The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-01-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

1Ss ~ 49, cNA W.
General Spinner is recovering
slowly from his recent illness.
A Washington special says the
President will soon grant a pardon
to DR.. Mudd.
At Philadelphia, Saturday, Gerald
Eaton was sentenced to death fer the
murder of Timothy Heenan.
Hon. Thomas M. Key died in
Washington on the 18th inst, of pull
monary disease contracted in the
army.
Carl Schurz is the nominee of the
Republican members of the Missouri
Legislature for United States Sena
tor. Well done.
The Legislative Council Of British
Columbia is discussing the question
of reciprocity with the United States
with closed doors.
The net profits of the st. Louis
Democrat for 1865 were $50, 900, not.
withstanding the latter part of the
year was very dull.
The explosion of a blast, near LIE.
mont, Cook county, Illinois, on Sat
urlay, killed two workmen and in
jured several others.
Senator Morrill,, of Maine, pub
fishes card TO the Legislature, with.
drawing from the Senatorial contest
in favor of Hannibal IIamlin.
A committee of the House of Rep
resentatives left for New York on the
10Th to accompany the remains OF
the Hon. ID. A. Finney to Philadel.
phia.
A woman was arrested for passing
counterfeit money at Davenport,
Iowa, on the 18th, and in heI bag.
goge was found about 1000 in spu.
rious currency.
George Weathers, the brute who
partly roasted child. a few days
since, at Louisville, was Saturday
committed to prison, in de
fault of $500 bail.
a frightful explosion of burning
fluid occurred at Harrisburg, Penn,
January 10, by which young lady
Miss Kate Rupert, had her person
terribly burned from forehead to feet.
A Denver dispatch says party
has returned from pursuit of the
Indians in the Cach la Poudre Valley,
having succeeded in capturing one
hundred horses and killing one In
dian.
Andrew Reed, a dry goods mer-
chant from the West, was chloro-
formed and robbed while asleep in
his room at Earl's House, in New
York, Tuesday night. Loss, 50, 900
No arrests.
The Republican caucus at Indian
lpolis, on the 18th, nominated Lieu.
tenant Governor Cumback for United
States Senator. The vote stood.
Al; Newcomb, g; Frazier,
1 (; scattering, TO-
A meeting of the prominent mcr-
chants of Boston has been held and
l committee appointed TO take the
necessary steps to memorialize Con
,ress for renewal of the Reciproc-
ty treaty with Canada.
Brevet Brigadier General ]. d.
Bingham, Chief of the Qusrtermas-
ter's Department of the Lakes, has
been ordered to make an inspection
Of the affairs of the Quartermaster's
in the Filth District.
The President has accept the re-
port of the Government Commission
ers upon the additional section of
twenty miles OF Central Pacific Rail
road and telegraph line, terminating
II the 470th post east of Sacramento,
and directed that bonds be issued to
.he Company.
The firm owning the silks seized
n New York short time ago. for an
attempt to evade duties, has offered
$50, 900 to have the goods returned
o them. The Secretary OF the Treas
Try has the matter under considers
ion.
The Annual Encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic of New
fork was commenced ut Albany Fri
lay. Its sessions are being held with
,lOsed doors. Many prominent
Irmy officers are in attendance
General Sickles was reelected Grand
James Laning, of Lasalle, ILL.,, late
VOlunteer Lieutenant in the United
states Navy, coils on all officers who
erved in the Western flotilla and
Mississippi squadron during the war,
o assemble at Cairo, February 18th,
nd form a society similar in charac-
er to that of the armies of the Ten
lessee, Cumberland, Ohio and Geor-
liz.
Judge Dickey, the subcommittee
nan of the Special Committee of the
Iouse of Representatives to investi-
ate the frauds committed at the late
lection in New York State, made
Mt short stay at Troy, and exam
ned only one or two witnesses. A
st of one hundred witnesses had
cen subpGnaed, but he declined TO
nmmon them, remarking that he and
is colleagues were heartily tired of |
stening to cases of individual frauds.