The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-06-14
GExERAt NEWS ITEMS.

RAvKNNA. THURSDAY. JUNE II. 1877
GExERAt NEWS ITEMS.
GovERNoR TILDEN will spend part
of the summer at Newport.
SENATOR CAMERON has settled that
case with the Widow Oliver.
THIRD Assistant Postmaster General
Barber, Of Michigan, has resigned.
PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN: Too much
change in the weather and too little
in our pocket-book.
THE steamer r. N. Rice, lying in
the Detroit River, was damaged by fire
to the amount of $25, 600 on Sunday
last.
THE receipts of the Vatican from the
Vatican from the Pope's. Jubilee were
six and half million lire in gold, ex-
elusive of valuable presents.
Miss NELSON has diamond weigh
ing thirty.one carats, the largest ever
worn by an actress on the stage. 1t
is set in frosted gold leaves, and is
valued at $4,000.
A terrible wind and rain storm pre-
vailed at Omaha on the 7th inst. chin
neys and porches were demolished,
trees uprooted, and some of the finest
f. monuments in the cemetaries blown
down.
The assets of F. III. Taylor, Jun., OF
Frankfort, Ken, who is still missing,
were put down at s273, ,OsO. liabilities
SAT-, ,46S. His creditors seem to think
less Of their loss than his shame.
AT Baltimore, Nd, recently a col
ored girl between thirteen and four
teen years old attempted to poison a
family Of four persons by putting rat
poison in the muffin batter.
OK the 7th inst, in Bullin District
fifteen miles southwest OF Oil City.
Pa, the largest oil well was struck
since 1873. When the vein was pen.
ctrated, oil flowed over one hundred
feet in the air.
On Monday George w. Fletcher
ended his criminal career, at Phjladel-
phia, by fs'l'ng from a scaffold, End
being checked in bis fsll by a strorg
rope about his neck, in the presence of
the Sheriff and number Of spectators
A LARGE water-spout burst nes !
Bell Greek, in Elkhorn Valley, Neb.
On Tuesday, the 5th inst. flooding
every thing for miles to q depth OF
twelve feet. Damages said to be con-
siderable, but unknown as yet.
A DISASTROUS confagration occur
red at Galveston, Texas, on the morn
ing oS the Sth, which destroyed twen-
ty-six buildings and caused loss OF
property estimated at from two to
three millions Of dollars.
OLIVER, the first man arrested on
charge Of attempting to wreck the st.
Louis and SanFrancisco express train
in the Ozork mountains, on the End
inst, confessed within an hour after
his arrest, that the crime was concoct-
ed by eight men, all farmers, living in
Pulaski county, No.
The case of the people of New York
against Peter B. Sweeney for com.
plicity in the "ring robberies," in
which some 100000 damages were
claimed has been compromised, the
defendant agreeing to pay 100000,
and the suit against him to be dis
missed for that consideration.
The color line" seems to be kept
up in South Carolina. In the trial OF
the Ellenton conspiracy case recently
tried at Charleston in the U. s. Co6rt
under the enforcement act the jury
disagreed, the six colored jurors being
for conviction, while the six white
ones were for acquittal. That will
probably be the end of the case.
T.uE terrific wind and rain storm
which visited Mt. Carmel, ILL.,. a week
ago last Monday afternoon destroy
one hundred and fifty dwellings, four
business houses. and two churches.
Twelve persons were instantly killed
and over fifty badly wounded. The
loss of property is estimated at $500,
600. The storm lasted but few min.
Htes, but its disastrous effects exceed
ed anything ever before known in that
region.
AT Nation. Ill, the storm swept q
path about two hundred feet wide to
the northeast, unroofing and overturn.
ing buildings and residences and caus.
ing great destruction of property,
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Bridge
port, Connecticut, on the night OF
Thursday, June 7th, which destroyed
the factory Of Glover, Sanford & Sons.
While volunteers were engaged in re-
moving goods from the office, q one