The Saline County journal., 1879-01-30
THE NEWS.
rELRGRAMs CONDENSED.

Admiral Fouchard, Paris, is dead.
Alderman VIM. Clendenning, iron foun
der, Montreal, has absconded with 100000.
John S. Davis, a prominent citizen Of
Davenport, La, is dead. He leaves large for.
tune.
The election in Charleston, South Caro-
lima, is being examined into by the Teller COM
mittee.
Samuel Green, nephew of Judge Green,
of Cedar Rapids, L., was found frozen to odeath
in Colorado.
The Warner House, of Sparta, Wis,
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $25,0OO; insur-
ance, $4,000.
The Emanuel Congregational Church,
Boston Highland, burned. Loss $4,000; insur-
ance, S35,00o.
An explosion in the drug store of Weeks
& Potter, Boston, caused loss of s3O,000. In
suied for sl5.000.
The liquor house of Boehm g. Hartman,
Chicago. has been closed up by the Sheriff.
Liabilities, $4,000.
Insurance companies of New York are
endeavoring to establish traiff association, to
secure better rates.
A hermit named Farwell, aged sixty,
was murdered in his hut near East Saginaw,
Mich, for his money.
Miss May Marshall, of Chicago, began
. walk of 2,7O0 quarter-miles in 2,700 quarter
hours, in Washington.
The Governor of Pennsylvania has issued
warrants for the execution of Sayne and
Shafer, wife murderers.
Mile. Richards, the famous English fe-
male pedestrian, has succeeded in walking
1000 miles in 1000 hours.
Capt. George Prince, Bath, Maine, has
been arrested for obtaining money fraudulent
ly from the Pension Office.
The Illinois Secretary of State licensed
the Globe Creamery. Company, of Macoupin
county; capital stock, $4,000.
The military at Ft. Robinson are severe
iy censured by Secretary Schurz for their con-
nection with the Cheyenne butchery.
The jury in the Wees murder trial has
returned verdict Of murder in the first degree
with the penalty of Imprisonment for life.
Two brothers, Hugh and James Callen,
living near Waco, Texas, quarreled. The
father interferred, and was fatally stabbed by
Hugh.
Two little girls named Tillie and Laura.
daughters of j. 8. Rucker. were struck by .
locomotive near Round Rock, Tex. and TiiIie
killed
H. II. Colby, reputed respectable farm
er of Warren county, Penn, has been sent to
jail on the charge of incest with his own
daughter.
The amount claimed necessary to meet
the requirements of The arrearage pension bill
il estimated by the Treasury Department at
a50,0O 1000.
United States District Attorney Bruce,
of Selma, Ala, has issued a writ of habeas cor
pus to realease United States Marshal Turner
from imprisonment.
There was transported on the Ohio river
and its tributaries above Cincinnati the past
year 100000 pAssenges, of whom one was kill
I'd and three injured.
The failure of CarrIck, Calvert & Co.,
wholesale boot and shoe dealers and manufac-
turers of Boston and Nashville, Tenn, is re-
ported. Liabilities, S250,0OO.
The firm of Gustorf Il Co., of Chicago
consisting of three sisters, Sara, Harriet and
Sarah T. Guktorf, planning mill establishment,
have made an assignment. Liabilities, S20-
600.
An old gentleman named Bremen, liv-
ing near Brennan, Tex, in attempting to club
some vicious dogs with the butt end of shot
gun, received the contents of the gun through
his heart.
Oscar Lighter, farmer residing near
Argos, Ind, waS killed by q falling tree, which
he was aiding to fell. Edward Mcdowell, of
Logansport, Ind, was killed under similar cir
cumstances.
James Ryan, Sergeant on the police
force at Columbus. Ohio, fired five shots at his
wife with revolver, and then drove his fami-
ly out of the house with hatchet. Darkness
saved the lives of them all.
The Illinois Legislature is discussing
the propriety of memorializing Congress to
amend the national banking law, restricting
interest to six per cent; also, asking for
constitutional amentment providing for the
election of United States Senators by direct
vote of the people.