Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-06-01
News Items,

Monday evening gold closed in New
York at u4ss
Akron has a female burglar of the ma
ture age of seventeen.
Atlantic end Great Western Railway
stock is quoted at "29" in London mar.
ket. Erie Isl.
John P. Hale is expected to sail from
Europe for New York, June l. Hi:
health is declining.
Henry ebay, a German aged about
fifty years, was found dead, near Ashta-
buls, last week.
Hon. Gilman Marston, ofNew Hamp-
shire, has been nominated, by President
Grant, Governor of Idaho.
A boy was killed last Friday, in Dover,
n. H, while playing base ball, by the
ball striking him on the head.
Mark Lemon, the distinguished hui
morist and principal editor of the Lon
don Punch, died on the oath ult.
News from the far northwest saws an
Indian outbreak is imminent, and great
excitement prevails among the white.
The house of John Allen, the wicked
est man in New York, has been demol-
ished 10 make room for the Howard Mis-
sion.
Bishop Kemper, of the Episcopal do
cese of Wisconsin, died at Milwaukee, on
the 24th ult., in the eighty-irst year of
his age.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Indiana,
IS discussing the publication of Z book
giving the -unwritten work of the order
in cipher.
The corner stone of the first German
Masonic hall ever erected in the United
States, was laid in Allegheny city, Pa,
on the Goth ult
a disastrous fire broke put in Quebec
on the 24th ult., destroying five hundred
houses and rendering homeless over six
thousand persons.
The Ohio State Fair will take place at
Springfield, on Sept. 18th, 18th, I4th, and
18th. Twenty-Five thousand dollars in
premiums are offered.
The Office of the st. Louis Republican
was destroyed by fire on the oath ult.
Estimated loss $3.50, 900. Insured for $780,
600, principally in st. Louis companies.
The union on the old and new school
Presbyterians has been completed. The
united assemblies met in Philadelphia
last week, to complete the details of the
union.
AtFuIlertown, Geauga county, ayoung
man named Kinney was struck by light
ming, and instantly killed on the sd ult.,
while passing under a galvanized iron
clothes-line.
The carriage factory of A. P. Taylor,
near Austintown, was destroyed by fire,
on the 10Th ult., with its contents-some
seventeen finished buggies and about
eight in various stages of completion.
Loss $4,000. No insurance.
The Darien Ship Canal project does not
seem to be getting along swimmingly.-
The congress of Columbia, South Amer
lea, have been debating the question of
the treaty giving the right of way across
the isthmus, and the prospects for raiif-
cation are not favorable.
DR.. Hall has secured from the United
States government the 500, 600 necessary
TO fit out his proposed expedition to the
North Pole. We expect soon to hear of
some bold Yankee sailor lashing the
stars and stripes to the top of the "Pole."
Many Fenians believe that O'NeiI
intended TO be arrested, and threaten
his life if an opportunity presents itself
They still claim that he has a large
amount of money collected from the
hard earnings of Irish laborers.
The American Missionary Association
held its annual meeting in Boston on
Wednesday. The report shows the en-
ployment of over six hundred missiona-
ries and teachers among the freedmen,
with an attendance at-day school of nine
teen thousand five hundred, and atnight
school of sixteen thousand two hundred
and ffty-four.
at Dayton, on the morning of the 29th
alt, between one and two o'clock, Mrs.
Fred Moeller, a German woman and five
children from eleven to two years, were
and an infant of four weeks
was badly burned. Mrs. Moeller was
barely alive when rescued but soon died
The babe will recover. The scene was
shocking, The fire was the result of
carelessness.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the Assistant Treasurer at New
York, to sell one million of gold on each
Wednesday in June-frst, third and
fifth on account of the sinking fund, and
second and fourth on account Of the
fund; also to purchase two mil
lions of bonds on the first, third and
fifth Thursdays, on account of special
fund, and one million on the second and
on accout of sinking fund. The
aggregate sales of gold Will be five mil
lions, and the aggregate purchase of
bonds eight millions.