Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-04-12

Mack g. Co., wholesale clothiers; Jacobs
Brothers & Hoffman, Wholesale jeans and
clothing; Dodd, Brown & Co. goods on
storage); Altheimer & White, wholesale
hats and caps; Miller, Grant d Co., retail
laces and fancy goods, besides n number of
other smaller dealers, occupying stores on
Fourth Street and Washington Avenue. The
total loss is not far from 500, 900; insurance
probably about 100000.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Of Arizona
will be opened May to Msricopa, A. T., 80
miles east of Yuma, the present terminus.
The trial OF Tom Buford for the murder Of
Judge Elliott of the Kentucky Court Of APP
peals has been set for April Is, special term
Of the Criminal Court having been calledfor
that purpose. ET ~ .
John Conover and Frank Stewart were
killed and Jake Corbin dangerously injured
by the explosion of a saw-mill boiler at JEFF
fersonville, Ind, on the 4th.
1t is authoritatively announced that the
German Mission was rendered to and de-
ciined by Whitelaw Reid of the New York
Tribune in December last. q
Three boys, named Kelly, Gilbert and
Smith, were drowned in the river at Wells
vile, o., on the 4sh, by the supsetting sof. .
skif. Il tEtS G tstskt r 8
The American ship Lancaster, laden with
loo bales of cotton, was burned off Calves
ton on the 4th. A total loss.
Simon Sevarns and Willie Hughes, the
latter aged only 10, were killed by the ex-
plosion Of saw-mill boiler at Lima, o., on
the ID.
The jury in the case of Warren Tate, who
lin rf-hn Oh
indianapolis In September last, rendered =
verdict of not guilty.
A band of Indians, supposed to be strag-
Cling Sioux and Gros Ventres- from the
North, are raiding the Yellowstone Valley,
capturing stock and driving the settlers into
the military posts. Troops have been sent
out from Forts Custer and Keogh.
A man. named Bland, who had stolen
horses'from, near Fort Scott, Kansas, snd
fled TO Goliad County, Texas, was recently
captured there by pursuing officer, aided
by posse of citizens, and lodged in Jail.
Subsequently the vigilantes took possession
Of the culprit and hanged him to tree.
At Davenport, Iowa, on the night Of the
4th, Harry C. Watt, keeper of q cigar store.
and his wife's sister, Louisa Filter, both
committed suicide by drinking prussic acid.
Wait lefta letter to his wife, acknowledging
that he had illicitly loved Louisa, and that
they had mutually sgrced to end their lives
simultaneously. Some months ago, Watt,
while handling revolver, shot his wife in
the breast, nearly killing her. 1t was then
supposed thst the shooting Was accidental,
but II is now suspected that he intended to
take her life In order that he might marry
her sister.
The Michigan State election, held on the
9TH, resulted in he election Of Campbell as
Justice of thekS6prsme Court, and Gros-
venor and Shearer as Regents Of the Uni
versity, all Republicans, over the Demo-
cratic and Greenbsck coalition ticket, by q
msjorityof from 5, coo to 10000. .srE~ Ess
At clifford, iowa. a. small station on the
Central Railroad, John Bell, station agent,
10 years old, deliberately shot Miss Robbins,
his lady friend, through the heart twice,
then telegraphed the railroadonicialsto SEND
another operator up as he was going to kill
himself. Shortly after he fired two shots in
to his abdomensnd lay down 70 die. The
girl was the most estimable daughter Of a
prominent merchant. The causes that led
to the tragedy are not stated. ~---,-
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Com
pany has made arrangements with a syndi-
cate Of capitalists for the capital necessary
to extend its lines to Leadville, down the
Rio Grande and into San Juan.
O'Leary has challenged all comers 10 20
hours walk fora champion belt and other
prizes, at the Chicago Exposition Building,
commencing May %.
Jacobs, Republican, has been elected May
or of Cincinnati by about 1000 majority. "a
Frank Nevins, Springfield (Ill.) corre-
spondent of the Chicago Tribune, has been
committed to the County Jail for contempt
of the House, in refusing to answer questions
regarding the source of his Information for
certain dispatches for that paper.
3 - EAST AND DsoUTHEAsr.
There was q severe snow-storm on Long
Island on the 1st Of April, eau sing the stop
page Of railroad trains.
The Rhode Island State election, held on
the I'd, resulted Ia tbe election Of Van Zandt,
Republican, for Governor. The total vote
cast was-Republican, 9,71s; Democratic,
5,5l5; Greenback and scattering, 81.
A severe tornado passed over Brown Sum.
NIT, N. c., ON the Sd. Several houses were
blown down. scattering the furniture broad
east, One boy was killed and many seri-
ously Injured by failing timbers. Trees and
fences were prostrated and great damage
done. SSoA lNAl1 :
The venerable Madame Elizabeth Patter-
son Bonsparte, widow of Jerome Bonaparte,
youngest brother of the Emperor Napoleon
died at her home In Baltimore on the An,
aged 94. Her marriage took place In IsOs,
when the young Bonaparte was on q visit to
hi ,trxr H. Ias,. sl.s
she IS years of age. The Emperor refused
to recognize the,marriage, and forbade the
young wifesto enter France. Her husband
left her at Lisbon, Portugal, and proceeded
to Paris for the purpose Of making an effort
to conciliate the Emperor, but fail.
edIA finl his mission, and finally
weakly gave in to the Emperor,
ambitious project and welded the Princes,
Frederica Catherine, daughter of the Kinl
of Wirtemberg. The American Madam,
Bonaparte proceeded to England, where hel
son, Jerome Bonaparte, was born. The lat
ter died In 1880, Mime. Bonaparte mad,
severai efforts TO secure the recognition O
herself-a and son By the1Frsach Government
but never succeeded, although an Imperia
Council in 1852 decided that the son nigh
bear the name of Bonaparte. He lived som,
time in Frsnce, and received a handsome al
lowance from his father.
-Asdestructiye fire occurred in Philadef
phia on the morning of the 9th, the proper
| ty destroyed being several large busines
buildings on the square partially bounde,
by Brown, Race and Fourth Streets. Tn
total loss is about $3.50, 200. Albert Fruh wa
killed and several others injured by fallinl
| walls.
FOREIGN.
A battalion Of French zouaves and skir
mishers, on the way from Aumele to Baghar
Algeria, was caught in a snow storm be
tween Sonaki and Soukelteta, on the 2sth o
March. Nineteen men perished and II 9th
ers had to be sent to the hospital =
1t is said that the English Government ha
made preparations for placing Wall Mo