Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-25
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Gold closed in New York on the 10Th at
112
A Pottsville, Pa, dispatch of the 18th
says the recent agreement signed by the
officers of both the organization of colliery
workingmen and employers, insures steady
work in the Schuykill region for the re-
mainder of the year. Tolls would be re-
duced at once by the railroad companies,
thus removing the deadlock.
Returns at the Census Office in Wash
ington show the colored population of
the States and Territories tn be about
1857 900.
The United States census footing shows
the total number of Indians in Michigan
to be 4, ,731; of negroes, 10,65S; of whites,
born in the German States, "a, ,143; in Ire
land, 4O,347; in England, 35,O51; in
British America, $4,000; in Michigan,
49S, ,746; in New York, 231,072.
In the executive session of the Senate on
the 18th the treaty was favorably reported
by the Chairman of the Committee on
Foreign Relations, Mr. Cameron, without
any recommendation of amendment.
The Attorney General has decided that
the interest and coupon dividends accru-
ing, and the salaries of United States Off
GERS earned for the last five months of 1870
are all subject to revenue and income taxa
tion, and corporations and persons inter
ested must be held to the payment of the
tax.
A number of persons attending picnic,
at Palmyra, Mo-, on the 18th, were poi
soned by some roughs putting tartar emetic
in the spring. Nine persons were seri-
ously poisoned, and five were not expected
to live. The roughs first tried to break
soned the spring.
At meeting of street railroad managers
in Louisville on the 18th, it was agreed
that it was useless to try and resist, or
evade the enforcement by the United
States authorities of the claim of negroes
to ride in the cars, the negroes having re-
fused the offer of special cars, and being
determined on riding with the whites. 1t
was decided best to avoid serious collisions
by opening the cars to them.
The report of the Commissioner of Ag-
riculture for May, in speaking of the con-
dition of winter grain, says: "The autumn
season was generally favorable for germ
ination and vigorous growth; the winter
has been comparatively mild and uniform
in temperature; the freezing weather
mainly occurred in mid winter, and found
the wheat plants protected by sufficient
covering of snow; the spring has been
unusually early, and the growth of grain
advanced two to four weeks beyond its
accustomed status. There is no State in
which winter-killing is not exceptional,
and in several it is almost entirely un-
known. 1t may be that future reports, as
the season progresses, will be less favor
able; they certainly cannot be more fiat
tering"
Dispatches on the 10th state that the
coal troubles still continued at Scranton,
Pa, and the attempt of the company to
work the mines had been unsuccessful
Detachments of State militia were arriv-
ing there.
An important decision was recently
given in the United States District Court,
at Des Moines, Iowa, in which all railroads
are interested. The court holds that a
railway company is liable to both actual
and punitive damages for accidents caused
by the carelessness or inattention of its
employees. The case was that of suit for
damages against the Chicago & North
western Railway Company, for injuries
received by an accident occasioned by an
intoxicated engineer.
A severe hall-storm and tornado passed
over the southern portion of the city of
Chicago ON the 10th. One church was de-
molished, several houses were wholly or
partially blown to pieces, in one of which
a woman was crushed to death, and cars
were blown from railroad tracks. Two
boys had sought shelter under a freight
car, which the wind set in motion and the
little fellows were run over and killed
A New York Tribune's special, dated
Raleigh, N. c., May IA. says: Marshal
Hester, assisted by United States troops
from Raleigh, has arrested sixteen persons,
alleged to be concerned in recent Ku-Klux
outrages in Rutherford County. No show
of resistance was made, and the accused
were handed over to the sheriff. They
are well known men, and some possess
considerable property. The sheriff re-
leased them on their personal recognizance
to appear tomorrow before Commissioner
Moore, at Shelby, Cleveland County"
More coal riots occurred at Scranton,
Pa, on the 18th. As some laborers and
miners were returning home from their
work, escorted by small squad of sol
diers, they were assaulted by a crowd OF
about 200 Welsh miners, who threw stones
and other missiles at them. Two of the
laborers were struck-one on the breast
and the other in the leg-by large stones,
upon which soldier leveled his gun at
one of the assailants and fired, killing
BENJAMIN Davis and David Jones, Welsh
men.
George T. Thomas, the manager of the
Industrial Home and College Festival
enterprise in Chicago, has been tried and
convicted for dealing in lottery tickets,
and fined 800 each on five different in.
dictments. He took an appeal to the Su.
preme Court of the State.
The Adams Express Company's office
at Columbus, o., was broken into on the
night of the 18th, the two men sleeping in
the office were drugged, and money to the
amount of between $4,000 and $4,000
was stolen.
At Binghamton, N. Y. on the 18th, Ed
ward II. Rulloff was executed, by hanging
for the murder, in August last, of clerk
engaged in defending his employers store
from robbery. Rullof had made frequent
applications for a stay of execution, or g
commutation of sentence, on the grount
that he was the only possessor of an i'm
portant secret relating to the formation o.
language.
Eleven jurors had been obtained and tn
| Danel exhausted on the 18th. in the FOste