Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-23
UPPER sANDUSKY, OIIO THURSDAY, NOVEMBER

cans to As Democrats. Senate, 81 Eepub-
licans, 10 Democrats House, 20 Repub-
licans, 35 Democrats.
Governor Fairchild has authorized the
furnishing of 1000 feet of lumber, free of
expense, to every family who will rebuild
on their farms recently devastated by fire
in Wisconsin.
Anegro named George Johnson, while
in the hands of citizens who threatened
to hang him for the recent murder of the
Park family near Henryville, Ind, made
full confession. Two negroes named
Squire Taylor and Davis planned the
murder with himself, believing that Park
had S400 or $500 of church money in his
house. johnson says he watched out
side, Davis held light, and Taylor COM
mitted the bloody deed. He says his.part-
ners refused to divide fairly with him
They got only $40. Taylor and Davis
were arrested and lodged in Jail at Jeffer-
sonville.
A block and a half of the business por-
ton of Chattanooga, Tenn, were de-
stroyed by fire few evenings ago. Loss
estimated at $4,000; insurance about
$50,
Raleigh (N. c. dispatches state that a
recent raid of troops into the town of
Shelby, at night, caused stampede of the
inhabitants in their night-clothes, but no
arrests of Ku-Klux were made
The total amount of money received at
the Treasury Department in Washington
since November 80 1868, and credited to
what is known as the Conscience Fund" :"
is S126, 147. OF this amount $S,749 was
received during the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1871.
In a suit brought by the widow of a
passenger killed by the explosion of the
Staten Island steamer Westfield, to re-
cover damages, the owners of the vessel
have set up the plea that the passengers
had no right on the boat, because, under
the law of the State, Sunday travelling is
a misdemeanor.
AT Blackstone, r. l., on the 18th, Mrs.
Francis Watfield took her young child to
a shed and chopped its head to pieces with
an axe. The mother, who is probably in
sane, had, few days before, made two at
tempts to drown herself.
A New York dispatch of the 18th says
six new cases of cholera were reported at
quarantine, including the surgeon of the
steamship Franklin-two fatal.
A recent New Haven Conn dispatch
says Mrs. Lydia Sherman, the alleged
poisoner of three husbands and five
children, expresses every confidence in
her acquittal Her trial went over until
December. She shows no signs of insani-
ty. Few believe her innocent.
4 train on the New jersey Railway ran
into Hudson City horse car at Newark
avenue crossing on the 14th. The car
had eighteen or twenty inmates, two of
whom were fatally and six seriously in
jured.
According to the report of the Board
of Canvassers of Brooklyn, only two
Democrats were elected on the city ticket
Mayor Powell and City Treasurer
Sprague.
James \. Tomlinson has been appoint
ed Assistant United States Assessor for
Kansas.
The Illinois Legislature met at Spring
field on the 18th, and amessage from Gov
ernor Palmer was received and read. The
Governor gives a history of the military
occupation of Chicago just after the Great
Fire, and reiterates his views that the pro-
ceedings of Mayor Mason and General
Sheridan in that connection were illegal
and unjustifiable.
The Georgia Legislature, on the 14th,
elected, by large majority, Hon. Thom-
as NJ. Norwood, moderate Democrat, of
Savannah, to the United States Senate.