Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1869-01-19
DOMESTIC NEW s
Great Excitement at Hayes City.
Kansas.

| ST. LOUIS, Jan. 49,
The Leavenworth Conservative of Satur-
day has dispatch from Hayes City, which
| states that on Thursday night Col. Nelson,
at Fort HAYES, sent a guard of soldiers un-
der Lieut.. Kelly, to Hayes City, to arrest
! all persons found up after nine o'clock
The guard entered a ball room and arrested
| fifty-one persons and kept them in the
guard bouse all night. The dispatch states
that Col. Nelson threatened to close all the
| saloons and tear down the livery stables
An Indignation meeting was held or FRI
day, at which Col. Nelson's arbitrary acts
were denounced, and a petition sent to
their Representatives to Topeka to bring
the matter before the Legislature. Great
excitement existed, and trouble was an
ticipated. k2 - - I5s q 5
The Maine Senatorial Contest. j
hls 80 = AUGUSTA, ME-, Jan. 49,
Mr.. Morrill, publishes accard to the Leg
islature Withdrawing from the Senatorial
contest in favor of Hannibal Hamlin.
Railroad d-Appointment.
DETROIT, Jan. Is.
c. D. Whitcomb, formerly General Ticket
Agent of the Boston & Worcester railroad,
and recently, in the same capacity, on, the
Union Pacific, at Omaha, has been ap7
pointed General Agent of the Michigan
Central railroad. a.1. 7a37 = Z '.i's1 s'.5 -.
~ ' - Mortality. $40 .e.a5
10 s2.ase - ST. Louis, Jan. Is.
en- The coroner reports thirty-two murders
and thirty suicides committed in this city
last year, and five deaths occasioned by
coal oil explosions. 70 lrA -
Indiana senatorship.s:sA
INDI2NAPoLIs, Jan. 18.
There is very determined opposition to
the elevation of Lieut.. Governor Cum back,
nominee of the Republican caucus for q.
s. Senator, by part of the Republican
members of the Legislature. The Senate
to-day passed resolutions censuring Cum
back for the Cumback- Baker correspond
ence previous to the nomination for State
ticket last year, eleven Repu blicaEs voting
in the affirmative. Only part of these,
however, will bolt the nominal ion in cleo
ton to- o-morrow. The Democrats tonight
in caucus voted to give Senator Hendricks
he1complimentsry vote. s.5it5 ~ s-sse IT
Memphis Items.
~ S8EA G'2 MEMPHIS, Jan. Is. P
The body of Washington Hendley, who
eloped with Susan Jones, lately, was iound
near Bartlett's station to-day, perforated
with pistol balls. . Vl - 81
A Citizen from French Bayou, Arkansas.
some ten miles above Marion, reports that
q body of mounted militia; shot three men,
near his homR yestefdayi morning. The
officers in command told him. they had
been tried by court martial on charge of
being Ku Kiux and ordered to be shot to
death with musketry.vsi 7s3rsails9 i2 shFs
Capital Punishment In New Jer-i
sgsH 5sa5 .Hfie seS.so Ii@ s'1f . i5 ~ n = =, =
-frai New YORK, Jan. 1s.. 9
The New. Jersey Legislature will proba-
bly, pass Ia bill abolishing capital punish
ment. Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, is ex-
peeted daily to address the Legislature in
its favor. A-sF 3 - ~ ~
Suicide. 5HT z1I -..It3
CHICAGO, Jan. Is.
George Cartwright, a grocer's clerk,
shot himself through the head this even
ing, in Alton, Illinois, He; was twenty
years old. The, cause of the fatal act was
disappointment in love. ..5 ga, o.i,.
.s.s : Senatorial Nomination. $50
-Fo7i a. ~, ALBANY, Jan, is. n
The Democratic legislative caucus has
nominated Henry c., Murphy for. United
States Senator from New York. .q.aii /