Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-03-25
News Items.

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: Chas. Stanhope, sneak thief, Syl
! vester Prime and Abraham Benson
6 burglars, knocked down the Au
burn, N. Y, jailor Friday weel
and retired to their country seat.
r The Academy Of Music of Gin
cinnati has passed a resolution for
bidding members, who are not reg
t ular life instance physicians, from
issuing certificates of health O
: their own patients without consent
; of the patient, and upon the pay,
ment of 50 by the life insurance
company benefit.
At Memphis, Tenn, Angelo Mar
RE was recently sentenced to one
year in the Penitentiary, for rob.
bling the safe of the chief police
He plead guilty, with the under,
standing that numerous other in
dictments against him should be
quashed. This, with other senten.
ces against him, gives him -four
years Imprisonment. After this
term he will probably have to an,
swer for his connection with Bill
Forester in the Schroeder diamond
robbery at New Orleans.
The Todd Touring mills, at La.
sale, ILL.,, owned by Maurice Ken
stadt, were burned on Friday week.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Todd q Son, in addition, lost Is,
600 bushels of wheat. No insur-
ance.
James p. Miller, late Acting Col
lector of Internal Revenue of the
Fifth Maryland District, charged
with the misrepresentation of pub
lie moneys, has been committed to
jail, his former bondsmen having
/ declined to become further secur-
ity.
A special to the Cincinnati En-
qVirer says that the National Hotel
at Mansfield, Ohio, owned and kept
by John Mcnamara, was destroyed
by fire Sunday week Martin
Karnes, stranger, lodging in the
hotel, persisted in the flames.
In the township of Worth, near
Chicago, Friday week a tenement
occupied by Jno. Simmons, a Ger
man farmer, was burned. His ia
ther, aged so, and his child, . years
old, persisted in the flames. In q
crevice in the wall was $1,000 in
bank notes, which were consumed.
Friday week the last rail was
laid on the Detroit 81 Bay City
Railroad, and soon as the road can
be ballasted north of Lapeer, trains
will commence running regularly
between Detroit and Bay City.
The Quincy, H., Agricultural
Works burned Sunday week with
u large amount of stock and some
200 corn planters. Loss about $780,
600; insured for $4,000.
The ship Jennie Eastman, for
Baltimore, was totally wrecked on
Cape Verde. The crew were saved.
She was valued at $4,000.
Information has been filed in the
Court of Criminal Correction
against Charles Ii. Peck, President,
and other officers of the st. Louis
Life Insurance Company,
for failing or refusing to furnish a
sworn statement of the business
and condition of the affairs of said
company to the Insurance Commits
sioners of the State, as required by
law.
The fishing schooner Joseph
Garland which is reported lost in a
Portsmouth dispatch, had a crew of
twelve men. No tidings have been
heard of the Garland since Febru-
AIRY 23d, but portion of the wreck
is supposed to have been seen by a
steamer February Goth.
In Cambridge, Massachusetts,,
during a procession, four
iiorscs attached to a barouche be-
came unmanageable and dashed
through the crowd, wounding a
dozen. One of the injured is not
expected to recover.
Bermuda adviccs to the 10Th re-
port that the captain and twelve of
the crew of the Italian bark Anna,
which foundered at sea on the 14th /
of February, arrived on the 9th |
inst. in an open boat.
Sunday week a boy and girl,
children Of a colored man named |
Reed were burned to death two
miles from New Albany, Indiana,
in the absence of their father.zsskff- |
other boy escaped from the burn
ing building.
Albert Gactz was fatally stabbed !
in a dance house in Chicago, Tues
day morning, by a young rough
named Tansey. The murderer es-
capped.
Complete accounts received Of
the Ornise III search of the steamer
George S. Wright confirm the first
fears that the vessel is lost, with all
on board. The captain of the
steamer Gussie Telfair has secured
signboards with the words "Geo. S.
Wright" inscribed. Other portions
of the wreck are scattered along
the coast for hundreds of miles
north of Cape Castion, where the
ship is believed to have been lost.
All quiet at Modoc Lava Bed.