Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-13

or three persons were reported killed. Two
policemen were killed at Toledo by falling
chimney. A number of buildings were seri-
ously damaged. At Cleveland the west end
of wire mill, in which number of men and
| boys were at work, was blown in and five men
and boys buried in the falling debris. One
| of the men lived but a short time after being
removed from the bricks and the Others were
more or less injured.
The Ohio Prohibition State Convention was
held at Columbus on the 5th. W. H. Doan,
| of Cleveland, was nominated fof Secretary of
State. The platform adopted reaffrms the
principles and measures heretofore declared
| by the party in State and National Conven-
tions.
The Governor of Virginia, on the 5th, vetoed
| the Reputation bill.
| At Oberlin, Ohio, on the 9th, William
Mitchell, barber, shot his wife and step
father and then killed himself. The woman
will probably die. The step-father's wound
was but trifing.
The Louisiana Democratic State Conven-
| ton has been called for April 18th, to select
delegates to Cincinnati.
| Placards were being posted in San Francisco
on the Sth warning the employers of Chinese to
desist from that practice, and vaguely limiting
at terrible consequences in the event of refus
| al General Mcdowell, commanding the mill
| tary division of the Pacific, has been ordered
| to move all available troops to San Francisco
| to be posted where they can be most effect
| lively used in case their services should be re-
Quired.
The Citizens Protective Union of San Fran
| cisco issued al manifesto on the 9th, counsel
| ing all parties to obey the laws, and warning
| the vicious and reckless men who have organ
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planning mischief to the people. to first count
| the cost before engaging in riot, violence or
| confagration.
| The express office at Sidney, Neb., was
robbed of about $4,000 in gold bullion on
| the 10Th, but all except S13, coo was afterward
| found under pile of coal near the depot.
The gross earnings of the Union Pacific
Railroad for the year ending December 81,
| 1879, were S13,201, or; operating expenses,
including taxes, IS, 475, SOB; surplus earnings,
| 81, ,725, ,574.
| Mayor Kalloch, of San Francisco, issued
| proclamation on the 10th, declaring in the
most emphatic manner that there was
not then and never had been the
| slightest reason to apprehend any dis
| turbance, riot or lawlessness whatever
| from the working classes of that city; that
the most inexcusable and outrageous means
were being used by designing men to goad the
workingmen into rietous demonstrations, but
they would fail.
The Cincinnati Price Cur rent, on the 11th,
! published special returns from nearly three
hundred points in the West in regard to the
growing wheat crop, indicating almost uni
formly favorable condition and fiattering
prospects.
| The Alabama Republican State Convention
for the selection of delegates to the National
| Convention, has been called for May Goth.
| Weston and O'Leary commenced six days.
| tramp at San Francisco on the Sth.
| FOREIGN, ,1NTELLIGENCE.
| The London Times says there will be an un-
usual rush of emigrants from Great Britain
| to the United States during the present year,
owing to the revival of trade in the latter
| country.
| The would-be assassin of General MehkoH
was tried on the 4th and sentenced to be
hanged on the 5th. He gave his name as
| Modetsky, ard stated that General MelikoH
would be killed by some of his comrades.
| A Vienna dispatch says that extraordinary
precautions were taken to preserve order in
| st. Petersburg during the celebration of the
Czar's twenty-fifth anniversary of his acces-
| sion to the throne. All public works were
| guarded by an extra force of military, and
mounted patrols secured the town.
Six persons were killed and thirty severely
wounded by boiler explosion at Glasgow,
Scotland, on the 5th.
| Two men visited the apartments of
the Russian Ambassador at Paris on the
9th, and threatened to kill him If he
persisted in pressing the extradition of
| Hartmann. The men were disguised
but the Ambassador recognized them
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Russian educational institution, and Colonel
in the Russian army who distinguished him
self in the Russo Turkish war and was after
ward decorated by the Czar.
Norman McLeod's house at Scottstown,
| Quebec, was destroyed by fire on the 9th and
/ two of his children were burned to death.
The official paper at Panama states that
| respectable company of American capitalists
| and French bankers among which figures the
| name of Rothschild. and which will be pre-
sided over by General Grant and Admiral Am
men, will be organized as soon as aconcession,
which will be asked from that Government, is
| obtained.
| The London Standard, on the Sth, referring
! to the United States claim for preponderat-
| ing influence in the Panama canal says: "This
| pretension the British Government is bound
to watch, and if necessary to resist. No more
| at Panama than at SueZ can the prepOnderat-
ing influence of another power be allowed to
| lay hands on the trade of England"
Lord Beaconsfeld addressed letter to the
/ Duke of Marlborough on the Sth respecting
the measures for the relief of Ireland, and
| which we're about to be submitted for royal
assent Lord Beaconsield states that the
acts of the agitators which represented En-
| gland, instead of being generous and SYM
/ pathizing friend, as Indifferent to the dangers
| and sufferings of Ireland, have been defeated
| by measures at once liberal and prudent,
| which Parliament almost unanimously sane
| toned.
A Vienna dispatch, on the 9th, stated that
| the ice in the Vistula River blockaded and
caused an overflow near Dzitova and flooded
thirty villages come of which were complete
/ ly destroyed. Thousands of persons were with
out shelter or food.
Turkish troops have been sent to Salonica
to pursue the brigands who captured Colonel
| SYnge and wife.
At Moscow, on the Sth, twenty buildings
| were destroyed by fire. Twenty-four persons
perished in the flames, and twenty nine were
| injured.
Reports from the interior of Cuba state that
| the sugar cropis about forty per cent smaller
than that of last year.
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