Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-03-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAY MARCH !


The public debt statement shows tota
: debt $3.50, ,5s7. .2s9, ,19, amount in th,
: treasury, coin, S107, 271, ,03l, II; currency
$50, ,255, 1868, 81.
Mr.. clement, recently head of the Bos.
ton dry goods firm of Clement, Tasker &
Co., committed suicide by taking lauda-
mum. He had previously exhibited signs
of insanity.
The Methodist Episcopal church in
Temple street, Boston, was damaged by
fire yesterday to the amount Of S15,000.-
The fire originated through q defective
fue.
The Republican caucus Committee last
evening voted to refer the impeachment
question to the Judiciary committee when
appointed, and to take recess next Mon
day till May Sth.
In Portland, Me-, an Unknown man,
supposed to be insane, occupied 3 tenant
less house without fire or food for two DAYS.
The citizens required policeman to eject
him. He sssailed the police officer with
bricks, whereupon bystsndsr shot him,
and he is not expected TO recover.
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,, in
troduced resolution in the Senate deciar-
ing the municipal offices in the city of Al
exandria, Va, vacated, and forbidding
the persons holding such offices from any
attempt to exercise authority under apen-
atty of 81, 900 fine and Imprisonment not
less than year.
GENERAL
A eorn-crib in Laporte, Ind, tumbled
down last week, crushing to death an old
man namad Patrick Kirwin
In report of the geology of Alabama,
Prof. ToOmey computes that there are o.
$50 square miles of coal fields in the State |
of Alabama alone
Not less than a thousand peopls in New
York live by fortune telling and other
such methods of gaining livelihood.
Mrs. Jane E. Edwards, Of Richmond,
Va, was swindled out Of $500 in money,
couple of coupon bonds, three gold
watches and one chain, last week, by q
couple of vagabond fortune-telling wo-
men, Instead of telling they stole her
fortune.
During thunder storm at Louisville |
on Friday evening, 8 current of electricity |
passed through the telegraph office, dam
aging the instruments and hurting the Op- !
orator from his place. Though badly |
stunned he was not seriously hurt, and
soon recovered.
A man named William Adams was
drowned in the river at MOnroeville, SUM
init county, Ohio, last week It is sup
posed he was intoxicated, as he was last |
seen at a grocery. A search being made, |
his body was found lodged against rock
near the mill. dam
Notices were posted in all the leading
wooden manufactures Of Rhode Island on
Saturday, that the wages Of the operatives
would be reduced ten per cent. on the 18th
inst. The passage of the recent wool tar
if will be apt to improve the condition Of
this interest
The Holly Springs (Miss..) Reporter
knows several girls in Marshall county
who were raised in the lap of luxury, with
fine carriages to ride in and money by the
thousands TO spend before the war, who /
now chop wood, drive a two-horse wagon,
90 TO market and do all the housework-
A man named William H. Cane was
convicted for the second time of arson in
the Criminal Court of East Cambridge,
Mass, last week, when still in the dock,
he declared his innocence Of the crime,
and stabbed himself with aknife so severe
ly as to leave but little hopes of his reeov-
cry. He had served six years IN the prls-
on for former offences
The Columbus (Ohio) Journal says
The business on the railroads Is again
becoming active. Much freight is be-
in,, transported and travel has reached
sgsin the old standard. The canal is
omen and in working order to Chilli
cothe, but business SIS yet is only mod
crate.
A little daughter of Alfred Woodruff,
of Greenfield, Mich, was bitten some
time since by rsbid dog. A few days
ago she was attaked by hydrophobla,
suffering terrible agonies, which contin-
ned till after consultation was had by
Dhysicians, who decided that, as the
sufferer could not possibly survive, con-
siderstions of humanity demanded that
her sufferings beended by some means,
in accordance with which, during q
severe paroxysm, the child was smoth-
cred to death.
An official communication has been
received from Minister King, in which
he saps: "There is no truth in the
statement that the American Chapel
had been removed by direction Of the
Papal authorities outside the walls OF
Rome: and that the American Minis
ter, asserting to the arrangement, had
hired a villa, where the services were
heuceforth to be held. A letter from
Amos Kendall, however, says that
Protestant congregation were required
to close their place ofworship in Rome
and accordingly sought accommoda-