Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20
VOL. IX.-NO. 50.

,een regularly restored to the public domain.
f the invasion continues a proclamation will
,e issued by the President warning all per-
ions against trespassing on the reservation.
For the month of February, 1880, the ex-
,orts of provisions from the United States
to Salts, 1888; falling off of
q, 1858 S97 as compared with the same month
n 1879. 1t is expected that when the official
eturns for February are all in that the bal
lnce of trade will appear against the United
States for the first time in five years.
Chief Ouray testified before the House
Committee on Indian Affairs, on the 18th,
hat he knew nothing personally about either
,he fight with Thornburg or the killing of
Meeker and his employees, nor did he know
low many Utes had been engaged in either of
hose transactions, but he denied that any
but White River Utes had been implicated.
The House Committee on Naval Affairs
mas reported favorably the bill providing for
another Polar expedition.
THE EAST.
At Harrisburg, Pa, on the 11th, Emil j.
Petroff was found guilty of attempting to
bribe Representatives to vote for the Pitts
burg Riot bill.
Ex-Governor Garcelon, of Maine, was before
the Legislative Investigating Committee on
the 18th, and testified that he first learned of
the counting out through the papers: that
if he signed any certificate that was wrong,
the facts were falsely put before him; no
one was counted out; had presumed
that his Council were honest and hon
orable men, and had compiled the tabula-
tions according to law, certain rules had been
laid down which were applied to the returns
regardless of party. and there had not been
an instance where Democrat had been al
lowed to correct the returns. Individual
cases were taken up, in some of which the
Governor acknowledged that there had plain
ly been erasures and interference with the
tabulation.
The piano makers of New York City de-
manded an increase of fifteen to twenty per
cent. in wages on the 18th, and the manufac-
turers closed their works on the 18th rather
than give the advance asked for. About four
workmen were thrown out of en-
ployment
At Boston, on the 18th, Nathan P. Pratt,
Treasurer of the Reading Savings Bank, tried
upon fifty two counts for embezzlement. was
found guilty on twenty-nine counts. After the
trial his counsel moved for a new trial
and produced written confession from Sid
ney P. Pratt, son of the prisoner, and for a
long time chief clerk, book-keeper and
cashier of the bank. acknowledging that he
stole the money. He left for parts unknown
before his father was arrested.
A collision at Philadelphia, on the 18th, on
the Westchester Railroad between passenger
train and special containing officers of the
road resulted in injuring the President, two
Directorsand two other persons connected
with the road.
A Providence, R. l., dispatch, on the 10th,
stated that William D. Hilton, Superintendent
of the Providence & Worcester Railroad, con-
fessed to having forged paper to the amount
of $4,000.
The Massachusetts Prohibition Convention
will be held at Boston, April 20.
Fifty-seven iron mills at Harrisburg, Pa,
shut down on the 10Th. The mill owners re-
fused to pay the advance in wages asked by
their workmen.
The Lower House of the Connecticut Gen
eral Assembly passed bill on the 18th grant
ing female suffrage on license matters.
WEST AND SOUTH.
The Ohio Republican State Convention will
be held at Columbus on the 2Sth of April.
At Frankfort, Ind, on the 11tb, an explo
sion occurred in the fax mills of Lehman
Rosenthal & Co., and ten persons were killed
The mills caught fire and were totally de
stroyed. 1EsF
The Missouri Republicans will hold thei
State Convention, for the selection of dele
gates to the National Convention, at Sedali'
on the 18th of April. Fllley, strong Gran
man, was elected Chairman of the State Cen
tral Committee, defeating General George b
Shields, Blaine man.
The Wisconsin Democratic State Conven
ton will be held at Madison on the 10Th o
May.
Dennis Kearney, the California agitator
was arrested on the 11th on two charges o
mis6emeanor, based on remarks made at
public meeting at the Sand Lots, in San Fran
cisco, a few days before. He furnished bal
and was released.
At a recent municipal election at Elgin
Ill, about seventy voters employed in tn
milk condensing works were notified b
their Superintendent to vote the no licens
ticket. The license nominee thereupon az
piled to Commissioner Hoyne to arres
| the Superintendent. Mr.. Hoyne bein
| In doubts, referred the matter to Judg
| Blodgett, of the United States Circuit CouI
who, on the 18th advised him that the Unite
States Court in similar cases had held tina
| the Fifteenth Amendment and Revised Sta
| ute 5507 contemplate the protection in tn
| right of suffrage only of former slaves, an
| that free or white men do not come With
these legal safeguards. The writ for arres
was therefore refused.
The Chicago Times has received report
| from eleven Northwestern States stating tbs
If the weather continues favorable it will I
safe to estimate an increased yield of aboI
sixty per cent. in the wheat crop.
| Citizens of the several States and Territ,
ries, without distinction of sex who desire tt
suppression by law of the Importation, mani
| facture and sale of alcoholic liquors for drin
| purposes, and have adopted the Prohibitio
! Reform party as means to accomplish r
form of the National and State government
policy on the drink question, are requested
send delegates to represent them in Nation
Convention, to be held in the city of Clev
land, Ohio, on the 18th day of June, 1880, Fl
the purpose of nominating candidates +
President and Vice President of the Unit,
States.
The six days walking contest at San Fra
cisco between O'Leary and Weston closed
the night of the 18th, with a score of SIC mil
for O'Leary and 400 for Weston.
The Denver Republican,, of the 18th, had
special from Alamosa, giving the psrticula
of terrible Indian massacre near the Bll
Mountains. The number of killed was n
definitely known, but several bodies wel
found and buried. ass
The Crows and Sioux Indians have form
an alliance, and the settlers in their terrific
have fiocked to Goose Creek Valley, MontaI
|
very meagre.
The entire lowland for distance of t.
hundred miles on the Cumberland River abo
Nashville was flooded on the 18th.
Dennis Kearney addressed the Workin
men on the Sand Lots, at San Francisco
the 18th, and much to their surprise
formed them that the objects of t
; Citizens Union had been misappreher
| ed; that they intended to use the AS
r citation for the amelioration of the con
tion of the city for the good of the labori
classes and the restoration of prosperity tt
; some unscrupulous men had taken advanta
of the movement to create the impressi
that violent measures against workingm
q were intended, whereas nothing of the XII
was meant. His audience received his no
speech undemonstratively.
/ The Socialists of Chicago, on the Is
adopted ultra resolutions against Chinese |
: migration, and formulated petition to
) | C,ifv G0uncj1 to quarantine ouofpct thor, a