The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-06-10
General News.

The Office of R. L. Smith, in Sy>
racuse, was robbed of $4,000 in
bonds mortgages, etc, Monday
night.
The Secretary of the Treasury
sold s2,O0s,O0O in gold, receiving
therefor s2,778,717 in currency.
The amount of gold in the Treasu-
~ is $50, ,000,0 200, and s25, 100000
in coin certificates.
H.J. Barnes, a notorious horse
thief, was found hanging toa tree
near the Shelby depot, Tennessee,
Thursday morning, riddled with
bullets. From papers on his per-
son, it is supposed that he was ORR
ginally from Newark, n. ].
a private dispatch from Jackson,
Miss, TO Memphis says that Col.
J. G. Crane, Q. S. A. Acting May
or of Jackson, was shot and killed
by z. NJ. Yerger. The affair grew
out of the action of Col. Crane in
seizing the property of Yerger for
taxes. Yerger was arrested by the
military.
The Republican City and County
Convention, at Richmond, Virginia.
yesterday, nominated for the
Legislature onenegro and two white
men for the Senate, and seven
negoes and one white man for the
House. General Candy has ap-
pointed Major A. B. Thomas Sheriff
or the city of Richmond.
An Omaha telegram to st. Louis
says that on the 9Th inst, the Uni
ted States Depository safe was bro
ken open by robbers and several
hundred thousand dollars carried
of. ]. L. Collins, Depositary, was
found dead in the room, shot through
the heart. There is great excitement.
The Secretary of the Treasury
on the 4th inst, received letter
from the Assistant Treasurer of the
United States at San Francisco,
dated May %, giving a report of
operations of the Office there, and
announcing that there were $4,000,
900, in coin subject to the draft
ofthe Treasury.
Dennis Larkin, on the Sd inst,
attempted to walk up a declivity
on Telegraph Hill, at PitBburg,
to reach his door, when his foot
slipped, and he slid down about
thirty feet while struggling TO re-
gain his foothold, and then fell over
a precipice sixty feet high, and was
killed.
Dennis Keene, who was convic-
ted, IN Boston, of numbering his
brother-in-law by ehopping off his
head while the two were at work
in lard factory some months ago,
and who was sentenced to death on
the I'd inst, committed suicide Sun
day evening, by hanging, in his cell
in the jail, in East Cambridge.
Thomas WcIntee has been arres-
ted in New York, and committed to
await a requisition from the Cover
nor ofNebraska, charged with COM
forgeries at Omaha to the
amount of $4,000. 1t is also as
serted that he deserted his family
and brought here a young girl from
whom he had sedueed.
Letters from Cuba state that
force under General Jordan suc-
ceeded in joining the Cuban for
ces, after several fights, in which
the Spaniards we're repulsed with
serious losses. The losses of Jor-
dan we're slight, only forty-five kill
ed and wonded. He saved his ar
tillery, arms and ammunition. He
had with him LOO new rifles.
Among the 1 ,4OOpassengers Ian
ded in New York, Wednesday, from
the steamship Manhattan, were 300
skillAd English and welsh workmen,
of different trades. The influx of
Norwegians continues enormous,
and tits said that at least 100000
will arrive within the next eighteen
Their destination is inyar,
iably the Northwest.
The huge ferryboat Dunleith,
which formerly belonged to the H.
inois Central Railroad, was tested,
Tuesday, in transferring loaded
cars from the st. Louis & Chicago
Railroad across the river to the
North Missouri road. The ap-
proaches to the waters edge on
each side of the river are compile
ted, and in two or three days the
work of transferring freight with
out breaking bulk. between the
above roads, will be regularly and
speedily accomplished. The ex-