Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-03

follows; Garfield, 1s5, 1876; Hancock, 1871 ,sOl
Weaver "a, SOS; Dow, 9l2
W. @. FISH and Peter Schultz were
severely injured by boiler explosion at To
ledo, Ohio, on the 22d.
AT Napa, Cal, on the 22d, five chill
dren Of Charles Bochringer we're burned to
death while locked In house during the ab.
sence Of their parents.
ANEW census is to be taken in South
Carolina to set at rest an doubts as 10 the cor.
rectness Of the official count.
LIEUTERANT-GOvERN GRAY Of In
diana was, on the 22d, Installed in the vacancy
caused by Governor Williams death.
LAKEnayigation was practically closed
on the 22d.
FIVE persons were fatally poisoned
at wedding reception at Kingston, Tenn,
on the 23d, by arsenic used In the cake in
stead Of soda. Thirty more guests were dan
gerously m.
BEN HAssELMAN, an inmate Of the st.
Peter (Minn.) Asylum, was arrested on the
23d on suspicion Of having fred the building.
He made a confession that he committed the
deed. He says he was badly treated and
tried to burn the building down In revenge.
BE was considered a mild case and allowed
the run Of the building.
JUDGE ROBERT j. BRECKRNRIDaE, OF
Louisville, KY, has been appointed Supreme
Treasurer Of the Knights Of Honor.
A BANK in process of excavation on
the Hastings & Dakota Railroad fell upon
the men working under II, on the 23d, killing
instantly Thomas Fitzpatrick, James Ward,
FrankJohnson and Perry Sommers, and in
iuring Abe Parsons so that he will probably
die.
PROFESSOR JAMES g. WATSON, an
eminent scientist and astronomer, Of the Wis
consin State University, at Madison, died on
the 2Sd. .f
BY reason Of q mistake Of some Of
the election officers in Indiana the votes cast
for Benjamin G.. Parker as Elector on the Re.
publican ticket in several counties In the
State were returned for Thomas w. Bennett.
who was not candidate. The tickets for the
whole State were printed by the State Central
Committee and were correct, but the poll.
books and tally sheets, which we're, under the
law, provided by the local authorities, CON
tained by mistake the name OF Bennett, who
had declined, aud for whom Parker had been
substituted. The attention OF the election
officers and local committee IN every precinct
IN the statewas called TO the change, aud ev-
cry precautlOn urged 10 see that the proper
corrections were made IN the tally sheets and
poll-boOkB, and IL Is only by the carelessness
OF the election officers that the votes that
were cast for Benjamin L. Parker should he
returned for Thomas w. Bennett. The error
Affects several thousand votes and under GER
tain circumstances may lead to a certificate
being given 70 one OF the Hancock Electors,
who has received larger vote on the face OF
the returns than that counted for Parker.
The military commander of the Ute
reservation has been instructed to repel any
and all intrusion by force.
j. F. DUNN was killed at Alma, Cal,
on the 25th, bv ssnow slide which carried him
5000 feet down the mountain side. .,...
A SYNDICATE of American and En-
gllsh brokers has been formed to furnish S4O,-
100000 to complete the Northern Pacific Rail
way. 1'
A PARTY of five miners going from
Georgetown, Col, to North Park, on the Goth
ult., were precipitated In an immense snow
slide In Continental Divide. @, II. Eaton and
Thomas Granz were killed and James Frazer
had thigh broken in two places. The re-
naming two, Nelson and Sander, escaped
with several bruises. The party had been out
in the storm five days and were nearly fam.
iShed when the accident occurred. .l.
MARCUS DELAFAYETTE HANLRY was
hanged at Salem, Va, on the 26th ult., for
the murder Of Zachariah Hayes in June, 1879.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
The Nihilists at st. Petersburg have
distributed among the worklngmen violent.
ly seditlous address.