Richmond weekly palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1875-1905, 1875-12-09
NEWS SUMMARY.

| Pare Hyacinthe will revisit the
United States i'm 1876.
The Harzegovinians appear to be the
upper dog in the fight at present.
Philadelphia has built $4,000 houses
in the last four years.
A Detroit professor owns a Cremona
violin 1913 years old.
King Alfonso of Spain was eighteen
years old last Monday.
Des Moines, Iowa, is the scene OF the
most recent finding Of Charley Ross.
saut st. Mary reports snow IA inches
deep.
Two or three OF the parties impli-
Gated in the whisky frauds at Milwau-
kee have "vamOosed.'
Suit has been brought against the
water works authorities of Brooklyn
for $685., 900 of stolen public money.
1t is asserted that Captain Howard,
of the lost steamer Pacific, was intOxi-
Gated at the time of the accident.
Lee county, ILL.,, sends IA convicts to
the penitentiary as the result of a sin
gle term of court.
The schooner Sunshine capsized near
San Francisco lately, and all on board,
numbering thirteen persons, We're
drowned
A telegram from Alexandria says
that the Abyssinians recently sur
prised and killed 1,2OO Egyptians, in
| Guiding seventeen officers.
Merton Dunlap, of Paxton, ILL.,, has in
his possession a coin l,57O years old.
The metal Is bronze. 1t was found in
| the vicinity of the city of Jerusalem.
The engine house of the Grand
Trunk Railway, Bellville, Canada, with
| ten engines, burned down on the 30th
ult. Loss, sl5O,OOO. Insured.
The roof or the Union and Grand
Trunk coal mines, at Wilkesbarre, Pa,
fell Monday OF last week. Damage,
5000.
A coal oil explosion in the bedroom
of Mrs. Charlotte Chew, at Camden,
N. j., last Thursday, resulted in the
fatal burning of Mrs. Chew and her
daughter, Laura.
On Saturday last Charles Atkinson, a
negro, committed rape upon a white
girl eleven years of age, at Franklin,
La. Yesterday ne was taken from the
Jail by a mob and hanged.
The hall occupied by the Legislature
! at Wheeling, Va, burned on the Both
ult. Three men were injured, one
fatally, by falling timbers. Loss,
$4,000; insured for $4,000.
Representatives of the Trunk lines
| of railroads held a convention in New
York on the LIST. Rates in freight and
passenger charges will be raised at the
close of navigation.
The steamer Sunnyside, from
Albany, was cut into by ice off West
Point, Wednesday and sunk. Eleven
were passengers.
Myers, who is to be hanged in Pitts
burg January 6, positively forbids his
counsel to make any effort to secure a
communication of his punishment. and
asserts that he is anxious to die. His
| desires will doubtless be respected.
1t is reported that the Mexican
raiders have contract to deliver
$4,000 head of cattle at Monterey.
They will all be stolen from Texas.
Cortina himself is implicated in the
theft.
Private advices assert that the Cuban
General Sanginiti has slain a Spanish
force of 800 men under Col Campillo.
A decOying force of sharpshooters was
deplOyed to lead them into an ambush,
when they were attacked by the main
body of rebels.
"Coal-O Oil Johnny instead of work
ing as laboring man on a railroad, is
at present building a fence around a
two-hundred ACRE farm, which he lately
purchased In California. He saved
$4,000 out of the general wreck, and
is doing well.
DR.. Davis and wife, Of Ottawa, SEN
fenced to be hanged for causing the
death, by malpractice, of Jane
Vaughan, Of GilmOur, gave infOrma-
ton which led to the arrest of the Sc
Queer, and their sentence was COM
muted to Imprisonment for life on the
3Oth ult.