Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-10
washington.

The Senate, on the 1st, rejected the
nomination of Alex. c. Wells, of Louisiana, to
be Surveyor of Customs for the District of New
Orleans.
THE House Committee on elections, on
the LIST, decided to adopt resolution declaring
Washburn's seat (Third Minnesota District)
vacant and recommending that the matter be
remanded to the people of the district for a
new election
PUBLIC debt statement for March:
Total debt, 81 161, ,629 293; total interest, s19,
S7o,573; cash in Treasury, s201, ,1O6,9 ,9s3; debt
less cash in Treasury s, $50, ,392, ,ss4; decrease
30, 1879, SAG. S14, 1872; legal tenders outstand-
ing, $346, 742,211.
COINAGE at the mints for March, ST.
$4,000. S
A HORRIBLE sight was witnessed at
the execution of Stone, the wife murderer, at
Washington on the 3D.. He was heavy man
with small neck, and when he dropped with
a fall of five feet, the rope severed the head
from the body.
The Cabinet has decided to recon-
mend legislation looking to the establishment
of civil government for the Territory of
Alaska.
AN effort is being made by the Secre-
tary of the Interior and Commissioner of In
dian Affairs to have the Chippewa Indians
abandon the reservation plan and take up
lands In severalty. Other semi-civilized tribes
will be asked to adopt the plan.
AT Washington City, on the Sd, Judge
Wright, who assaulted ex-Secretary Delano
two years ago, was sentenced to thirty days.
imprisonment and 81. 600 fine.
The East.
By the breaking of scafold on the
list, ten men, engaged in erecting an iron
bridge over the Hudson at Lansingburg, N
Y, were precipitated into the river, a distance
of forty-seven feet. Three of the men were
badly injured.
The Vermont Democratic State Con-
vention, for the selection of delegates to the
National Convention, has been called to meet
at Montpelier on the sad Of April. Z
A BOILER explosion in Childs' steam
forge at Buffalo, N. Y, on the I'd, killed the
Superintendent and severely injured three men
and demolished large part of the building.
THE ELEVENTH annual meeting of the
Society of the Army of the Potomac viii be
held at Burlington, Vt, the third. week in
June
A FIRE at Bradford, Pa, on the morn
ing of the I'd, destroyed the Sawyer and Titus
vile hotels, the Academy of Music and ten
other buildings, causing loss of about $780,
900. James Wilson, guest at the Sawyer
House, was burned to death.
The American Colonization Society
intepds to give free passage to Liberia and
support for six months to as many persons as
possible within its means. A ship-load OF ne
gro emigrants under charge of the Society viii
soon leave New York City.
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt in
Maine on the Sd.
REAR ADMIRAL THATCHER, of the
United States Navy, died at Boston on the 5th
aged seyenty-four.
The last of the striking piano-makers
of New York City returned to work on the 9Th
JOHNSON C. WHITAKER, colored ca
det at West Point, was found ON the morning
of the 9th, bound hand and foot in his room at
the barracks, with piece of one ear cut off.
The other ear was slit and his head
bruised He stated that three masked
men attacked him while he was
mitted the outrage. General Schofield and
Comrnandant Lucille were investigating the
affair.
A PASSENGER train was partially
wrecked near Springfield, Mass, on the night
of the 5th, by the caving of an embankment.
No one was seriously injured.
A GLOUCESTER, Mass, dispatch SAYS
the fishing schooner Annie C. Norwood, OF
that place, Captain Hurst and crew Of four.