The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-05-14
NEWS CLIPPINGS.

Brigadier General Lewis C. Hunt
late Colonel of the 9th o. v. l.,
died in Toledo last Thursday, aged
{ thirty-six.
Forty five streets in Chicago, ag-
gregatinS twenty miles in length,
are to be paved with Nicolson pave
1nent this summer.
r The Northwestern Distillery, and
Us. Brown q Co.'s rectifying es-
tablishment, in Chicago, have been
q seized for frauds committed.
Al trestle work at the Erie rail-
way depot in Jersey City gave way
son the 9Th, letting locomotive into
the river Engineer Melott and
fireman Carhart were drowned.
"A man named Yonsll, an agent of
the American Express, at Ladoga
Station, Indiana, ahsconded on the
4th inst, with several thousand dol
lars of the Company's money.
20 Charles H. Peterson, of Norfolk,
was nominated for Congress, from
the Richmond, Va, District, by
the Republican District Convention,
! on the 5th inst. i's4 fl
The Republican Convention of
the Eighth Congressional District,
Illinois, held at Bloomington on the
4th, renominated S.. NJ. Cullum for
Congress.
The editor ofthe Savannah (Geor-
gia) Daily Advertiser has resigned
his editorial position as Gen. Meade
will cause the suppression of the
paper unless he withdraws.
Gen Grant has received advices
that Bullock, Republican, is elected
Governor Of Georgia by 1920 ma
jority, that the constitution is adop-
ted by 1898 majority, and that the
Republicans have majority of ten
in the upper, and sixty four in the
lower House of the State Legisla-
ture.
Three hives Of italian bees have
been imported into East St. Louis,
Ill. They are smaller than the
American bee, but are supposed to
produce a more plentiful supply oil
honey. The swarm crosses the
:, Mississippi every day to feast on the
flower gardens of st. Louis, Mo.
dThe case of George Francis Train
was before the Bankruptcy Court
in'Dublin, few days ago. In re-
ply to a question, Traiu said he had
sfno property himself, and no control
over that pertaining to his wife. He
was recommitted for further exami
nation viu e.
-AoiGen. Napier reports that after the
capture Of Magdala, thirty guns and
-mortars, belonging to the Abyssini-
IAN Government, were destroyed
and the to wn razed to the rock or
which it stood. He also reports
that the Queen and the heir .appa
rent TO the throne are in his camp.
al The Virginia Republican Conven
;. ton nominated H. Ell. Wells, for
Governor, ). II. Clements, for Lien.
e, tenant Governor, and Geo. W. Boo.
ker, for Attorney General. Wells
accepted the nomination, and in
dorsed the platform. Resolutions
indorsing Grant and Henry Wilson
:, rs Presidential candidates, were
passed. e
oo Charter elections were held Thurs
day at Nevada City, Grass Valle,
and Stockton, New. In Grass Val
iey, politics were ignored; but il
the other two the Union tickets
were successful by small majorities
s.AtVirginia, New, the whole Demo
cratic ticket is elected, with one ex
ception: ..r-
I'd At Toledo, May 6, a man namet
qMichael Sharpe was brutally mur
aSlcredg on the South bank of tn
river, opposite Middle Ground. Th
back of his head had been complete
~ly cunshed, and the brains had fallel
aAtilt and, were lying on the ground
hMhiahl from ths body several fee
>itoxar1 the water wss saturated Wit
blood. 49,. (. -: - 'f>-2 '4sl7 sf5f-