The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-04-13
NEWS ITEMS.

L
perators, attempted TO abduct Mrs
George w. Watson, a wealthy and &C
complished young woman OF, Aassillon
Ohio, from the Rock Island train. be-
tween Rock Island and Iowa City, on
the night of the 4th,. Trey entered
the train at Rock Island, and, under
pretense that she was an escaped luna
tic, kept her gagged and held her
down at eacE station. She escaped
from them at Wilton after desperate
struggle, during which she sprained
her ankle, and pursuading the condue.
tor of her sanity was allowed to take
rooms in a hotel in Iowa City. where
she is well known and respected. The
object was probably money, as she was
richly dressed.
Packard's Senate has denounced the
Mathews Foster compact as a ''cor-
rupt and dishonorable bargain" but
are "slow to believe President Hayes a
party to the bargain"
A young New York fiend named
Jewett, member of the firm of John
Jewett, g. Co, who was 20 profligate
as to make it desirable for him to re
tire from the firm. consented, but
armed with revolvers and hand gre
nades appeared at the office where the
papers were to be signed on Thursday
of last week. Soon after the meeting,
lie threw one of the grenades Oh the
floor in the midst of them, and it was
exploded. The old man was mo, o,tally
wounded, dying soon after, but the
young man had life enough left to
shoot himself in the breast. The
third man, Dean, escaped with his life
but was badly injured. The firm was
of the highest standing.
Abe Rotbschild, the Texas murderer,
who was in custody of the Sheriff of
Hamilton county, was delivered to the
Texan authorities on Thursday last,
after the habeas corpus case was decid-
ed.
The great trunk lines have cried
pecavi, and ar again at peace.
The Bender family, Gf not a mis-
take were arrested in Crawford coun-
ty, Arkansas, last week, and were taken
TO Kansas. Geo. Keller is the name
the old man was known by, and lie
claims to have been a member of the
Legislature of Wisconsin in 1860. He
moved with his family to Arkansas in
1878.
Very much has been said about the
relationship between Hon. Stanley
Mathews and President Hayes. The
Inter Ocean explains il as follows:
''Gov. Hayes married Miss Webb,
daughter of DIR Webb, of ChiIlicothe.
Senator Matthews married Miss Black.
of Tennessee. DR.. Joseph Webb, the
brother of Mrs Hayes. married a sister
of Senator Mathews"
According to the table of ST.
Louis Republican, the roll of contested
seats in the next Honse will stand {:
Republicans. 1877; Democrats, 149.
The contested seast are z. viz: 2 in
Louisiana, in Florida, in Missouri,
/ in Colorado, and in New York. The
latter is the seat to which John HI.
ketcham was elected, and over which
there will probably be no contest. If
all the other seats are given TO the
Democratic claimants. that party will
have a majority of H. So IL and II
may be taken as the minimum and
maximum of the Democratic majority.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the Treasurer of the United
States to keep as a special fund, sepa-
rate from all other money, the legal
tender notes received i'm exchange for
silver coin. The Treasurer will open
al account with these notes at once
and they will be held only for the pur
pose of redeeming silver, as required by
the provisions of the joint resolution.
A fourteen year old boy named
James McCann, came to a sudden
d-ath. Friday, in Cincinnati. He was
playing with other boys. having in his
hand tin trumpet, which the other
5oys, in their fun, attempted to take
from him. While running at full speed
lie fell on the pavement, the end of the
horn penetrating his neck. cutting the
lugular vein, causing him to bleed to
death in few moments.
Matt Morgan's nude woman exbibi.
ton has come to grief at Indianapolis.
where the whole tribe was arrested for
giving an indecent entertainment on
Sunday. Matt Morgan is the artist
imported from England in 1872 to
serve the Democracy and do for Frank
Leslie's newspaper what Mast did for
Hdrper'S Weekly. Matt is among the
refuse material of the Liberal Demo
cratic period
Henry Clay was talking one evening
in 81 to friend who said 10 him: Is
it not strange that Mr. Dalla-, old as
he is, and with his standing at the bar.
should accept that RuSsIon mission. "
He laughed. and replied: "He evi
IDENTIFY thought would think so, too.
for met him ct hotel in Baltimore
and he seemed to avoid me, until | de |
termined TO corner him, when he said
i presume 5ou think it strange that ! |
accepted the Russian Mission. but the |
truth is | am poor and have SOUS to |
educate and establish in life" Ire |
piled: Il presume your experience
will induce you to instruct them not |
to enter public life until they are able
to live without its emoluments.
The Rhode Island Republicans are
with the result of the election
on Wednesday. '.Notwithstapd,DR
The unprecedented efforts of the Demo
cratic party The Providence Journal
rays, stimulated by the profuse lib
srality of their leader, Mr.. Barnaby,
and by the promise o: aid by men
formerly acting with the Republican
parry; we have this morning to con
yratuiate our Republican brethren and
en- Ihe State that for the first time in
fhTee gears the Republicans have elect