Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-19

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BY the exI ,losion of a steam-boiler in a
shiilgle-ndH at Aipena, Mich, on tho 7tan,'
Tour men were killed and six others
wounded. .nra~.4@ rYgil CT
The ce' atennial anniversary of the found
tE aass Mission Dolores, OF San Francis
co, wa celebrated on Sunday, Oct. 8, in q
very ] Impressive manner. The corner-stone
Q !, dewiehnrch was laid nearsthe old Mis-
sior 4. The procession included the military,
iigious, benevolent and educational soeie-
les, United States and State officers and
the clergy of various denominations, the
demonstration being Of an rnsectarian char
acter and imposing in numbers and appear
ante. jfftft GfS'oaA |1' ctH
4 A destructive fire occurred at Houston,
Texas, Oil the night of the It'll. The entire
block on the east side of Main, Street, be-
tween Preston and Congress, was burned.
Among the buildings destroyed were some
of the handsomest business structures in the
city. Totda loss, $3.50, 600; insurance ,f$02O,.'
COOS .bsyFg sE
The dead body of Mr.. Frank Barnum,
proprietor of Barnum,s Hotel, Kansas
City, was found in a pond near the Sweet
Springs Hotel, Brownsville, Mo-, on the
7th. The deceased had recently gone to
the Springs for his health, and from the
confused appearance Of the body it was be-
lieved that he had been murdered and
robbed and then thrown into the pond.
Mr.. Barnum was an old newspaper man
and had a large circle of a~cqdaintanees.
Tue wv 1Q,,rx usnnaI fHoor aty QoU0nnah
who passed through the yellow fever cpl
deniie at Memphis, died Of the disease on
the ,9th."' The yellow fever interments on
that day numbered Is. af0iop ~ ~.t''''"i u
The elevator OF Otis & York, at Cleveland,
Ohio, together with some adjacent build
ings, was destroyed by fire on the 9th.
About the same hour the Second Presbyte-
risn Church caught fire, it is supposed
from sparks from the elevator, N was al
most entirely destroyed. t.,.4tUuryE .n.3
A fire at Pine Bluff, Ark, on the night
of the Sth, caused the destruction OF a num-
Der of business houses, the losses aggregat-
ing 1928 900. Supposed incendiarism. :
MAJ w. W. Lander. formerly private
secretary to Senator Charles Sumner, but
for the past two years a well known poll
tician Of Colorado, died suddenly in Denver
the 9th. i ''5h Hi iHa-i0 g..
The President has committed the SEN
tence. of Jacob Rehm, one of the. Chicago
whisky conspirators, from six months i'm
prisonment and $40, 900 fine to three
months imprisonment and ST, 600 fine. The
term of imprisonment having already ex-
pired, on the 9th Rehm paid his fine, and
was released from the County Jail, where
he had been imprisoned. The Communication
was made, it is said, in accordance with a
petition signed by 500 citizens representing
both political parties, and with representa-
lions and recommendations of .District-At-
torney Bangs and Judge Blodgett.
Andrew Hamilton & Co., Louisville pork
dealers, have gone into bankruptcy. Lila.
bilities, $240, 600; assets, $40, 0O0.4 ai t;:i-
{. john d. Lee, recently convicted of par
ticipation in the Mountain Meadow massa-
ere in Utah, 10 years ago, has been SEN
fenced to death. The prisoner having the
right under the laws of the Territory to
choose death by hanging, shooting or be-
heading, and having chosen to be shot, he
was sentenced to be shot to death on Janu-
airy %, 1877. "f ". -" tttiir ~i"j H3
A man named Rhode, herding cattle near
a ranch on Horse Shoe River, 40 miles north
west OF Fort Laramie, was killed and scalp
ed and his ears cut off by the Indians on the
10th. ' us ''- f'h1 ~"
The Red River steamboat Southern Belle
was burned two miles above Plauuemine,
La, ON the 10th. The boat and cargo were
destroyed. Several lives We're lost.
On the night Of the 10th two masked
burglars overpowered The Treasurer of
Marion County, Iowa, forced him to open
the safe, secured $14 900, and escaped.
Governor Chamberlain, of South Carroll
has published a reply to the address of
the Democratic Executive Committee of
that State, in which he says he is in pos
session of legal evidence as to the extent of
disorders in the State, and sustaining the
propriety of his orders. A letter from D.
It. Corbin, United States District Attorney
of South Carolina, fully sustains Governor
..t.a
William Ell. Harrison, who committed the
deadly assault upon Miss More in Boone
County, KY, on the Sd, has been adjudged
insane and sent to the asylum at Lexington.
Miss More is likely to recover.
The Peoples Bank Of Manchester, Mich,
was burglarized on the night of the 9th.
The safe was blown open and its entire con-
tents, excepting some small change, taken.
The amount stolen was between $40, 900
S15, 900. . .... ..1
The returns from the elections in Ohio,
and West Virginia, held ON the
10th, so far as received up to the night of
18th, indicated the election of the Re-
publican State ticket in Ohio, and the Dem
ocratic State ticket in Indiana, each by a
small majority. The Republicans nave
gained Congressman in the Fifth,
Seventh and Tenth Districts of Indiana, and
in the Third, Sixth, Ninth, Eleventh, and
Twentieth Districts Of Ohio. In West Vir-
ginia the Democratic State ticket was elected
together with a majority of the
.48 FOREIGN. .#
The industrial Bank of Newcastle-on-
Tyne, England, has stopped payment, with
liabilities estimated at 500, 600.