Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-17
CANADA.
WhaIen Applies for New Trial
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Mysterious Child Murder.

Mysterious Child Murder.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16.
b The mysterious child murder last week
has not been unravelled. The inquest was
continued to-day. A girl testified that on
the night of the murder she saw man car
rying and trying to quiet child. She de-
scribed the child and man. The former no
doubt was the murderer. She says on Sun
day night she saw the same man again in
the street, and can identity him if brought
before her. She says he wore false whis-
kers, as portion of them fell off as he
was carrying the child. Other girls testify
as to having seen man carrying a child on
the night of the murder. All witnesses
agree in describing him.
Arrived.
ST. JOHNS, N. B., Sept. IA.
Her Majesty's steam frigate Jason ar.
rived on Sunday. There are now two
in the harbor.
The steamship Pantheon, from Liverpool,
arrived last evening.
L. o. CT.
UTICA, Sept. 16.
The Grand Lodge of 1. o. G. T. met in
Watertown at 10 o'clock yesterday morn
ing, and organized. Reports of the officers
were read and referred to appropriate COM
mittees. Much enthusiasm was manifested.
Over one thousand delegates were in at
tendance. There was an immense public
meeting last night. DIR. Harris, of Rome,
addressed the meeting.
Cleveland Items.
CLEVELAND, September 1e.
The schooner Echo, from Buffalo, with
coal for Cleveland, was stranded here last
night, breaking up. One seaman was lost.
The rest were rescued iu a lifeboat.
The RpnuhlinanS 0f Cleveland last niUht
celebrated the election in Maine by firing
of guns, speeches, &c.
An intoxicated man was burned to death
by the burning of a shanty on Franklin
street.
River News
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 16.
River eight feet six inches and falling.
Weather clear and cool. Mercury sixty
degrees.
<s, Al kansas.
ST.. LOUIS, Sept. 16.
A special dispatch from Little Rock,
Arkansas, to the Democrat, says two
members of the Legislature, County Clerk,
United States Assessor and Collector, and
two United States contractors, for building
a freedmen's school house, have been
driven from Lafayette county; also that
three white and eighteen black men have
been killed.
Experimenting.
PITTTBURGH, Sept. 16.
To-day another test of the homogeneous
steel boiler was made at the Diamond Steel
Works, i'm the presence of Benz. Crawford,
special agent of the United States Treasury
Department., and a delegation of the Penn
sylvania railway officers. The pressure
of $50 pounds to the square inch was OBJ
tanned, but owing to the starting of rivets
and opening of seams, the experiment
could not be continued. The steel gives
no evidence of breaking, even with several
hundred pounds additional pressure to the
square inch.
Libel Suit.
DETROIT, Sept. 16.
In the libel suit brought by Emile An
neske, ex-Auditor-Generalo of the State OF
Michigan, against the Detroit Advertiser
and Tribune, in which damages were laid
at SOC, 1000, after severe days trial, a ver-
dict of six cents was to-day awarded the
plaintiff. He was charged with incompe-
tency as State officer, and the defense
plead the truth in justification.
Repaired.
UTICA, Sept. 16.
The railway bridge at Little Falls has
been repaired and trains are run regularly
to and from the West.
Passed Through.
LYNCHBURG, VA, Sept. 16.
The Fifth Cavalry, United States regu-
lar, under command of Col. W. B. Royal,
passed through here this morning on a
special train, en- route for Nashville, Ten
nessee.
Boston, Sept. 16.
A telegram announcing the defeat of the
nomination of General Butler for re-elec-
ton to Congress is untrue. The conven-
ton has not yet been held.
Shot.
ROCHESTER, Sept. 16.
Three men, named John Wheeler, Chas
| Clancey and j. Mclean, last night were
disputing about politics in a drinking sa'
| loon on Buffalo street, when Wheeler drew
a revolver and fired at Clancey, missing
him. He then shot Mclean in the thigh
causing serious and perhaps fatal wound
Reduced Fare.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. I6.
The committee of arrangements for tn,
grand Mass Convention of Soldiers anC
Sailors, to be held here on the 1st and q
of next month, announce that delegate
and their families will be carried here owe
the Pennsylvania Central and Philadelphia
and Erie railroad at two cents per mile
and return free of charge. 1t is expected
! that similar arrangements will be mad
with Eastern, Southern and Western rail
roads.
Proclamation from Gov. Brown
low.
NASHVILLE, September 16.
The Banner received by telegraph from
Knoxville to-day proclamation iron
Governor Brownlow. The proclamation
declares there are armed bands of secre
conspirators against the State who hav
been committing and continue to commi
outrages upon defenseless and iEofiensiv
loyal citizens. 1t recites the act of the Leg
isiature giving him power to call out tn
militia, and says in pursuance of this act
81 call upon the good. loyal and patriotl
people, white and black, of every count
in the State, to proceed without delay an
raise companies of loyal and able-bodie