Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-14


neighborhoods and entire families, and it is
transmitted from town to town. In the re-
gion of Persia infected there has been no
famine or unusual scarcity of food.
AT Frankfort, Germany, on the LIST, a build
ing in which large number of persons
resided fell, burying the inmates in the ruins.
Fourteen corpses were taken from the debris,
and a large force was still searching for other
victims.
The Young man who made the recent as
sault upon Queen Victoria was before the
police magistrate on the list, and stated
that his name was Arthur O'Connor that
he was born in England; also, that
his father was a native of Ireland. One
of the documents found in his possession
was free and full pardon of all Fenian con-
victs, and declaring that, notwithstanding
this agreement was signed under fear of her
life, the Queen would not retract it the
other document was commutation, in ad-
vance, of the punishment of the prisoner
for his recent act from hanging to shooting.
The impression of all who heard these papers
read was that they were the product Of a
deranged mind.
A Russian spy found sketchipg the fortif-
cations at Lemberg, Austria, has been sen
fenced to one years Imprisonment.
The Emperor Francis Joseph has issued a
decree declining to recognize old Catholic
Bishops or opponents of the dogma of Papal
infallibility as portion of the Roman
Catholic ecclesiastical hierarchy of Austria
While Mr.. Odger, Member of Parliament,
was addressing public meeting at Kings
ton, England, on the evening of the 1st, a
party of Royalists attacked the building
wherein the people had congregated, broke
the windows and dispersed the meeting. The
Royalists were particularly threatening in
their demonstrations towards Mr.. Odger,
who was compelled to scale the wall and
seek safety in flight.
The jury in the Tichborne case informed
the court on the 4th that they had heard suf-
ficient evidence whereon to base verdict.
An adjournment was taken until the 9th to
allow Sergeant Ballantyne, counsel for the
claimant, to consider as to his future course.
Between 10, 600 and j, 900 operatives in the
fax mills of Leeds, England, were on a strike
on the 4th for reduction of their time of Ia
Dor to nine hours day. They were conduct
ing themselves in an orderly manner.
Lieutenant Grant visited both houses of
the British Parliament on the 5th.
NJ. Pouyer Quertier Minister of Finance,
has retired from the French Cabinet.
Prince Frederick Charles, of Prussia, is re.
ported to have said, while lately in Rome, on
his way to Egypt, that if France attacked
Italy, the latter would be defended by Ger
many.
A Paris dispatch of the evening of the 9th
saws another Ministerial crisis was expected,
as it was evident that the conflict between
the Assembly and the Government was at
hand.
Queen Victoria has presented her groom,
John Brown, with a gold medal, and granted
him an annuity of GOO, for his promptnesa
in arresting O'Connor, when he assaulted
Her Majesty.
In the Tichborne case, on the 9th, counsel
for the claimant announced that his client
had decided, in view of the jury saying that
they had heard sufficient evidence whereon
to base a verdict, to withdraw his cause
from before the Court. After this announce
ment, the defense asked for the arrest of the
claimant, on charge of perjury, and to fix
his bail at e50,000. A warrant was accord
ingly issued for his arrest, and he was subse.
quently consigned to Newgate Prison.
In an article on the Alabama claims, the
London Times of the 7th infers from the ad,
missions made by the press of the United
States that the Americans now acknowledge
the extravaganza of the demand for indirect
damages, although they show no disposition
to withdraw them from their case. The Times
says if the fifth claim for losses by the
transfer of the American commercial marine
to the British flag is not abandoned, England
will declare its reference to the Geneva
Tribunal inadmissable, which course is ap
proved by English statesmen and jurists.
The Board of Directors of the French At
lantic Cable Company have resolved to lay
another cable to America, which will be un
der the management of the present cable
combination.
All the London journals of the 7th ap
prove the result of the Tichborne case. The
trial of the claimant on charge of perjury
will take place in April.