Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-23
GENERAL NEWS.
astern.

Lake Erie, is dangerously i'll.
Orders have been received at the
United States ArmOry, lat Springfield,
TO manufacture ten thousand Raining
ton breeeh-loaders for use in the navy.
Susan B. Anthony celebrated her
fiftieth birth day last evening by a
reception at the wOman's bureau, No.
40. East Twenty-third street, \. Y.
Eighty-six students of the College
of the CITY of New York have been
dropped from the rolls for deficiency
in more than two studies.
The New York bar association elect
ed William NJ. Evearts president
The association offers a reward of S5,-
600 for the arrest and conviction OF
the assailent of d. B. Eaton.
The case of Oakley, cashier of the
Merchants Exchange national bank,
of New York, has gone TO the grand
jury, he having waved preliminary
examination.
At Philadelphia few nights since,
the store of Cooper d Conard, corner
of Ninth and Market streets, was
robbed of two thousand yards of silk,
valued at 5000.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Rosan-
nah Rogers, at Newark, n. j., tried
for the murder of her half-brother,
has rendered a verdict of manslaught-
er, with commendation to mercy.
Manufacturers and dealers in fruit
Jars of New York and neighb0ring
states, nat to-day at the AstOr House.
and appointed committee to settle
their conflicting claims.
A still exploded at Pittsburgh, on
the 10th inst, destroying the treading
house of the Crystal oil works of Liv-
ingston Bros. near this city. Loss
Sl0, 900; almost wholly covered by in
surance.
The friends of prohibition held con-
vention at Boston, on the 10th; Whit
| ing Griswold presiding. Resolutions
in favor of the prohibitory law and
| looking in the formation of third
political party were adopted.
| The frigate Colorado, Captain Geo.
II. Cooper, has been put in commits
sion at New York, for cruise in the
East Indies. She goes out via Cape
Good Hope, but a powerful tug in
tended for the East India squadron
will go via the Suez canal.
Assistant United States Assessor,
| George w. Tompkins, of Brooklyn,
is under arrest for collecting money
on false pretences, and Martin r. Cook
has been held in 5000 charged with
completely in the frauds alleged to
have been committed by Ex-Gauger
Harrington.
At the annual meeting of the direc-
tors of the Pennsylvania Central rail-
road to-day, a report was submitted
showing the gross earnings for the
year to be Sl7, ,250.0O0, and expenses
over SIS. 900, 900, leaving the net earn
ings at 5,047 900, exceeding those OF
1865 by Sl7,3I4.
The case of the State treasurer
against the Connecticut Mutual Life
Insurance Company, to be heard be-
fore the supreme court of errors mex
week, is the most important, pecunl
arily, ever tried in Connecticut. Il
relates to the taxability of govern
ment bonds in the hands of mutua
insurance companies, and involve:
directly 81, l13;000, and indirectly very
much more.
The question of Sectarian school!
excites much attention in New York
1t is under discussion in the legisla
ture, and much opposition is shOwr
to the taxation of citizens for theil
support. A petition to the Governor
-calling his attention to the unconsti
tutionality of such tax, and asking
him TO have the law repealed which
authorizes the support of such institu
tions out of the money collected a.
excise fees, is receiving many sigma
lures.
Western.
Colorado has as many daily paper
as New Hampshire.
Gardening has been commenced a
Salt Lake City, Utah.
The woman suffrage bill has beer
defeated in the Colorado territoria
Legislature.
The funeral of John ]. Roe, 4,
prominent citizen of st. Louis, tool
place at that city on Wednesday last
Gen. Shaffer, with instructions o
an important character, left Washing
ton yesterday, to assume the duties Il
Governor of Utah Territory.
At the municipal election in Sal
Lake City yesterday, the OrtbodO,
ticket was successful. There was NJ
disturbance. A few women voted.
Persons arriving from Montana re
port heavy snow on the west side o
the mountains. On the east side les
snow has fallen than for many year
previous.
William Jones, driver of the Wagon
which takes the mails from Chicagt
post-office to the Rock Island railroad
depot, has been arrested for robbins
the mails of over 500, 900 in drafts.
Two dealers in counterfeit money
were arrested in Pike county, Mo-, oil
Friday, under the direction of Colone
Whitley, of the United States secre
service.
A special to the Chicago Tribun,
says that the Minnesota House o
Representatives to-day passed bill
80 TO I3, for an amendment to the stat
constitution providing for female
suffrage.
/, William Raynor, a wealthy farme
living at Roseville, Perry county, o.
. arrived at st. Louis, few days ago
in pursuit of his wife, who recently
eloped with George Mcpherson, ALA
Colonel Porter, and carried off a con
siderable quantity of household good
and nearly one thousand dollars il
money.
]. n. Stiles, city attorney, has bro
suits against twenty-One foreign insu
rance companies doing business il
Chicago. The agents of the compa
nies prosecuted having failed to com
ply with the laws of Illinois relating
to foreign Insurance Companies. TIL,
first suit commenced is against tn,
Astor Insurance company of New
York.
Southern.
The debt of Atlanta, Ga, is S12, ,s19
1893.
Peach trees are blooming near Rich
mond, Va.
A stuffed whale has appeared II
Macon, Georgia.
Petroleum has been discovered a
Newton, Alabama.
Confederate notes are quoted in Ma
con at S2,500 for 81.
McMinnYille is said to be improvin,
faster than any town in Tennessee.
Dogs paid the State of Kentucky
81, 1895 for license last year, anC
killed q, OILS sheep, valued at S52 ,342
The neonIe of Cramptop. MARYLAND