The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-02-18

shoot him. Leper then pulled his revolver
and shot Mcguire fatally. The act was con-
sidcred justifable.
At the late session of the United
States District Court at Fort Smith, Ark,
sixty-six persons were sentenced to the
Penitentiary at Little Rock for various Of
lenses, and six to be hanged on the 2lst Of
April. The names Of the latter are o.
MiXee, William Leech, Ron Wilson, Asa
Saunders, Isham Se]leye, and Istanulbe.
The notorious outlaw and robber,
Bill Smith, who recently escaped from the
Pcnitentiary at Nashville, Tenn, was cap
tured on the 10th about three miles from
that place, and while resisting arrest was
shot dead by Il man named PEBBLES. Smith
fired the first shot.
A number of newspapers have been
seized at Rome for publishing Garibaldi's
speech on the anniversary OF the Roman Re-
public.
The second trial of Piper, for the MUIR
der OF Mabel Young. in the beliry Of a Boston
church, terminated in a verdict Of guilty OF
murder in the first degree. The first jury
failed to agree.
The two Grains, who were tried at
Cairo, H., for being accessory to the murder
Of VIM. Spence, ut Crainvillc, Williamson
County, have been found guilty and
sentenced to 20 years each in the penitcn-
tiary.
briggs, the counterfeiter, who was
tried and convicted at springfield, H., has
been sentenced TO fifteen years In the peni-
Tertiary and to pay Il fine Of -, 100. Char
ley Stadfeldt and VIM. Lang, members OF
the briggs gang, were also sentenced, the
former TO two years in the Penitentiary and
II 900 fine, and the latter to seven years and
$50 fine.
Owen Lindsay, convicted Of the muir
der Of Francis A. Colvin, was hanged at
Syracuse, y. u, on the 18th.
The Scottish Rife Club has finally
decided to send its own team TO the inter-
national contest ut Philadelphia next sum-
mer.
While the express train on the Pam
Handle Railroad was taking water neal Ur-
bana, Ohio, about midnight on the morn
ing OF the 18th, Conductor Joncs's atten-
tiSn SaS attracted by some one attempting
to uncouple the engine and two forward cars
from the remainder Of the train. The con-
ductor, Oh going to the platform, was con-
fronted by Il masked man, who attempted to
stab him with aknifc. The conductor pulled
the bell-cord, and drew a revolver and fired
at the miscrcant, who made his escape. Two
other men were seen lurking around the
train. and it is supposed they contemplated
rObbing the express ear.
AT Troy, o., on the evening Of the
18th, Il young man named C.. r. Adams shot
and wounded his wife, 4 daughter of George
Zecgenfelder, a prominent grain merchant,
the ball entering her arm near the elbow.
Adams thea Aed to the residence OF his IA
ther-in-law, where he shot himself three
times in the heart. Cause, jealousy.
Information has been received az
Washington that Bear Wolf, a Crow chief,
has been at Fort Pease at the mouth OF thc
Big Horn; that he had u battle with the
Sioux, killing six, and that forty or fifty
Sioux are around Fort Pease, killing people
at every opportunity.
The Legislature Of Montana has pass
ed bills substituting the Northern Pacific
Railroad to the amount OF $500, 900, and
the Utah Northern Narrow-gauge to the
amoun Of IL, $50 900, and they have receiv-
ed the Governors approval. Both bills
come before the people on the 3D. Of April.
Pesach Rubenstein has been found
guilty OF the murder OF Sarah Alexander, on
the outskirts Of Brooklyn, N. ", on the 18th
OF December last, and sentenced to be
hanged on the oath of March.
At Gloversville, n. T., on the 18th,
Martin McQuade, glove manufacturer, was
burned to deRth while attempting to extin-
guish y fire in his house. His wife was Sc
vcrely burned.
An explosion Of f~ire-damp occurred in
the Exeter Mine, belonging to the Lehigh
Coal Company, in West Pittston, Pa, on the
18th, by which four miners were killed and
others more or less injured.
In the Circuit Court at Memphis, on
the 18th, Judge Brown sentenced NJ.
Combs, Jr., to the Fenitentiary for fifteen
years, for d%efrauding the Government on
bounty claims for colored soldiers: and
Esquire II. c.. Brewer, who was convicted
as an accomplish, was sentenced FOR two and
q half years. Brewer is deaf and nearly
blind.