The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-03-13
NEWS.

The wheat crop of Middle Tennes-
see promises to be very fine.
At the city election in Bangor,
Maine, on Monday, A. d. Manson,
Republican, was elected Mayor. The
Republican, gain since last fall Is
157.
The Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany of California, has obtained po-
session of all the railroads in the
State.
1t is thought that the Committee
on Ways and Means will not report
in favor of any reduction Of the tax
on tobacco.
A bridge over the Mississippi, at st
Louis, Is to be speedily completed
The two rival companies have been
consolidated.
tits said that Gen. Vickers, Sena-
tor elect from Maryland, is pretty GER
tain to get iato the hands of the Jud-
iciary Committee, under charges of
disloyalty.
The Kentucky Legislature has fix
ed the time for electing Representa-
tives to Congress in November
next.
Montana reports state that the In
dians are becoming very troublesome
and are showing hostile disposition.
Reports of outrages already begin to
come in, and there will doubtless be
a clamOr for war soon.
The Republican nominating Con-
vention of Georgia appointed eigh-
teen delegates to the Chicago Con-
vention, and instructed them OF vote
as unit for General Grant for Presi-
dent.
The Republican State Committee
of Louisiana, have passed resolutions
recommending the removal of Gen.
eral Hancock for his toleration of
rebels. He and JEFF Davis were both
visited and cheered by the same
crowd on the same night, and the
next day they took drive togeth-
er.
At Tffin,.. o., on the night of the
9Th, laborer named Joachim Ogle,
while crazed by intOxicatiop cut his
wife's throat, and afterwards his own.
His knife was dull, and his hand IN
steady; consequently neither wound
will prove fatal.
The Mayor of New Orleans antici-
pating trouble, has issued a procla-
nation indirectly charging General
Hancock and leading rebels with the
responsibility of any event!which may
occur. The people are anxiously |
hoping that Grant will send safer
and abler commdaner to administer
affairs.
A most horrible double murder was
near Anderson, Indiana,
on Saturday afternoon. The muir
derer, George Stotler, went to the
house of an old man named Esinagle,
and requested the loan of horse to
attend a funeral. Being refused, he
swore vengeance against the family,
but went away. Some time during
the evening he returned and com
menced abusing the family, and was
to leave the house, which he
refused to do. Mr.. Eisnagle's sons,
and Isaac, aged respectively
sixteen and nineteen, undertook to
eject him from the house, when a
scuflle ensucd. during which Stotler
drew pocket::knife,and stabbed Will
lam four times, penetrating tho heart
and killing him instantly, and he then
caught Isaac, threw him on a bed
and stabbed him in,the heart, causing
instant death. He next went into
another room, where the old gentle
man was lying on q bed, and attempt,
ed to stab him, but the old man
struck him with stick of wood and
broke the knife; he then left the
house and fed to the woods, but was
arrested yesterday, and is now in
all at Anderson. Stotler is said to
pc desperate character. He was
lot intoxicated at the time of the
murder, but had been drinking.