Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-10-25
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don't believe it.
Fire balls, carefully prepared AM
placed under buildings, and other evi
dences of contemplated incendiarism
have been found in Cleveland.
The election returns Of s~eventy-si'
counties gives a majority of 6l,255 vote
for the Constitutional Convention. Tn
Prohibition vote in these counties
3,O4s.
Full reports of the last German expe
dition to the North Pole II published
It is claimed that the polar sea wa
discovered, free of ice and swarminl
with whales
Judge Day left for Columbus Monday
to attend the adjourned session of thu
State Supreme Court. This session viii
continue until about the 10th of Novem'
ber.-RGveRnd DEM, Oct LIST.
Four suits were commenced in the
Champaign County Common Pleas
Court, under the amended liquor laws,
by wives Of drunkards. In each case
the damages were set at 5000.
The original copy Of President Lin
coins Emancipation Proclamation, for
which the Illinois Historical Society
paid the sum of twenty-five thousand
dollars, was burned at the Chicago nre.
William B. Astor is the richest man in
the United States, and contributed to the
Chicago fund the magnificent sum Of
two hundred dollars. Probably, how
ever, he gave in exact proportion to his
real intrinsic srortk.
AT Chicago, at midnight Of last Satur-
day, Thomas W. Grosvenor, prosecuting
attorney Of that city, when passing along
a street, was challenged by a patrol on
guard, and replied insultingly, when he
was shot dead on the spot.
A large fire broke out in the woods in
Campbell Co., Kentucky, last Friday,
about fifteen miles from Cincinnati. On
Saturday thousands Of acres Of timber
were on fire, and the inhabitants were
fleeing before the rapidly spreading
flames.
Gen. Geo. B. Wright, who for a num-
Der of years has filed the office of Com
missioner of Railroads and Telegraphs
in Ohio, has resigned that position to
take the Presidency of the Atlantic and
Great Western R. R. Co., with head
quarters at Cleveland.
Anew line of railroad from New York
10 Halifax has just been opened. The
line is to be continued to White Haven
Bay, the extreme lands end of Nova
Scotia. This new road will ave 700
miles of dangerous sea travel on the
ocean route to Europe.
Lieutenant General Sheridan, on being
officially informed of the state of affairs
in Northern Wisconsin by Governor
Fairchild. at once issued orders for the
dispatch Of four thousand army blankets,
two thousand ~overcoats and n hun
dred wagons for their relief.
In consequence Of the Chicago fire the
Auditor Of State Of Ohio has issued a
call upon all insurance companies of
other States doing business in Ohio TO
make return under oath of their con6i-
ton on the 18th instant. The same has
been required Of Ohio companies that
have had agency business in Chicago.
The loss by the Chicago fire, immense
as it is, comes down as the facts are
known. One hundred and fifty millions
Is as high as it is now put by those who
arrive at q conclusion from a calm sur
vey and diligent inquiry. Of this
amount, however, probably not a quarter
will fall on Chicago. New York is by
far the greater sufferer of all.
Perhaps the most remarkable religious
movement since the great Reformation
is now in progress in Syria. 1t is no less
than the conversion OF the people by
thousands to Christianity. The move
ment began in 1868 in a society Of Mus
selmen in the vicinity of Damascus, led
by n Abdel-Karim Mstar, who used
TO spend days and nights paying for en-
lightenment.
Az English paper says: An ambitious
project has been formed by a small knot
Of rabbis in Frankfort, viz, no less than
TO lead the scattered children Of Israel
back to Palestine, and TO establish a
Jewish kingdom there once more. Inyi-
tations to join the project have been
printed in great numbers, and are by
this time circulating among the numer-
members ofthe ancient race through
out Germany; and, if we may credit the
report of newspapers friendly to Juda-
ism. influential moneYed men in the old
imperial capitalize headquarters OF
German Jews-have given it their sub
stantisl support.
Kingsley & Msson's Pymatuning Val
lev Factory, at West Andover, Ohio, has
made another big cheese, weighing eigh-
teen hundred pounds, is 22l inches IL
thickness and 50 inches across. 1t re-
ouired ten men to urn it. This big
cheese was made from one days milk and
is for Biackman & Co., Of Boston. The
factory gets about l6 cents a pound for
it. 1t will be sent forward Nov. LIST, and
the BostOnians can have a slice of 1t to
assist in digesting their thanksgiving
dinner. This is the third large cheese
made by this factory during the present
year.-JeGerson Sentinel.
From the Coneaut Reporter we learn
that an interesting appeal case came up
before the Grand Lodge of Good Temp
lars, lately held in Akron. A couple OF
Young men crushed an apple to pulp
with their hands, expressed the juice
into a glass and drank it. They were
tried for violation of the pledge and
they appealed TO the Grand Lodge. The
G., L. considered that it would hardly
have been worth noticing had not these
persons evidently tried to see how near
they could come to breaking the pledge,
and therefore looking at the principle
involved in the question, they sustained
the lodge.
On Tuesday, Nov. 9TH, elections viii
he held in nine States. Illinois elects one
Congressman at large in place OF John
A. Logan, elected TO the United States
Senate, and one Congressman in the