Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-08
NEWS CLIPPINGS.
THURSDAY.

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General Sickles has declined the mis-
sion to Mexico,
Lieutenant Governor Dunn
(colOred) of Louisville, Is In Washing
The President has recognized +. G.
Squiers rs Consul Generalsof Hon
dliras In New York.
At n meeting yesterday of the Ohio
Republican Central committee. 1t was
decided to hold the State Convention at
Columbus on the 23d ofJune next.
The Postmaster General has suspen-
ded Special Agent G. w. Summers and
reinstated Foster Blodgett in charge
ofthe Augusta (Ga.) POstoffice.
John Fregc, one Of the oldest citizens
Of Tiffin. O., and a member of the City
Council, was drowned in the Sandusky
river near that place yesterday. Mr.. +.
was assisting his son to remove o fish
net which had been lost in the river.
The President was quite we'll yester-
day., and received callers as usual,
among whom were Senators Cole.
Sprague, Sherman, Morton and num-
Der Of Representatives. No delegations
visited the White House.
Virgil A. Knepps, the young man
who attempted to kill Miss Cassie King
in a Brooklyn store, last February.
OF Sessions, on Tuesday, to eight years
and seven months Imprisonment in
Sing Sing.
At Providence, R. I. on the 29th of
March. q boat containing two soldiers
from Fort Adams, and q boy named
Lynch. was capsized in Newport har-
bor. Miss Ida Lewis. daughter of the
lightkeeper on the Sile Rocks, put out
a boat and rescued the two soldiers,
but the boy sunk just as she reached
him. Miss Lewis has before saved life
under similar circumstances.
A young married man named Ed
ward Best, bookkeeper in the piano
forte warehous of II. NJ. Higgins. at
Chicago, committed suicide on Tues
day morning. by taking an overdose of
morphine. An examination of Mr..
Best's books, few days ago, at the
suggestion of some party in New York,
led to the discovery that he had been
tions, and this exposition was no doubt
the cause of his committing suicide
At Princeville, Peoia county, Illinois
on the 18th, Jos. II. Newark. son-in-
law of Joseph Parnell, entered the
house ofhis father-in-law, armed with
large corn knife. and declared his
intention of numbering the whole fami-
". He first attacked Mr.. Parnell, who
was lying sick at the time, and horribly
mutilated him, cutting him badly in the
head, neck and hands. Finally, yield
ing to the entreaties of the family, he
desisted, and upon their giving up all
the money in the house, he took a horse
from the stable and went to Peoria.
His appearance being suspicious, he
was arrested by the police, and party
of men arriving from Princeville in
search OF him, told the story. He was
nell's wounds.
-. FRIDAY.
Memphis is no longer Military
Post. All of the troops are ordered to
Atlanta. Georgia.
Six inches of snow fell at st. Paul.
Minn.. on the first inst, and it is still
showing and drifting.
The yellow fever is raging on the
south coast. 1t broke out on the
steamer Tuscarora, and Paymaster
Cushing has died.
Wednesday evening. in Louisville,
four small boys were badly wounded
by the explosion of flask filled with
had amusingly thrown an ignited
match. .,....
Some time Wednesday night VIM.
Henderson. living at 2O6 Wells street,
Chicago, while intoxicated. fell with
his head over the curbing of the side
walk and broke his neck. When dis
covered he was dead.
Conrad Schaefer, on his way from
Ohio. where he had sold his farm. to
Iowa, where he intended to settle, lost
all his property in the recent steam
boat fire at St. Louis. He was seriously
burned about the face.
The Galena Gazette SAYS Hon. F.. B.
Washburne, will leave there for WASH
ington, on the 18th inst, thence for
France on the 1st of May.
Hon. Horatio Seymour is still at
keOkuk. Iowa, laid up by the injuries
he recently received by the railroad
disaster near Peoria, Illinois.
Ex-Governor Hamilton, of Texas.
made a speech before the Reconstruct
tiOn Committee yesterday morning. in
favor OF The reconstruction of Texas
under the constitution adopted by the
late convention. Mr.. Varnell, of Texas
argued against the constitution. and in
opposition to division of the State.
The fiendish malice of the Ku-Klux
Khan I'm Greenville, Alabama, where
martial law ought long ago. to have
been proclaimed. culmiuated in das-
tardiy attempt to murder S. S. Gardner
Judge of the Probate Court of Butler
county. He was shot by skulking
assassin while sitting near an open win
dow. The wound Is thought to be IA
tai. The assassin, of course, in that
town, escaped.
~. Jess SATURDAY.
Five thousand dollars worth of Jew
elry was stolen form the residence of
Mr.. Delano. in Twenty-ninth street,
New York. one night recently.
Arrangements have been perfected
by the Association of the Army of the
Potomac to give grand banquet. at the
Academy of Music. New York. on the
9th of July. President Grant. Sherman.
Sheridan and Farragut will be present.
Two OF the five persons nominated to
the Senate Thursday morning, for
Justices of the Peace for the District
Of Columbia. are colored men. B. f.
Joubert nominated. yesterday, for As
SCISSOR of Internal Revenue for the
First District of Louisiana, and C. NJ.
Welder. Postmaster of Columbia, s. c..
are also colored men.
New and rich Developments in the
Pacific coast silver region are causing
much excitement. People are flocking
hither in great numbers. Ten to fif-