Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-11

the finest display Of milling machinery and
products ever seen.
BALTIMORE colored Post G. A. R., got
Into o row about the payment Of drinks in
saloon on the line Of march to decorate
graves on the 91st ult Police interfered and
fired on the crowd, killing one man and
wodnding several persons, among whom was
a woman.
THE steamer Golden Eagle. of the
Keokuk Northern Packet Company, burned
TO the water's edge at Martins Landing, about
thirty miles above Alton, ILL.,, on the morning
Of the 3lst ult. Three persons were reported
lost,
A GALVESTON NelOS special from Dal-
las, on the 1st, stated that a desperate attempt
at robbery had occurred near Clear Lake,
Collin County. A farmer named Bradley left
5000 he had received for cattle with his wife
for safe keeping. A stranger who asked to
stay all night was given a pallet on the gal
lery. About midnight he saw two men who
he supposed belonged 20 the family enter but
hearing cries of murder he looked through the
blinds and saw the woman on the bed with
her throat cut. Snatchlng arevolver he sprang
toward the door and fred, killing both the
parties. Mounting a horse he rode TO the
nearest neighborhood aud, accompanied by
party, returned. Mrs. Bradley and both the
robbers were dead, one of whom was shot
through the head. The robbers proved to be
Mrs. Pruett and her daughter, the former
sixty years old and the owner Of considerable
property and an independent Inheritance of
$4,000.
A LITTLE Rock, ARK, dispatch on
the 1st, stated that the Governor Of that State
had received information from Texarkana
that mob had attempted to take from jail
and lynch a negro, arrested for attempted
rape. The friends Of the prisoner fred upon
the mob. The fire was returned and eight
persons were reported wounded, some fatally,
as is supposed
The Colorado River, at Columbus,
Texas, stood nineteen feet above low water
mark on the 3lst ult -Four dead bodies were
seen floating down the river.
THE Senate, on the I'd, confirmed
Horace Maynard as Postmaster General.
A BAND Of Indians attacked United
States mail coach near Fort Cummings New
Mexico, on the Both ult,, killing the driver and
four passengers.
SHERRARD CLEMENS, for thirteenyears
member Of Congress from Virginia. died
pauper at st. Louis a few days ago.
TWENTY-FIVE lives were lost, $780,
900 worth Of property destroyed, and thou
sands of sheep drowned by the late flood at
Bracket, Tex.
SEVERAL persons took refuge in a
drug store at Garrett City, Ind, during a
thunderstorm, recently. A little later the
building was struck by lightning, one man
being killed and five others seriously injured.
The Navajoes and Utes have had q
grand pow-wow near Terra Arnulla, New
Mexico, anditis understood the result of the
council was to make war in common on the
whites.
THE delegates to the National Demo-
cratic Convention from Alabama were not in
structed The preference is generally under.
stood to be for Field, Thurman, Bayard and
Hancock. 1t is understood that none are for
Tilden.
The South Carolina delegates to the
National Democratic Convention are reported
to be unanimously for Bayard.
II. r. H.. Prince LEOPOLD, of En-
gland, attended the Republican Convention
at Chicago on the 4th, and remained a spec
tator for about an hour and "A half
THOMAS j. CHURCHILL, was nomina-
ted for Governor by the Arkansas Democratic
Convention on the 4th.