Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-07-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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A VERY perceptible earthquake shocl
was experienced in New Hampshire on th'
evening Of the 10Th.
RCKLEY, the Columbus co., Banl
President, who was shot at a few days ag,
by an iratc creditor, is recovering. He will
lose the use Of both eyes.
ANOTHER and more serious earth
quake occurred Mt Manila on the 2lst. No
single public editice remains standing
The Convent Of Guadaloupe, which l,st
lasted three centuries, was destroyed. Yfe
inhabitants were encampcd outside the to~r
and consequently no lives were lost.
The Empress Eugenie disembarked
at St. Helena on her return from Africa
and visited the former residence Of Nspo-
leonI.
GEN. GRANT had an elaborate and
enthusiastic reception at Leadville on the
22d. The City spent $4,000 on his recep-
tion.
The Democrats of the Indianapolis
District have nominated Charles Byfield for
Congress. An attempt to secure the indorse-
ment by the Convention of Mr.. De La Matyr,
the Greenback candidate for re- e-election, was
unsuccessful.
Ex-Gov. B. GRArz BROWN has an
nounced himself as a candidate for United
States Senator from Missouri.
Hon. Z. B. WAsHBURNE has gone to
Europe for his health. He will return in
October.
A SMALL party of Usage Indians re-
e. nrss
coils ranch, on the Cimmaron River, about
forty-fve miles south of Dodge City, Hans.
They ran off five horses, returning to the In
dian Territory. Cattle men are arminy to
defend their stock, and party Of soldiers
from Fort Dodge have been ordered to the
locality.
GEORGE BENNETT, alias Dickson, who
murdered Hon. George Brown, prominent
citizen of Toronto, Canada, was hanged OH
the 23d.
A BOLD robbery is reported from the
vicinity of GRANVILLE, White County, III. The
family of Edward Kerstaw went out on a
visit, leaving little girl alone in the house.
Three men entered, and while one Of them
held the child on the bed, sitting her cries
with pillow, his partners ransacked the
house. One thousand dollars, belonging to
Kcrshaw's mother, was taken from bureau
drawer, but another $1,000, belonging to
Kershaw, was overlooked. The thieves es-
capped.
CHARLES NORTON shot Policeman
O'Neil at Kokomo, Colo., on the 23d. Nor
ton was intoxicated and raising disturb
ance. The policeman attempted to arrest
him and was shot dead. Norton was taken
to Jail and placed under guard. A crowd
soon gathered and overpowered the guard
and lynched the prisoner. He is said to have
confessed having committed other murders,
and admitted he ought to have been hung
long ago.
A RECENT storm in Monroe County,
Mich destroyed many vineyards filled with
the choicest grapes and also ruined grain Of
all kinds. The aggregate loss is 100000.
A sAw-MILL boiler exploded near
Gettysburg, Darke County, o., blowing the
mill to tatters and instantly killing William
Reid, the fireman, and seriously injuring six |
other persons.
S. C. PETERS, A. W. Davis and H. |
Marks, proprietors, together with fifty 9TH
ers, attaches of Boyd e. Peters Circus, were |
arrested at Greensburg, Pa, charged with |
abducting Miss Salome Burkett, aged IA, !
from her hcme in Somerset County. The |
girls story OF her treatment was almost too
horrible for belief. Great excitement pre-
vailed at Somerset and Greensburg Oh ac-
count of the outrage and mob law was
feared.
TROUBLE is reported between the In
dians and whites in Eastern Oregon and
Washington Territory, owing as alleged to
The encroachments of settlers.
The project of erecting statue to
The late Prince Napoleon in Westminster
Abbey, which had the countenance of the
Queen, has been declared by the House of
Commons (1Gl TO 14I) to be inconsistent.
with the national character Of the cdifice.''
CICERO SIMoNs was hanged at Fair
Play, Colorado, on the sd, for the murder
IF John johnson in April last.
JUSTIN HOFFMAN, a shoemaker living
near Pittston, Pa, while crazcd by drink
hot and fatally wounded his wife and young
.hild. and seriously wounded another child
lamed Hooke, who was standing by. He was
ocked up Just in time TO save his being
ynched by an infuriated mob.
THE House of Commons on the 20th
passed the Irish Relief Bill.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at the
Hudson River Tunnel, jersey City, at an
,ariy hour on the morning Of the 21st, by
which twenty men were killed, while eight
thers had an almost miraculous escape.
The accident was caused by the escape {
II compressed air, which was relied upon
o help sustain the roof. The falling of
he roof closed the air-lock into the tun- ;;
el, and the water rising rapidly cut off the {
Scape of the twenty men who were at work !
n the shaft at depth OF siNty-iiv feet. The ;
light who escaped were in the air chamber a..
rhen the water began to rush in, and just I
aved themselves by running up the ladder. &
A LATER report regarding the result /
the election in Mexico says that Gen. 5
ionzales has been elected President by 4 !
,rge majority. While the President elect i
as on 4 balcony at Guanajato receiving an !
walton, some person shot at him from the \
reet. The bullet missed its intended vic t
IN, wounding two other persons in the !
arty. a
A NEGRO named John Houston was
'ncbed near Shelbyville, Tenn, on the night +
the 2lst, for committing an assault upon =
he six year-old daughter of white man. h
A BOLD robbery was committed at the !,
rivate bank of Fisher, Preston & Co., in a
etrot, on the 22d. While the clerk, Fred. =
!. Clifford, was alone, 4 stranger appeared ii
the opening of the wire screen in the p
,unter and expressed desire to buy some "
overnment bonds. As Clifford was about u
reply the stranger suddenly reached y
rough the aperture and struck him on the 5,
mpIe with a slungshot. The blow felled w
m to the floor and temporarily rendered Il
m insensible. When he recovered it was W
A. !. S.s