Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-11-09
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

The reports of engineers in charge of river
improvements in the West contain the fol-
lowing recommendations for appropriations
for the next fiscal year: Mississippi River
New Orleans harbor, $4,000; Vicksburg
harbor, $4,000; removing snags from the
Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers,
S3S5, 900; Memphis harbor, S12i 900; for COM
pleting the improvements between the
mouths of the Illinois and Ohio rivers, $780,
600; below st. Paul, 30,000; widening and
deepening channel from Des Moines rapids
to the mouth of the IlliEois River, 500, 200;
widening and deepening channel from st.
Paul to Des Moines River, S250, 600; improve
ment above the Falls of st. Anthony, $50,-
600; to construct lock-dam at Meeker Is
land, Mimi, S922, ,l2l; Des Moines Rapids
S122, ,065; Rock Island rapids, $4,000.
Missouri River-Improyements at Fort
Leavenworth, $4,000; at Atchison, $751; coo;
at st. Joseph, $4,000; Nebraska City and
Eastport, Iowa, SS5, 600; Omaha and Council
Bluffs, $780, 600; Sioux City, S33,Ss0; above
the mouth of the Yellowstone, SO, 900.
Cumberland River-Above Chattanooga,
So, COO; below Chattanooga, $4,000; below
Nashville, $4,000; from Nashville to the
Kentucky line, $50 700; from the Kentucky
line to Smiths Shoals, $4,000; at Smiths
Shoals, $4,000. Miscellaneous-Red River
of the North, SIZE, 600; Red River, Louisiana,
$4,000; improvement of its mouth, $50, 600;
Illinois River, $4,000; Galena River and
~Harbor, $4,000.
Ex-Gov. Geo. w. Smith, known rs an act
i've participant in the free-State struggle in
Kansas, died Mt Lawrence on the 2Sth, aged
% years.
Al -
officially declared that refugees from that
city might safely return home, provided
their premises had been thoroughly venti-
lated and fumigated.
The Fort Worth and Yuma (Arizona) stage
was robbed by two masked highwaymen on
the 29th. Results small.
The ditching of train IL miles west OF
Spencer; iowa, on the night of the 29th,
caused the death Of Hon. J. G. Patterson,
and slightly injured two other persons.
The indianapolis, Bloomington and West
ern Railroad has been sold under decree
of the United States Court, to a committee
of the bondholders, for 81, 100000.
The New Orleans Board of Health, on the
3lst, officially declared the yellow fever cpl
demic at an end in that city.
The twelfth annual reunion Of the Society
of the Army of the Tennessee was Esld al
indianapolis, beginning on the 3Oth. Gen
Sherman was present
The banking house Of Joseph A. Hemanr
a. Co., at Cincinnati, closed its doors on the
3lst. Liabilities said to be from Sl75, ,O0O Il
$50, 900; no estimate OF resources.
Frank Roberts was hanged at Helena, NJ
T., on the 3lst, for the murder of Howard
L. Morris, brother miner, for the purpos,
of robbery, in September, 1877.
A disastrous storm prevailed Throughout
the lake region on the 31st, causing the los
of a number Of vessels and probably scor
Of lives.
Col. Richard Realf, who was an active par
ticipant in the Kansas Free-State troubles
committed suicide at Oakland, CAL, the 9th
er day. Ill health and domestic trouble
are the alleged cause.
Mansfield and Mclaughlin, two allege
road agents, were taken from the Deadwoo
Coz on the night of the 2d, near Laramie
wv T., by five masked men, and hanged t
tree.
Jason Metcalf and II. C. Msgee, two we
known citizens Of CynthiaDa, KY, had
political dispute which terminated in
street fight with pistols on the Sd. Metcal
was suOt near tuc ncdIts causing ueatn ]
an hour.
Mr.. w. ii. Rulofson, Of the firm OF Brad
ley & Rulofson, photographers, Sab Fran
cisco, was killed oh the I'd by falling froI
the roof of their three-story building to tn
ground.
Two brothers, William and Benjami
Sawyer, both past 80, proprietors OF an o
mill at Decatur, ILL.,, had quarreled consid
erably about their business affairs, and O
the morning of the 4th, during an angr
discussion, William seized a revolver an
fired three shots at his brother. the last sh,
striking the top of his head and fracturin
his skull. William then rushed from IL
Office out into the yard, and shot himse
with the same weapon, dying within q
hour. Benjamin was still alive some tin
after the shooting, but his recovery was e,
tremely doubtful.
John Chin, a Chinese laundryman
quincy, ILL.,, was murdered in most atr,