Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-04-15
News Items.

TIC CcHlTllugul illdcHluc III
sugar refinery in Baltimore burst
Thursday evening week, killing
Mr.. Jordan and wounding two
others.
Miss Nettie w. Cronize, a young
lady who has been studying law a
Tiffin, Ohio, for the past two years
was admitted to the bar on Friday
week.
The boiler at the TifIin Agricul'
tura, Works burst a steam gauge
Friday morning week scalding the
engineer, Mr.. Mccormick, apuui,,
the face and neck severely.
The advance sheets of Gould &
Co.'S new directory of st. Louis
gives the population in twelve OF
the thirteen wards of the city at
42S, 126, an increase of III ,262 over
the census of 1870.
The Touring mill of Field May
nard g. Co., at Peoria, was burned
Thursday afternoon week. Loss,
$4,000. Insured for $4,000.
Jacob Morris has been arrested
in st. Louis charged with abscond-
ing from Memuh's few weeks ago
with $4,000 belonging to Newburg
d Bro, in whose employ he was.
An American detective has ar
rived at Ha?ana and identified Bid
well, the alleged Bank of England
forger, as a man well known to the
American police.
The death of q remarkable sol
der of the United States army has
taken place very recently at Fort
Washington-that of Ordance Ser
geant Cameron. He has been in
the service for sixty-seven years,
and for forty years past has been
stationed at Fort Washington, and
during all this time has never fail
ed of lighting the lamp in the
lighthouse once, so remarkable has
been his unfailing strength and
health. He was in command of
the fort at the time of the breaking
out of the late war, and was at the
time the only officer there. He has
very interesting and eventful his
tory, dating back to period prior
to the time when Gen. Winfield
Scott was in the army, and many
has been the weary evening be-
guiled and made pleasant by the
stories of his camp life in early
wars.
A dwelling house owned by a
woman named Mary Roman, at
Bay City, was destroyed by fire on
the 18th inst. Only portion Of the
contents was saved.
The growing wheat in Tuscola
County is in an unusually fair con-
dition for the season, and the pros
poets Of a large crop are exceeding
ly flattering.
| Coal has been discovered near
the Village of Newbury, Tuscola
County. Specimens have been
tested in n balcksmith's forge in
that village, and are pronounced of
a superior quality.
The lumber mills in the vicinity
of Saginaw have nearly all com
pleted the necessary repairs and
improvements for the seasons bus
mess, and number of them have
already begun operations. Other
mills will soon follow. There are O
good many logs in the mill booms
and the prospects are that the
) streams will soon be open.
A man named James NJ. Holmes
: of Hersey, Osceola County, ha
!. been arrested for cutting 10000,
e feet of pine from government lands
He is now in Jail awaiting trial il
: the United States Court.
' James III. Helm, of Virginia, kill
: ed several men i'm q drunken ro'
: at Galveston Sunday night week.
{ A duel was fought Saturda
u week, near Memphis, by James Pa:
: tor and John Murtaugh. No on
hurt.
A daughter of G. f. Thurbar
: vile, Milwaukee, was run over b
+ runaway team Monday and il
\ stantly killed.
n Bingham Young delivered
o discourse Monday before the Mo
q mon Conference, the main point b
T. ing against the Gentle sectaris
ne schools being introduced there.
The citizens Of Fort Wayne n
greatly interested over the questit
now before the county commissio
81 ers as to whether they will appr
!, pirate $4,000 for keeping in reps
~ the Wabash 81 Erie Canal.
Nv The assassination Of w. Is. M
on Donald, at a hotel in Vernon, JAG
, y son Parish, Louisiana, is rcport'
ns He was shot through window
,s night by an unknown party with
All double barreled shot gun.
m I'm fire Monday night in Sui
Of street, San Francisco, the son o
daughter Of Jpo. Obey were bu