Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-06-04
DOMESTIC

H. montgomery, oil California has been ap-
pointed assistant attorney general for the
interior department. George f. Sutherland,
postmaster at Fond du Lac, was suspended
tor giving a sinecure cerksfip 10 his nephew,
and Samuel NJ Smcad was called TO the 20.
siton.
1t Is stated as a singular fact that there we're
more democrats than republicans employed in
the bureau of printing and engraving under
the last administration.
The failure Of the bure Uof engraving and
printing to secure the contract for printing
the postage stamps will result in a further re.
duCtion in the force.
TIE comptroller Of the currency has author
lied the Peoples National bank of Clay Cen.
ter, Kansas, 10 begin business with capital
of $4,000
About SlOO0O,OOO was paid out Of the
United States treasury for pensions during
tue month Of May.
-Four mashed men broke into the house Of
Theodore Nandcyrr, wealthy farmer OF But
Ter county, Missouri, the other night, bound
and gagged his two hired men, and covering
him With pistols, ordered him to get out OF
bed and give up all his money. He gave the
robbers package containing nearly 5000 In
bank notes, which he kept in a bureau in his
bedroom and which had been paid him for a
herd of cattle he recently sold. Under threats
of torture the thieves then compelled him TO
20 out Of the house and dig up a lot Of silver
which he had concealed In the yard. The
house was then rausacked and the robbers
went away, carrying with them about four
thousand dollars.
At Oakland, California, Dr. n. L. Buck was
called to his door and shot dead by Henry F,
Prindlc, for taking improper liberties with hi,
wife while under treatment, DR., Buck was
native Of Vermont, and practiced for scvera
years at Springfield, Massachusetts.
At Manila, Rush county Indiana, William
Riley cut the throat of his seven-year. old girl
Bertie, and then cut his own throat. RILEY
and his wife had separated, and Mrs. Rilel
had begun suit to recover possession Of th,
little one.
Three merchants of Norwalk, Ohio, wht
claim that their wives were libeled by re
porter for Toledo paper, named Ray s
Hathaway, dccoyed him 10 hotel barn ant
gave him a coat Of tar aud feathers.
During a heavy thunder storm, recently,
cloud burst over the farm Of Dennis Payne
near Higgnsvllc, Missouri, A large field o
young corn was oyerswept, the corn swep
away and the ground torn up in fearfu
manner.
A lad in New York, named George Lassettc
was killed at the foot Of Thirtieth street b
being struck in the chest by a baseball.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Eau Claire, WI:
consln, have found carbolic acid a speed
remedy for hog cholera.
The naval authorities at Halifax have thol
oughly investigated the joke OF Paul Boyto
in placing bogus torpedo under the bow {
the war steamer Garnet, in the harbor
New York. Lieutenant Gardiner is under a
rest, and the sentry who was on duty tht
night is indulging an imprisonment OF fort,
five days. No other persons are held II
sponsible.
Tho other morning the notorious Cartoo
saloon on Main, between Fourth and Fiji
streets, Kansas City, was the scene Of coll
blooded murder. The victim was Gottll,
Weiland, an inoiIeusive German. His assa
sin was the night bartender, James Murph
The murder grew out Of robbery committt
In the saloon the night previous.
Three women and six xchidren were drown,
in canyon, nine miles east of lndianola, N
braska, the other night.
A three story tenement house in Jers,
City, New Jersey, collapsed the other NOR
ing, causing three deaths and serious injurl
10 several persons.
The other morning the brake band OF u
Kanawha Mining company's incline, 500 fe
long, broke and two car loads Of miners we
carried up the mountain at great speed Mi
Jumped of the car, while four remained, Thr
was killed, one was fatally burt and nur
Der were slightly injured.
President Cleveland has decided finally
retract his action appointing c. W. william
TO the position OF United States marshal 4
the southern district Of Iowa, and named E
ward Campbell TO the position.
DR.. Taylor, microscopic Of the departmel
Of agriculture, has been studying the crysta
Of butter and butterinc, and has embodied b
conclusion in paper on the subject read b
fore the MicroscopIeal society. He believ,
the detection Of spurious butter has been mao
easy and certain, He finds the crystalline 70