Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-07-01
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went 10 quincy from Ct LOUIS SON
: DAYS ago and commenced bushes
as commission merchant. Wednes
day il was discovered that he hai
passed forged checks on the bank
for several thousand dollars, an,
had left the city. His whereabout
are not known.
Among the property sold il
Brooklyn Tuesday for the nOn-pay
ment Of taxes was a parcel owneC
by the late Chief Justice, Chase.
The directors Of the Union Pa.
cific Railroad COMPANY met in Bos-
ton Wednesday and passed sppro
pirate resolutions relative TO the
death Of Horace F. Clark, and
Cakes Ames.
The postoffices at Charlestown,
Chelsea, East Cambridge, Cam
bridgeport, Cambridge, North Cam
bridge, Somerville, East Somerville,
Harrison Square, Dorchester, Mat
tapan and Neponset, Massachue-
sets. are all made sub-stations Of
the Boston postoffice.
Advices from Arizona state that
Judge Hayden and party, feared
murdered by the Apaches, have ar
rived home safe.
The first vessel was loaded We'd
nesday from the docks Of the Ash
tabula, Youngstown & Pittsburgh
Railroad Company, at Ashtabula,
Ohio, with coke received over that
road from Pittsburgh. The docks
and road are now in readiness for
business.
The American Girl viii trot in
the Dexter Park races, at Chicago
next month.
Hon. VI. c. Trout, ex-member Of
Congress, dropped dead in the
Mansion House, Mauch Chunk,
"Wednesday night, from heart dis
ease.
Hon. Charles P. Kimball, for two
years Democratic candidate for
Governor of Maine, absolutely de-
clines another nomination.
Washington's old Morristown, Y.
j., headquarters were purchased
at auction Wednesday.
j. NJ. Pattee, the well-known lot
terry manager, who has figured con
spicuously in Omaha gift enterprise,
was arrested last week, in answer
to telegram from Omaha, on the
charge Of obtaining money under
false pretenses. The charge is pre-
ferred by some of the victims OF
the late Nebraska State Orphan
Asylum gift enterprise, in which
prizes were offered and drawn, but
not paid. Pattee was taken TO
Omaha, requisition from the Gov
ernor Of Nebraska having been OBJ
tanned.
In a bar-roOm quarrel Wednes-
day morning in Philadelphia, Thos.
Howard, the bartender, shot, prob
ably fatally, Frank McGillignen.
Three cases Of sunstroke were
reported on Wednesday at st. Lou
Is, none fatal.
The loss by the burning of Fa-
gan, MacQueen d Co.'S pork pack
ing house at St. Louis Wednesday
night is 1915, 900; insurance, $780,
600.
An unknown man was run over
and killed on the Iron Mountain
Railroad, two miles below st. Louis,
Wednesday, and another man nam
ed Isaac Haffrun was run over and
killed six miles below Trenton, on
the same road.
-Four prisoners, one of them
named J. It. Carlisle, under sem
tence to be hanged, and another,
Martin Wyatt, charged with muir
der, escaped from the county Jail
in Lexington, Missouri, Wednes-
day.
The private banking institution
of j. III. Damers at Washington,
Illinois, is reported closed with la
bilities outstanding of s275,000.
Rev. Father Peter Geyer and
his brother John Geyer, both of
Dayton, Ohio, were drowned in
the Ohio River at Bipley, Ohio,
Wednesday night while bathing.
The bail of Coe, the Boston for
ger, has been reduced from four
hundred thousand dollars to nine
ty-five thousand dollars.
The Pittsburg Board of Trade is
to be recognized.
The seventh annual reunion of
the Army of Cumberland is TO be
held in Pittsburg on the 18th and
18th of September.
The grain crops promise largely
throughout Utah.
The jury in the case of Coe, the
Boston forger, were unable to
agree. IL is understood they stood
evenly divided as to guilt or limo
cence.
The boiler of q switch locomotive
exploded at Port yervis, Friday,
severely injuring the engineer and
fireman, demolishing q small house
near the track, and damaging 9TH