Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-09-16
NEWS ITEMS.


Sheridan Shook, Collector of Internal
Revenue in New York, has been arrested and
held to bail on the charge of fraud. Another
officer named Abrahams is under arrest on
the same charge Mr.. Shook declares his in
nocence.
Judge Chase has written letter saying
that he will not be candidate for the PresI-
dency, and desires that his name may be
disassociated hereafter, in mems minds, with
all political action.
The whole Republican ticket was elected
in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, with an
average majority of two hundred. Sufficient
returns have been received to show that
Chaves (Republican,) is elected Delegate to
Congress.
Eton viIlags, of Chawley, in Devonshire,
England, has been burned. Not single
house out of two hundred was saved.
A Helena, Montana, dispatch says that the
coach which started Saturday for Corinne
was stopped about midnight, Tuesday even
ing. fifty miles north of Corinne, by robbers,
who secured the driver, and obtained about
$4,000 worth of gold bars.
The tornado of Wednesday evening, which
swept along the New England Coast, caused
extensive damage along its whole course In
Boston steeples were blown down, houses un-
rooted. and new buildings in course of erec-
tion leveled with the ground. The roof of
the Peace Jubilee Coliseum was blown away,
and the building greatly damaged otherwise.
The big organ and the big drum were both
ruined. The damage to shipping is, doubt
less, very great
Joseph Snyder, the murderer of Garter, at
Eairmount Park, Philadelphia, committed
suicide in his cell, by holding his head in
bucket of water.
An epidemic, the exact nature of which is
not known, has broken out among the cattle
In Orange county, N. Y.
Forty-o thousand dollars has been sub
scribed, and a fine estate purchased IN Spring
field street, Boston, for a Home for Aged
Men. Additional subscriptions to the amount
of $4,000 are being made to furnish it.
A terrible accident occurred on Wednesday
night on the Central Ohio Division of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, four miles
from Cambridge, caused by the passenger
train from the East colliding with a loc ONO
tive sent out from Cambridge Station
Three persons were killed, and two seriously
injured.
The gale of Wednesday last, at Providence,
was the severest known there since 1906
The whole State appears to have been visited
by the storm. and considerable damage has
resulted to houses, trees, DC. Two lives were
lost in Providence. The storm was also very
severe at Boston and vicinity.
The boiler of locomotive on the Erie road,
near Port Jarvis, exploded on Thursday
night, killing the engineer, fireman. fagman
and brakeman. The engine was utterly
demolished. The body of the engineer has
not been found; the others have been brought
to Port Jarvis.
From latest accounts it appears that the
loss of life at the Avondale mine disaster was
not so great as at first supposed. The num-
Der of the dead is now set down at one hun
dred and eight, besides the two who were
auffocated in the first attempt to descend into
the shaft.
1t is reported that the Government is nego-
tiating for the purchase of Long Island at the
head of Boston Harbor, for the purpose of
erecting strong fortifcation thereon.
The President has appointed james M.
Clark Judge of the District Court of Rhode
Island.
A smash-up, resulting from the colliding
Of construction train with freight train,
occurred on the Panhandle road Friday,
near Steubenville. Three persons were killed.
The wreck took fire, and two of the bodies
were burned to cinders.
Nelson Knesss, author Of "Ben Bolt"
died. on Wednesday, at the Browning House,
Ohillicothe, Missouri.
The funeral of the late Senator Fessenden
took place at Portland, Maine, on Saturday
An incendiary fire destroyed nearly the
whole of the business portion of Martins
burg, Lewis County. New York, on Friday.
Loss, $50 .000--insured for $4,000.
Specials to the New York papers intimate
that the wood work in the Shaft Of the Avon
dale Mine was set on fire purposely. 1t was
burned at the top and not at the bottom. The
suspicion is strengthened by the fact that a
feud has long existed between the Irish and
Welsh miners, the former believing that the
latter did not exhibit sufficient zeal in their
cause during the late strike
Two ships were lost in the Gulf of st. Law
renee during the late gale. The crews were
saved. Vessels in the harbor were badly
damaged.
Sixyessels went ashore near Holmes Hole,
on the New England coast, on Wednesday
night. and several others were damaged, and
lost mests and spars. No lives lost. ,', E
The Republicans of the Ashland senatOrisl
district have poninated Captain Andrey N.
Burss. Of Mansfield, fos Senator. t pfss 81 assa s. s