.
Two CHILDREN were scalded to death at De-
catur, ILL.,. recently. by one of them pulling
over a coffee-pot filled with the boiling fluid.
-Four persons were recently killed by the
explosion of the boiler of a steam mill. in
Hillsdale county, Mich. .Advices from Ari-
IONA state that Gen. Crook is waging a war of
determination against the murderous Apaches.
JOSEPH ROGERS. of Hazel Green, Wis. was
recently blown to atoms by the explosion Of a
can of nitro-glycerine, which he was carelessly
handling. The Home WOODEN Mills. at Jack
sonville, ILL.,, were recently destroyed by fire.
Loss. $780, 900. 80. Charles Ducharme. one of
the most prominent and active business men
Of Detroit, is dead. aged 81.
ADvIcEs from Arizona state that a battle had
been fought between the command Of Maj.
Brown and a band of Apache Indians, lasting
five hours. Fifty-seven OF the red devils were
sent to their happy hunting grounds, and
twenty-three captured. Maj. Browns only
loss was one Lima Indian. An explosion of
gas which had leaked and filled the space be-
tween the ground floor and plastering below
the Office of the Western Union Telegraph. in
Cincinnati, occurred the other day, tearing up
the floor, extinguishing the lights, and creating
a wild panic among the operators. who rushed
pell-mell into the street .Hibler, the Fort
Wayne. Ind, wife-murderer. has been SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for life.
IL the battle of the companies of the 9Th
cavalry with the Apaches in Arizona, Dec. 90.
near Salt river, not a warrior escaped. All the
band were killed, and twenty-five women and
children were captured. "A singular accident
occurred at the Wisconsin State Normal School.
in Oshkosh, the other day. Prof. II. {. Bowen
was demonstrating the theory to the class in
chemistry of using the compound ~blow-pipe.
The magic-lantern was lighted with a calcium
light and Illuminating gas, and by some means
fire was communicated to the gas, causing a
terrific explosion. which was heard for a dis
lance of two miles, sounding like All earth
quake. Every window on one side of the
school building was torn out, sash and all.
Prof. Bowen and Is students were badly in-
jured. Bowen's clothes and boots were torn
into fragments, stripping him completely
naked. Several of the students were more or
less injured, and all in the room were rendered
entirely deaf. The door was torn off and
forced through a window, and shivered into
fragments; the plastering was torn off, fur
niture destroyed, floor ripped up, and the
rooms looked as if they had been visited by an
earthquake. All the injured will doubtless
recover. Leo Canman, a Chicago Postoflice
clerk, has been convicted Of robbing the mails.
II accommodating reports of fatalities by the
recent storm in Northern Minnesota, says the
Chicago Times, intensity the horror of that
dread calamity. The storm seems to have
been unprecedented in its suddenness as well
as its severity, and for travellers who encoun-
tered it death seems to have been the rule and
escape the exception, very few of the luckless
wayfarers surviving to tell the story of their
sufferings. Whole sleighing parties frozen to
death upon the road, the horses standing stark
upon their legs and the drivers sitting bolt