Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-11-23

ing result: John Thomson, aged II, gro
forehead and instantly killed while
standing behind the counter; James
L. Young, City Marshal, was shot in
the stomach and once in the right arm !
Thomas j. Young, editor kentucky Sentinel,
was shot twice-once in the stomach and
once under the right arm; George Howard
was shot in the hip; Will Howard was shot
once in the back and once under the right
shoulder-blade. The City Marshal is the
only one whose wounds are likely to prove
fatal.
John Willis Merritt, veteran Journalist,
and for more than quarter of a century in
timately identified with the political history
of Illinois, died at his home in Salem, Mari
on County, on the 10th, aged n
The official returns Of the recent election
in Kansas give the Republicans "a members
of the House of Representatives and the
opposition of all kinds A members. The
Senate, which holds over, stands 2s Repub-
licans to 5 opposition.
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
Franklin j. Ottarson, an old New York
journalist, formerly the trusted associate of
Greeley and Raymond, attempted suicide on
the 18th by cutting his throat and also a
vein in his arm. His injuries are probably
fatal, though he may recover. Ill health
and other causes have for some years rem
dered him incapable Of regular work, and
he was also forced to give up place in the
Custom house which he had held for some
years.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart, who is in her seventy
fifth year, was very i'll when her husbands
remains were stolen. Judge Hilton broke
the news as gently as he could to her, but
she sank perceptbly under the blow.
At Mount Airy, Wythe County, Va, Col.
Ballard Lambert and some other men went
to the residence Of his wife's father, Mr..
Snaeely, to secure possession of his uam-
bert's) child, the father and mother having
separated on account of the formers alleged
i'll treatment of the latter. Mrs. Lambert
personally resisted the taking away of her
child, when the brutal husband struck her
on the head, crushing her skull and causing
almost instant death. sfr
A large number of arrests of parties
charged with offenses against the Federal
Election laws have been made in South Car
olina and Florida. The prisoners were in
all cases released on bail. In Madison
County, Florida, Judge Witherspoon, of the
Canvassing Board, has been arrested on a
charge of destroying precinct returns, on ac-
count of alleged informality, the result of
which is to defeat the election of Bisbee,
Republican, in the Second Congressional
District. Chief Justice Randall ordered a
special session Of the Supreme Court to con-
vene at Tallahassee on the 10th, when the
question Of ordering mandamus to compel
the recounting Of votes would be considered.
On the night of the 14th, Mr.. and Mrs.
Haywood Smith, who lived three miles from
Elizabethtown, N. c., went to wedding
During their absence their house caught fire
and burned to the ground and their -four
children were burned to death. The eldest
was only six years old.
passenger train on the New Bruins
wick Railroad was thrown from the track
near Peet, N. B., on the night of the 18th. A
passenger car rolled down an embankment,
caught fire and was burned up. -Four per-
sons were killed or burned to death, only
their bones being found among the ruins.
A train on the Portland and Ogdensburg
Railroad was ditched on the 18th near
Dows's Crossing, Vt, and Israel j. yCurrier,
of Wolcott, was killed, Mrs. Geo. L. Water.
man, of Hyde Park, seriously injured, and
two others slightly hurt. n
The following is the official vote of Penn.
sylvania for Governor. Hoyt, Republican
S19,567; DIN, Democrat, 297,060; Mason, Ma.
tional, s., ,75s; Lane, Prohibitionist, 1858.
Four persons were killed and severa
others injured by the explosion Of a loco.
motive boiler at Mahanoy City, Pa, on the
10th.
Stewards body had not been recovered uI
to the 18th, and although some arrests o.
suspected parties had been made, the police
were apparently without any real clew Il
the nernefraf of the theft