The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-30

each side, were engaged. Five of the party were
killed outright, while the sixth and last has Il
buckshOt in his side, which must cause death.
The fight was the result of an old family feud.
! Lewis Thompson, a negro hack driver
at Iuka, Miss, convicted of the crime of out
raging a young lady, and sentenced TO the Pen
itentiary for life, was taken from the Jail by Il
party of disguised men and hanged on the night
of the Goth.
July returns to the Department OF Az
riculture show that the acreage of tobacco is
greater than that of last year, the increase being
in the great tobacco producing States. Maryland
has increased her area 4 per cent. Virginia, 80;
North Carolina, 80 South Carolina, !; Florida,
%; Mississippi, 1G; Arkansas, 10; Tennessee,
2O3; Kentucky, 223; Ohio, %; Indiana, 40;
Illinois, 80; Missouri, 60. New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Texas report the same area as last
year; New Hampshire has reduced her small
acreage 30 per cent. Massachusetts p, Connec-
ticut ,, Georgia 80, Alabama 10, Louisiana I,
Wisconsin Il, Kansas IL. The condition of the
crop is most satisfactory in the largest tobacco
States, and 20 per cent. above the average. Ken
lucky is 81 per cent. above the average.
At Newark, Ohio, on the night of the
odd, a terrible accident occurred, resulting in Sc
rlously burning a number of persons. y test
was to be made of a fire extinguisher, and a
building had been erected, by consent of the City
Council, which was to be fired for
the occasion. 1t was thoroughly saturated
with coal oil, and during the preparation it pre-
maturely t~Ook.tire. An explosion ensued, terri
bly, burning ID. c. Winegartner, Mayor, Hon. J.
Il. Jones, Chas. Thompson, Street Commission
err, a bridge contractor from Toledo, and some
tiftnnn or tU-nOty nfl,p- mon and bnyS Some of
the latter, it is thought, are fatally burned.
BY the explosion OF the cooking tanks
in Close & Sons paper mill, at Iowa City, Iowa,
on the night of the ed, six men We're instantly
killed.
The yellow fever has broken u among
the United States troops stationed at Fort Baran-
cas-, at the mouth of Pensacola Bay, and the
troops are being transferred to Fort Pickens.
Twenty-Five cases were reported up to the 22d
inst.
y difficulty occurred at Skin Bayou.
Cherokee Nation, on the 18th, between two par
ties representing the Ross and Downing factions,
which resulted in the killing of three men, viz. :
Sylvester King, VIM. Sanders and lBseph
Cody.
At CarbOndale, Penn, one night recent
ly, John Jordan, the rejected lover of Miss
COyne, with some drunken rOughs, attacked the
cottage of her mother. Mrs. COyne fired into
the crowd, fatally wOunding Jordan. Then in
handing the revolver to her son it was acciden-
tally discharged, fatally wOunding her daugh-
ter.
The list of German exhibitors at the.
Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition has been
Officially closed. The number of those who in
tend to exhibit in the art department is 500.
The large manufactures on the Rhine and in
Westphalia and SaXony will be specially repre-
scented. An imperial Commissioner has been
appointed to obtain more room for the German
department in the Exhibition building.
The Sank of Winthrop, Me, was rob
bed on the morning of 23d. The safe was blown
open and the entire contents, amounting to some
S50, 600, taken.
A number of engagements have Oc-
Cured between Turkish troops and the insur.
gents in Herzegovina. The Turks had not met
with any decisive success az the date of last re-
port.
Information has been received at Lon
don of the wreck, on the 18th of April, of the ship
Stuart Hatnemar, on a voyage from Bombay.
Five of her crew arrived at st. Helena, and the
remainder, IS in number, were drowned The
survivors were Is days at sea in ali open boat.
Iong-continucd droughts have destroy
ell the crops in many districts of Portugal. \
is apprehended, amt the Government is
sending relief to the most needy districts.
Thirty csJtOn mills have been closed at
Oldham, England, the operatives refusing to ac-
cept the masters terms in regard to wages.