The Grange advance., 1874-10-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

TUESDAY, Sept. 29.-Montreal had
5000 fire yesterday. The Scandina-
Wan "Queen of song," Christine Nilsson,
sailed from Queenstown yesterday TO:
New York. .. Jay Gould has given s., 400
to tIe grasshopper sufferers Of Nebraska.
The local option law has been decided
by the Supreme Court Of California. 1T.
Stewart, brakeman on the c. g. T. H. r.
B., had both his legs cut of by the car;
yesterday, at Terre Haote, Ind, dying in
hours D.. The German musicians who,
owing to political disturbances, en,igrated
,c this country in l84s and lS49, will have
reunion in New York city, November
.th. ..Ex-Congressman John g. Anson
died ofapoplexy in New York yesterday
morning He complained during tue
morning of pain in his chest, and was
taken seriously i'll in the Superior Court,
while trying case. He died while being
ca1ri ID into his own house. .Carbin g.
Gaffrey, eastern managers oi the Northves-
tern Mutnal Lite Insurance Company,
have brought suit for libel against James
+. Knapp and John r. Hedgman, Presi-
dent and Vice President, laying damages
at 800, 900. IA fire at Lenoxville, Ont,
yesterday, destroyed thirty private resi-
dences and nearly the entire business por
ton Of the town. Loss 100000. Sun
day night William Fisher, of Chica go, it,
tackled his step daughter Cstharine Miller
with knife, stabbiDg her seven or eight
times, and inhicting fatal injuries. Fisher
is charged by the girl with being father Of
her il'egitimate child, and his attack on
her was with view of compelling her to
return to his house and live with him -.
A passenger train on the Mississippi Gen.
trail railroad, Saturday when near Holly
Springs, plunged down a thirty-foot en-
bankment, the cars turning over twice.
The injured Numbered fifteen, no one tor
tunately being killed. -. "A very disas-
trous rain storm visited certain portions of
Georgia, Sunday and Saturday night.
nah We're overtlown, and other crops badly
damaged. The loss to the ice crop is esti
mated at 500, GOO. >. The detective have
given up al! hopes of winning the $4,000
reward in the case OF the Ross abduction
and propose to relinquish the whole
amC unit to any oae giving information
leading to the recovery of the child....
The proposed compromise between the
Kellogg and McEnery factions in Louisiana
has been effected, and with it is believed,
the troubles may be considered at an end.
....Four companies of the 7th Cavalry,
Gon.- Custer's, at Fort Lincoln, and two from
Fort Rice, both in this military department,
have been ordered to Louisiana, leaving
immediately. The 23d Infantry, which
has but recently reached Omaha from Ar
iona, is under orders for Louisiana.
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 30.-Secretaries
Bristow and Belknap are in Washington
once more. The Atlantic block, Long
Branch, formerly the Helmbold block, was
burned Tuesday night Loss $4,000. -.
I is estimated the assessors deputies OF
San Francisco, now under arrest, appro-
priated at least 100000 of public funds
10 their owu uses James Glenn, for
many years one Of the leading proprietors
Of the Cincinnati Gazette, died at his resi-.
dence in that city Tuesday, alter a pro-
tracted illness .. .Ge orge Brown the cham.
pion oarsman Of Nova Scotia has chal.
lenged Joseph H. sadler, champion o.
England, for five mile race for $4,000
L. 81, 600 side, to row at Springfield,
Mass, Halifax, or St. John, N. B. the last
week i'll October or first in November. i. i.
The Irish rifle team defeated by the Amer
leans at Greedmoor the other day have is
sued challenge for a return game ut
Dublin, June 1875, on the same terms as
the recent contest. The American team
accept the challenge. Gov. Woodson,
Of Missouri, has appointed twenty dele
gates at large and two from each Congress
sional district to the capital removal con-
vention to be held at Louisville, Ky, Oct.
22....A collision on the Utica and Che
mango Valley R. r., Tuesday, resulted in
the killing Of three persons on the passen-
ger train and the serious wound
ing OF several others. >. Robert Tenn
pleton, Of Dudley, Mass, who shot
his wife dead On the 5th Of May last, plead