The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-15
THE NE ~ s.
Crimes.

THE NM w 3.
Crimes.
The noted negro sheriff Of Vicksburg, Miss,
was shot in the head, on the 18th, by his white
equity. The wound was thought to be
fatal
and near Omaha-the victims being girls of
10 years, and the perpetrators brutes which
are altogether too common nowadays.
It is stated that the thief who stole
the package of bills from the Treasury De-
partment few days ago, remains undiscov-
cred, and General Spinner seems worn out
with anxiety. Charges have been made that
several banks which sent packages of money
to the Treasury have been reported short in
their remittance, and the banks required
to make up the deficits, but Treasury officers
say such discoveries have been rare and the
evidence conclusive that the banks had made
miscounts
The Secretary of the Treasury has in
spected the cash room of the Treasury Depart
ment and other rooms where money is
handled, with view Of having the construction
of desks altered, &C., for better protection
government funds. Hereafter visitors will not
be admitted to the bureau of engraving and
printing vaults of the Treasury, or any rooms
in which money is kept AID handled.
Chicago advices say the twenty-five Alder
men who have been before Judge Williams
uring the past week tor contempt of Court in
having violated an injunction restrain
ing them from counting the votes last
at the late municipal election, were yesterday
morning fined one hundred dollars and costs
each, and their counsel were fined each three
hundred dollars and costs. They immediate
~ took an appeal.
The Indians in the vicinity of Fort Peck
are reported uneasy. A woodchopper named
Rose, at Spread Eagle, was killed by them a
ew days ago.
New York advices say Aaron Schultz OF Brad
streets commercial agency, who resides in
Brooklyn, discovered burglar in his room
last night, and though sixty years old, Crap
pied with the intruder, when the burglar shot
him through the neck The burglar escaped
and Schultz will die.
taulter, was again arraigned June 9Th, on
further charges of fraud, and bail fixed at
$4,000. He was returned to Jail. His bearing
was COOL ana announcement.
The sale Of Daniel Webster's private library
began in Boston on the 9th, and although the
competition was not brisk, the books brought
fair prices.
A writ of error was allowed by the Supreme
Court of Ohio, in the case of Geo. Rufer, con-
victed of the murder OF Herman Schilling in
Cincinnati, commonly known as the lanyard
murder He had been sentenced to be hanged
on the 18th prox.
In the libel suit of W. D. Moore Us. the Pits
burg Post, on trial for several days past in the
common pleas court, the jury this morning re-
turned verdict of $l0,0 900 damages for plant
if. The cause of the suit was an article pub
lished in the Post in February, 1874, wherein
Mr.Moo e, then chairman Of the Democratic
County Committee, was accused of abandon
ing his trust as chairman, and being traitor
to his party.
The steam yacht Octavia, built at Cleveland
in 1864, for T. w. Kennard, engineer of the At
lantic 4 Great Western railroad, is under sur
veillance in New York, suspected Of being
fitted out to aid the Cuban insurgents.
Casualties.
A fire in Toronto, Ontario, destroyed prop
erty to the value Of a hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars.
The trotting mare Volunteer Maid, owned by
Simon r. Bonner OF Flushing, L. l., and val
ued at $4,000, was found in her pasture, last
week, with her leg broken, and she was killed.
Three hundred bales Of cotton have been re-
covered from the wreck Of the ship Niagara
which was lost off Holyhead, England.
The following telegram was received from St.
Johns, N. F.: "Nine Of the crew nd three pas
sengers OF the Vicksburg were brought here by
an A american fishermen" The governmenthas
dispatched steamer from Halifax in search OF
the missing boat.