Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-26
West and South.

West and South.
IT was reported on the 18th that five
or ak men who recently left snverton, Col,
on prospecting trip had been killed by
Indians near'the Blue Mountains.
Four hundred frame-makers, en-
ployed in the Chicago furniture factories, re-
Gently struck for an advance Of fifteen per
cent. in their wages. .
ABOUT two hundred people attended
meeting in Chicago on the evening Of the
9Th, to listen TO an address by Mrs. Elizabeth
ComstoclS In behalf Of the colored refugees in
Kansas, and adopted a resolution inviting
$1,000 colored men from the South to settle In
Illinois.
A NUMBER of Chicago working men
held a meeting on the evening Of the 18th
and resolved that the Chinese in Chicago
must leave.
GENERAL MILES states, in his recent
telegram TO General Sheridan, announcing
the presence Of Sitting Bull on United States
territory, that he was reliably informed that,
while Sioux war parties had been depredating
on the settlements, their camps had been OBJ
tanning supplies from no less than four Gov
ernment trading establishments between the
Missouri River and the boundary line.
OK the 10th a number of employees in
the Pacific Railroad shops AZ 81. Louis struck
for higher wages.
A TELEGRAM was received in Wash
ington on the 10th from Los Pinos Agency
14th, stating that a number Of parties had
already stated number OF placer claims and
taken up ranches on the Ute Reservation,
and that others were preparing TO follow
The telegram says; "The next two
weeks will see the reservation swarming
with trespassers, and conflict is ineYita-
ble." Secretary Schurz at once notified the
! trespassers that their claims to land were
illegal, and would not be recognized, and
directed Ouray and the other chiefs then at
Washington 10 hasten home in order to exert
their influence for the preservation of peace
WHAT is reported 10 be a dangerous
e20 counterfeit United states Treasury note,
series Of 1875, has recently made its appear
ance In theWest.
DENIS KEARSEY, the San francisco
agltator who had been convicted Of using In
cendlary language in his sand-lot harranguss
was sentenced on the 10th 10 six months
hard labor in the House OF Correction and 10
/ pay u nNb vi WA3hbus AhA hNNNAAbg VI hNN NNh-
tence was a surprise to Kearney and his coun-
sci. In expectation Of nominal sentence
the latter had neglected 10 demand a jury
trial, and having now no recourse in that
direction they At once fled an appeal 70 the
Supreme Court, furnishing bonds In the sum
OF 5000.
A NUMBER of Chicago mercantile
firms have petitloned Congress for the pass
age OF uniform Bankruptcy law.
THE Democrats Of Missouri will hold
their State Convention TO elect delegates to
the Cincinnati Convention AZ Moberly. ON the
28th OF May The Convention for the noml,
nation OF State officers iS to meet on the 21st
OF July, Rt jefferson City
THE Louisiana Republican State Con-
ventou win be held In New Orleans on the
cath of May.
A STATE GREENBAoK CONVENTION
was held at Jackson, Mich. on the 17th. II,
e. Hodge, OF Jackson, was chosen Chairman,
and David Parsons, Of Wayne, Secretary.
The time for the meeting Of the National
! Convention being so neat, no report was
made by the Committee on Resolutions. The
following delegates to the National Conyen'
tion were chosen: II. s. Smith, Grand
Rapids; NJ. W, Field, Detroit; Walter Childs
st. Joseph County, Hubbard Taylor, Bay
City, e AN
In Chicago on The nth man named
| Clarence b, Davis, charged with having fOul
| wives, was held 10 bail I'm the sum Of Ss,0Ot
TO await trial for bigamy. In default Of bail
he was locked up. NF --r II
The Legislature Of Wisconslh al
ioumed Sins Do ON the nth. f.IlttNt
DURMG a recent " norther' inTesas
a man exposed TO It's fury was frozen "a
| death.
The Illinois State Central Commit
tee OF the National Observation-Disclosures party
| held a meeting In Chicago on the 18th, and
| decided 10 drop the word "Natonal" from
the name A call was ordered for the State
Convention 70 meet at Springfield on the 9isi
Of April.
The Democratic State Convention oI
Illinois to nominate candidates for State oil
GERS aud choose delegates to the Nationa
Convention is 70 be held at Springfield OF
the 10th Of June.
A MEETING in the interest of the
Illinois a Michigan Ship Canal project wa
held at Ottawa, H., on the 18th, speeche
were made by Governor Cullom, Mayor Har
hson, of Chicago, aud others. II was de
cided 10 interest members Of Congress II
The enterprise with view TO ultimate appro
prlations by the General Government.
A REoENT fire nearly destroyed thu
Pacific mail steamer City Of sydney AZ sh
was lying at her dock in the harbor Of Sal
Francisco.
A SENSATIONAL elopement, whicl
ended in the pepperng Of the lover and mar