The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-09-26
NO. I8.
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been given every Mexican to leave tue
country within twenty four hours, under
the penalty of being shot.
The band of chilenos who committed
the six murders at the RaDchegia, killed
four Frenchmen next day on the Mo-
quelumme river. Six of the band have
been captured. and three of them were
| tried, condemned and hung at Sutter
creek. The other three-two Mexicabs
and a white man-were to have been
tried to-day, and it is supposed they
have been hung before this. The maa
who was elected as hangman at Suttert
creek was killed by the accidental dis
charge of bis own rife.
BLOWING Up A MORTGAGE wirH euNFow-
DIR.
/ The Office of Ritter & Co, Bankers
in San Francisco, was blown up by GU n
tpowder on the I'd of August. The San
Francisco Herald says:
Itappoars that Ritter s. Co. hold
mortgage of SIS, 900 upon the property
of a man named Bryant, and that the
latter is either unable or unwilling to
raise the mortgage or pay the rate of in-
terest charged by the firm. Ritter has
threatened to forecIose the mortgage,
and on yesterday Bryant called at the
Office several times, with the view ofob.
tanning further accommodation, which
Mr.. Ritter refused About q O'Clock
Bryant entered the private Office with q.
carpet.bag, which he placed upon the
floor near. the door, and commenced a
conversation with Mr.. Ritter, who sat
at desk onthe opposite side of the room.
Mr.. Ritter called his clerk to the front
Office, and requested him to invite the at
tendance oftwo gentlemen named Lequin
and Dubois, who happened to be near at
hand and were Immediately in attend
snee. At the expiration ola few mo-
| mcnts after the entrance of The latter,
Bryant opened the door leading to the
front Office and handed paper to one of s
the clerks, telling him to read it. He
then deliberately informed the three gen-
tiemen that he intended to blow up the
building, and warned them to leaves but
before theyseould recover from the start.
ling effects ofhis warning, he drew from
his pocket a small pocket pistol and
fred into the carpet-bag, which it np-
pears was filed with gunpoWdercoutain-
ed in tin TASKS.
The explosion demolished every arti-
Gle of furniture on the lower floor, tear
ing down the partitions and throwing
large fragments through the windows
into the streets: but singuIarly enough,
neither of the four were scarcely injured
Bryant is badly burned about the face,
and the skin is entirely bured from his
hands and arms Mr. Ritter sustained
no serious injury, although the spacta-
cles which he wore were scattered into :
fragments. Meesrs. Lequin and Da-
bois were each slightly bruised, and
enc of the clerks in the front Office re-
ceived slight cut on the head, from
which the blood flowed quite copiously.
The followingsis correct translation of
the paper given to the clerk by Bryant
The paperWas written in Frensh:
g Read this and fear nothing
SIRs:- Without having q word to
Others except the clerk, and this pri-
yately, wish to warn all the neighbors
that within five minutes this house will
be blown up. This carpet-bag is filed
with powder. and viii set FIRE toit;-
therefore tell all the neighbors to keep
away from here. Go frst and warn the
people of this house, if there are any
here. Twill wait until you have warn
ed them. Be careful Ileave this re.
sponsibility on your conscience. You
have nothing to fear; make the most
haste possible. !"
It appears that upon reading the pa :
per the.clerk rushed up stairs to alarm
the occupants, but had barely time to
make known his mission when the explo-
sion took place. The degree of panic
among the upstairs occupants may be
as this alarming announcement
was followed by an explosion which
shook the building to its foundation.
- PRIEST OR BRANDY PUNCH.
A Mexican was arrested and brought
% Mokelumne Hill as one of a gang Of
nurderers. The newspapers states