Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-01-29

Olive Logan has money enough to re-
tire.
Gail Hamilton is reported to be dam
gerously III.
It is believed generally that Cubs will
soon abolish slavery.
The new King of Sweden, Oscar IL,
will be crowned on the 1st of May.
Petroleum V. Nasty lectures in Cleve-
land, Thursday evening of this week.
Six hundred thousand hogs have been
slaughtered in Cincinnati sirce the open
ing of the packing season.
There are over three hundred cases Of
small pox reported as now existing in
Boston. Deaths last week thirty-fve.
Spain is strengthening her forces in
Cuba. A recent order set sail one thou
sand men to assist in suppressing the in
surrection.
\ boiler explosion in q steam drying
establishment, in Mansfield, O., on last
Saturday, killed two of the employees
Adam Hahn and John Rismond.
A false rumor was ahoat in the princi-
pal cities, q few days ago, that President
Grant had been assassinated. The author
of such a wicked sensational should be
"sent up" for ten years.
A dispatch that the last trip
OF the steamer Baltimore from Sandy
Hook to Queenstown, was accomplished
in seven DAYS, twenty hnur and nine
minutes, being the quickest passage yet
made between the continents.
A Washington dispatch of Saturday
last. saws that the health Of Senator Sum-
ner is SO feeble that it is not probable he
will be able to take his seat in the Sen
ate This session. 1t is necessary to inject
morphine into his arm to enable him to
sleep.
A petition signed by eighty-six citi-
zens Of Trumbull county has been pre-
septed in our State Legislature, asking
the passage of q law better protecting
those engaged in the storage, manufse-
ture and shipment of gunpowder and
other explosive materials.
The anniversary birth day of Robert
Burns was celebrated on last Friday by
The different Scotch societies in New
York and ~neighboring cities. At the
dinner at Delmouico's, George MacDoh-
aid, the well known poet and novelist
delivered q poem composed for the occa-
sion.
The Ohio Legislature has passed a la"
TO punish the obtaining of money OF
property under false pretenses, with I'M
prisonment in the ~penitentiary when the
amount is sS5, and with fine and impris-
onlnent in the county Jail when the
amount is less; and the penalties to ap-
plv when persons under false pretenses
procure signatures to notes, drafts, etc.
The Ohio Senate, on Thursday last,
passed a dill to repeal the present inter-
est law, and to legalize any rate OF inter
est contracting parties may agree upon.
In absence of specified rate, six per
cent. only shall be legal. This bill, SUD
SL2QLlAlly, AhtOIS bOO NV
Its thought that the House will pass
the bill.
In New Haven, Conn.,, on the 24th
inst. John r. johnson, a Swede, was
sentenced to be hanged April 10th, 1874,
for the murder of Johanna Hess, of Mer-
iden. The State Law does not permit the
sentences Of death 70 be executed under
a wear. This is the first death sentence
pronounced in New Haven for twenty
Two years.
Somebody has been summing up the
fate of kings and emperors with the fol-
lowing results: Out of $40 emperors or
kings over sixty-four nations, 2S9 we're
aethroned, g. abdicated, 20 committed
suicide, IL went mad, 100 died on the
battle field, LIS were made prisoners, .
we're pronounced martyrs and saints, l5l
we're assassinated, 50 were poisoned, los
were sentenced to death. Total, 963.