Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1870-07-14
NEWS ITEMS.

Gold opened in New York Monday
at 115k, and closed at 1871.
At Columbus, July 4th, the corner
stone of tho new Central Ohio Lunatic
Asylum was laid with appropriate GER
emonies. Governor Hayes, Judge Bel
lamy Stsrer, DR.. Samuel NJ. Smith and
DR.. VIM. L. Peck delivered addresses.
The stone was laid by Alex. H New
comb, Masonic Grand Master of the
State, assisted by officers of the Grand
Lodge.
During drunken quarrel at Alto,
Sutton county, Illinois, on Sunday last,
man named Craig shot another nam
ed Brown, killing him instantly. The
murderer fled, but was afterward cap
tured by Browns friends, and hanged
to free.
By the fall of a platform, erected for
the accommodation of the children, at
the Catholic Protectory, at Westches-
ter, New York, on the evening of the
4th, while it was crowded with little
boys, over forty were severely injured,
and many fatally.
James r. Hubbell was nominated on
Tuesday as the Democratic candidate
for Congress in the Eighth Ohio Dis
trict. James A. Garfield was nomi-
mated Wednesday by acclamation as
the Republican candidate in the Nine
teenth Ohio District.
The London Morning Post has tel
egram from Tientsin, China, giving an
account of terrible massacre of Chris
tians by the natives at Pekin, on June
sist. Large numbers were killed, and
the cathedral burned.
At Lena, Illinois, on the 4th, one
man was instantly killed, and two 9th
ers. it is supposed, fatally wounded,
by the accidental explosion of a mum :
Der of cannon cartridges, while they
were employed in loading cannon.
Eli Coleman, who robbed the South
ern Express Company at Jackson, Ten
nessee. and until recently confined in
jail at Huntington, Tennessee, was shot
and killed, on Thursday night, in en-
deavoring to make his escape.
The St. Louis Democrat has letter
from Fort Sill, in the Indian Territory,
stating that the Kiowas, Comanche,
Arrapahoe and part of the Cheyenne
Indians are on the war-path, and de-
failing quite a number of depredations
committed by them, in which several
white men were killed, and a large
number of mules and cattle were run
off.
Dispatches from Cheyenne, and 9th
er points, give accounts of massacres
by the Indians, and there seems little
doubt that general war with the In
dams is imminent. In fact, several
tribes have begun the contest.
The dogma of infallibility will be
proclaimed on the 18th. This is to be
q grand display, and on this occasion
the Pope will sit in st. Peters easy
chair, which is the veritable article-so
be says.
Thomas Chance. prominent citizen
of Champaign county, Ohio, hanged
himself in a sugar camp near his resi-
dence, some five miles from Urbana,
on Wednesday evening, 9Th inst.
Akefman, the new Attorney General,
Friday took the oath of Office and en-
tsredupon the discharge of his duties.
On Thursday afternoon, at Lasalle,
Illinois. clerk in grocery, named
Rubald H. Jones, fell down shaft Of
the Illinois Valley Coal Company, a
distance of $50 feet. He scarcely
breathed after he struck bottom.
The real estate on the tax list in New
York city is valued at S712,l34,35o,
being an increase over the previous
year of s59, ,4s9, ,18a. i!oeH T 4
There was case of genuine Asiatie
cholera, resulting fatally, in the Eighth
Ward, New York, last week.
In Washington, Fsyetie county, o.. 1
last Thursday, boy nine years old,
son of. T. Bohrer. got caught in the
betting of woolen mill. and was ia
tally injured. iir i
..Mr. Anderson, an aged merchant Of
Pittsylvania county. Virginia, zasl
murdered on Tuesday night, and his
store robbed.