The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-06-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
THE EAST.

which the importers do not find it profitable to
take out, on account Of the high price Of gold
and the dullness Of the season. -. Ralph
Waldo Emerson has returned to his home at
Concord 80. The American Tract Society has
reelected the old board of officers. The At
lantic Bank is not 30 badly hurt by Taintor's
defslcation as was feared at first. Its assets
are found to amount to 70 per cent. Of the
Liabilities.
IT is stated that Wall street men have gen.
orally determined, in view of the new railroad
law going into effect on July 1, to put no more
money into Illinois railroads. Jay Gould, it
is said, is making big efforts to gain control
Of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad.
horse disease has reappeared in Brooklyn
and New York.. George Francis Train has
been pronounced sane, and is now at liberty.
Boston has been visited by another disas-
trous fire, which devastated an area of four
acres in the business portion Of the city. The
loss is estimated at from 80, 00o, 0O0to %, $780,
900. Among the buildings burned are the
Globe Theater and the Chickering Piano
Warehouse. During the progress Of the con-
flagration, five firemen were killed by falling
walls, and o number Of people we're injured.
49,. ThreeIhundred thousand dollars worth of
bonds, stolen from the Waterford, N.Y., bank,
have been returned by the thieves, who have
received IS per cent. and immunity from pun
ishment %. George Francis Train is about to
sue the city of New York for false imprison-
ment, claiming 800, 900 damages. - George
Er.po,. Tr.,, avo Al. late Doctor, fro aetna
work of the Commune.
AT the recommendation Of Henry Ward
Beecher the deacons of Plymouth Church
have resolved to institute an investigation into
the scandalous charges against their pastor.
:'Whitelaw Reid acknowledges subscriptions
amounting to s10,6s3 to the Greeley statue
fund. IA New York paper says q reward of
nearly $500, 900 is dependent on the extradi-
ton Of Mcdonnell, the Bank Of England
forger.
MANSFIELD TRACY WALwoRrH. an author of
some distinction, was shot dead in a prominent
New York hotel, the other day. by his own son.
Frank H. Walworth, a young man 10 years Of
age. Family troubles led to the horrid crime.
Walworth. ST., had been divorced from his
wife (who is a daughter of the late Gen. John
Hardin, Of Hlinois) for some three years, but,
rs the SOD AYERS, had taken every opportunity
to persecute and annoy her. Tn son had fire.
quently warned him to desist, until at last,
growing desperate, he invited the father to his
room at the Sturtevant House, where he de-
liberately murdered him, firing four bullets
into his body, one at such close quarters that
the face Of the murdered parent was scorched
by the burning powder.
THE WEST
G~RAssHopPERs have appeared at Sioux City,
Iowa, in countless swarms. 1t is stated by
the Secretary of the National Agricultural
Congress, in session last week at indianapolis,
that there are now 10, 900 farmers associations
in the country. He assumesa an average men,
bership Of 40, which gives those societies
400 900 members in ALA San Francisco
dispatch says: Bogus Charley, Shack-Nasty
Jim, Hooka Jim, and Steamboat Frank, after
a conference with Gen. Davis and q ride
through a portion Of the lava bed, were fur
nished four days ~rations, horses, and SPRING
field rifles, and started on the trail of Capt.
Jack. proposition was made by them to kill
him or capture him with the rest Of the band.
Davis is satisfied of their loyalty.
CLEVELAND is agitated by a mysterious muir
der, the victim being a young woman, who was
found dead in q vacnt lot. IA man answer
ing the description of Bender, the Kansas
butcher, has been arrested at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. The Grand Pacific Hotel, il Chicago,
the largest in the world, has been thrown open
to the public. IA stock company, with q
large capital, is about to be organized in Chi
cago for the establishment Of extensive silver
smelling works in that city....At Princeton
Mills, Mimi, the other day, a little girl play
fully threw q pair Of scissors at her young
brother, the points of which penetrated the
little fellows heart, producing instant death.
....At Saginaw, Mich, last week, two men
were killed and several injured by the ex-
plosion Of q boiler in . planning mill. Two
men were suffocated to death in apriyy vault,
Columbus, Ohio, last week.
Az accomplice Of the Blenders was recently
arrested at Denison, Texas, and while tte Off
GERS were en- route to Kansas with hirl, the
prisoner got hold Of q revolver and blew his
LIZ oAu 0ICSt COubksI udtlUu tIlsts
among the Chinese in San Francisco, occa-
stoned by the murder of one of their country
men, and their theaters and places of business
are closed. ..Federals and Confederates
united in decorating the soldiers graves in the
National Cemetery near st. Louis.
THE people of st. Joseph, Mo-, have been
celebrating with imposing ceremonies the com-
pletion Of the great iron bridge over the Mis-
sour river at that point. The structure is
pronounced equal in strength and beauty to
any bridge in the country. ... The Acting
Attorney-General of Wisconsin has given it as
his opinion that the proposed pooling of the
earnings Of the Northwestern and Milwaukee
and st. Paul railroads is q violation of the law
Of the State. Arrangements are being made
for q nationalconvention of Irish-born citizens,
to be held in Cleveland, o., about the 18th of
July next, for the purpose of forming q league
similar to the German union ....A fire at Peru,
Ill, recently destroyed SIS, 900 worth of
property.
The large Wholesale furniture store of Pot
ter, King 4 Co., On Wabash avenue, Chicago.
has boon totally destroyed by fire.
Ar . saloon opening" in Chicago, q few
nights ago, the proprietor, Charles Last, quar-
relied with one Of his customers, named Thomas
Sullivan, and wound up by shooting him dead.
Ia meeting of Western railroad managers
was held in Chicago on the Sd inst, at which
were representatives, among other roads, Of
the Chicago and Alton, the Burlington, the
the Illinois Central, the st.
Paul, the Rock Island, and Ohio and Missis-
sippi railroads. They resolved unanimously
to cancel al outstanding passes at the end of
month, and to refuse to issue any mere
after that date. This order is absolute, except
regard 10 the passage OF employees over |