The Newtown bee., 1879-11-12
Western and Southern States.

Western and Southern States.
Several hundred students came to Ann
Harbor, Mich, few nirhts ago to 90 clean out
the place" in retaliation Tor the arrest of sew
oral Of their number the evening previous.
they pounced upon the officers who attempted
to quiet them. Mayor Smith had the alarm
bells rung, calling out the citizens, who came
by tho hundreds armed with clubs and soon
oyerpowered the unruly Students Ten of the
leaders were arrested and lodged in jail. The
military was then called out and no further
trouble occurred.
The Memphis committee OF safety has ad-
journed without day. Since organization it
has expended 81 900 in maintaining people
in the camps and providing Tor tho poor OF the
city. Fs
United States Senator Zachariah Chandler
of Michigan, died very suddenly and unex-
pectedly a few days ago in Chicago. He had
been making speet hes in Wisconsin, and on
the night of his death addressed a large assem-
blage III Chicago, after which he retired to his
room at the Grand Pacific Hotel, where, while
chatting with Senator Logan and other friends,
he complained OF Indigestion, with which he
had been troubled while on his way to the
city. He gave orders 10 be called at seven
o clock the next morning, and his friends
then took their leave. That is the last time
the senator was seen alive. The next morn
ing when the office boy called him there was
no response. AS upon repetition silence pre-
vailed the clerk effected an entrance through
the trRnsom and found that the senator was
dead. The body was not quite cold, and the
physician who was present decided that death
occurred about three hours previous to the
d covory. Theft looked tranquil, showing
that death had been painless. The coroner's
Jury proved that death was the result OF
cerebral hemorrage. The senator's remains
were taken by special train to Detroit, a pro-
cession following them to the depot in Chi
cago. Chandler was born at New Bedford,
n. H., December l0, 1913, and was therefore
nearly sixty-six years OF age. He received
only an academic education, and when quite
young man removed to Michigan and engage |
in mercantile pursuits. He entered into poll
TICS and in 1851 was elected mayor of Detroit.
He was the Wing candidate for governor of
Michigan in 1852, but was defeated by General
Lewis Cuss. When General Cass was made
Secretary OF War by President Buchanan in
Is Z, Chandler was elected as Republican
tothe United States Senate to fill Cass' place.
Ghandl, was twice reelected to the Senate
serving uninterruptedly from March 4, 1857, ,
to March 8, 1879. He was then succeeded by
Mr.. /. =. Christiancy, who, after serving four
years, resigned, whereupon Chandler was
again elected and took his seat on Washing
toms birthday last. He was Secretary of the
Interior during Grants second term and chair
man of the Republican national committee
His term in the Senate would have expired
on the third OF March, 1881.
General Grant reached his home at Gales
burg, H., few days ago, alter an absence OF
two years
Stettauer Brothers & Co., a large Chicago
drygoods house have failed, owing more than
$l,gpo,C0J. Several large New York houses
are heavy creditors.
4 vessel arrived in New Orleans from
Liverpool n few days ago, having on board
200 English farmers bound for Texas.
Two men were killed and four more seri-
ously injured by the explosion OF the boiler in
n sugar-house at Fla Luling, La
Alfred N. Robinson, ex-treasurer OF Cler-
mont county, Ohio, was arrested at MEANWHILE,
charged with embezzling $4,000.
The result of the vote in those OF the South
ern and Western States holding November
elections was given on the day after election
as follows: In Maryland the Democratic can
didate tor governor and the rest oil the State
ticket were elected. Mississippi was carried
by the Democrats. In Virginia, where the
payment OF the State debt was the principal
question at issue, the Debt-payers were sue
cessiul over the Readjusters, securing ma
iority in both houses OF the Legislature. In
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nebraska the Re-
publican State tickets we're elected.
The governors OF Michigan, Wisconsin, hi
nois and Ohio, Senator Blaine, the entire
Michigan Congressional delegation and num-
erous civic and military companies, were
present at Senator Chandeliers funeral in
Detroit.
The propeller Argyle, with Captain Nc
Laughlin, Mr.. Graham, the owner, twelve OF
crew and some passengers is supposed to
have been lost on Lake Superior.
The American Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton, in annual session at Cincinnati, elected
the following officers for the ensuing year:
| President, Henry B. Blackwell, of Boston,
vice presidents, T. w. Higginson, Rhode
Island; Mrs. Rebecca N. Hazard, St. Louis /;
Mary A. Livermore, Illinois; George William
Curtis, New York; George w. Julian, In
diana; Theodore ID. Weld, Massachusetts;
Celia Burleigh, New York; Margaret v.
I.ongley Cincinnati, and the chairman of the
executive committee, Mrs. Lucy Stone. Cor
responding secretary, Myra Broadwell, Hi
nois. Foreign corresponding secretary, Julia
Ward Howe. Recording secretaries, Miss
Matilda Hindman, New Jersey, and Amanda