The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-10-26
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

FRANK DAaaErr, q we'll known edit
or Of Minnesota, died suddenly Of apo
ptexy. 1t Litchneld, In that State, on the
18th.
FRANK DIsHLER, teller Of the Foun-
tain National Bank Of Columbus, o., com.
mitted suicide on the 18th. - reg
"a Frank SfuRaEs q Co., metal mer-
chants, Chicago, suspended on the 18th.
Liabilities, $500, 600; ~assets, Insignificant.
FIVE cadet midshipmen have been
expelled from the Naval Academy at An.
napolis, Nd, for refusing TO give informa-
ton as TO the participants in . haxing foray.
GENERAL RUFUS KMe, formerly
Minister to Rome, died In New York on the
18th. He was at one time editor Of the Mil
waukee Sentinel.
john A. FERRIS, an actor In q Bal
| timore theater, 'wss struck with paralysis
| on the night Of the 18th, while on the stage,
and died the following day.
,CAPrAM JANIS HOWARD, the well
known steamboat builder, was accidentally
drowned Ut Jenersonville, Ind, on the 18th.
| His horse baked and backed into the river
from q ferry boat.
HON. w. W. CoRLErr has been NOM
mated BY the Republicans Of Wyoming Ter.
ritory for Delegate 70 Congress. .
- The official count of the vote for
Governor Of Arkansas shows o total vots Of
10s, 604, Miller (Dem.) receiving . majority
of $500 over Bishop (Rep.).
MRS. JANE M. WALKER, the sister
and last surviving member Of the immediate
family Of ex-President James X. Polk, died
at Columbia, Tenn, on the 18th, in her
seventy. ninth year. Her descendants, In.
cludisg children, grand and great-grand.
children, number precisely one hundred
persons, Of whom upwards Of sixty are now
living.
IT was reported on the 18th that a
number Of arrests by United States Officers
had been made in Aiken and Barnwell
Counties, s. c., Of parties charged with
being engaged in recent disturbances. The
prisoners were taken before the United
States Commissioner at Aiken, who admit
ted them to bail In the sum Of 81, 200 each.
MARrINiF. TUPPER, the poe.-philoso.
pher, author Of "Proverbial Philosophy
arrived. In New York on the 18th.
LIEUT.-COL. OTIS, who has succeed
ed to the command Of the Seventh Cavalry,
left vacant by the death Of Gen. Custer
was born In 1880, and graduated at the Nil
itary Academy In 1858. He served through
the War, and has been in. the Far Yves
since 1867.
THE Republicans Of the Third Dis
trict Of Arkansas have nominated Judg
John Mcclure for Congress.
THE official returns Of the Ohio cleo
I ti6n give Barnes (Rep.) for Secretar.
Of STATE a majority Of $500.
~NCis P. BLAIR, the venerabl,
JOURNALIST and politician, died on the 18th
at his residence. Silver Springs, Nd, age
81 years. 1ym . 's..
The death is announced al Tucson
Arizona, Of Hon. John Titus, ex-Chief Jus
tice OF that Territory. He was a native o
Philadelphia.
Hon. JAMES G. TALIAFERRo, Judg,
Of the Louisiana Supreme Court, died O
the 18th, at his residence at Cstahoula, age,
80 years. .r..
OSCAR DE LAFAYETTE, Senator o
France, has written q letter to Mayor Wick
ham, thanking the people Of New York, /
the name Of the descendants Of the celebra,
ed Marquis, for the statue recently unvaile
in that city. y
Gov. GROVER, United States Senate
elect from Oregon, is a native Of Maine, Q
years old, and has been In Oregon % years
He was the first Congressman from tbs
State, and has twice been elected Governor
NJ. NJ, Cooke one Of the editors {
the Montgomery tAla.) Advertiser, died
consumption on the 10th.