The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-31
NEWS IN BRIEF.
rHEElST

MATILDA HERON, the once ceieprateu actIere,
almost hopelessly demented. She is being
in q New York hospital. The New
York Typographical Society has Endorsed the
proposition to erect o monument to Horace
Greeley, of type metal, and requested printers
to contribute tho pay Of 1000 ems each, on
the Sd of February. An the conductors on
the Harlem railroad have resigned, consequent
upon being obliged to use books with coupons
for tickets, to which they contend no person
with manhood can submit. IA large force of
laborers is engaged on the New York under
ground railroad. ...B. C.-Galvin, . New York
banker, has commenced suit against Mr.. Bout
well, Secretary Of the Treasury, to recover
s2,OoO,0OO alleged to be due to plaintiff for
certain plans furnished the Secretary for the
purpose Of enabling him to equalize the price
Of gold and paper currency.
The Mechanics Bank, Of Lancaster, Pa,
was recently robbed of 4 5000.
AMBROSE E. LYNCH, of Pittsburgh, is to hang
for the murder Of William Hatfield. There
has been q great freshet on the Hudson, Mo-
hawk, Susquehanna, Allegheny, and other
streams in the East. Many bridges we're swept
away, causing much damage to railroads, and
seriously ~interrupting travel. Senator Sher-
mans specie resumption proposition is the sub
ject Of widespread interest and discussion
among New York bankers and merchants. whose
opinions are widely at ~variance on the feasibil-
ity of the plan. The daily Illustrated news
paper which has been contemplated in New
York it is now stated will be published by
Goodsell Bros, late of Chicago. 1t will be an
evening paper, with two editions, called the
Graphic. In hize it is to be smaller than the
Sun, but it is to have eight pages. with illustra-
tons in four. The process of illustration will
be by photography. wv. H. Bumstead, the
Boss Tweed of jersey City, has been pardoned
out Of the pe~nitentiary.
The trial Of Boss Tweed. at New York, il
dragging its slow length along. The latest
New York murder was committed by 9
printer Marshall McGruder - who bursi
open the door of . fellow-compositol
named Clarence Lockwood, and pro
ceeded to empty the contents of a re-
volver into the body Of the defenseless typo
The murderer was arrested. A woman wa,
connected with the tragedy. Boston is sui
fering terribly from smallpox, 5000 cases be
ing reported last week.
The report of the existence of q new hors,
epidemic in New York is a canard.. Foster
the New York car-hook murderer, mas failed t.
obtain a new trial, and will be hung.
THE WEST.
Gov. HENDRICKS, in his message to the In
diana Legislature, advocates proportional repre-
sentation. IA New York jeweler was robbie,
of $40, 900 worth of jewelry while stopping a
the fremont House, in Chicago, last week.
CHICAGO is building the finest Turner Hal
in the country. The First Congregations
Church, one Of the finest and most cost
church edifices in Chicago, has been destroye,
by fire. Loss, $40, 600; insured for S11s. 900
Perfect, the Chicago colored wife muir
derer, has been found guilty, on his SECOND
trial, and again sentenced to be hanged.
THE employees of the Southern Minnesot:
railroad have seized the road for non-payneni
of back pay.
McNuLTr, the Chillicothe, ILL.,, wife-mur
derer, is to be hung. The thermometer al
Sparta, Wis, on the 18th Of January, marked
As degrees below zero.
An airline railroad is projected between
Milwaukee and st. Louis. .Adviccs from Cal
ifornis state that a severe battle has beer
fought betweent the troops under command Of
Gen. Wheaton and the Modoc Indians. The
troops fought the unseen foe from 8 a. m. tt
dark, under . terrific fire, during which scarce.
ely one Indian WAS seen. The loss to the troops
was 40 killed and wounded. The loss to the
Modocs lis unknown. The troops were finally
Obliged to retreat to their camps....J. X.
Graves, President of the low Pacific and two
other railroads, has succeeded in obtaining
the necessary funds to pay off the companies
Indebtedness incurred in the construction dur
ing the fall, and to m operations in
the spring, when it is the intention at once te
build the road from Dubuque to Fort Dodge
LA nephew Of George Francis Train has
been sentenced, at Council Bluffs, to thirt,
days imprisonment for swindling q rural gen.
tleman out Of $40 at three card monte.
Two LADrEs-Mrs. Rosa Duance and Miss
Ida Majors-were suffocated by coal gas, at 8
Cleveland clearinghouse, last week. A mar
named Kidder was recently killed near Ep.
worth, Iowa, by the falling of a tree. ..Urial
Howe, one Of the first settlers of Manistee
Mich, was recently frozen to death. Late,
intelligence from the scene of battle with the
Modoc Indians, in California, states that Il
whites were killed and % wounded. The
troops were obliged to leave their dead ON the
field.
THE SoU7H.
The Peoples" Legislature of Louisiana has
elected Gen. W. McMullin United States sena-
tor. For the same position the Kellogg Legis-
lature has elected p. B. 8. Pinchback The
Arkansas Legislature has passed a resolution
doing away with the DISTINGUISHING clause OF
the State Constitution. 1t will be submitted
to . vote Of the people. Louis v. Bogy, Of
St. Louis, has been elected to succeed Frank
p. Blair in the Senate from Missouri.
b. W. DORSEY, Republican, has been elected
United States Senator.by the Arkansas Legis.
lature, in place of Senator Rice, whose term
expires on the 4th Of March. This result was
brought about by the action of the Demo-
Gratis, nineteen Of whom voted for Dorsey ON
the final ballot. st. Louis is preparing for a
grand Industrial Exposition. The erection of
the new st. Louis Merchants Exchange will
be commenced shortly.
ID. MoULToS, Postmaster at Mobile. is a
defaulter to the amount Of $40, 600. AT Little
Rock, Ark. the other day, Henry Smith killed
jackson Pike, ct . negro dance-house, by stab
bing HIM with a bowic-knife. On the same
day Enoch Jackson was knocked on the head
with q dray-pin and killed by his wife. All
were colored.
WASHINGTON.
The question of the construction Of iron
~ship-building yards is to be revived during the
present session of Congress....H is under
stood that the charges Of bribery and corrup-