Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-27

uuuy IL sIldl Dc W d ecSslOu III every
county-seat in their respective districts three
plicants for pensions and witnesses in person.
The fees for making examinations, taking
declarations, and examining witnesses are to
be paid by the Government.
The President, on the oath, appointed James
B. Angel, of Michigan, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to China.
The House Committee on Indian Affairs con-
ciuded its examination of the Ute Indians on
the oath.
General Fl. E. Payne, Commissioner of Pat
ents, has rendered his resignation to take effect
as soon as the unfinished business of his Office
can be disposed of.
The Interior Department has been informed
that large numbers of Sitting Bulls band have
applied at Fort Peck for rations, offering to
surrender their arms and ponies.
THk EAST.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State Conven-
ton will be held at Harrisburg on the 28th of
April.
The New Hampshire Democratic State Con-
vention to elect delegates to the National Con-
vention at Cincinnati will be held ON the 5th of
May.
The Rhode Island Republican State Conven-
H. Littlefield was nominated for Governor and
Henry II. 10y for Lieutenant-Governor The
delegation chosen to the National Convention
is understood to be unanimous for Blaine.
The Maine Legislative Committee, inquiring
into the conduct of Ex-Governor Garcelon and
Council made report on the 18th, charging
the Governor and Council, among other things,
with altering and forging election returns, and
diverting the different appropriations of the
Legislature from their legitimate purposes
During the progress of an entertainment at
public hall in Lincoln, Pa, on the night of
the Goth, at which about five hundred persons
were present, part of the floor gave way, pre-
cipitating between one hundred and one hun
dred and fifty persons to the floor below. About
thirty persons were injured, some seriously.
During the confusion the scholars rushed on
the stage, everturning two coal oil lamps, one
of which exploded, setting fire to the carpet,
but the fire was extinguished before any seri-
GUS damage was done.
The delegates to the National Convention
elected at the Rhode Island Democratic Con-
vention on the 22d, are understood to be for
Tilden if he is available. The following nom
nations for State officers were made: Gov
ernor, Horace NJ. Kimba1l; Lieutenant-Gov
ernor, Stephen P. Slocum; Secretary of State,
| roll; General Treasurer, Daniel B. Pond.
The Pennsylvania Greenback State Conven-
| tion was held at Harrisburg on the 23d. Res
olutions were adopted declaring that the Uni
| ted States shall issue all currency in gold, sill
yer and paper, all to be free legal tender for all
purposes public and private, and that there
| shall be no banks of issue, State or National
extending party sympathy and active co-opera
| ton to the workingmen of California in theil
efforts to combat the evils of Chinese cheas
| labor; that full restitution should be made tC
soldiers for the depreciation of the money il
| which they were paid; fayoring the regulation
/ of interstate commerce by Congress, and tht
| maintenance of tariff for the protection O.
American industry. Delegates were chosen tt
| the National Convention. F. P. Dewes wa
nominated for Supreme Judge, and A. J. Rob
erts for Auditor General. Hendrick B. Wrigh
| was endorsed for nomination for President.
| Up to the 23d 12, TO immigrants had arrived
| at New York City since the first of the month
| The majority of the new comers were Ger
| mans.
| The New York Greenback State Convention
was held at Albany on the oath. Delegate
were elected to the Chicago Convention ant
resolutions adopted similar to those adopte'
| by the Pennsylvania Convention.
| At Lawrenceville, Pa, on the oath, Sidne
| Green killed his wife, and being pursued sho
| himself dead.
The Rhode Island House of Representatives
on the 24th, adopted resolutions submitting t,
| the electors the proposition of an amendmen
| to the Constitution giving women school suf
| frage.
Dispatches from points in New Hampshire
Maine and Vermont, on the 24th, reportet
heavy gales with considerable depth of snow
| WEST AND SOUTH.
| The Illinois Democratic State Convention
has been called for June 10.
| At st. Louis, on the 18th, Conrad Hieman
who had been drinking heavily for some tim
past, assaulted his wife with large knife
driving the blade through the lungs of an in
| FAINT in Mrs. Hieman's arms He then strucl
another blow, burying the knife in the hear
of his wife, killing her almost instantly. 1
brother of Heiman attempted to seize tn
maniac murderer and received severe stab il
the back disabling him. Heiman afterwar
attempted to kill young son of his brothe
whom he stabbed, but the boy escaped by out
running the maniac Heiman was arrested
During the winter season of 1879 so, 2,525
219 hogs were slaughtered at Chicago, de
crease of Al, 1896 from the preceding year.
L OuC uuIulCa duA uAI9 hCSiOCoe IuCu3 w
men and children, passed through Memphi
on the 18th route to Liberia. They are a
advance lot of large number to follow froI
the vicinity of Helena, Ark. They sail frol
New York April Is.
The Louisville Coarier-Jour7sal, on th
10Th, had special from Grayson, KY, sta
ing that on the night of the 18th forty regul;
tors, assisting one hundred citizens, rode t
James Binion's house and asked for Joh
Boggs, quite notorious character, VIII
was concealed about the house. Binio
refused to open the door, and commenced
fusilade, and killing, it is believed, one
them. The regulators then broke in the doc
wounded Binion's wife, instantly killed Biniol
seized Boggs and hanged him to tree, an
severely whipped son of Binion for havin
joined in the fight.
At New Orleans, on the Goth, Edward {
Palmer, President of the Louisiana Bank, col
victed of embezzlement of the funds of IL
bank was sentenced to three years at hal
labor in the penitentiary. He has taken an a.
peal to the Supreme Court.
The House of the Good Shepherd, Cathol
orphan asylum and house of commitment Il
women, at st. Paul, Minn., was destroyed |
fire on the morning of the 21st Twenty-i'
children were asleep in the upper story, b.
through the efforts of the sisters all got o.
without injury.
Judge Hill, of Buchanan County, Va, WI
was indicted for refusing to put negroes {
; juries was acquitted ON the Goth.
The National Greenback party of Tenness
; will meet in State Convention at Nashville
May %.
t s'Pull up the rope, boys,' were the la
words of a desperate at Alma Colorado,
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