Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-11-13

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secretary Miss Mary +. Burt, of Brooklyn,
! N. Y, was elected to this position, to keep q
list of temperance speakers and to be in cor
respondence with State committees. The
plan of work is under the following head
Evangelistic, moral suasion and legal suasion.
MANY of the citizens of Mound City,
H., are left houseless and homeless by the
recent fire, and an appeal has been issued by
the Mayor for aid. II aid Is not extended many
will suffer for shelter, clothing and subsist-
ence during the coming winter. COntribu-
tions of money or provisions can be sent to
the Mayor, Chairman of the Relief Com
mittee.
DISPATCHES from points in South
western Missouri and Kansas say Jesse James,
one of the notorious James boys, and sup
posed to be one of the gang who robbed the
railroad train at Glendale, Mo-, recently, was
shot and killed by former companion on the
I'd.
AT the meeting of the American
Woman's Suffrage Association in Cincinnati,
on the 9Th, the following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: President, Henry b.
Blackwell, Boston; Vice-Presidents, Il. W.
Higginson, Rhode Island; Mrs. Hazard, st.
Louis; Mary A. Livermore, Illinois; George
William Curtis, New York; George w. Julian,
Indiana; Theodore D. Weed, Massachusetts,;
Celia Burleigh, New York; Margaret V.
Langley, Cincinnati; Corresponding Secretary,
Myra BradWell. committee was appointed
to present memorials to all church organiza-
tions asking that equal rights be granted to
all members irrespective OF sex. A resolution
was also adopted urging auxiliary societies to
circulate petitions asking school, Presidential
and municipal suffrage, and present them to
the respective Legislatures. The next meet
ing will be held in Washington City the sec
ond Monday in December, 1880.
The funeral of Hon. Zach. Chandler
took place at Detroit on the 5th. All public
buildings, stores, and dwellings along the line
of the funeral procession were profusely
draped in black. Among the distinguished at
tendants from other States were Ex-United
States Senator Simon Cameron, of Penn
Bylvania, and his son Senator Don Cam
eron; Colonel Burch Secretary Of the United
States senate; Jesse Bright, Sergeant at Arms
of the United States Senate Senators Anthony
and Burnside, of Rhode Island; Senator Blaine
and wife; Senators Logan and Oglesby, Of
Illinois, Governors Cullom of Illinois, Foster
Of Ohio, and Smith Of Wisconsin.
GENERAL GRANT arrived at Galena,
ILL.,, his old home, on the 5th.
THREE Indians, confined in the Yo-
klma, Washington Territory, jail for murder,
and sentenced to be hanged on the 22d, at
tackled the jailer with asluDg-shot on the 1st,
and drove him to an adjoining room used as
an armory, where they seized muskets and
bayoneted him. The iailer got revolver and
shot all three, one mortally, The taller will
recover.
The remains of General Hooker ar
rived at Cincinnati on the 9th. The funeral
took place on the 7th.
MAJOR M. G. RENO, who was court
mArtialed two years ago, is in trouble again,
Charges have been preferred against him for
indecency toward woman and for drunken
ness. General Terry has declared a court
martial to try him to SIT at Fort Meade.
BY parties who profess to be inside
Of the movement In San Francisco 1t is as
serted that a very large proportion Of Mexico
Is dissatisfied with the Government of Dlaz,
that this dissatisfaction has taken the shape
of an organized revolutionary government,
which includes many of the most distinguished
Mexican soldiers and politicians, and that to
break which will involve several of the most
important Mexican States. An agent of the
Government of Restoration Of the Re-
public of Mexico is now In San
Francisco endeavoring to negotiate for
material and to further their schemes for the
The agent invites capitalists who are now
considering the scheme to supply the revolu-
tlOnary government with arms and military
supplies, In return for which they are to be
granted First, authority to organize Ma
tional Bank of Mexico, the notes of which are
to be legal tender for all debts, public and pri-
vate, and to be receivable In paymentfOr public
lands at the rate Of one dollar per acre, all
public lands In Mexico to be set apart for this
purpose; second, franchises for railways and
telegraphs throughout Mexico, and subsidies
In bonds and National bank notes sufficient
for construction third abolition of all duties
on importatlons of goods from the United
States into Mexico by land, The rights of
immigrants are guaranteed. Taxation and
service in the Mexican army for a stated
period Is TO be remtted, and religious tolera-
tlon assured.
A TERRIBLE disaster occurred atKan-
sas City, Mo-, on the afternoon of the 9TH.
The extensive cracker and candy mandatory
Of earle Il Sons, occupying four brick three
story buildings tumbled down and was com
pletely consumed by fire. At the time the
accident occurred l07 persons, mostly boys
and girls from twelve TO twenty years Of age,
were at work In the factory, all of whom es-
capped alive, except six. The cause of the
accident could not be fully determined, but
as an explosion occurred simultaneously with
the fall of the walls, It Is supposed to be
repetition of the accident In New York last
year, a starch explosion.
THE official returns of the October
election in Iowa show; Gear, Republican,
for Governor, 1851; Trimble, Democrat,
35,0l7; Campbell, Greenbacker, As, 400; Dun
gan, Prohibition, 8,95S; total vote, 291, 1915. !
9ear's majority over Trlmble, 72,495; over
Campbell, III, ,464; over all others combined,
%, ,SOS
THE Indians under Victoria have
been driven out OF Arizona into Mexico. The
Mexican Consul at Tucson has notified his
Government of the fact that It may proceed
against the hOstiles.
AT Campbell's store, AtascOsa Coun-
sy, Texas, on the 4th, Captain Hall with a
quad OF Rangers and several citizens, anticl-
Dating an attempt to pillage the store, con-
,ealed themselves to CAPTURE the robbers.
During the night five men rode up
md entered the store. Two secured |
he clerk, while the Others began plum,
iering the store. Hall aud party appeared
their surrender. The robbers
Ined on the Rangers WOundIng q citizen.
ialf6 men returned the fire, killing one rob
ler, m0rtally wounding another, and slightly
a third The nthpra' aaeaupd