The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-02-25

suffered great loss in live stock. The money
value Of the property destroyed Is said to he
very large.
According to an Omaha dispatch of
the 18th, the Sioux, Arapahoes and Chey-
ennes are putting themselves in fighting
trim, and may be expected to strike the
frontier settlements in the course of a few
weeks.
The Teutonia Life Insurance Com.
pany Of Chicago has passed into the hands
OF Il receiver.
The Vance bill, which repeats the
s%everost features Of the Potter Railroad law,
passed the Wisconsin Assembly bv q vote of
50 to 30.
The Kansas City Times special Black
Hills correspondent writes from CHEYENNE
that 5000 gold hunters are at that place, and
100 arriving daily. The largest number and
the best equipped come from California.
AT least one hundred men leave Chcve.nc
each day for the Black Hills. a distance of
three hundred miles over the snowy plains
northward. All agree that gold exists there,
but in very limited quantities.
The City Mills and elevator at Cham
paign, ILL.,. together with 0 1000 bushels of
wheat, were burned Oh the morning OF the
18th. Loss about so 200: Insurance, 49,
600. They were probably set ON fire.
The Kern Valley Bank at Bakersfield,
CAL, was entered by burglars on the even
ing Of the 18th, while the Cashier was look
ing at his accounts. They knocked him
down, chlorofOrmcd him, and robbed she
bank of So 100. of which $22. 900 belonged
To the county Treasury. The Cashier was
found insen>ible on a table the next morn
ing,
Antonio Cattalano, aged 10, Domini-
go Danina, aged %. and Bostiano lombardo,
aged n, were hanged at y. Louis on the
lStn, for the murder Of Francisco Palermo
on the 18th OF March last. The assasSina, ~
also their victim, were Sicilians.
Rutland, VT, had Il $780, 600 fire on
the 18th.
Jacob Bright, Radical, has been re
turned to Parliament from Manchester.
The Maine Legislature has passed II
bill 10 abolish the death penalty and 20 sub
stitute in its stead imprisonment ut hard
labor for life.
Three families, named liowry, bril-
lard, and Wcstfall, residing in Greenfield
Township. Warren CouAty, iowa, have had
3 long-standing dispute about the location
of various roads, fences, etc., in their
neighborhocai. The dispute finally culmin-
ated in a personal encounter, ON saturday
night, 18th inst, between the male men,
hcrs OF the three families, while on their
way home from church. David Howry, the
father, was shot in the upper lip and
left ear, and stabbed oyeR the left eve. lie
viii probably recover. George, his son,
was stabbed andfcll dead in the field. John,
another son, was stabbed and fell dead after
going about forty rods. James Groom, Ia
borer for Howry, was stabbed in the right
lung, breast and back. NE will die. The
Westfall and Drillard parties were armed,
but the Howry party were not. The sur
yiyors OF the tragedy wore arrested and
placed in Jail at lndianola.
Dispatches from the Kansas CITY
Times special correspondent to the Black
Mills, via Cheyenne, on the 2l,t, says: 4
general concentration of troops is now being
made at Fort Fetterman for IN expedition,
WIZ "a D Nv NuIihlailNAtU w AAtil. tIDDh, anu
consist of eleven companies of cavalry. No
wagons are available. Pack mules in the
country are being gathered in and shod.
The expedition is destined either FOR the
Big Horn region or for the removal OF the
Sioux, Chcyenncs and Arapahocs from the
Black Hills. All the cavalry at Fort Lara
mic il under marching orders.
An official dispatch from Madrid was
received at Washington on the 18Th, stating
that information had been received OF he
surrender Of Estclla. The fall Of this, the
most important Carlist stronghold, is consid-
cred the end Of the rebellion. Per contra, the
CarliSts claim q great victory in rcpulsing
the Alf0nSi>ts' attack on Santabara along
the whole line, inllictinE great losses and
taking 200 prisoners. 1t is also asserted
that the Carlists have reoccupied Iaranz and
Coastu.