Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-30

tually allied with the committee, Will have its
assistance and protection. Persons aud sociul
groups knowingly aiding the Government will
be treated as enemies. The publication OF
the document is announced as new method
which the editor intends to pursue against the
revolutiunists.
At Corrunn, De Kalh County, Indiana, on
the night Of the 18TH party OF twenty went
/ to the house of Tunis Miller, whose daughter
had been recently married, to give the married
couple beling, Isaac Miller, brother Of the
/ bride, went out 10 try and induce the men 20
/ go away, and being assaulted by John VII
liams, Miller shot him dead. Miller was ar
rested.
Adyices received at st. Louis from Texas
/ County, Mo-, on the 2lst, state that the
town Of Licking was entirely destroyed,
excepting three houses, by the storm
on the 10Th. Three hundred persons are home
/ less. One life was lost and seventeen persons
| wounded five Of them seriously. IL is es-
| timated that in Webster County, Of which
/ Marsh6ed is the county seat fully one
| hundred people we're killed and over two hun
/ dred wounded.
/ The Illinois Greenback State Convention
] was held at Springfield on the 2lst. A. J.
| Streets was nominated for Governor reso-
/ luton declaring the observation-disclosures party
unaltcrahy opposed TO fusion with either Of
the old political parties was tabled
| The Texas Democratic State Convention was
| held at Galveston on the 2lst. The delegation
| to the National Convention go uninsructed,
| but resolution was adopted declaring that
/ the devotion Of General Hancock to the CON
stitutlonal rights and privileges Of citizens en-
titles him to the confidence Of the people, aud
! Texas win, when called upon, show apprecia-
/ tiOn Of his generosity and magnanimity The
delegates were instructed 10 support the two
thirds rule
Seven men who left Point ST. Ignace Mich,
in a sailboat on the 10Th, to go up the north
shore, were ali drowned during the gale ON that
day.
At Moberly, Mo-, on the night Of the 2lst,
about forty men visited the Jail and with
drawn revolvers forced the officers on duty to
admit them. They then seized Henry Mitchell,
Dick Yancey and Alfred Cateon, three negroes,
charged. with numbering another negro named
George Matthews, a short time ago, took them
to railroad trestle about three miles from
town and hanged Mitchell and Yancey. Catoou
was nota party to the murder, but was strung
up until he told all he knew about the affair,
and was then released.
General Miles says he does not think there
will be a general Indian war the coming sum
mer, lie says the hostile Sioux who were
driven north after the Custer disaster have
1 headquarters at Woody Mountain, about l5O
miles north Of the boundary between Montana
and the Northwest Territory of the Canadian
Dominion. The hostile Sioux, now north of tho
line number about 5000, but It is known
that q portion Of them desire to come in and
surrender.
The Utah Republican Territorial Conyen-
tion, called by the Republican voters to pro-
test against the action Of the Territorial Cen
tral Committee in assuming to elect Delegates
to Chicago, met at Salt Lake on the Goth, and
elected delegates to the Chicago Convention.
The Chairman OF the committee repudiated
the action of his committee of the 3d inst. by
participating in the convention as n delegate.
The delegates were instructed for Grant
Zacharia Owens, wife and three children
were burned to death in the recent forest fires
on the Alligator river in North Carolina.
General Hatch, on the, 12th, surrounded the
agency of the Mescalero Apaches, and cap
tured about four hundred and sixty warriors
Much stolen stock was recovered. When dis
arming the Indians thirty Of them made
break and fourteen of the party were killed by
the troops. Sixteen Apaches escaped.
The st. Louis Post Dispatch had a special
from Western Kansas, on the 22d, stating that
drought and unfavorable weather had totally
destroyed the wheat crop west of Salina, and
that there win be partial failure Of the crop
for one hundred miles north and south of To-
peka. Many persons in the western part of the
State were suffering and appealing to the ex-
ecutive office at Topeka for aid ....
The Republican delegate from Georgia to
the National Convention were not instructed.
The delegates were appointed by the Chairman
of the Convention, who was an anti-Grant
man, and are understood 10 he divided be-
tween Sherman and Blaine.
The Colorado Republican State Convention
has been called for May 25
Two murderers were hanged at st, Louis on
the 28d.
Gold and silver have been discovered in pay
ing quantities near Ashland, Wisconsin.
Kearney was released on writ of baJeas
corpus on the 23d,
Charles Dc Young, editor Of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle was shot and killed by /. NJ,
Kalloch, son Of Mayor l. S, Kalloch on the
night of the 2jd. ..