Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-22

The proposals to sell bonds to the
Government, on the 18th, aggregated So, 7S4,-
5OO of which the Secretary of the Treasury ac-
ccpted 100000.
A COLUMBIA, S. c., colored man
named Bird, killed his wife with and
then cut her head off on the 11th. He then
went to pond and drowned himself.
AUGUSTINE PAETz was cremated at
Washington, Pa, on the 18th.
HENRY S. FooTE, Ex-Governor of
Tennessee, now Superintendent of the Mint
at New Orleans, was lying at the point of
death on the 10Th.
SECRETARY OF WAR RAMSEY, in re-
sponse to resolution of Congress calling up
on him for information as to a saving in ex-
penditures resulting to the Government from
the construction of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road, submitted report on the 18th, which
states that the Quartermaster's Department
paid fully six times much for transportation
TO all points of the department now reached
by railroad as it has since the railroads were
constructed, which would indicate a saving to
the Government of over 50, 000, 900 in the cost
of military transportation during the ten years
the Northern Pacific Railroad has been in OPP
Grafton.
Four villages, Otto City, with pop
ulation of 100; Middaughville, population 80;
Morrisburg, population 100; and Oil Center,
population $50, all located in the oil region
by the recent fire in that neighbor-
hood. Five hundred and sixty pounds of
nitro glycerine in magazine, near Duke
Center, exploded during, the fire with
slightly injured. The explosion was
heard for miles. Altogether. nearly or quite
$50 oil well rigs were destroyed, and probably
one hundred thousand barrels of oil. The total
loss will reach S400, 900.
A FEARFUL conflagration took place
at West Liberty, Ohio, on the afternoon of
the 18th, consuming the greater part of the
two principal blocks in the town. The Odd
Fellows Hall, reading room and post-office
were all consumed Thirty-five business firms
had their rooms burned out.
A MOB of about one hundred masked
men surrounded the jail at Osceola, Mo-, on
the morning of the 18th, took therefrom three
men charged with murder and hanged them.
EDWIN HoYT was hanged at Bridge
port, Conn.,, on the 18th.
BRANDT. Humme1 and Wise, who
murdered an old man named Raber, upon
whose life they held an insurance of $40, 600,
were hanged at Lebanon, Pa, on the 18th.
THE Committee on Ways and Means,
on the 18th, fixed on May 81 for the adjourn
ment of Congress.
TIE forest fires on Pocono Mountain;
in the vicinity of Scranton, Pa, covered an
area of twenty miles wide on the 18th. Over
one million feet of lumber had been consumed
at one point
On the morning of the 18th, a shaft
in an iron mine located eight miles from Nor
way, Mich, caved in, burying sixteen miners;
The shaft was fifty feet deep and contained
five feet of water. Four of the miners were
killed.
A FIRE broke out in the car works al
Milton. Pa, on the 14th and heavy north
west wind prevailing it was impossible te
check the progress of the flames until the en-
tire business portion of the town was destroy
cd. About four hundred buildings wer,
burned, including all the churches Severa
persons persisted in the flames. Estimated
loss, 81 500, 1000; Insurance $S0o,0o0.
SCARCELY an acre of timber-land car
be found in the vicinity of Hanover, N. j. all
destroyed by recent forest fires. Over on,
hundred square miles of valuable berry bogs
timber lands and vineyards were destroyed.
A SPECIAL train of four cars, pulled
by new locomotive which has but one ST,
and half foot driving wheel on each side, wa
run on a trial trip on the 18th, between Phila
delEbia and Jersey City and accomplished dis
taace o. ninety miles IL ninety-seyen minutes
At the M. E. General Conference a
Cincinnati, on the 14th, the following person
were elected editors of the denominational pub
Iications: J. NJ. Buckley, Christian Adoocatt
New York; ID. ID. Wheedon, Quarterly heoie,o; j
ii. Vincent, editor of Sunday-school publica
tfons and Secretary of Sunday-school and trac
societies; w. s. Hoyt, Pester7. Christian IA