Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-21

The Massachusetts Greenback Labor Con-
vention was held at Worcester on the nth.
Delegates at large were elected TO the Nation
al Convention.
The New York Senate, on the 11th, passed a
concurrent resolution TO amend the Constitu-
tion so as TO extend franchise to women.
The American sanday-sehool Union oele-
brated its ffty-sixth anniversary in Broadway
Tabernacle, New York City, on the 1lth. The
Union reported an increase Of missionary work
beyond the record Of any previous year. Dur
ing the year 1,217 new Sunday-schools were
organized, into which were gathered 46,T27
scholars. The aggregate work Of the Amcri-
can Sunday School Union for 6fty-six years is
summed up at 6s,4 ,431 new schools organized in
America, containing 4l,OS5 teachers and
29l6,599 scholars. The aggregate cost of
missionary work is 50, 549,5sS sunday-school
books and papers to the value Of over S7,OOO,-
900 have been sold and given away.
The steamboat City Of London, which ar
rived at New York City from London on the
18th, reported that on the 9th she was de-
tained six hours in field Of ice, and that on
the 9TH she passed an iceberg three hundred
feet high and seven hundred feet long, and
saw smaller ones during the day.
Another Calamitous eon1agration that
threatened TO surpass any Of the others that
have recently overwhelmed the oil region, was
sweeping through the northern field near Brad
ford, Pa, with terrible force, on'the 18th, car
rying all before it. The extensive district
known as OIL Valley and Tram Hollow had
been completely burned over. The villages Of
Middaughville and Oil Center we're reduced to
ashes, the people losing everything One
hundred thousand barrels Of oil we're de-
stroyed.
A dastardly attempt was made at New York
City on the 18th, by some party or parties to
Kill the Spanish Consul General by means of
an Internal machine.
Augustine Paetz was cremated at Washing
ton, Pa, on the 12th.
Rowell, the pedestrian. says he Is ready to
compete with Hart, Dobler or any man in the
world for $500 or el,OOOa side, but the match
must be open, (nobody barred) the winner to
take the entire stakes and half the gate money.
-Four villages, Otto City, with a population
Of 100; Middaughville, population so; Morris
burg, population 100, and Oil Center, popula-
tion $50, all located in the oil region near
Bradford Pa, were totally destroyed by the
recent fire in that neighborhood. Five hum
dred and sixty pounds Of nitro glyccrine in a
magazine, near Duke Center, exploded during
the fire with terrific force. Two or three men
were 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 Si00,0O0
The village of Stuyvesant, near Hudson, n.
Y, was destroyed by fire on the 18th, involv-
ing loss Of S2OO,OOO
The 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.
Brandt Hummel and Wise, who murdered
an old man named Raber upon whose life
they held an insurance Of $4,000, were hanged
at Lebanon, Pa, on the 18Th,
Chief Justice Sanford +. Church died sud
denly Of apoplexy, at his residence in Albion,
| n. Y, on the lith.
A fire broke out in the car works at Milton,
Pa, on the 18th, and heavy northwest wind
prevailingit was impossible to check the prog
ress Of the flames until the entire business
IblLlpN VI lut NoNu WIS htNlIOlths ABOUT
four hundred buildings were burned, including
all the churches. Several persons pcrished in
the flames, Estimated loss, 81, 100000; insur-
ance SSOO,OOO.
Scarcely an acre Of timber-land can be found
in the vicinity Of Hanover, N Jail destroy
ed by recent forest fires. Over one hund red
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 six and half
foot driying-wheel on each side, was run on
trial trip on the 18th, between Philadelphia
and Jersey City, and accomplished a. distance
Of ninety miles in ninety-scyen minutes.
The Mahonlng Powder Min, near Ashland,
Pa, exploded on the 18th, killing Edward Benz
man and iniuring five others.
The American Bible Society held its sixty
fourth annual meeting on the 18th. The an
nual reports showed the receipts of the year to
have been SGOS, ,342.
Edwin Hoyt was hanged at Bridgeport,
Conn, on the 18th.