Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-09
TIE NEW WORLD.

Gold closed in New York on the I'd at
111I.
Washington dispatch of the 27th says
General Francis A. Walker had rendered the
President his resignation as Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, to take effect the LIST of
January, 1t was understood that the resig-
nation had been accepted.
The German Emigration Society, of Wash
ington, together with the National Agricul-
tural Laborers' Association, of London, it is
in the spring, half million of German and
English farm laborers aad mech anics.
By the recent heavy snow storms at the
and business almost entirely suspended.
Railroad trains were greatly impeded. The
storms were general throughout the coun-
try.
A dispatch from Yreka, California, says
that on the 21st a party of soldiers, with q
wagon. en- route from Camp Bidwell to Cap
tain Berrand's camp, on Lost River, was at
tackled by about fifty Modocs. Two soldiers
were killed and four wounded. Five mules
were killed. The soldiers killed were scalp
ed. No Indians were known to have been
killed. The Indian troubles were on the in
crease, and the Governor of California would
be asked for a company of volunteers. The
seat of war is partly in Oregon, partly in
California on either side of the boundary
line.
An ice gorge on the Mississippi River, just
above Memphis, broke on the night of the
Goth. Six steamers and ten barges at Mem
phis were sunk, and four steamers badly in
jured. Damages about S25O,000.
The recent election for municipal officers
at Tampico, Mexico, is reported to have
been very disorderly. During the counting
of the votes a disturbance arose. Eight
were killed and wounded. Great excite
ment prevailed. Both parties, called Tam
picienos and Tametipecos, claim to have
won the election.
The evening receptions of the President
and Mrs. Grant will commence January Is,
and continue January 90 and February IL.
Commissioner Walkers resignation has
been accepted, to take effect on February
1, not January 1, the date for which it was
rendered.
By the burning OF the City Pest House of
Boston, few nights ago, 800 smallpox
patients were turned out of their beds and
cast upon the community.
By the sinking of the ship Peruvian, with
heavy cargo from the East Indies, just as
she was reaching her destination at Boston
on the 26th, twenty five lives we're lost, and
nearly million dollars worth of goods
The developments in the New York Centre
street fire, where several girls were burned
TO death, show that those unfortunate vic
Tins owe their death to niggardliness or
| carelessness. A dispatch of the 2Sth SAYS
| the various parties interested in the owner
ship of the property in Centre street still re-
| fused to take steps for exhuming the bodies
of the burned girls from the debris. The
Boards of Health and Police stated that
they had no legal authority to remove the
| ruins.
Several incendiary fires having recently
occurred in New York City, there was some
talk on the 2sth of q Vigilance Committee,
and there was a possibility of violent
movement for the suppression of the Inter
national Societies in New York and its
vicinity.
| Numerous protests are arriving in Wash
ington from Wyoming Territory against the
dismemberment of that Territory and its in
corporation into Colorado. The friends Of
female suffrage in Wyoming are particularly
exercised.
A suit threatening the titles Of over a hun
dred owners Of real estate on the South Side
in Chicago, and involving property to the
value of nearly g., 900 900, has been begun il
the Superior Court of that city.
The Michigan Southern & Lake Shore Rail
road shops at Adrian, Mich, were burned 6
few nights ago; loss $4,000.
At the Belfast furnace, Ironton, Ohio, the
other day, Ellis Moore, James Venters ant
Andrew Diles went into three boilers tt
clean them leaving oper the valve connect
ing the boilers with the remaining ones o.
the battery. The engineer, supposing tn,
boilers containing the men to be disconnect
ed, soon afterward turned on steam, apG
Venters and Diles were so parboiled tha
they died in a few minutes. Moore sue
ceeded in escaping.
At last accounts twelve men were believed
to be buried under the Cottonwood ava
lanche in the Utah Mountains. The slide
| came from the very mountain top, dis