The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-09-04
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Burglars robbed the safe Of Gate
& Butterfield, at Lincoln i Centre
Maine, Of large amount Of money
Gen. Jovellar has asked permissio,
to return to Cuba, considering hi
presence in Spain no longer neces
sary. --'
The President has accepted the sixth
section, comprising twenty miles q
the Southern Pacific railroad of Cali
fOrnia. e..
The President has recognized Er.
nest w. Lesser as consul of the Meth
erlands at Mobile, for Alabama and
Florida.
Jno. T. Taylor, grandson of ex-
President Taylor, is charged will
robbing registered letters at Topeka,
Kansas. -
Cattle thieves are still operating
along the Rio Grande. Several muir
ders have been committed by them
recently.
An employee of a circus company
was killed and another wounded by
roughs at Bathurst, New Brunswick,
last week.
Jos. H. McNeill was assassirated by
a negro named Aleck Stephenson
near Scanlan's Landing, Arkansas,
last week.
Three masked men robbed the res
idence Of William Mains, near New
Haven, Indiana, and then burned the
building.
Jessie York of Pittsburg was burn
ed to death by lighting a fire with
coal oil. The house and contents
also burned. ..tts
The Bishop of SEQ de .Urgel and
Gen. Lizzaroga, who commanded the
citadel during the late seige, are held
rs prisoners.
A boy at Hopkinton, Mass, killed
two sisters and wounded third and
himself by the accidental discharge of
a shotgun.
Several persons were hurt and
house badly damaged in Brooklyn,
last week, by an explosion caused by
escaping gas. II.
A Chicago constable named Kee-
gan fatally injured a woman whose
goods he had seized to satisfy judg-
ment for debt.
johnson and Coyle repeated their
ten-mile swimming match in the
Schuylkill river last week. Coyle
again gave out and johnson was de-
clared winner. ''sft RI
The steamer Manitoba and pro-
peller Comet collided in Lake Super
ior. The Comet sunk. Eleven per-
SONS were lost. s-.
A merchant and his bookkeeper
were shot and probably fatally injured
by an unknown assassin, at Roger
City, Michigan.
The master of the schooner Eliza
beth, plying between Mobile and the
West Indies, has been fined $500 for
cigars.
Capt. Lawrence Of the schooner Jo-
sephine Potts, lying off New York,
was killed by the mate of the vessel
IN a quarrel last week.
X. c. Sprague, noted counter
feiter and murderer, under sentence
ot death, escaped from Jail at Har-
Mo-, last week.
Lieutenant Arthur Williams. Third
Infantry, relieves Lieutenant Belger,
N charge Of the National Cemetery
1T Alexandria: Louisiana.
Two residents of Columbus, O.. one
/ Protestant and the other Catholic,
lad a heated religious discussion, and
he latter was fatally shot.
The towboat Smoky City, with
;welve barges in tow, struck the bar
It the head of Island No. 10, sinking
;he whole tow except one boat.
Senator Matt. Carpenter did not at
end the greenback convention at De-
;roit, and the announcement that he
vas to speak there was unauthorized.
The steamship Prussia, from Chi
:ago to Buffalo, with Sc, 600 bushels of
corn and $4,000 bushels of wheat,
burned in Lake Erie on the 26th nit.
The Turner'S convention, held in
New York last week, urged the var
GUS societies throughout the Union to
lave representation at the Centen-
lial.
The inhabitants of the district of
Novarosch, near the Servian frontier.
nave revoltel because of the forcible
occdpation of Bakova convent by the
Turks.
The New York post-office has been
moved into the magnificent building
completed, which has been
n course of construction over two
iears.
A. NJ. Houghton of Crawford coun-
y, Indiana. was terribly beaten by
of a vigilance committee
against whom be had turned States
evidence.
An order will soon issue changing
he stations of all vessels of the ma
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