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

A Salt Lake City dispatch Of the 10th states
that brother Of the Ute Chief Douglass, with
l5O White River Indians, men and women,
eRcamped near Salina, Utah, had asked a
merchant TO got them forty kegs Of powder,
They were well mounted, clothed and equipped
It was rumored that certain Utah bands were
to rendezvous at Salina Camp for pow-wow
The people there apprchend trouble
Dr. Livingston, ex-lndian Agent, has been
acquitted again, making the fifth case without
conviction.
The little village Of Otscy, Scott County,
H., was nearly destroyed by a wind-storm on
the night Of the 9th. Twenty buildings were
either totally or partially destroyed. No lives
were lost.
The town Of Guthrie, station on the
Springfield division of the Illinois Central
Railroad, aud which contained only half-a-
dozen houses, was destroyed by fire on the 10th.
The ihe was caused by a lightning stroke.
Two colored men were drawn for the first
time for jurors In the Maryland courts on the
tlth.
An Arizona dispatch says Victoro lost
eleven killed in the recent fight with Kramer
The explosion Of nearly one hundred pounds
of giant powder at the blacksmith shop of the
High Lode mine, Central CITY, Dakota on the
ilth instantly killed three men. The bodies
OF all three were blown into atoms and beyond
recognition. Pieces Of flesh, bones, ETC., were
scattered over a mile square IN all directions,
the largest piece found being a mans head.
A lodging house was burned at ST. Louis on
the llth, and four men were sufIocated. Sew
erai dodgers jumped from third story windows,
their exit by the stairs being cut oil, and were
more or less injured.
A terrible explosion occurred at Fort Nc
Henry on the nth, which resulted IN the in-
slant killing Of six persons and the wounding
OF two others. The parties were engaged I'm
breaking up condemned shrapnell shells.
Two men were burned TO death In lire at
Danvnle, Va, on the 9th.
The Nevada Republican State Convention,
held at Austin on the 11th instructed the
delegates 10 the National Convention to vote
as a unit for James q. Blaine.
The contest between the railroad company
and settlers on the land claimed by the com
pany, In what Is known as the Mussel Slough
district, In Tulare and Fresno Counties, Cal,
eliminated on the lith IN tragedy. United
| States Marshal Poole, who was sent from San
Francisco to serve writs OF ejectment on set
/ tiers by virtue Of decision Of the Circuit
Court In favor Of the railroad company was
fired upon by settlers, and In the dght which
followed four men were killed and two wound.
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AZ the General Methodist Conference al
Cincinnati, on the llth, II was resolved TO In.
crease the number Of Bishops by the election
Of four new ones.
The Michigan Republican State Convention,
held at Detroit on the l2th, adopted a resolu
tion declaring that the choice Of the Republic
ans OF that State for President is James
G., Blaine, and requested the delegates TO the
Chicago Convention 10 use all proper efIorti
70 secure his nomination. The Convention
also passed resolution recommending
Thomas W. Ferry IA a at candidate for nom
inatlon for Vice President. A resolution op