The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-09-11
SUM MARY.

". A. Seavy, Superintendent of the
Chicago Police, died Sunday.
A coming meeting of Bismarck srj
Count GortschskoG Is rumored.
The Sultsn of Turkey has disbanded
q, 900 men OF the reserve force.
-Ex-Lieutenant Governor John Dough
erty, OF Illinois, died at Jonesboro, Sunday,
sged 70.
VIM. NJ. Hunt, a well known artisl of
Boston, suicidei by drowning, AZ Isle Shoals
Monday.
| Several companies Of Au.trians have
crossed the frontier of Novi Bazaar, near
Csjl;ca
The rumor il revived that Count Schou-
valoff will immedia ely succeed Prince
GortschskofE
A fire at MaTysville, California, de-
stroyed two stores and two dwellings
Loss, $4,000.
| The Greek frontier commission are
having stormy session and an open
rupture is feared.
| Henry ink, saloon keeper Of Gin
ton, Mo-. shielded with morphine Sunday
night. No known cause.
The latest gold arrivals At New York
are $500 600 by the City of NqHtfegl and
- Oh, AS by the Gamantc
Hon Shepherd Letter died Monday
morning at five o'clock at his residence
near Montrose, Lee county, Iowa
A Sunday night fire at Lpngmout,
Colorado, destroyed S:evesiu's Hotel and
other buildings, causing loss OF $40. 900.
Ferdinand Fischer's tanuery, at Cam
bridge, Mass, went up in smoke Monday
night. Loss, SAC, 600; insurance, SIS 900.
DIR. Samuel A. Furley, ex Surgeon
General OF the United States army, died in
Philsdelphis, Monday afternoon-sged 81
The French harvest in the west and
northwest will be finished this week, with
favorable weather. The crop ia deficient.
The Mussulmans OF Eastern Roumelia
declare they prefer Russian to Roumelian
government, on account OF being oppressed.
The Tieonderogr arrived at Cape Town
August lat. Olly forty sick On board and
only one bad case, and ,hst one gettiug
better.
The Spanish government will not senp
&c, 600 troops to Cubi-Only replacing the
places Of those whose term OF SCI vice has
expired.
-Conovss del Castillo ia to officially
pop the question for King Alforzo,
Of Spain, 10 the Arch Duchess Marie, Of
Austria.
F. W. Leonard, wealthy Chicago
merchant, died suddenly Monday morning
at the Hotel Brunswick, New York, OF
heart disease.
A notice of ten per cent. reduction in
the wages of colliers at Park Fad colliery,
Forest Of Dean, is posted, affecting a great
number of men.
"A Monday night Fon du Lac fire
burned Gibson's grocery store and a num-
Der of wooden buildings. Loss, 10000.
Gibson's oldest daughter WAS burned to
death.
The reports in circulation in regard to
trouble at Trinity Bay between the natives
snd America an fishermen, have been inves-
tigsted and are pronounced to be un-
founded.
| The Pope writes personally to Emperor
William suggesting his intervention to
smooth up the recent difficulties IL il
claimed Bismarck knew ard appro 7ed Of
the step beforehand.
session at Bru sells. wants the various
States to sgree that disturbance or injury
Of submarine cables Is an otieuse against
the law of nations.
Forty Indians, under Victoria. attacked
government guard herding cavalry horses
near Ajacoherete, y. NJ, last FRIDAY, kill
ing guard and running off forty horses.
indians left toward Arizona.
Henry NJ. Hook, Of the New York
Engineering and Mining Jouaqi, left Little
Rock Monday for home with 3 large col
lection OF mineral specimens from Arkansas
silver mining region, which he will exsmine
and report.
The corner stone OF n monument to
Sergeant Wn. J isper, who fell at the siege
OF Savannah, Oct. 9, 1879 will be laid there
next month on the 9;h. Governor OF
Georgia and Of other STATES are invited,
Senator Gordon is the orator, and every
body, especially military, invited.
John OConnOr Power, Home Rule
member Of Parliament for Mayo, speaking
AZ Castlsbar, ireland, relative to the lard
question, said that he put it to the govern
Dent whether 1t was better TO recognize the
pressure OF the agitation than 10 have TO
recognize the pressure Of rebellion.
Walter Malone, ind c:ed for murder
ing Sheriff Lewing, in Scott county, Ar
kansas. has been confined in the United
States all at Fort Smith. Felr OF a mob
in Scott county caused it. There are forty
eight prisoners in the United States j,il,
Including nine murderers-all but one
from the Indian country.
St Louis detectives run in Dan Flani-
N,,rr
day, as belonging to a gang Of burglars
and house thieves recently working 81.
Louis, with headquarters at Cincinnati.
Considerable property was recovered,
though it Is believed that Jim Mulvanay,
who skipped, took large lot to Cincinnati
with him.
A maliciously misplaced switch on the
| Wabash road, thirty miles from ST. Louis
threw a freight train of the track. The
locomotive and thirteen cars went down an
embsnk ment twenty feet high into ravine
and we're totally rocked. Casualties: John
Corcoran, engineer, and Charles Niemsyer,
brakeman, killed James Fiizsimona, arm
broken and otherwise, perhaps fatally, in
iured. No clue to The wretch.
| -Quincy's Saturday night FIRE resulted
in the destruction OF the Academy Of
Music and a large brick block adjoining,
the packing house Of Adams & Sawyer and
other smaller buildings. also cutting a
block at the corner Of Fourth and Main
streets, in which were the board of trade
rooms, Masonic hall, telegraph ard several
other Offices. Loss, Sl25, 900 insurs nce,
$4,000. Henry Lake was killed by falling
walls.
Phillip and Nathaniel Shoop were ar
rested near Harrisburg, Pa, Monday for
numbering and burning Michael Began, an
old peddier, on the night of Oct. 26, 1873.
The neighbors began to talk about the mat
ter year ago; the Shops brought action
against four Of the neighbors for slander,,;
and the Shops were then openly charged
with the murder and arrested. They say
the peddler is alive and lives in Philadel-
phia. They are out on bail.
a BRIDGE FALLS AT LAWRENCE.