The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-04-27
"A CRIME AS INFAMOUS
NEWS ITEMS.


place where the next annual meeting
of the State Homeopathic Medical AS
sociation.
A gentleman who has been making
ing an extended trip through Michigan
Indiana, Illinois and Ohio, report that
OF all the wheat he saw there vas not
any winter killed, and ali the fields
looked hourishing.
General Banks is reported 20 be gain
ing more strength as a candidate for
Speaker
Pomeroy sustained loss of $50, ,OOC
by fire few days ago.
The number of wagons, distributed
through various trains, now OH the
way to the Black Hills, is estimated al
one thousand. By midsummer the
Hills will be oyerrunning with people.
For some months past, considerable
silver coin las been circulating in Chi
cago, and the detectives have Leeu ell,
deayorIng to ascertain who was put
ting it into circulation Friday morn
ing last, a suspicious looking package
and addressed to John Graham, an
attorney, was opened and found to
contained 20 counterfeit half dollars
Graham was at once arrested.
The prohibitory bill which had pass
ed the Massachusetts Senate failed in
the House by vote of 106 to III.
4 monster sea turtle weighing ovel
1000 pounds, recently shipped from
New Orleans, Consigned to e. III.
Theicheim, st Louis. was cut loose
from the fiat car which he was fasten
ed 10, by some unknosn party, while
being transferred across the river at
Columbus, KY, and he made bis es.
cape into the Mississippi River. 1t was
Impossible to rescue him, as he soon
made headway far down the stream.
Each fresh installment of the evi.
dence taken with respect 10 the St.
Louis fire makes it all the more evi-
dent that the responsibility for the loss
of life at the Southern Hotel rests
upon the persoLs whose duty it was in
the first place TO take proper precau-
tions against fire, and then 10 give
warning of the danger to ali who were
iu the bui'ding. Almost every witness
examined yesterday testified that,
while cropping his way out through
the Railways, lie was met by one of
the hotel officials who was urging the
! frightened guests to return to their
rooms, aitho ugh The heat aud smoke
were into:ersh!e.-N. Y. tribune.
Forty seven Thousand barrels f oil
were destroyed near PetroIia, Butler
county, Pa. on the 18th. During a
storm the lightning struck a tank aud
the result was as stated.
American shipping was in high favor
when France aud England were az war
with Russia IL tie CriInea. The own.
ers Of vessels made fortunes, and the
! tonnage Of the country received an
! impulse of growth which lasted mill
the civil VAR. Ship owners are inclin
ed TO the opinion that England will
I not be able 10 maintain neutrality
that this war viii become general. and
that it will last long enough for the
shipping interest 20 regain the position
il held in 1861.
Keep what you've got and catch
what you can, seems to he the con
trolling motive OF the Southern vel
comers of the ne c policy of the Presi-
/ 1t should not be overlooked in thai
section that there will be something to
give as vel! as to take.-H. i. Times.
The coopers at Cleveland are on a
strike
At Boston, On Saturday, Dudley
Kimball, lad four and half years
old. shot and killed Stephen Cox, a lad
ofsiH. They had quarreled while play
ing, when Kim all ran into the house.
obtaiI:e6 his fathers revolver and shot
as stated.
The yiClent partjZans of Nichols
should have the sagscity to perceive
that solution of the New Orleans
problem is not 10 be brought about by
the White League methods of kidnap-
ing or assassination. The attempt
made upon Packard last night was a
bungliug failure Gin. Gazette, 20th.
After forty years of litigation, Mrs.
Myra Clark Gaines has won her suit to
recover large amount of valuable
properly in New Orleans. The decis-
icn rendered by Judge Billings, of the
Ubited States Court, confirms the va
lidity of the will of Daniel Clark. made
III 1913, AID Ars. Gaines RECEIVERS the
land and the rents and profits from
the several defen iants during the
time OF their occupation. Mrs. Gaines