Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-04

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tions will have to be replanted.
A dispatch from Wilkesbarre, Pa, on
the 25th, says six collieries in that vicini-
ty had resumed work.
The Board of Aldermen of Washington
City have passed Joint resolution-11 to
4-prohibiting corporal punishment in the
public schools of that city.
At Conneaut o., on the morning of the
25th, the dwelling house of B. G. Foster
was discovered to be on fire, and in few
minutes was in flames. Mr.. Foster and
wife barely escaped death, while two chill
dren perished in the flames. Jennie, 4
years cid, was burned to crisp; Lloyd,
10 years of age, leaped from the upper
window, and was so badly burned that he
died in a few hours.
In a case recently tried in Branch Coun-
ty, Mich, it was decided that a divorce
granted in Indiana was valid in Michigan.
A New Orleans dispatch of the evening
of the 25th says there was no water from
the Bonnet Care crevasse nearer that city
than thirteen miles. The river in front of
the city was sixteen inches below the high
water mark of 1862, and falling.
A crazy man named Patrick McGinnees,
hailing from Pawtucket, R. l., was in
Washington a few days ago, and claimed
that he was the President of the United
States and rightfully entitled to the Presi-
Dental chair. He made two violent at
tempts to enter the White House. He was
finally taken into custody and sent to an
insane asylum.
A Washington special to the New York
Tribune of the 26th says: at is positively
asserted that the treaty of the Joint High
Commission will contain no provision of
any kind for reciprocity with Canada.
That a proposition to balance free fisheries
with free transportation for lumber, coal,
etc., was made in the Commission is not
doubted, but, as the American Commits
sioners were assured that no treaty which
contained such a provision would be rati-
fed, it is said that all reciprocity was
omitted"
A majority of the patrons of the public
schools of Louisville having voted in favor
of one session through the summer, the
School Board has ordered that only one
session per day be hereafter held in the
public schools.
The press of California unanimously en-
dorse the verdict in the Fair case, and con-
gratulate San Francisco and the State on
the vindication of law, justice, morality
and decency in the result of the trial.
Mrs. Fair will be sentenced May 30, the
counsel desiring month to prepare an
application for new trial, having reserved
about forty xceptions-generally on un-
important points of ruling by the courts.
The train from Plainfeld, N. j., for
New York, struck one of Barnum's circus
wagons on the morning of the 9th, near
Crawford, N j., killing three men out
right and dangerously injuring two others,
while a sixth was slightly injured. All
belonged to the circus.
A Washington dispatch of the 27th
says: Several agents sent abroad by the
government to popularize the new loan
represent that it is difficult to get capital
lists to invest in it. The agents assert that
! foreign houses and some Americans are re-
ceiving much larger commissions on State
and railroad securities, which pay larger
dividends. 1t is suggested that, if the in
terest had been made payable abroad, there
would have been less trouble in negotiat.
ing the loan"
New Orleans dispatches of the 9th say
the Bonnet Care Crevasse was 1, 100 feet
wide at two p. m. on the 26th, and one
sixth of the whole volume of water of the
Mississippi at that point was passing
through. Poverty Point and Navero
crevasses were closed.
Recent accounts from Santa Fe, N. NJ,
give the particulars of gross outrages by
the Indians. Two coaches ON the road be.
tween La Mesilla and Tucson had been
attacked, the passengers murdered and the
mails plundered and destroyed. The body
of the driver of one of the coaches had
been found, with his breast cut open, his
heart taken out, split in two and laid ovel
his face. Other murders and outrages are
reported.
The City Surveyor of New Orleans or
the 28th reported the river falling, and
the levees safe along the front of the city
The Bonnet Care crevasse was 1,2U(
feet wide; otherwise there was no material
change in the situation. The water wal
within half mile of Kennerville, and haC
also made its appearance on the low GROUND
east and south.