Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-20
TUE NEW WORLD.


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TUE NEW WORLD.
Gold closed in New York on the 18th at
114@1l4A.
President Grant has pardoned Eli Ross
Stewart, and Robert Hayes Mitchell, both Of
South Carolina, convicted of Ku-Klux
crimes, and sentenced to imprisonment in
Albany Penitentiary.
The Rev. William STAIRS, Vicar-General of
the (Catholic) Arch Diocese of New York,
died in that city on the 9th.
Philadelphia has appropriated $500, 900 in
aid of the Centennial Celebration.
Leo Canman has been sentenced to ten
years. imprisonment in the State Penitentia-
~, for abstracting money from registered
letters while q clerk in the Chicago post
office.
McNulty, the Peoria wife-murderer, was
hanged at Peoria at one o'clock p. m. on the
7th. He made long speech on the gsllows,
protesting his innocence, and asserting that
some of the witnesses for the prosecution
had sworn falsely against him.
President Grant visited Wilmington, Del,
on the 9th, and was enthusiastically received
by the officers Of the State and city, and the
citizens generally.
The act abolishing the franking privilege
does not do away with the free exchange of
newspapers, nor the free distribution Of
papers within the county where published.
The Senatorial Bribery Committee at JEFF
ferson City made their report to the Mis-
souri, House on the Sth. They exonerate
Senator Bogy of any attempt at bribery in
the Senatorial election They find, how
ever, that General Doris did try to bribe
two members, but it had no bearing on the
case. All the members OF the committee
signed the report except Headlee, Republi-
can, who would make a minority report.
Ex-Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, died
suddenly at his home in Harrisburg, while
at breakfast with his family, on the sth.
At Kansas City, February Q, the old wall
of the Ferguson House fell, crushing frame
house adjoining, and instantly killing
mother and daughter named Dohohue and
another young lady named Rieley. Another
daughter of Mrs. Donohue had one arm
broken in two places, one leg broken, and
her breast crushed in, but was still alive. A
child two years old escaped unhurt.
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,, Vice
President elect, on the 10th, rendered his
resignation as Senator, to take effect
March 8.
Governor Dix, of New York, states that
the $50, 600 which he received some years ago
from the Union Pacific Railroad, was for
his salary as President of that Company,
and not as q gratuity or for any other pur-
pose.
The horse disease has reached Sacramento,
California
franklin B. Evans, recently tried and con-
victed at Exeter, N. H., for the murder Of his
niece, Georgiana Lowering, girl twelve years
of age, has made q confession of his many
crimes. Among other things 1t is confessed
that in 1858, he stole away and killed his
little niece in Derry, n H., aged five years.
In 1861 he assaulted and cut the throat of
girl of fourteen years, in Augusta,
Msine, for which, by the way,
another man died in prison. In 1865 he out
ragged the person of Isabella Joyce, aged
fourteen, and then killed her and her
brother John, boy Of twelve, in bussey's
Woods, near Boston. He is also charged with
a similar crime upon the person Of woman
found dead in the woods near Fitchburg,
Mass, in addition to outraging and murder
ing the girl for which offence he was con-
victed.
% The Missouri State Senate on the 10th,
passed bill authorizing the jurors to substi
tute Imprisonment for the death penalty.
The Iowa Senate has adopted an amend
ment to their code which inaugurates the
system of compulsory education.
The Illinois Supreme Court has granted a
s,fpersedeas in the case of Perfect, the colored
Chicago wife murderer, who has been twice
tried, convicted and sentenced to death.
The will Of Horace Greeley, dated in 1871,
has been admitted to probate.
Ex-Nayor Kalbfieisch, Of Brooklyn, n. T.,
died on the 12th.
A Chicago journal says that advices from
the fruit regions of Michigan and Southern
Illinois leave no doubt that the recent ex-
treme cold weather has killed nearly all the
peach buds. Some varieties Of grapes are
reported to have been also killed
The following nominations have been
made by the Liberal Republicans of New
Hampshire: For Governor, Samuel r. Mason;
Railroad Commissioner, VIM. A. Head. For
Congress: First District, Emery a. Hibbard;
Second, Josiah NJ. Fletcher; Third, Samuel
P. Cooper.
The Louisville Courier-Journdi denies the
truth of the report recently published con-
cerning an attempted stage robbery near
Hsrrodsburg, KY, and the killing of the
highwsyman.
1t is stated that Mrs. Edwin Forrest, who
resides on Staten Island, has given notice to
the executors of her late husband that she |
will apply for her dover in his estate, on the |
grounds that Mr.. Forrest was never divorced |
from her.
When Congress, in csnvasslng the Elec- |
tcral vote, on the 18th, reached Mr.. Gree |
ley's name, which first appeared in the vote |
of Georgia, objection was made to having !