Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-03-18
NEWS CLIPPINGS.
THURSDAY.

THURSDAY.
Another heavy snow storm was
raging in Montreal yesterday. No
mails arrived, and the mails for the
United States were dispatched to St.
Johns in sleighs.
Henry NJ Steele, native OF
baltimore, son Of the sister Of Phil
in Barton Key, who was killed by
General Sickles, committed suicide
yesterday, at his boarding house,
No. l Irving Place, New York, by
shooting himself through the head.
Mental depression, in consequence
of domestic infelicities, is assigned
as theicauseiof the act.
The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, Delano, took the oath of
office yesterday, and entered for
mally upon his duties. The retiring
Commissioner, Rollins, was present
ed with series of complimentary
resolutions, and made a brief but
happy speech in response.
Secretary Borie began pceform-
ing the duties of his office yester-
day. Vice Admiral Porter was with
him atthe Department the greater
portion of the day. Postmaster
General Cresswell and Secretary
Cox were at their respective depart
ments, yesterday morning. and re-
ceived large number Of visitors
The State Department was literally
besieged with visitors. ..-E
On Friday last, rs men were cut
ting a road through snow drift
near Peacham Corners, Vermont,
they came upon the frozen bodies
ofMrs. Emmons, aged sixty years,
and her daughter and her grandson.
The old lady had fallen, overcome
with the cold and snow, half a mile
from a farmers house, through the
window of which light was shin
ing all night, while the daughter
had approached little nearer, and
the boy was within two rods of the
window. He had evidently dragged
himself some distance on his hands
and knees. si 7l.-oE t. ..7
FRIDAY
Ensign Whitaker, who was shot
at Quebec few days ago by boy
named Challoner, for seducing his
sister, died Wednesday night. a |
During the terrific snow storm Of
Wednesday, wooden house at
Point Levi, Canada, was blown to
pieces, and the people within, com
prising family of three, buried in
the snow. Their bodies have not
yet been recovered. sti
District Attorney Courtney, at
New York, has received instructions
from the Attorney Generals Office
at Washington, to proceed, at the
earliest possible moment, with the
trial Of VIM. Fullerton, A. A. Belk
nap and others. ~
Uaf, si'i SATURDAY -5
The House, yesterday, struck
from the Public Credit Bill the clause
to legalize gold contracts,
DR.. Mudd has been released from
the Tortugas and arrived at Key
West yesterday en- route North.
A Mrs. Laid died day before
yesterday, in Hartford, Connecticut,
at the age of one hundred and eight
years. q .A,-1
Near Xenia, day before yesterday
Henry G. Edmonson shot and killed
George Miller, after he refused to
stake back words that he had spo-
ken about the former. slI1
John Sandford Young shot Rich
ard Powell, son of x-Governor
Powell, through the heart, at Hei-
derson, Kentucky, at o'clock P. M.
day before yesterday, killing him
instantly. Both were drinking.
George Reddick was shot and
mortally wounded by Policeman
Barr, in Memphis, at o'clock yes
terday morning, whilst Barr was
making an arrest at disreputable
house on Vine street.
Thomas G.. Gerrish, City Treas
urer, of Lowell, Mass, confesses to
embezzling $50, 900 or more of the
city funds. He has been specula
ting. M s.itat sL5 +o a1al-T. II
Governor Claain, of Mass, yes. !
tcrday received the resignation of
lockwood Hoar as one of the
Justices, of the Supreme Judicial
Court. y" ~
A drunken fellow in Linn County,
Iowa, the other day, tried to enter
house wherein were only tvo
girls, who affrighted, fled to the
kitchen and armed themselves with
an AK. The man followed, kicked ,
in a anel of the door, but could /.
not get his foot out again, where
upon the girls chopped it off for
him. |,
Charles Wallace, editor of the
Warrenton { (Georgia) Clipper, was
shot and instantly killed yesterday
morning. Mr.. Wallace had applied
for admission into the Masonic
Lodge at Warrenton, and was black
balled by DR.. G. W. Darden, who
had promised not to oppose his ap-
plication Wallace then attacked
Darden through the columns ofhis I
paper, denouncing him as a liar and
villain as Wallace was passing Oar
SENS office, the latter shot him from
his window with a rife, the ball
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