The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-18
Southern Commercial Con
Vention Matters.
Disgraoefnl Shooting Affair
in Warrick County,
I -Iudlana. tn
Late New York Items.
Louisiana State Seminary
Blu ned.
News by Atlantic Cable.
Southern Commercial Convention
~ MatteFs-DlsgFaoef Shooting AT.
fair-TWO Men Killed.


MattePs-Dlsgraoeful Shooting AT.
Halr-TBO Men Killed.
LOUISVILLE. October II. The com
mite of nine, appointed by the Com
mercial Convention to wait personally
upon the President Of the United
States, will assemble In the Willard
Hotel parlor, Washington City, on
the first Of November, az 10 o'clock
A. NJ. s,s
Among the important su hjects act
ed upon by the Convection were the
following: --a
Adoption of report recommend
ing that all cities or towns situated
on navigabie streams, the local ex-
portations of which amount to or ex-
ceed ten thousand dollars be made
ports of entry; adoption of a resolu-
ton to memorialize Congress to aid
a proposed line of steamships
between New Orleans and Rio Ja-
neiro; the appointment of commit
tee to report at the Cincinnati Com
vention on a lac of railroad from the
Mississippi, at New Orleans, and from
Galveston Bay and the eastern har-.
bors of Texas to the nearest and most
accessible point on the Pacific; the
adoption of aresolution authorizing a
committee on education, to report at
the Cincinnati Convention; the adOp-
ton of the report of the Committee
on the Harbors, Channels aud Bars
of the AtlRntie and Gulf ports; the
adoption of \ resolution providing for
a delegation from the Convention
to attend the Universal Exposition at
st. Peters burg. In 1870, and appoint.
ing the President of tie Convention
Chairman ofthe delegation; the refer
ence of a resolution for a committee
of FIVE to memorialize Congress to aid
in the construction of a railroad from
I Fort Smith to the Pacific; the refer
ence of q resolution indorsing cheap
transportation, and on express
charges; the adoption of a.reseiution
authorizing the Chairmen of the
.standing committees to memorialize
Congress for the. establishment of
ports of entry. Recommended.
A disgraceful shooting affair oc-
CURED at TaylorsvilEe, Warrick
County, Indiana, on Sunday, result
q ing In the death of two, if not three,
men. The difficulty was between two
men named Springston, on the one
side, and two named Clark on the
other, in which Harvey Springston
was killed and his brother Abe so
badly wounded that he died soon af-
ter. Harvey Springston was recently
pardoned out of the peniteutiary.
The difficulty originated in a dispute
about the settlement of some accounts.
Shortly after the shooting a number
of citizens who compose a self-eon-
stituted vigilance committee pro-
ceeded, armed and equipped, to the
residence of Nose Rice, who had
been warned to leave the neighbor-
hood by the 10Th instant, fred several
shots, frightening him so that he
cleared out in hurry, leaving the
neighborhood. at-l.S4 r-i1I
The Springstons are said to belong
to the committee. Another of the
Rices. who had been warned to leave
but paid no attention to the warnin6'
was found dead in the woods near the
town, shot; and the two WhitinghiIls,
father and SOC, who refused to take
any part either for or against the COM