Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-06-07
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

Rev. DIR. Seymour, at the unanimous re-
quest OF the Springfield Ql.) Diocesan Con-
vention, 2. Z. Church, has reconsidered his
former resolution and will accept the Bish-
opric.
The Iowa Democratic State Convention,
held on the 29th, adopted resolutions in favor
of tariff for revenue only, the repeal of the
Resumption act, the substitution of United
Ststes notes for national bank bills, the i'm
proyement by the Government of Western
rivers, and a thorough investigation of the
Presidential election frauds of 1876; and op-
posing further contraction Of the currency
by the retirement of United States notes
now in circulation. The State officers NOM
mated are: For Secretary of State, Tom D.
Walker, Of Davis; Auditor of State, Joseph
Eiboeck, of Polk; Treasurer of State, L. ID.
Fem, Of Storey; Register Of State Land Of
fee, I. p. Bardwell, of Linn; Judge of Su-
preme Court, Judge Knapp, of Van Buren;
Clerk of the Supreme Court, M. V. Cannon,
of Scott; Reporter of the Supreme Court,
j. b. Elliott, OF Marion; Attorney General,
J. Gibbon, Of Lee.
At Springfield, Mo-, on the night of the
Goth, lady named Mrs. Thompson, while
temporarily insane, cut the throat of her
daughter Nettie, aged17, and then cut her
own. Both died.
The recent cyclone in Wisconsin killed so
people and injured about $50. Hundreds are
left homeless and without meal to eat. The
survivors along the line of the tornado are
in great distress.
The west-bound express train on the Un-
ion Pacific Railroad was boarded by masked
men on the night of the Goth, near Percy
Station, who entered the sleeping cars and
robbed number of passengers of their
money and watches and then decamped,
being evidently frightened off before they
had completed their work. A posse of men
started at daylight in pursuit of the robbers.
Andy Compagnion, desperate of Owens
vile, Gibson County, Ind, who was suspect
ed of having committed numerous crimes,on
the night of the 29th was taken from his
house by party of masked men and shot
dead in the Public Square, his body being
literally riddled with bullets.
Bishop MeCoskry has again left Detroit
suddenly and unexpectedly for New York,
instead of staying to face his acciisers, and is
reported to have renewed his resignation.
Mr.. G.. III. Heafford, General Passenger
Agent, and Mr.. C. l.. White, Auditor, of the
Missouri Pacific Railroad, have resigned
their positions as rumored, by request of
the managers of the road. No cause as
signed. Their places have been temporarily
filed by the appointment respectively Of
Mr. Frank e. Fowler and Mr.. Charles G.
Warner.
The First National Bank of Dallas, Texas,
suspended on the 30th, after run lasting
three days. Liabilities large and assets
nominal.
Hon. Daniel CAN'T, Chief-Justice Of Ne
braska, died on the 10Th, aged 10.
The body of John Scott Harrison, son of
ex-President Harrison, who died suddenly
on the 27th ult. at North Bend, Ind, was dis
inferred from the family vault on the night
following the burial and taken to the dis
secting-room of the Ohio Medical College in
Cincinnati, where it was strangely and un-
expectedly discovered on the following day
by Carter Harrison, a son of deceased, while
the latter was making a search, in company
with an officer, for the body of a
friend who had died a few days previous,
and the robberyof whose grave was discov-
cred by him on the day Of his fathers fu-
neral. Fearing that his fathers grave might
be despoiled as had been that of his friend,
the son had hired watchman to keep guard
over it nights, and his CONSERVATION and
grief upon being brought face to face with
his dead father in the dissecting-room are
said to have quite overpowered him.
A Boise City dispatch of the 31st reports
that about 200 Indians, under Buffalo Horn,
are encamped in the laya-beds, between
Camas Prairie and Snake River, and have or
dered the whites to leave the prairie on pen
atty of death. They have already COM
menced hostilities by shooting two settlers,
wounding both severely. The Indians are
well supplied with arms and ammunition
The machine-shops of the indianapolis
Pennsylvania and Chicago Railroad, at Peru
Ind, were struck by lightning on the night
of the 29th, and, with their contents, en-
tirely consumed by fire. There were three
locomotives and two stock-cars in the shops
The lossiis estimated at 500, ,6OO-no insur.
ance.
The Galveston Netos's special from Eagle
Pass, 3Oth, says: Escobedo is reported tc
have captured Saragossa, ard is expected tt
attack Piedras Negras. The Mexican Gov
ernment troops, under command of Colone
Nanoiz, have gone TO meet him. A fight Il
expected.
At the farm of Robert Linn, four mile
from Hillsboro, o., ON the 31st, portable
saw-mill engine exploded, killing three mel
and severely scalding several others. On
man was thrown completely over a tall tree
The boiler was found 800 yards distant.
The Alabama Democratic State Cenven
nominated the following ticket:-R-w "