Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04
wFsT AND SOUTH.

JEST AND buDAha
Two BROTHERS, Bill and Bud Bussly, |
fought duel in the Indian Territory recent |
Vi. Bill was killed.
A BOLT occurred in the Louisiana Re- !
publican State Convention, held at New Or
leans on the oath. Pinchback and Judge
Beattie, with thirty-six delegates left the hall
and organized another convention. The reg
ular convention elected sixteen delegates, who
are said 70 stand seven for Sherman, seven for
Grant, one for Blaine and one Senator Kel-
logg), preference not known. The boiling
Convention elected full Grant delegation to
Chicago,
FOURTEEN persons were killed and
twenty-three wounded in the railroad accident
on the South Pacific Coast Railroad, near San
Ia Cruz, Cal, on the 23d.
THE Greenback headquarters have
been opened at the Palmer House in Chicago,
with General B. F. Butler IN charge.
THIRTY-Two Indian Chiefs of the
Sioux Nation arrived at Yankton, Dakota, on
the oath, on their way TO Washington and the
Carlisle Indian School.
AT the M. E. General Conference at
Cincinnati, on the oath, It was agreed to hold
the next meeting in Philadelphia.
AT Piqua, Ohio, on the 25th, barrel
Of gasoline exploded in the cellar of the resi-
! dence Of Mrs. DIR. Jones. The house imme-
| diately caught fire and two boys aged respect
| fully ten and fourteen perlshed In the flames.
Miss Kate Newlaud, a sister Of Mrs. Jones,
and Mr.. Fred Amendt, were dangerously
burned Mr.. Amendt and the two boys
had gone into the cellar 20 look for a leak in
the gasoline barrel. One of them lit a match
and the explosion followed instantly.
A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone passed
through Mitchell, Dakota Territory, on the
25th, doing much damage to life and proper
ty. sseyeral persons were killed aud a number
badly injured. Many buildings were blown
down.
The St. Louis Republicans special
from Santa Fe says advices from Los Lunos
states four more ranchmen have been killed
near Tulerosa by Indians, and estimate that
in soroces County and Magule, in the mount
aims, some fifty Mexican herders and five
Americans, including two women, have been
massacred. The number killed since the
first of May Is said to be seventy-eight.
The Colorado Republican Conven-
tion, held at Denver on the 25th, adopted a
resolution requesting the delegates TO Chlca-
90 TO use all honorable means to secure the
election OF Grant. Another resolution was
adopted that while the Republican party OF
Colorado express preference for the nomi-
nation Of General Grant they recognize in
James G. Blaine one Of the purest patriots
and most able men that America has ever pro
duced.
In the Delaware Democratic State
Convention at Dover on the 25th, resolutions
we're adopted instructng the delegates to vote
for Senator Bayard for President, aud recon-
mending the National Convention to adhere
TO the two-thirds rule.
THE President has nominated James
o. Putnam, OF New York, Minister to Bel
gium, vice William Corsin Goodloe, resigned
Two Peoria brewers roomed together
recently. One retired early locking his com
panlon out The latter got a key, entered
, the room, kicked and stamped the sleeper h
death and fed.
, The Wabash River has overhowed it'
banks and greatly damaged crops in Indiana
! JUSTICE JARVIS, of StatesviIle, Nortl
Carolina, dropped dead the other day while Il
the act Of marrying a couple.
ROBERT KEIGH, cashier of the Sal
Jose, Cal, bank, committed suicide on tn
25th. He was defaulter TO the amount G
$4,000.
The following ticket was nominate
by the West Virginia Greenback Convention
held at Charleston on the Goth; Governor
Colonel N. b. French; Auditor, G, w. Hayes
Treasurer, 8. w. Sturm; Superintendent {
! Public Schools, W. j. King; Attorney Ger
: eral, Cyrus Hall; Judge of the Supreme Cour
/, j. A. Thompson.
SENATOR Brown, of Georgia, pre-
, sented his credentials on the 26th and wa
sworn in,
The Missouri Democratic State Con
vention for the selection of delegates to tn
:, Cincinnati Convention, was held at Moberl
IS or the 26th. The convention reafirmed tn
d declaration Of the principles enunciated b
r, the st. Louis convention of 1875 and declare
its faith in the honest integrity and exhalte
:. patriotism OF Samuel J. Tiljen and Thomt
d A. Hendricks, without expressing any prefe
h enee as 10 who shall receive tho nominatio
p Of the Democratic party at Cincinnati.
! resolution In favor OF the two-thirds rule
=, selecting candidates for President and vi,
~ President was adopted.
THOMAS THURsTON, who killed h
y business partner at Leavenworth, Kan, la
: January, met r. d. Anthony, editor Of d
" Times, on the street on the 28th, and aft
y passing him turned and fired two shots
"a him, neither of which took effect One
~ them, however, struck John p. Douglas
q making a severe scalp wound, and the 9th
"a struck Lueien Baker, a lawyer, standing
- the sidewalk, in the left side aud about "
inches below the nipple, inaicting dangerol
II wound,
N TwENTY-sEvEN hundred miners WEI
on a strike In Denver Col, on the 26th. Tn
|" demanded an increase OF 81 per day
,e UP to May 20, 154, 9l2 head of catt
i had passed Forts Griffin and Worth, Tex
on the way 10 Kansas and Nebraska.
y THE Superior Court of San Francisc
= on the 27th ult., sustained the general
murrer of Kalloeh against the impeaohme
- proceedings by the Board Of Supervisors a
u dismissed the case.
20 THE delegates from Mississippi
=, the National Democratic Convention go UNI
structed nor was there any expression I'M
eating the preference Of the Convention.
- - The Supreme Court of California
>, the eth ult., ordered the release OF Kearn,
GENERAL HATCH, on the oath III
struck the camp OF the hostile Apaches at I
T" head water Of the Polomas River In New Nj
a. leo and routed them completely. The scol
~ and soldiers engaged claim that afty-hve
n dians were killed,
th In the Court of General Sessions
Kiugstree, s. c., on the 26th ult,, m
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