Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-04-20

as in the main unchanged, and says the
government will act at the proper time.
Commune accounts of a victory at Paris
are false. They are unprincipled. Our
victory will come bloodlessly."
A London dispatch of the 14th- 4 p. m.
says the Versailles forces had been
repulsed everywhere around Paris. The
damage to buildings in Paris so far, by
shells from the Government guns,
amounted to about 100000 francs.
A dispatch from before Paris on the
evening of the 14th says the Versailles
forces still occupied the vicinity of the
bridge of Neuilly, and the detachment
which the insurgents were endeavoring to
force to recross the Seine'remained on the
island of Grand Jatte, and awaited rein
forcements. The situation on the south
side of the city remained unaltered.
A New York special of the 14th to the
Chicago Tribune says: Private cable
dispatches received in this city tonight
announce the complete success of the
Communists in the battles around Paris.
MacMahon is on the retreat, badly beaten,
and panic reigns at Versailles. The ulti-
mate triumph of the Reds appears to be
conceded both in Versailles and in Lon
don. It thought that the Theirs Gov
ernment will return to Bordeaux"
A letter from Fayal announces the
death of Chas. w. Dubrey, latl United
States Consul at that place.
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York ON the 14th at
1909.
An extensive conflagration occurred at
Albany, N. Y, on the morning of the 7th,
inficting loss of over 100000. All the
houses on the west side of Broadway, be-
tween Nos. COG and 632, were destroyed.
The large printing house of Weed, Par
sons s. Co. was entirely destroyed. Over
three hundred people are thrown out of
employment. John O'Brien, fireman,
lost his life at the fire.
A fatal case of sunstroke occurred in
New York city on the Sth, the first that
ever secured there so early in the season.
The victim was Elisha Devoe, cartman,
on Fulton street.
In New York city on the Sth, the ther-
mometer ranged as high as $50 in the
shade; at Philadelphia, 81 ,, and at Wash
ington, 64o. <.Is
A Scranton, Pa, dispatch of the Sth
says: "An was quiet on the Lackawanna
this morning. Matters have been greatly
exaggerated 1t is now asserted that no
person was killed, and but few hurt. The
only trouble since yesterday was the
burning of the house of miner at one
o'clock this morning"
Dispatches from many points speak of
the occurrence, on the night of the 9th,
of the finest auroral displays known for
years, in many instances the streams OF
light spreading from the zenith in all di-
rections, some parts of the sky being all
ablaze. A New YORK dispatch says: "At
9 :55 this evening fine display of aurora
commenced. The movement was north
and south, shifting to the east and west
At 10 o'clock the telegraph wires were Sc.
riously affected. Communications with
cities in all directions were for time sus.
pended" =
The steamer Samuel J. Hale, bound
from Cincinnati to Memphis, burst hel
steam pipe on the morning, of the Sth
near Golconda, and killed seven deck
hands-three white and four colored.
A Washington dispatch of the 10tf
says: There is high authority for the
statement that the Fishery question ant
the Alabama claims are already so far dis
posed of as to be no longer matters of dis
cussion at the sessions of the Commission
Indeed, basis of agreement on the Ala
bama claims has already been secured
which will probably be satisfactory to tn,
representatives of both countries"
Buffalo gnats are killing large number
of horses and mules along the Mississippi
River. The recent overflow has mad,
them and mosquitoes unusually numer
GUS.
The town of Wolcott, New York, wa
almost totally destroyed by fire on th'
night of the 18th.
An extensive confagration occurred a
Grand Rapids, Mich, on the night of tn
11th, by which part of the best bushes
portion of the place was destroyed. Los
stated at about 100000; insurance abou
100000.
The suit for $4,000 damages institute,
in the United States Court at Richmond
by Judge j. Wright, colored, of the Su
preme Court of South Carolina, agains
the Richmond Il Danville Railroad Com
pany, has been compromised by the pay
ment of $4,000 to plaintiff. He claimec
damages on the ground that he was forci
bly, elected from first class car on accoun
of color, notwithstanding he held first
class ticket.
Dispatches from Galveston, Tex, OF
the 18th give an account of very seriou
affair which happened recently on tn
, Mexican border. 1t seems that train ei
route from chihuahua to Fort Bayard wa
attacked near the boundary by band O
Indians, and man named Keard, his wife
2 and five other Americans, were killed
The Chihuahua frontier troops Mex
cans) pursued the Indians over the borde
, into the United States, and killed and cap
tured eighty of them. The United State
troops at Fort Goodwin were sent to pre-
1 tect the Indians, and came in collisio
! with the Mexican soldiers. A. fight en-
5 sued, in which the commanding officers q
5 Fort Goodwin and forty American so
: diers were killed The Mexican soldier
t numbered 200. The War Department, a
3 Washington, up to the night of the 13tl
!. had received no report of the affair.
A disastrous fire occurred at NewberI
N. c., on the morning of the 18th. Los
4 nearly 100000.
e Thomas Hodges, noted desperate, VIII
l had killed five men in the vicinity {
f Statlnton, Va, was taken from the Jail 8
that place. on the night of the 10th, by
e mob, and hanged. ~
e The Joint Railroad Committee of tn
: NY. Legislature have reported on tn