Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-23
General News Summary.
THE OLD WORLD.

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whaling fleet caused an immediate heavy
advance in London in the price of sperm
OIL
A dispatch from Dublin states that Kelly
has been acquitted of the murder of Con
stable Talbot. The announcement was re-
ceived with great rejoicings. In Dublin
the crowds in the streets cheered Justify,
and the general excitement was intense.
A London dispatch of the 18th says the
Queens condition was wonderfully i'm
proved. Allproposals for a partial regen-
cy had been abandoned.
OF the number of Communists who had
been tried in Paris up to the 18th, 10,645
have been discharged, and 773 have been
sentenced to various degrees of punish
ment.
A London dispatch of the 18th says a
formidable plot of Bonapartist Generals,
headed by Fleury, to arrest Thiers and pro-
claim the empire, had been discovered.
The plotters' papers were in the posses
sion of Thiers, who was confident of the
failure of the conspiracy.
The British Government has granted a
pension of e300 to the children of Dr.
Livingstone, the African explorer. Liv-
ingstone, when last heard from, was slow
ly making his way toward the coast.
A London dispatch of the 18th says a
statement that the Pope had been request
ed to take up his residence in France was
untrue.
Goulard has been appointed Ambassa-
dor for France to Italy. Picard, late Min
lister of the Interior, has been appointed
Minister to Belgium.
Recent letters from Constantinople rep
resent that the cholera was spreading in
that city, and that the number of deaths
increased daily.
The fire in Geneva, Switzerland, on the
18th, destroyed two blocks of houses
The quay and Hotel Couronne were de-
stroyed.
Mail advices from Africa, received in
New York ON the 18th, say that on the
west coast the people were dying of the
smallpox like rotten sheep. The deaths
were over twelve per cent of those at
tackled. The Jujumen priests were very
busy instilling into the minds of the ig-
norant natives the idea that the disease
was Judgment of their Juju, or gods, on
the people for so many of them embracing
Christianity.
A tremendous explosion occurred in
the colliery at Wigan, England, on the
10th, which was heard in the country for
several miles around. Fortunately the
disaster occurred after the working gangs
had withdrawn, or the loss of life would
have been appalling Six men were known
to be killed, and possibly one or two more
would be found.
A dispatch from Constantinople reports
that there were $50 cholera deaths there
during the week ending November II.
THE NEW WORLD.
Gold closed in New York on the 10Th
at 1114.
All the members of the Cabinet were
present at a meeting in Washington on
the 10th, which continued nearly four
hours The larger portion of the time
was occupied on the results so far of the
Civil Service Commission, which were eX-
planned by Mr. Curtis, member of the
board. This Government and the Spanish
authorities had not yet arrived at an agree
ment respecting the Hornet, then at
Port-au-Prince, menaced by Spanish YES
sells. A correspondence was in progress
between the Secretary of State and Minis
ter Roberts, the former protesting against
the design to seize the vessel, which is un-
der the American flag.
Anthony Banning has been appointed
Gauger for the Fifth Ohio District, and
Geo. w. Donaldson Assistant Assessor for
the Seventh Ohio District.
Prominent gentlemen in Washington
attribute the spread of the smallpox in
Philadelphia and other cities to the sale of
buffalo and other robes there, taken from
the Blackfeet and Piegan camps, where
the disease prevailed three years ago. AT
that time they were forbidden to be sold
to traders, but several months ago they dis
appeared from those neighborhoods and
found their way elsewhere.
Of the thirty-three whalers crushed by
the ice or abandoned in the Arctic Ocean,
the port of New Bedford, Maine, loses
twenty-one. Nearly everybody in the
town is sufferer, directly or indirectly, by
the disaster.
The publisher of the Spectator, an in.
surance journal published in New York
has issued a table, showing the aggre
gate losses to companies by States, the
number suspended and assessed, and the
number unaffected by the Chicago fire
Total companies in the United States, 335
aggregate capital, $74, 939, ,216 total gross
assets, $135, ,420, 1926; total losses, $S2, S21
1872; companies suspended, 81; number
assessed, 2S; number not in the fire, 81
Losses of companies by States: New
York, $21, ,637, 500; Ohio, $4,S1S, ,657
Massachusetts, 81, 4s3, 500; Pennsylvania
So, ,OS2, 600; Illinois, $33, ,67s, 600; Connec
ticut, 50, 325 600; Rhode Island, So, orr,
500; California, $2,95O,OO0; Missouri
1915, 900; Maryland, 1897, ,165; Wisconsin
$500 600; Michigan, 81, 7OO,O 900; Mime
sofa, 100000; Maine, 10000; Kentucky
S6, 800. Loss by foreign companies, So,
$4,000
The Republicans of Brooklyn claime'
on the 10th that by fair count of tn
votes cast on the 7th, their candidate 70
Mayor, Samuel Booth, was elected by
large majority, and also their candidate fo
City Auditor, Nelson Shaurman. Th
Democracy admitted the election of til
latter, and also the election of Charles G
Morton, Republican candidate for the A;
/ sembly in the Seventh District.
Returns from all but six towns in Mass
chusetts give Washburn majority owe
all of 1906, which would probably b
, increased to IA, COO. t.a
: There was light fall of snow at Pougl
! keepsie, N. Y, on the morning of til
e 10th, the first of the season.
1t was so cold in Eastern Maine on I'll
:. !. 9th that boys were seen skating on IL
ponds near Belfast
Governor Merrill, of Iowa, has appoin
ed November 80 as Thanksgiving Day.
v Secretary Delano authorizes his frienC
e to deny emphatically that he is canC