Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-25


that the whole must be reserved for the,
exclusive use of the Southern and West
ern States. The Secretary has accordingly
refused to authorize the starting of new
bank in Boston.
A War Department order was issued
on the 18th, containing the Presidents in
structions to officers in command of troops,
directing them how to act under the pro-
visions of the Ku-Klux act
A fearful nitro-glycerine explosion oc-
CURED about five miles from Titusville,
Pa, on the 10Th. About four hundred |
pounds of the compound were exploded
while being transported in wagon, and |
the driver, Chas G. Clark, as well as the |
horses and vehicle, was blown to atoms. |
and barn forty rods distant was de- |
molished. An excavation five feet deep |
and twelve feet broad was made in the |
roadway. The largest fragment of Clark's |
body which had been found is u portion of |
his face. The horses shoes were stripped |
off and broken, and nothing was LEFT of |
the wagon, but splinters of wood and iron |
were scattered broadcast for several hun |
dred yards. A woman was knocked down |
by missile of some kind, which entered |
the window of her dwelling, nearly |
quarter of mile distant
The Congressional Ku-Klux Committee |
on the 10Th adopted resolution for the
appointment of a subcommittee of eight,
to proceed at once with the investiga-
ton, and continue the same as long as it
deems expedient, with authority to take
testimony whenever they consider it adj
visable, by a subcommittee of its own
members, and to report all testimony by it
obtained to the full committee, at meet
ing to be held on the Goth day of Septem
Der next, or at such earlier time as the sub
committee shall notify the joint select
committee to meet The following are
the names of the subcommittee Senator
Scott Chairman; Senators Poole and
Blair; Representatives Poland, Coburn,
Stevenson, Beck and Van Trump.
PERSONAL.
At the recent annual meeting of the So
ciety of the Grand Army of the Repub-
| lie, at Boston, the following officers for
the ensuing year were elected: Grand
Commander, General Burnside, of Rhode
Island; Senior Vice Commander in Chief,
General Lewis A. Wagner, of Pennsylva-
mia; Junior Vice Commander-in-C Chief
Colonel James +. Coy, of California; Sur
geon-in- Chief, DR.. Samuel A. Greene, OF
Boston; Chaplain, Rev. Mr.. Connor, of
Ohio The meeting next year was ap-
pointed at Cleveland, Ohio.
The officers for the ensuing year of the
Cavalry Corps of the Army of the United
States are: President, General Sheridan;
Vice Presidents, Gems. David Nc NJ. Gregg,
Horace Binney Sargent, John B. Mcintosh,
B. F. Grierson, Geo. A. Custer, Judson
Fitzpatrick and James II. Wilson; Secre-
tary, Maj. G. ]. Whitehead; Treasurer,
Maj. r. R. Corson.
At Cincinnati, on the 18th, the Olympics,
of Washington, defeated the Forest Citys,
of Cleveland, in game of base-ball-t2
tos
In game of baseball at Fort Wayne
on the 18th, between the Kekionga Club,
of Fort Wayne, and the Chicago White
Stockings, the latter were victorious-14
to5.
| Lieutenant Howard B. Cushing was
killed in a recent fight with the Indians in
the Milestone Mountains.
The national Lincoln monument, now
being erected at Oak Ridge Cemetery,
| Springfield, Ill, will be completed on the
1st of July.
| The trial of Foster, the murderer of
Putnam, commenced in the Court of Oyer
and Terminer of New York city on the
18th. The prisoner seemed unconcerned.
-Four jurors were secured.
Horace Greeley arrived at New Orleans
on the 18th, en- route for Texas.
At Fort Wayne, on the 18th, the Keki-
onga Baseball Club defeated the Olympics,
of Washington-12 to 6.
The following nominations were sent TO
the Senate by the President on the 10th:
David H. Budlong, Collector of Internal
Revenue Fifth District Missouri; David
b. Emmett, of Kansas, Receiver of Public
Moneys at Humboldt; George III. Wright,
of Iowa, Register of the Land Office at
Sioux City; Postmasters-OrrinB B. In
gals, Belvidere, Ill Charles o. South
ard, Morris, Ill; Phineas Graves, Albion,
Mich. Alpheus NJ. Beebe, Owasso, Mich.
Volney Belknap. Erie, Pa; Miss Ella S.
Peck, Greenville, Pa.
In a game of baseball played in Chi
cago on the 10th, the White Stockings, of
that city, defeated the Olympics, of Wash
ington-14 to A.
The President sent the following nomi-
nations to the Senate, on the 18th: Robert
HI. Milroy, United States Marshal for Wy
oming Territory; Edwin S. Stanton, son
of the late Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary
of the Territory of Columbia.
At Boston, on the 10th, the Red Stock
ings, of that city, were defeated by the
Haymakers, of Troy, in game OF base
ball-29 to IA. On the 18th the Hay
makers were defeated by the Harvards-
Is to 8.
Simon T. Powell, of Newcastle, has
been appointed Supervisor of Internal
Revenue for the State of Indiana.
At Rockford, Ill, on the nth, the
Forest City Baseball Club, of that city,
defeated the Olympics, of Washington
10 too.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln and her son ar
rived in Chicago on the evening of the
18th.
Gov. Senter of Tennessee, has appointed
Mrs. Peralle Haskell, widow of the late
w. T. Haskell, State Librarian.
In Chicago, on the 18th, the White
Stockings, of that city, defeated the
Olympics, of Washington, in a game of
base ball-9 to z.
Horace Greeley arrived at Galveston,
Texas, on the morning of the 10Th. He
was formally received by the Mayor and
City Council.
Detectives Dixon and Rehm, of Chicago,
arrived in New York city from Germany,
on the 10Th, having in charge Alfred lei
genmyer, whom they arrested in Hsrtz
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