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

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TUESDAY, Sept. 29.-Montreal had
81, 600 fire yesterday. The scandina-
Wan "oneen of song," Christine Nilsson,
sailed from Queenstown yesterday for
New York. .. jay Gould has given e2,40o
to the grasshopper sufferers Of Nebraska.
90. The local option law has been decided
by the Supreme Coart of California. IT.
Stewart, brakeman on the C. & T. H. r.
B., had both his legs cut of by the cars
yesterday, at Terre Haste, Ind, dying in
) hours. o. The German musicians who,
owing to political disturbances, emigrated
,e this country in 184s and ls49, will have
a reunion in New York city, November
.th. .. .Ex-Congressman John g. Anson
died ofapoplexy in New York yesterday
morning. He complained during the
morning Of pain in his chest, and was
taken seriously ill in the Superior Court,
while trying a case. He died while being
carri.d into his own house. -. Carbin s.
Gafrey, eastern managers OF the Northwes-
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 100000. A fire at Lenoxville, Ont.
yesterday, destroyed thirty private resi-
dences and nearly the entire business por
ton Of the town. Loss $l00, 1000. i. Sun
day night William Fisher. Of Chica 90, it,
tackled his step daughter Cstharine Miller
with q knife, stabbipg her seven or eight
times, and inflicting 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 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.
Rice plantations in the vicinity of Savan-
nah were overtlown, and other crops badly
damaged. The loss to the ice crop is esti.
mated at 500, 600. 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 one giving information
leading to the recovery of the child. %.
The proposed compromise between the
Kellogg and McRnery 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,
Con- Custer's, at Fort Lincoln, and two from
Fort Rice, both iii this military department,
have been ordered to Louisiana, leaving
immediately. .s.. The 23d infantry, which
has but recently reached Omaha from Ar
izona, il under orders for Louisiana.
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 30.-Secretaries
Brjstow and Belknap are in Washington
once more. The Atlantic block, Long
Branch, formerly the Helmbold block, was
burned Tuesday night. Loss ESQ, 900. %.
I is estimated the assessors deputies OF
San Francisco, now under arrest, appro-
priated At least $l00,0 of public funds
to their own uses. James Glenn, for
many years one Of the leading proprietors
Of the Cincinnsti Gazette, died at his resi-.
dencs in that city Tuesday, alter a pro-
tracted illness :. &c orge Brown the cham.
pion oarsman Of Nova Scotia has chal.
lenged Joseph H. sadler, champion o.
England, for q five mile race for $2,5OO
IT, s., 900 side, to row at Springfield,
Mass, Halifax, or St. John, N. B. the last
week in October or first in November. ..
The Irish rifle team defeated by the Amer
Jeans at 0reedmoor the other day have is-
sued challenge for q return game at
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, 5Ky., Oct.
22....A collision on the Utica and Che
mango Valley R. E., 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 9th Of Nay last, plead
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