The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-10-10


ASSETS.
Bills receivable, bank, insurance, and
J other stocks, bonds, and real estate. & 1867. GAO
Loans to Northern Pacific Railroad CO.. ~3,75O,OcO
Stock of the Oregon Steam Navigation Co. l.5oO.OeO
Loans TO Northern Pacific Railroad Co.,
on PONDS OF company. 4,06S. 215
second-mortgage railroad bonds, stocks,
$3.50, $50
The above exhibit of Liabilities is exclusive
of 81, 70l. 40 loans of the firm, which are fully
secured by good collaterals. The excess of
collaterals upon these loans has been esti-
mated and included in the assets. The firm
expects soon to submit a proposition for set
Element with its creditors, which it believes
will be acceptable to the latter, although it
will of course require time in the conversion of
its assets THE city of Pittsburgh WAS
thrown into an immense state of excitement,
the other day, by the announcement that the
Postmaster, John Fl. Stewart. had proved a
defaulter to a large amount He WAS bound
over in $50, 600. The defalcation amounts to
about S75, 900. The Government, it is said.
loses nothing.
A SERIOUS collision, resulting in the death
of three or four persons, occurred last week
on the New York Midland railroad. The acct
dent was occasioned by a freight conductor,
whose watch was too slow. Wouldn't it be
well for railway officials to see to it that their
employees have correct time-pieces? This
reckless slaughter of human life solely because
an engineer or conductor happens to carry a
worthless watch is becoming HOMOGENEOUS. .
An examination of the affairs of the Pitts
burgh Postoffice shows that the office has
been conducted in a very loose and careless
manner-...T h bodies of Mrs. O'Mara and her
daughter were found dead on the railway track
near Montrose Station, Penn. last week.
Suspicion points to the horrible fact that they
were murdered and placed there by Daniel
OMara. a son and brother of the deceased.
Charles ]. Riddle, one of the proprietors of
the Philadelphia Age, is dead.
THE VEST
A ~BALLooNIsT named John II. Boley met his
death in a horrible manner at Wapello. Iowa.,
last week. His hot-air balloon caught fire as
it left the ground, and carried him up. uncon-
scious of the flames above him, till at the
height of l 500 feet the ropes that supported
the bar on which he was performing some gym
nsstic feats burned away, and he fell to the
ground. His body was frightfully mangled.
the fall driving his legs into the hard ground
Up to his knees. Isaiah Ditts has Just been
arrested near L~eavenworth. Kansas. for a mr.
der committed near Cairo, ILL.,, seventeen wears
ago..
HE Chicago Interstate Industrial Expo-
sitlon IL proving a grand success. Notwith-
standing the opening occurred at the very
height of the financial panic, the 'send-oT'
which 1t received exceeded the expectations of
its projectors. The average daily attendance
for the first week was over 90, 900. The min
ing town Of Fair Play, Col, has been almost
totally destroyed by fire q. Rev. George Ran
dali, Episcopal Bishop of Colorado, New Mex
leo and Wyoming, died recently in Denver.
aged 63.
JOSEPH Fl. FORE. who has created two or
three sensations in st. Louis by attempts on
the life of his wife, and by killing his father
in-laW, caused an unusual rumpus in the
Criminal Court, in that city, the other day.
while on trial for a deadly assault upon his
wife with a Ratchet. Fore seized a large cut
glass ink-stand from the table and hurled il
at his wife with great force. The missile
missed its mark and struck an attorney square
in the forehead, cutting an ugly cash. and
nearly knocking him senseless. Fore was i'm
mediately seized by the Marshal and others
and, after a struggle, during which all his
ciothes were torn OIL, he was taken from the
courtroom and order restored. q. I fue of
a boiler in a saw-mill near Bridgeport. Mich.
collapsed the other day, killing an old man.
and thro wing a horse 300 feet. Notwithstapd-
ing the horse was not seriously injured. the
harness was torn from it's body .... Three suit,
have been begun by the United States Gov
eminent against defaulting Collector Harper.
of the Springfield Qll.3 District. and his Sc
curties on the three bonds filed by them when
he took the Office. The sum claimed in each
suit is 500, 900.
1HE state OF Illinois has just paid to the
city Of Chicago 500, 900, being the last of the
canal-indemnity fund. There is vet due the
sum OF 100000 for accrued interest, upop
the payment of which the State will run and
control its canal free from debt mr. l;ers
The Indiana State Exposition, at Indianapo-
lis, has proved a brilliant SUCCESS Willie
Men, aged IA, was instantly killed at Chilli
eothe, Ohio, the other day, by being struck in
the stomach by the elbow of a lad with whom
he was playing. IA dispatch from Portland.
Oregon, says work on the Northern Pacific
railroad is not suspended. 1t liz expected that
cars Will be running to Tacoma this. autumn.
1.-The Union National (Coolbaugh's) Bank.
OF Chicago, has gone into voluntary liauids-
ton, and is paying all its creditors dollar for
dollar.
III SOUTH.
COLLECTOR WEDINEn, of the Second
montgomery District Of Alabama. is a de-
faulter to the extent of 500, 600. . Tn yellow
FEVER Ii spreading in the rural districts of the
South.
lhE yellow fever is on the increase in Mem
phis. There were twenty-five deaths from the
disease on Thursday. IA New Orleans dis
patch says: "Dr. Burns telegrsphs az follows
from Shreveport: W arrived yesterday and
held a meeting Of physicians at night. The
disease is yellow fever, a true homegastric
pestiiepce. Its origin is still obscure, and its
character malignant. The deaths are between
5o and 60 per cent. About 400 deaths go far.
More than half the population have fed.
Everyone is working bravely.'"
MONTGOMERY PARKER, a farmer Of Fayette
county, ny, the other day quarreied with a
boy In his employ, discharged him, and then
followed and shot the lad down in the high
way, while begging for mercy. The miscreant
escaped -Murfreesboro, Tenn. has Just had
q $50, 600 blaze.
A FIRE recently burned two squares and q
half OF buildings in BRENNAN, Texas. The