The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-15
CURRENT NEWS.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

jackson, Tenn. was burned Monday
morning. Loss $4,000.
--Ex-Judge Hubbell, U. S. District
Attorney at Milwaukee. has been sus-
pended. No successor yet appointed.
"A fire at Minatilean, Mexico, Wed.
nesday, destroyed property to the value
of $500, 900, and rendering many families
homeless.
"A disease known as the s'black
TOOTH has broken out among the swine
on the upper Ottawa river, Ont, and
proved fatal to large number Of herds.
Ellis, Robinson and Brown, notorious
counterfeiters, were on Wednesday,, at
Madison, Wis, sentenced to the State
prison-Ellis for seven years, and Brown
and Robinson five years each.
BY boiler explosion at Lee, Mass,
Tuesday, in the Smith paper manufacture
ing company, two persons we're killed and
ii wounded. The mill and surrounding
buildings were damaged 100000.
George johnson, machinst employed
in the mandatory Of James T.. Haven,
Cincinnati, was crushed to death Thursday
while endeavoring to get on an elevator
which was ascending to the upper stories
Of the mandatory.
Charles c. Fuller, president, and j. I.
Mowrey, treasurer, Of the Chaplin paper
company, Norwich, Ct, have absconded,
leaving outstanding obligations estimated
at $4,000, the greater part Of which is
belle we'd to be forged notes.
Crosby, the negro sheriff Of Vicks.
burg, shot Monday, is in critical condi-
hn no
was with Crosby at the time, has had his
trial and been discharged, no evidence
being adduced to implicate him in the
deed.
Full grown locusts upwards of an inch
in length, have made their appearance in
Manitoba from the west and south. So
far only few have appeared, but fears
are entertained that these are an advance
guard, and that another invasion is i'm
minent.
w. P. Bailey, recently mail agent on
the Milwaukee & La Crosse division, hav-
ing confessed in the U. S. Court at Mad
ison that he had opened mail letter and
took thereirom rs cents in postal cur
rency, has been sentenced to one years
hard labor in prison.
The direct ocean cable, from Rye
Beach, N. H., to Balling, on Skillego Bay,
ireland, is now in working order, the
final connection, which has been delayed
for weeks by heavy fogs, having been
made on the 9th, and properly celebrated
at the company's headquarters in New
York.
Fl. 3. Clafin. and other members Of
the firm Of H. B. Clafn & Co.. and the
members of the auction firm of Field,
Morris, Fenner & Co., indicted for com.
plicity in the silk smuggling frauds, now
being investigated in New York, have
given bail for their individual appearance
for trial, in the sum of 100000 each.
Joseph Calvert, alias Butler Joe, was
arrested in Philadelphia Friday, on the
charge Of being interested in the ncgotia-
ton of United States bonds in the West.
The bonds were for $4,000 and $4,000,
and are supposed to be the fruits of
robbery committed in Ohio, and were
originally in the name Of Mrs. Scott.
Twenty thousand dollars worth of
railroad tickets, stolen last January from
the Chicago depot Of the Michigan
Southern and Rock Island roads,
have been recovered. They were found
in possession of Edward Rupert, stage
manager for a variety or can-can troupe
of that city. The discovery resulted
from Rupert's trying to sell some of the
tickets.
A decree Of divorce has been granted
Mrs. Julia A. Perkins, of Cincinnati, who
resumes her maiden name of Julia Suel.
Miss Sucll is the woman who killed her
little girl and attempted suicide while in.
sane because Of her husbands accusing
her ofadultery and trying to drive her
from his house. Proof of adultery on his,
part was presented on the trial, and also
that she was relieved from prosecution
for killing her child because Of her insani-
ty.
In 1873 Mrs. Jane Yanger, an old wo.
man, disappeared from Logan township
III near Peoria, with her daughter Carrie,
and, it being suspected they were fouly
dealt with, thousands OF dollars were
spent by detectives, resulting in tracing
them to Chicago, where they we're last
week discovered by a relative, and have
been returned home. They are the own.
ers of productive property in Logan, but
have lived on charity in Chicago; and it is
presumed their flight was caused by some
insane delusion on the part of the old
woman.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Gen. Duff Green died Thursday at b;e