The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-09-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
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WILLIAM BRINsTEAD and Benjamin +.
Welsh, members of the Board of Works oil
Jersey City, charged with corruption IN Office,
have been tried and found guilty. The
balloon in which Prof. Wise was to at
tempt an aerial voyage across the Atlantic has
COLLAPSED. and with it the enterprise has suf-
fered a like fate. Anew York dispatch of the
18th thus tells why and how the project came
to naught: "An immense crowd visited the
Capitoline Grounds, Brooklyn, this afternoon.
to witness the departure of the big balloon for
Europe. The process of imitation commenced
at an early hour this morning and continued
steadily until ten MINUTES past 4, when the
balloon suddenly swayed to the north, ripped
helf way around, with a great tearing noise,
and fell fiat upon the ground. The immense
volume of gas which had been pumped into
it. nearly AGO, 600 feet, escaped at the same
moment, nearly suffocating those who stood
Oh the inside. Inspector Polk, MIR. Goodseh
and Police Commissioner Briggs had but the
instant before shifted their positions to the
eastward. and thus escaped being buried in
the netting and canvas. The crowd made a
general rush over the ropes, with the lnten-
ton of tearing up the canvas into small pieces
and carrying them off as mementoes, but a
strong force of police on the ground charged
and drove them back. Mr.. Stiner, who had
contracted to fill the balloon, said that 1t
would be all folly to attempt another infia-
ton. as the bag was not made of the proper
material. So the enterprise is abandoned for
tine present" Il -
KENYON, Cox & Co., heavyIWall street oper-
ators, have suspended. yice-President Will
son is almost entirely restored to health..-.
Hon. John T. Hale is on hisiegs again....A
counterfeit of the new fifty-cent note is in cir
c~ulation, and is said to have made its appear
ance two days after the genuine was issued.
PROF. Wise publishes in the New York
papers a card defending his theory of al
~easterly air current, and announcing his
readiness to start for Europe al any time M 3
gas-tight silk balloon. 1t is announced that
the Graphic managers will Immediately have
constructed a silk balloon, in which Prof
Donaldson will attempt the Atlantic voyage
1t is said sufficient evidence has beer
found to secure the Indictment and conviction
of the ring that has been plundering Brooklyn
THE Eclectic Life Insurance Company. o
New York has collapsed. The earnings o.
the Erie railroad from Jan. l to Aug. 81. 1872
were S12, 1877, 2i9; same time in 1873, S11,635,
961; decrease, 1851, 2ss.
THE VEST
A YOUNG man named Mills was LITERAL,
blown to atoms by an explosion of nitro-gly
cerine, a. Negaunee, Mich, a few days ago.
At the celebration of Perry's victory, at Day
ton, Ohio, one of the 1~2-pounders with Which
the veteran gunners were firing a salute wa
prematurely discharged, killing Peter Glenner
late of the Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Battery
MORALLY wounding Elias Anderson, Thirty
second Ohio Volunteer Battery, and ~injurint
the hand of William Blair, gunner. .Deatl
has just robbed Evansville, Ind, of her old
est citizen-Isaac Sluder, aged ITO. 49, Thu
recent convention of pork-packers in Chi
cago was largely attended, delegates from
every part of the country being present. Theil
next meeting will be head in Louisville on the
9th of September next. The General Freight
Agents of Western railroads. at their conven'
ton in Cleveland, last week, adopted the fol.
lowing schedule of freight rates from the
points named to New York: