Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-06-05
Domestic.

THE delegates from Mississippi to
the National Democratic Convention go un-
instructed, nor was there any expression indi-
eating the preference of the Convention.
THE Supreme Court of California, on
the 9th ult-, ordered the release of Kearney.
THERE were thirty-two cases of sun
stroke in New York and Brooklyn on the 9th
ult., six Of which we're fatal.
POSTMASTER GENERAL KEY was con-
firmed as United States Judge of the Eastern
Tennessee District on the 9th ult. The
nomination of Mr.. Maynard, now Minister to
Turkey, was taken up, but seriously opposed
by the Democratic members and finally laid
over.
The Superior Court of San Francisco.
on the 9th ult., sustained the general de-
murrer Of Kalloch against the impeachment
proceedings by the Board of Supervisors and
dismissed the case.
GENERAL HATCH, on the oath ult.,
struck the camp of the hostile Apaches at the
head water of the Polomas River in New
Mexico and routed them completely. The
scouts and soldiers engaged claim that fifty
five Indians were killed.
A WASHINGTON, dispatch on the 9th
ult. stated that the Secretary of State had
received a telegraph dispatch from Mr.. Far
man, Consul General at Cairo, that the
obelisk and pedestal had been placed on
board of a steamer which would sail in q fort
night for the United States.
In the Court of General Sessions at
Kingstree, s. c.. on the 26th ult., a man named
Ward was found guilty of forgery, and as
soon as the verdict was announced he rose
from his seat within the bar, drew a pistol
and fired twice deliberately at two men, the
principal witnesses against him, wounding
Dne of them in both hands.
SEVERAL witnesses were examined in
the Whitaker case at West Point on the 2Sth
ult. Recorder Sears then summed up the ev-
idence, taking the ground that Whitaker was
the author of his own assault. He was fol-
lowed by Lieutenant Knight, counsel for
Whitaker, who claimed that there was moth
fng in the evidence to show that Whittaker's
story was not true. At the conclusion of his
argument the court adjourned sine die and the
Whitaker inquiry ended.
The Nevada Democratic State Con-
vention, held at Winnemucca on the
g7th ult. by a vote of ffty-eight to thirty
six declared Tilden the preference OF the
party.
FIVE persons were hanged in different
parts of the country on the 2Sth ult. Peter
King, for murder, at Woodsfeld, Ohio; Charles
Boiling (colored) at Hanover Court House,
Va, for rape; Thos. Edmunds, at Little Rock,
Ark. for murder; L. L. Ford Marion, Ark,
murder and Henry Hanlin, Hartford, Conn.,,
murder.
! TwoMEN, James Reed and James Ed
wards, instantly killed each other in Buena Wis
ia, Texss, on the 2Sth ult. They had had some
trouble. and upon meeting drew revolvers and
fired two shots at each other. Both fell
dead.
A DISASTROUS rain storm passed over a
portion of Texas on the 2Sth ult. At San Saba,
two children, who had taken refuge in a cave,
were drowned. At Brackettville the water
in Main Street was from five to eight
In the town, and more than twenty were re-
ported drowned along Los Moras creek, near
town.
. The Amalgamation Association of
Iron and Steel Workers at Pittsburg on the
2Sth ult., demanded an increase in wages
which was refused by the manufacturers.
The strike will throw 5000 men out of work
in the district.
r. A. MORRIS, an assistant in the
Congressional Library, was entrusted with
s3, 800 to pay the employees on the 2Sth ult., and
shortly after leaving the Treasury he returned
with a package wrapped up like the one con-
nothing but red tape. He said he had been
robbed. Morris has been dissipating of late
and it is thought he made the exchange.
The M. E. General Conference, at
Cincinnati, closed on the 2sth ult. Episcopal
residences were fixed at New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Syracuse, Cincinnati,
Chicago, St. Louis, Atlanta or Chattanooga,
St. Paul, Mimi, Austin, Texas, Des Moines
and San Francisco.
AT the session of the Baptist Publica-
tion Society at Saratoga, on the 2Sth ult., the
following officers were elected: President,
George T. Hope, New York; Vice Presidents,
Samuel a. Crozier, Pennsylvania; Hon; J.
Warren Merrill, Massachusetts,; E. L. He'd
strom, New York; Edward Goodman, Illinois
Secretary, Benjamin Griffith; Recording Sec
retary, j. Howard Gendell, Pennsylvania
Treasurer, William N. Petit. The report to
celebrate the centennial of Robert Raikes on
the last Sunday in June was adopted.
FIVE deaths and many cases of pros
tration from heat were reported in New York
City on the 2Sth uit.
DECORATION day was very generally
observed Throughout the Eastern and North
ern States. ....-...--