Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-13

ever and by whomsoever such project shall be
commenced, on such political control of it as
will give security to our commercial and poIiti-
cal interests. A resolution was adopted provid-
ing for the appointment of board of officers of
eompietHng tH Y the double i tnrreted @ monftors Pur
tan, Monadnock, Amphr1trlte and Terror Con-
sloerap9n was resumed .. Sne ioii3ea. 9s assess @
was announced for the consideration Of pension
bills exclusively.
WASHINGTON.
A bill was reported to the House on the
4th, by Representative Aiken, making the De-
partment of Agriculture an Executive depart
ment and its head member of the Cabinet.
A very dangerous counterfeit one hundred
dollar note on the Pittsburg National Bank of
Commerce of Pittsburg, Pa, was detected at
the National Bank Redemption Agency at
Washington on the 5th.
Negotiations with the Utes were concluded
az Washington on the 9th. The Indians are
to surrender all their people implicated in
the murder of Agent Meeker and his en-
ployes; they cede to the United States all the
territory of the present Ute reservation in
Colorado; 100 acres of agricultural and 100
acres of grazing lands to each head of family
and one-half this amount to each single per-
son being set apart for the settlement
of Indians. The Southern Utes agree
to settle upon unoccupied agricultural lands
on the La Plata River, Colorado and New
Mexico, or in that vicinity. The Uncom-
pahgres go to Grand River, hear the mouth of
the Gunnison, Colorado. The White River
Utes will take up lands on the Uintah Reser-
vation in Utah. The Indians are to receive
500, coo in cash, the annuity now due them,
and in addition an annuity of S50, 600, making
S75, ,000 per year. The support of the Utes,
until they can become self-supporting, and
the education of their children is provided for.
Reports received at the Bureau of Statistics
show that the increase of imports during 1879
over the previous year amounted to nearly
$106, ,o00, 900, making decrease on balance of
trade of over $60. .000, 600.
The mail service for the next fiscal year has
been increased from fifteen to thirty per cent.
and the cost of transportation will be from
five to fifteen per cent. less than last year.
The announcement was made from the
Treasury Department on the 9th, that admir-
ably executed 800 co1nterfeits on the follow
ing banks were in existence: National Revere
Bank, Boston; Pittsfeld National Bank, Pitts
field, Mass; Merchants National Bank, New
Bedford, Mass; Second National Bank,
Wilkesbarre, Pa; Pittsburg National Bank
of Commerce.
Among the documents accompanying the
Presidents message on the Inter-Oceanic Ca
nal, was report from Secretary Evarts set
ting forth its entire diplomatic history, the
main point of which is that our treaty with
New Grenada is still in force, and that canal
communication should be accomplished In
accordance Herewith and with the concur
renee of the United States; that in
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must be deemed essential, it would be
to-day under the protection and guarantee of
the United States, and both its projectors and
the Government of New Grenada would be
authorized in certain contingencies to call
upon the Government Of the United States for
the fulfllment of the treaty obligation. In
deed, it is proper to add that on several occa-
sions the Government of the United States
has been called on to consider and enforce its
guarantee to the Government of Grenada of
its rights of sovereignty, property and neu-
trality in the Isthmus.
THE EAST.
At PHtston, Pa, on the 4th, Waring
SchooleY, aged fourteen, was found in the
outskirts of the city in an unconscious condi-
tion from the effects of a wound inflicted by
some unknown party. When the boy was
carried to his home the mother was SO over
powered by the sudden shock that she expired
almost instantly.
Royal B. Conant, ex-cashier of the Eliot Ma
tional Bank of Boston, recently convicted of
embezzlement, was sentenced, on the 5th, to
seven years. imprisonment.
An explosion of fire damp took place in a
mine near Scranton, Pa, on the 5th. One
mau was killed and eight others in the mine
at the time were supposed to be killed by the
foul air.
Two men were killed and number wounded
by the breaking of the skip in an iron mine
at Watertown, N. z, on the 5th.
There was $45, 600, 900 worth of gold bullion
in the New York assay Office on the 5th, ready
TO be transported to the Philadelphia mint for
coinage.
The Young Republican Association of Bos-
ton, on the 9th, adopted resolutions declaring
against Grant or Blaine.
While three men were attempting to cross
the Ohio River, at Beaver, Pa, on the 9th,
their skif capsized and all three were
drowned.
The Danforth Locomotive Works, at Pater-
son, N. j., were burned on the 9th. Loss
from $175, 600 to $500, 900.
In the municipal elections IN Maine on the
Sth, the Republicans carried Augusta, Ban
gor, Biddeford, Freeport, Belfast, Brewer,
Hampden, Newport, Pittsfeld and Wilford.
The Greenbackers elected their ticket at New
Berwick. Longsville and Atkinson, before
Democratic, elected the Republican ticket.
The New Jersey Democratic State Conven-
ton, to choose delegates to the Cincinnati
Convention, has been called for May 10Th.
At the charter election at Middletown, N.
T., on the 9th, five women were elected mem
bers of the Board of Education over five men.
WEST AND SOUTH.
The Greenback Congressional Convention
of the Shelby, Indiana, District, on the 4th,
renominated Gilbert De Lamatyr.
The Democrats Of Kansas will hold their
State Convention at Topeka on the 18th OF
May.
The Kentucky Democratic State Convention
to nominate delegates to the Cincinnati Con-
vention, has been called to meet at Lexing-
ton, June 18th.
Delegates from the State at large to the
National Convention were chosen by the In
diana Republican Central Committee on the
4th. General Benjamin Harrison heads the
delegation, and it is understood that it is
anti-Grant.
Ten delegates to the National Republican
Convention have already been chosen in North
Carolina, six of whom have been instructed
for Grant, and it Is expected the other dis
tricts, with one exception, will also be in.
structed for him.
Twenty States were represented in the Ma
tional Union Greenback Labor Convention
held at st. Louis on the 4th. Mr.. Preyor, o1
Ohio, Secretary of the National Executive
Committee, stated that this wing of the party
has nearly ten thousand clubs in wei
working order, and claimed 1900, ,0Ot
Greenback voters in the country Reso
lutions were adopted declaring that al
United States bonds be paid In such money
as the Government has on hand or may issue
as the same are now due or shall be declared
due; opposition to all Interference by Con
gress with the official vote as declared b,
States; that the right of suffrage shall no
be denied to any citizen of the United
States who is twenty one years of age
that the Government shall never issue Uni
ted States bonds for any purpose what
ever; that the Government shall ali
heads of families seeking homes on Govern
ment lands, and that lands given to actua
settlers be exempt as homesteads. Stephe1
B. Dillaye, of New Hampshire, and B. J
Chambers of Texas, were nominated for Pres
ident and ice-President. The convention
adjourned to meet in Chicago on June Q, an(
special committee of one from each Stat,