Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04

New York has declared that Mr.. Beeeher's
church erred in it's dealings with Theodore
Tilton. Mr.. B. and his congregation were
censured, and admonished to err no more,
under pain of being "blotted out from fellow
ship with other Congregational churches"
PRESIDENT ORToN, of the Western Union
Telegraph, has gone to Europe to recruit his
health.
VIcE-PREsIDENT WILSON will shortly visit
the Arkansas Hot Springs for the benefit of
his health A3t
GENERAL.
NEARLY 900 persons were in attendance on
the Canal Convention which met in Rock
Island, Ill. On the recommendation of
the Committee on Credentials, all persons
present interested in the subject before the
body were admitted as delegates. Mr.. J. NJ.
Allen WAS chosen President. Ex-Lieut.-Gov
Bross, of Chicago, addressed the convention
at length in favor of the Rock Island and Hem
nepin Canal, and made.a thorough review of
the transportation question and the needs of
the West for an adequate outlet for its pro-
duce. The resolutions Of the convention while
particularly asserting the benefits of the
proposed canal, are favorable to other practi-
cable transportation routes by water, and rec
ommend the Improvement of the mouth of the
Mississippi. Mr.. Hawley's bill, now before
Congress-, for canal to connect Lake Michi-
gan, the Illinois and Rock rivers, was indored.
A committee of thirteen, with Mr.. Allen at
their head. was appointed to memorialize Con-
gress in favor of the canal, and the State of
Illinois was advised to cede the control of the
kba ~ Oh;
canal as navigable highways to the Federal
Government, if, in return, it would assume
the construction of this new waterway.
A FIGHT between United States soldiers and
Indians recently occurred in Arizona, in which
eleven Apache braves were sent to the happy
hunting grounds. Three soldiers were
wounded.
HEAVY suits have been instituted by New
York merchants against the informer Jayne.
UP to the 9th of March the praying women
Of Dayton, Ohio, had succeeded in closing
only four saloons, 800 still remaining open.
The women of Mount Vernon, O., have
erected sentry-boxes in front of the saloons,
and, comfortably enscon ced therein, +" watch
and pray"
The lady crusaders of Springfield, ILL.,,
made raid upon the Legislature, just before
the adjournment. with the total abstinence
pledge. large majority of them signed it.
The iquor-sellers of Burlington, Iowa,
have been seized by panic, and are shipping
their stock to st. Louis-all in consequence
of formidable legal proceedings instituted
against them by a drunkards wife.
THE Chicago Tribune prints q review of the
Twenty-eighth General Assembly of Illinois,
the adjourned session of which has just
closed. 1t was 20S days in session, at a cost
of 1904. 500. The number of bills introduced
was 2, 1853, of which 256 were passed. The
amount of appropriations was $5, 68s, ,2s9.
THE 9th of June has been settled upon az
the day upon which the reunion of Abolition.
lists will take place in Chicago. The proceed.
ings will continue three days.
The great railway lines between New Yorl
and the West have recently reduced theil
fares to immigrants to nearly one-half ths
former rates. The reduction is in CONSEQUENCE
of the breaking up of an agreement hereto
tore existing between the several roads, ani
the lively competition now in progress be
tween them for this class of business.
JAY GOULD is credited with having incitet
the recent strike at Susquehanna Depot, Pa
His object in this, as in the late malicious re
port of Auditor Dunan, also attributed to him
was to 80 embarrass the road that he nigh
get possession of it.
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.
The outlaws are carrying high hand il
Howell county. Mo. A band of thirty despel
ADDE'S recently took possession of West Plains
the county-seat, and threatened the lives O
th<G 9TH oec,
said they had an organization of 300, and tha
they would again visit the town. The Coy
ernor of the State has been called on for al
sistance.
A CHASTITY mystery is puzzling the goo
people of Algonquin, Ill. : Some workmen, i
cleaning out spring for the use of cheee
factory, dug up seven human skeletons in
shattered and broken condition. There al
various speculations and theories regardin
tie affair, and a searching investigation is b,
ing instituted.
MRS. SARAH F. WATSON, aged IT, recent
murdered her uncle, Hiram Aldridge, aged q
at Ozark Mills, Mo-, by driving an ak into h
skull. Mrs. W. alleges that her uncle a
tempted to outrage her person.
FIRES AND CASUALTIES
AT Vicksburg, Miss, a few days ago, Tho
Calkins, an ex-policeman, attacked J. W. L
wins, local editor of the Vicksburger, cutti1
him in the neck with knife. LAWNS tbt
shot Calkins twice, killing him instantly.
JOHN R. PIERCE, of Jacksonville, Kanss
shot and killed his father-in-law, and then fle
He was pursued by the vigilants, capture
and hung to q tree.
III n A q
cisco, has absconded with a large amount
the public funds.
THREE murderers, two colored and o
white were hung in South Carolina on t
9th of March.
COL w. G.. TERRELL, o well-known journ
lst OF Covington, KY, recently shot and kill
Mr.. Leonard Myers prominent member
the Covington bar. The tragedy was enact
in the law office of the latter, and grew out
his connection with suit for divorce broul
by Terrell's wife.
DISPATCH from Helena, Ark, dated Ma
"a, gives the following particulars of t
rible steamboat explosion on the Miseissi
river: "The towbeat Crescent City, fr
New Orleans for st. Louis, with tow of
freight-barges, one fuel-barge, and a tradi
boat laden with thirteen tons of sugar, b
up at $3.50 this morning at the foot Of Nor
yuma Island, ten miles below here. Ev
part Of the boat was blown into atoms,
she sank in three minutes. The barges W
all consumed by fire. The following is a
OF the lost: Captain James Dawson. M
Henry Gessler, Pilot John Ostrander
wife, Pilot VIM. Mundy, Watchman Dan
tie, cabin-boy unknown, and three colo