The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-29
TELEGRAPHic NOTES.

The closing price Of gold in New
York. on October -, was 49,.
\ 10000 fire occurred at Anderson
Texas. on the 10Th. The po>t-otiicc. Od,
Fellows Hall. and Il number OF stores were
burned.
Three children OF q family named
Gcnty, in Oil City, Penn, undertook It
kindle Il fire with kerosene during the alb
sencc of their parents. The usual explosion
took place. One of the children, a boy, wa,
fatally burned: another, i little girl, foul
Years old, ran into 4 closet and closed the
door: the third child,cScapcd without injury
The house burned to the ground, and tn,
charrcd remains of the little four-yCar-Old
girl We're subsequently found i'll the ruins.
Ames and Isaac Cartwright, broth
cr>, who killed Sheriff Baker, OF Portage
County, Wis, u few days ago, were taken
from the jail at Stevens Point, on the morn
in" OF the 10th, by party of masked men,
and hanged side by side to i pine tree.
\ man named Dugan, who WAS under
arrest for the murder Of his Son-in-law, In
man, in Arkansas County. Ark, WAS taken
from the sheriff at Il. Charles, III the night
of the Eth, by u mob OF masked men, and
riddlcd with bullets. Dugan had
been convicted OF the murder Of
Imman and sentenced to be hanged
by the Circuit Court, hut the supreme Court
had ordered Is new trial and the prisoners
counsel had procured a change Of vcnuc to
Monroe County. 1t was while the prisoner
WAS being transferred to Monroe County
that he came to his untimcly end.
Extensive floods have recently prevail
ed in Lancashire. Warwick>hirc and other
parts Of England. Som" streets in Birmin@-
ham We're inundated 10 the depth of several
feet. Traffic on the Midland RraiIro"d be
tween Sheffield and Donca>tcr was entirely
suspended.
The town of Vcrmillion. near Sandus-
Ky, Ohio, was almost wholly destroyed by
fire on the morning of The I'D. Eleven bust
Hess blocks in the heart of the town are in
a>he>. The loss i estimated AT >,1.on. In
>urlnre light. Two men were arrested
charged with >cttin" the place on fire.
l.. l.. Hicks, 4 prominent citizen Of
Wyoming, Penn. met Archibald Anderson.
an engineer. one dark NIGHT recently al u
lonely rlvinc near the town. Hicks. mi>tak-
inc Anderson for a desperate. but without
the exchange II L word. fired ut him, intiict-
inG wounds from which he died on the .l-t.
Hicks told his story and surrendered himself
to the officers.
\ Canadian named LapamoiS now I'M
der arrest at Concord, y. H.. on suspicion
of being the murderer Of Miss Langmaid.
There Is evidence that he has been hrrrto-
fore guilty 81 crimes OF the most rryoi.in.
character. and it is generally believed that
he is tn" guilty party in this ease.
Two hundred dwellings, Il synagogue
and five schools in Wid~y. Poland, have
been burned. Sonc persons persisted and
three Thousand are homeless.
The fine building of the Freeport
Watch Factory, ut Frrcport. Ill.,, was de-
Stroycd by fire on the night Of the DIST. This
establishment had been in operation only six
months. Loss on building and property.
$50, WD. The fire was undoubtedly of in
ccdiary origin.
Henry Brown, colorcd. was hanged
in st. Louis on the 23d for the murder Of
Philip Pfarr, n. inoitcnsiyr German farmer
living in the suburbs Of the citv. an Nav
18th last. In addition 10 the erin" OF muir
der, Brown pcrpctratrd Il horrible outrage
upon Mrs. Ifarr, and WAS fully Identified
by her upon his trial. He died protesting
his Innocence of the latter crime. and aIlr@-
ing that he only struck pfarr in >clr-drfrn>r.
j. X. Graham, L heavy grain specu-
lator at Davenport, Iowa. failed on the I'D.
The Davenport National Bank loses about
$4,000 by the failure.
There was quite Il large number of
business failures announced in New York
during the week ending On the 23d. but none
of them Of very great magnitude.
a man named Riser committed sui
eide in Chicago. on the 2lSt. by jumping
from the top OF the Watcr-works tower, a
distance OF 10 feet.
An atfray occurred in the public
square at Franklin, Tenn, on the a1st, in
which Col. John l.. House, Il prominent cit
lien, was killed, and his son, Il youn" man,
seriously wounded. The shooting was done
by O. +. Griffin, a policeman, and i'm the
opinion Of the Coroner jury it was not JUS
titled by the circumstances of the case. Grit
fin WAS placed under arrest.
The bodies OF an old man and three
boys, all Italians, were discovered by the
police or Denver in the cellar OF a tenement
house in that city on the Dist. All four Of
the bodies had their Threats cut, and the
murders had evidently been committed
some time previously, rs the bodies were
nearly putrid. The house had been vacated
by some Italian musicians, who will he ar
rested rs soon As found.
Marshall Grain. the murderer of Will
liam Spence in Williamson County. H.. has
been found guilty and sentenced to be hanged
on January 2lst next.
A large meeting Of persons in favor