The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-05-18
NEWS ITEMS.

1 NocihCeS oCu oidut, n1f Dioiic, III
Randall, Bishops Stevens and Simpson
Gov. Hartranft and others.
A second terrible disaster caused b
a weakly supported roof comes now t
point the moral of the first. The tots
of the killed at the Rockford, Iii
Court House is greater than that
the New York Post Office, but the cas-,
alties are alike in the sacrifice of hl
man life by professional incompetency
The sinking ot turkish iron clad i
the Danube, with 300 sailors and 90
men on board, on Friday last, is th
first important blow struck on tha
river. The disaster will make th
Turks less confiding In their monitor:
which are not secure against the DO.
erful artillery of the Russians, concea
ed behind well constructed eartl
works.
A cable dispatch from Peru by wa
of England announced a destructiv
earthquake at Iquique last Thursday
but without giving details TIL
first imitation of it in this country wa
the discovery by the Signal Servic
observer at San Francisco on tina
morning that earthquake" wave
were rolling into harbor. He prompt,
notified the Washington Office that al
earthquake was in progress somewhere
but where he could not tell The new
of the Peruvian earthquake came or
Saturday afternoon. The exact tim,
of the first shock at Iquique has no
been telegraphed, but the first indiea
ton of it at San Francisco was a eigh
teen minutes after six on Thursday
morning. The earthquake waves con
tinued with intermissions rntil five
O'Clock on Friday afternoon. Some
years ago there was great earthquake
in Japan, and the earthquake wave
Travelled across the Pacific to SaI
Francisco in twenty-three minutes.
Robt. Ii. Crittenden, a SON of John
j. Crittenden, has been appointed u.
s. Marshal of Kentucky.
General Butler has written 10 the
Post master General concerning the
dismissal of Nephew George. Ben'-
sentiment is served him right
Some one pertinently puts i. thus
Suppose Tilden had been elected Pres
ident and had recognized Hampton
and Nichols just as Hayes had done.
how many Republicans in the land
would have endorsed il? Let's think
of that little before we abuse every
body who has doubts about the South
ern leopard pulling out his teeth or
even changing his spots: or who dosn't
seem anxious to take ku klux prom
ise at its face value.
An iron-clad, built for the Turkish
Government, has been stopped by the
English Government whilst lying in
Victoria Docks, because to leave her
go would be a violation of the Neutral
ity Act.
An important admission was made
by the English Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer in the House of Commons on
Monday. He said Egypt. being part
of Turkey, is urquestionably at war
with Russ a, hence Russia has a right
to blockade the Egyptian ports and in
wade Egyptian territory, and goods
going to Egypt may be declared con
traband
A young Indian girl who had eur
iously watched the process of marking
barrel beads in a Touring mill in Win
ona, Mimi, stole in one day, and, TAX
ing possession of the stencils, orna-
mented her blanket with the words
'E!lsworth's Choice" and para6ed
the streets in great delight, but to the
disgust of Mr.. Ellsworth. who is
bachelor and had made no such choice.
Boston TrdUeler: We have been try
ing to imagine the extent of the howl
that would 60 up if Blaine, or Morton,
or Butler, or Ingersoll. or Ben Wade
had been caught peddlisg away the
rights of Southern Republicans for a
peac, ful Inauguration, or in lobbying
for the Texas Pacific job, as Matthews
has been caught. What dreadful fel
lows they would have been, to be sure.
But Matthews is new Republican, en-
Republican, in fact, and
his little Irregularities must be over
looked. .s.asE.
President Hay es held a reception i'm
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, on
last.
The miners at Streator, Illinois, have
been guilty of wholesale poisoning. A
dispatch gives particulars to the effect
that the coal miners who struck some
time ago, whose places were supplied
with new men, and who, subsequently,
were, for the most part taken back, SO
that only 100 of the new men were lie
tanned, have for long time been kept
separate from the blacklegs, as the
novices were calle d. lest trouble should
occur from their jealousy. OF late,
however, the two gangs have been al
Owed TO mingle and, on Monday last.
Lhe ranking hate found expression by
.ome of the old miners poisoning food
n the dinner baskets OF the new ones.
md. to night about sixty of these unfor
.unates ar- in the 1hroes of agony. and
many of them will undoubtedly die
rom the effects of the poison-and the
ives of all hang upon a thread. Ar
'enic was the drug used, but, in some
.ases, was so plentifully administered
Is to counteract its action. The
Whole matter is a mystery, and it is
lot even known how, or in what article
# food, the dose was placed
At Cleveland the coopers have been
IN a strike for some time, but although
making great display in parades, &c,
lad not been disorderly up till Thurs |
lay of last week. The Standard Oil !
Works Lad put to work a large force of |
ierrnans, and on Thursday morning
he strikers assembled about the works, |
'ut were held in check for a time by
be police. but the crowd growing
anger and blocking up the street, the |
'olice; were ordered to force them
,ack. AS they proceeded in the work
hey were first resisted in their anvauce
" the wives of the strikers. and after
Yards by the strikers, until the tumult |
'ecame general, but the affray ended |
u the police dispensing the mob.
THE Nes0 York tribune is issuing a
eries OF choice and popular novels, at |
prices which put them within the reach |
u all, and which have never before
been approached. The first of the |
eries, Black Spirits and White" by
francis Elanor Trollope, contains for |
en- cents the entire contents of q sew