Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20
The Louisiana Republican State Convention

The Louisiana Republican State Convention
meets at New Orleans, May "a.
The Iowa Legislature, on the 10th, adopted
the Senate substitute for the House prohibit
tion Constitutional amendment, by vote of
sixty-six to twenty six. The amendment, as
it will 60 to the next Legislature for ratifica-
ton, provides that no person within the State
shall manufacture for sale, or sell, or keep for
sale as a beverage, any intoxicating liquors
whatever, including ale, wine and beer.
The Missouri Democratic State Convention,
for the selection of delegates to the Cincin-
natl Convention, will be held at Moberly on
the Goth of May.
Calvin Roberts, colored, was shot at Sena-
tobia, Miss, on the night of the 18th, while
placing obstructions ON the track of the Mis-
sissippi 81 Tennessee Railroad.
johnson Debois was hanged at Pontiac, ILL.,,
on the 18th for the murder of Miss Ella Mar
tin.
The Michigan Greenback State Convention
was held at jackson on the 17th.- Delegates
were appointed to the National Convention.
One hundred masked men entered the Jail
at Winchester, ILL.,, on the night of the 18th,
and opening the cell of Joseph j. Field dis
patched him with number of pistol shots.
At Chicago, on the 18th, Martin Powers, in
a fit of insane dependency, shot his wife,
probably fatally, and then fred two shots into
his own head, causing instant death.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Smallpox is causing much alarm at Paris.
The Russian expedition to Merv has been
abandoned for the present.
The Russian Revolutionary Committee has
published an address thanking the French
people for refusing the extradition of Hart
mann.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says General
Melikof was saved by chain shirt when
VlodetskY attempted to assassinate him. The
bullet tore hole In his coat, but was arrested
by the protecting mail.
The Nihilist Revolutionary Committee at
st. Petersburg has sent notice to General
Melikoff that Vladetsky's attempt on his life
was not made by order of thecommittee; that
| they had not yet decided to kill him, and that
| If the recent attempt had been made by their
direction they would have provided better
weapons and means Of flight for his sssailant.
A wide spread famine exists in Armenia
| and Kurdistan. The accounts received at Con-
stantinople are appalling. An appeal for help
has been published by the Archbishop of Can
| terbury, Marquis of Salisbury and Earl of
| Shaftesbury.
| A dispatch from Victoria, British Columbia,
| on the 18th, states that the destruction of
stock by the cold in some parts of that coun-
| try is very great. Scores of stock raisers will
| be reduced from affiuence to poverty. The
snow was then from three to five feet in depth,
| and there was no evidence of thaw. The
loss is estimated roughly at $1,000, 600.
| A London dispatch of the 18th says Chung
| How, late Chinese Ambassador to Russia, has
not been beheaded as reported. He is under
sentence of death, but it is thought probable
/ the sentence will be committed.
| A Capetown, South Africa dispatch, says af
| fairs in Basutoland are critical in consequence
of the determination of the Cape Government
| to insist upon disarmament of the natives.
The French Senate, on the 10th, passed
bill embodying the agreement of the Posta
Money Order Convention with the United
States.
A census of st. Petersburg is being taken
and all persons without fixed occupation o.
means of subsistence will be expelled from
the city.