Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-05-22
THE NEWS.

n GOlllslOu Oh the Dtl"lelOuulullG AhAlA
road occurred on Wednesday night neal
Sydney, o., between a construction trair
and an engine. The two engineers anC
one fireman were killed the other fireman
was badly injured.
The Queens proclamation creating the
dominion of Canada and appointing mem
bers to the Senate viii shortly be issued
The act will take effect the first week in
July, when Lord Monck will be sworn in
as First Viceroy and Governor General,
The appointment of privy counsellors, -four
lieutenant governors and the general
organization will thereafter follow.
Romulus Andrus, a well-known citizen
of Pennington, Ct, hung himself in hi;
barn Sunday morning.
A festive doctor in ~Shelbyville has been
indicted for improper familiarity with
t~hirty-three ''ladies" of that city and
vicinity. Ought not the thirty three
"ladies" to have been jndicted too?
Mr.. Luke, of the firm of Bruce & Luke.
grocers at st. Louis, committed suicide
last Friday afternoon by taking two oun
ces of arsenic. He was ~thirty-five years
old, and l~eaves-a wife and one child. Pc
cuniary embarrassment was the cause.
A mob visited the Jail in Jessamine
county, Ky, on the night of the 26th ult.,
and shota negro boy, confined there for
killing a white boy who had whipped him.
The negro was in an iron cage, and the
mob, being unable to get the key, shot
him through the bars. On the same night
they hanged another negro, said to be an
accOmplice.
Gov. Wright United States Minister to
Prussia, is recovering, and will proceed to
Carlsbad to recuperate his health.
Hon. Samuel Marshall, of Illinois. is
not as dead as dispatches from the West
state. He is in Washington, attend
ing upon the daily sittings of the Judicial
ry Committee, and has given a good part
of the day to reading the obituary notices
which every mail has brought.
The general opinion on the continent is
that the maintenance of peace depends on
the action of the London Conference
Fears are entertained that the failure of
representatives assembling may bring on
a general European war, in which each
country caring little for the Luxembourg
question, or the future position of the PEG
pie Of the Grand Duchy, will try to for
ward their own particular designs by force
of arms.
RICHMOND, VA. May "a serious riot
this evening. A large crowd of
negroes gathered in Cary street 10 witness
a trial of engines by the Richmond Fire
and some five companies
from Wilmington, Delaware. A fight
took place, and a negro was arrested. A
mob of negroes rescued him, but he was
again captured. Upon arriving at the
Upper Station-house, the negro mob again
rescued him, throwing paving-stones at
The police. Captain Jenkins, two sergeants
md one private Of the police were injured
two of them seriously. By this time
he mob had increased to nearly 1000
Gen. Schofield sent up a c%ompanyof the
18th regiment and came on the ground
He spoke to the mob, command
ng them to disperse, but the order was
lisobeyed. The soldiers then charged
and drove them away. More
oldiers were sent to the station house,and
he riot is not likely to be resumed.
the riot the mob surrounded a
house in which q white boy had taken
and clamored for him until he came
when the police took him in charge.
The negroes said he had a slung shot
A short time since the Queen of Spain
ound in the pocket of q new dress a proc
amation addressed to the army. The
who had furnished the robe
vas, Notwithstanding her protestations of
innocence, Immediately exiled. 1t is sta
ed that very lately q number of the clan
lestine journal, the Relampago, came in
o her Aaiesty's hands in q similar man
and that one of the dressmake-s
Iad been sent TO prison IN consequence
Another nlodiSte had suffered a months
because she had e~ndeavored
y legal means to obtain payment OF a sum
her from the palace. Her Majesty
5 shockingly ~impecunious.
RICHMOND, Nav 6.-The United
states Supreme Court, Judge Under
wood presiding, commenced its session
Among the members of the
irand Jury, are J. NJ. Bolts, Jos. Segar,
Lewis Mckenzie, and five colored men.
The JRdge in his charge congratula-
ed the jury that though it had been
threatened with destruction by assas-
innation, yet thanks to Congress it
low met in security. This promised
better things of Richmond, a city
where the press has reached the low
,st depth Of p~roAigacy. The pulpit had
,een prostituted by ministering gay To-
and RIGHTEOUSNESS hadFruled
Until half were illegitimate. The jury
would have a good deal of work much
# it created by the decentralization of
.he people, and by a disloyal press
which had encouraged perjury and
,ounterfeiting TO cheat the Govern
nent. He called attention to the fact
hat the negroes were not allowed the
iraadano of tho cfraat ears i