Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-06
THE WORLD MIRRoRED.


Grimes. Criminals and Accidents.
Mr.. Marshall, prompter of the Aimee
troupe, jumped overheard on the way to New
York and was drowned,
George NJ. Pinney has been indicted
by the Grand Jury at San Francisco on two
charges of obtaining money under false pre-
lenses.
Edward Cunard, son of the late Sir
Edward Cunard of Staten Island, New York,
was killed on the slst while playing game
Of polo.
The remnant of Lame Deer's band OF
Indians which belonged to the party of hos
tiles struck by Gen. Mills last spring, has
come into Spotted Tail Agency.
John Staas, an old settler of Saunders
county, Nebraska, living five miles from FIRE.
mont was struck by lightning. and killed,
about noon on the Goth, as were also his two
horses.
A freight train on the Hudson River
railroad ran into passenger train at the de-
pot the night of the goth, killing the fireman,
iniuring the engineer, and wrecking the
engine and severalcar
The State Savings Institution of Chi
cago, a savings bank with 10000 depositors
and nearly three millions of deposits, made an
assignment to Abner Taylor on the 2sth. The
depositors were mostly of the poorer classes.
Louisa Lawson has been found guilty, at
Harrisburg, Va, of the murder of her husband
as an accessory before the fact. David Lawson
the husband was murdered in the mountains
of east Buckingham County in March 1879.
Sentence has not yet been pronounced.
A man aged IS, who registered at the
hotel as L. NJ. Stein NJ. D. ofNew York City.
and who seemed feeble and detected but was
apparently possessed of money, suicided on
the list inst, at Niagara Falls by leaping from
the new suspension bridge, 40 feet into the
river below.
Prof. A. r. Smith of Sparta Wis, was
fatally wounded by the accidental discharge
of a gun at Black River Falls on the 25th.
The gun was thrown from the wagon against
the wheel and discharged, the contents enter
ing the thigh and smashing the bone. Death
resulted in "a hours.
The Columbia, S. c., Grand Jury have
found true bills against ex-Lieut Gov. Glea-
son, ex-Treasurers Parker and Cardozo, ex-
Comptrollers Dunn and Hoges and ex-Speak-
ers Lee Clark of the General Assembly, and
many others on various charges of fraud in
connection with their respective Offices
An accident on the Chicago & Rock
Island railroad, occurred at Four Mile Creek
seven miles from Des Moines, on the Goth, and
was caused by the washing out of bridge
through which the train plunged into q creek
| IL ~. n f.. r.
20 persons are known to be killed, besides q
large number of wounded who have been sent
to Des Moines.
Personal ana Political.
E. L. Davenport, the tragedian, is dying
at Canton, Pa.
E. L. Davenport the actor died OF Can.
ton, Ohio, on the 1st.
Admiral Semmes died at Point Clear
near Mobile on the 30th
Gen. Grant received the freedom of the
city of Edinburg on the SOth.
Brigham Young is very sick and is not
expected to live.
Morrison, of Illinois, if spoken of as
likely to be the next Speaker of the House.
Rev. Thomas j. Mumford, editor Of
the Christian Register, died in Boston on the
goth.
Brigham Young died at Salt Lake
Utah, at o'clock, on the afternoon of the
Goth.
Gen. A. G. Laurence of Newport, r. l.,
has accepted the vacant position on the Sitting
Bull Commission.
Gen. A. A. Terry has gone to Washing
ton to receive Instructions regarding the Sit
ting Bull commission.
Theopilus Gaines, who was recently
appointed United States Attorney for Montans
has resigned the position.
Alvin Adams the founder of the Adams
Express Company died at Watertown, Mass
on the LIST inst, aged 70 years.
| The visiting Governors were formally
welcomed at Independence Hall Philadelphia
by Gov. Hartranft on the 28th.
The President and Cabinet expect tc
be in Nashville, Sept. 10Th, in response to the
| invitation of the municipal authorities.
Judge ]. c. Hopkins, of the United
States District Court for the Western district
Of Wisconsin, is lying very Ill at Madison.
B. D. Babcock was elected Grand Com
mander of the Knights Templar in Ohio at the
| recent session of the Communicates in Cleve
| land.
Gen. Sherman reached Helena on the
2Sth from his inspection of Forts Shaw and
Benton and left next day for Walla Walla Wis
Missoula.
Joseph Long of Indiana has been ap
| pointed by the Secretary of the Interior, to
look after the depredators on western timber
| lands. @
Frank Sparrow of Ohio, died at st
John, n B., on the 10Th, from injuries received
by a fall from third story window of the
Commercial Hotel. He leaves family in
| Ohio.
Samuel T. Welley, prominent rail
road man of Boston, President of the Revere
bank, and Wing candidate for Governor O
Massachusetts,, in 1855, died on the 2Sth o
August.
The freedom of the city of Edinburgh
was presented to ex-President Grant on thu
Sist Of August by the Lord Provost, Sil
James Falshaw, in the presence of two thous
and persons.
The death of Brigham Young is re-
garded at Washington as national blessing
1t is believed that Mormonism will now tend
toward disintegration and downfall for wan
of competent leadership.
Col. Halliday in his letter of acceptance
of the Democratic nomination for Governor
says the platform indicates determination
to remember the history OF Virginia and pre-
serve inviolate her public faith and credit.
The conservative State committee o.
Virginia has reelected Gen. James G. Field D
Culpepper county for Attorney General, AM