Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-28
and Mitchell alive, in Custer County, not

N pleted to Gila City, % miles by stage from
Yuma, but only fourteen and 4 half by tn
A railroad. The grading and track-laying will
o average a mile per day to Maricopa, abou
, 10 miles by the survey, but 191 by the stage
r road. This will bring the road to that poin
y Gts temporary eastern terminus) by tn,
Q early part of May. Tucson then will be with
\ Is hours stage-ride from the terminus
\ San Xavier within 20, and Santa Rita, will
, the famous Toltec and Aztec group of ruins
! within 30 hours ride, and the Mexican from
tier within the same time.
, Senator Thurman declines to be the Dem.
|. ocratic candidate for Governor of Ohio.
Miss Matte Todd, a niece of Mrs. Abra.
ham Lincoln, is an applicant for the Post.
office at Cynthiana, Ky.
The banking house OF c. +. Adae & Co.,
Cincinnati, suspended on the 18th. Liabili-
ties SISO, 900, and assets about S4O0,OO The
creditors are mostly Germans. The failure
created great excitement, and will doubtless
cause much financial distress among the
smaller depositors.
An aggravated case Of grave robbery has
recently occurred at Evansville, Ind, where
Mrs. Frank NJ. Murphy discovered the body
of her husband, which had been buried only
few days previously, in the college dissect-
ing-room, horribly mutilated, but still re-
cognizable.
At Cape Girardeau, Mo-, on the evening Of
the 10th, Wash Ivers, porter at the Frank
lin House, shot his wife and then himself.
Both shots were instantly fatal. Imtemper-
ance and conjugal unhappiness was the
cause.
At Cleveland, o., on the 10th, DIR. Geo.
W. Angler, well known veterinary sur
geon, was shot and killed by pistol in the
hands OF John W. Rice. The parties were
intimate friends, and Rice claims that the
shooting was accidental.
The great Illinois and st. Louis Bridge,
built by Captain Eads at a cost of 81 ,000, 900,
was sold at auction on the Goth, for s. 2,000,-
600. The purchaser was Mr.. Anthony j.
Thomas, of New York, acting as repre-
sentative for the bondholders. A new COM
pany has been organized, with Solon
Humphreys, of New York, as President.
Ignatus Donnelly, Democrat, will contest
the seat Of W. ID. Washburn, Republican,
returned to Congress from the st. Paul,
Minn., District.
At Nicholsonville, KY, on the 21st, Chas.
Campbell stabbed James Hawkins in the
| arm and then cut his throat, causing death
in three minutes. Campbell Is negro and
was enraged at Hawkins because of the lat
ter's interference in the procurement by
Campbell of q license to marry grass-wid-
ow. Campbell made his escape.
In ten-pin alley at Crockett, Texas, on
the 21st, W. A. Hall struck James II. Wall
in the head with a ten-pin ball, fracturing
his skull and causing death. The murderer
was arrested and held in 8, 900 bail.
John w. Rice, who shot and killed, acci-
dentally, as he claimed, his friend George
W. Angler, in Cleveland, on the 10Th, has
been arrested for murder. Angler lived
long enough to make a statement, to the ef-
feet hat Rice had been jealous of his CAN
gier's) attentions to Mrs. Rice,
and that he had on several occa-
sions threatened to shoot him.
Stephen d. Richards, who murdered Mrs.
Harrison and her three children in Kearney
County, Neb., on Nov. 2 last, and subse-
quently poisoned Peter Anderson, a neigh
Dor, and then fled the State, was arrested at
Mount Pleasant, o., his former residence,
on the 21st, and has since been sur
rendered to the Nebraska authorities.
Richards lived with Mrs. Harrison on the
Nebraska farm and murdered her and her
children in order to gain possession Of her
homestead. He secreted the remains Of his
victims in haystack, and there being no
near neighbors the murders were not dis
covered until the 9th of December, upon
which day Richards poisoned Anderson and
made his escape.
At Fort Smith, Ark, on the Goth, John
Postoaks, Greek Indian, and James Diggs,
q negro, were hanged on the same gallows.
Pestoaks murdered John Ingley, in October,
1877, and Diggs murdered j. c. Gould in
August, 1873.
The indianapolis Savings Bank has sus-
pended payment. 1t is claimed that all in
debtedness will ultimately be paid in full.
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
At Boston, on Sunday morning, the 18th,
Charles Callahan shot his brother-in-law,
Patrick Cain, four times while the latter
was In bed, and afterward cut his own
throat, dying almost instantly. Both were
sporting men.
Jack Kehoe, the acknowledged skiing of
the Mollie Maguires," was hanged at Potts.
vile, Pa, on the 18th.
Ex-Governor Curtin, of the Twentieth
Pennsylvania District, has served for
NAL notice of contest on Yocum (Republi-
can and National) for seat in the next Con-
gress.
Henry E. Hoy, of the publishing firm of
Gait & Hoy, New York, committed suicide
recently on account of financial trouble.
The statement of the condition of the
Massachusetts savings-banks shows a loss
of deposits during the past year of S27,5O0,-
900.
At Freichlers, near Allentown, Pa, on
the 10Th, Mrs. Menich was fatally burned
while trying to extinguish the burning
clothing of her young child. The latter was
also burned to death.
At Cohoes, N. Y, on the night of the 10Th,
Patrick Rourke and his entire family of five
children were burned to death in their own
house.
The Jury in the case Of James Z. Whalen
against Gen. Sheridan, on trial in the United
States Circuit Court, at New York, brought
in a verdict for the defendant. The suit was
for the recovery of over $780, 900 for the seiz-
ure of the Littona plantation in st. Charles
Parish, La, in August, 1867, and the eject
ment of Whalen by military order of Gen.
Sheridan, who was then military Governor.
A motion will be made for new trial.
The members of the Canvassing Board of
Brevard County, Florida. have been indict-
ed by the United States Grand Jury for
making fraudulent returns, and are in Jail
at Jacksonville in default of So, 900 bail each.
The Grand Jury in the United States Cir
cult Court has indicted II. w. Arnold, Hen
ry Birdson and J. S. Ellis, for violation of
the election laws in the election of Peter W.
Robinson, United States Supervisor of Elec.
ton, from voting precincts at Waverly Sta
tion, Sussex County, Va.
FOREIGN.
A sensational report comes by cable Of the
discovery Of important evidence bearing up
on the recent attempted assassinations in
Germany, Russia, Spain, and Italy, from