The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-02-04

ExsOoy erhor Pickens died in Edgeheld, 5.
c.. Monday.
The Savings Banks OF Maine, twenty.eight
in number, hold m agg regaIe OF deposits
amounting 10 SS,0J3, 14I.
The Carroll distillery and A.. L. Lincoln's
warehouse, In Peoria, Illinois, were destroy
ed by tre Tuesday night. Loss $4,000
AT. Upton, Postmaster at Elkodcr, Iowa
inherits Sj7 600 from II bachelor unclo, vito
lost his life on the iilialed steamer Uni ted
States.
A coal train on the Cam len & hmLoy
Railroad ran into an empty way train, ON II
| siding, at Trenton, yesterday, doing good
deal 0 damage to the road, but inj tring no.
body.
A meeting of old Union Wings ard Demo.
Gratis, who opposed seccssio n, was held at
Montgomery, Ala, Tuesday, which adopted
resolutions IN iator oi UNFOLDING the Demo-
cratic party.
n. LOboulaye has accepted liberal offer
to Undertake ~ lecturing tour in tn e United
States. All his travelling and hotel expenses
NV w bN paul hlh NNN euNA VI RAUN Nv EOll
will be guaranteed to him for each lecture.
A son Of II. A. Scales Nashua, Chlcka-
saw county, Iowa, swallowed pin, which
stuck in his throat, worked thr nhgh the back
of tile neck and at the end OF ten days
pierced the spinal nerve aud cAus ed dc ath.
About $40, ,OOC In checks and 44G shares
OF Pacific Mail steamship At ock, 1 n II tin box,
was stolen from the counter OF the COuipa-
fiy's office, in Wall street, New York, Tdrs-
ddy. No arrests. Payment OF the checks
aud transfer OF stocks stopped.
General Sheridan is daily expected to re-
turn from the Plaius. Nearly nil tho luii-
ans will 20 on the reservations set apart to
them. The main body OF the troops will
soon be wthdrawh from the Plains, aud will
concentrate NJ Fort besyeuwor tn for distri-
button TO other pouts.
The New England Labor Reform Conven-
tion met yesterday, in Boston. The meet
ings are lGtgely attended by delegates from
all parts OF New England. The object is to
form LABOR reform league to carry forward
the work OF reducing the hours OF labor,
and increasing women's wages.
O. II. Whittlesby, ed itor OF the Richmond
journal, testified before the Reconstruction
Committee Wednesday, that ie opposed the
plan OF the Virginia Committee OF Nine for
the restoration of that State into the onion,
relieve tho judicial officers iE Virginia from
political disabilities,
At Falmouth, Maine, last week, a man
named SWEET was cutting trees, when the AK
glanced and buried itself In the body Of a
lad named Marston, killing him almost in
stantly. They were alone, and SWEET, hor.
ror struck, Went into convulsions. He was
found writhing in the snow, aud the dead
body Of the lad pear by, the liver protruding
from the Wound.
A. Hiatt slias Samuel n. Allen. Il and sew
en- others, have been arrested NJ Rochester,
n. Y, on tho charge OF consprlng to deiraud
the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company
of $4,000 Hiatt had his life insured 10 that
amount sold his policy to a lawyer named
Gaylord, and shortly after had report cir-
culated that he was drowned while hunting.
The case will be tried immediately.
n AhlFhNNrf NNuFAuNlAs HNNf VI HNtpW-
Der II, states that Mr.. Talmadge, the Amer-
lean Commissioner in the convention for the
settlement Of American claims, has been ac-
cused Of fraud, and the government, il is gp-
nounced, demands the abrogation Of the
treaty. Mr. Talmadge is fully prepared TO
disprove any imputation against him, and
the whole trouble Is supposed 10 have been
induced by a wish to avoid paying the heavy
irstalments already adjusted to the Uniled
States.
At a meeting Of the n, Y. Fire Commis-
sioners, Wednesday, hist OF 1888 persons,
upon whose premises had been found kero-
sene oil Of "A quality below the fire test, was
reporisd by the COMMITTEES on Cpuibust ibles
who offered resolution that they be in
structed to prosecute each person for viola
ton Of DE law. No action was taken. The
same committee reported that the sloop
Southport, fron Connecticut, brought, few
days ago, TO the foot Of broome street, TWEEN
ty-one cases OF nitro glyceriue, Il being I'M.
possible on account OF Ice In the river to re-
move II to the magazine. The expIosivsar-
tiele was seized.
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