Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-17
VOL. IX.-NO. ~.
The East.

The East.
Two men were fatally and three seri-
ously injured by an explosion of gas in a col
liery at Girardville, Pa, on the 8th.
The widow of Daniel S. Dickinson,
United States Senator, died at New York on
the Sth.
GENERAL SCHoFIELp, on the 9Th, ap-
pointed Board of Inquiry to investigate the
alleged outrage on Whitaker, the colored ca
det at West Point. The cadets all deny any
knowledge of the affair.
THE Irving Hall Democrats of New
York City have declined to treat with the
Tammany Democrats for settlement of exist
ing difficulties between the two parties
The Mercantile Agency of r. G. Dun
& Co. report the failures of the first three
months of the present year at 1,40O against
2,300 for the first three months of 1879. The
liabilities of the first quarter of 1880 were $12,
100000, against S4s, ,O0O, 600 the same period Of
1879
AN explosion of dynamite at Down.
| ing ton, Pa, on the 10th, killed two persons
and severely injured twelve others.
HART, the colored pedestrian, scored
565 miles in the recent O'Leary belt contest at
New York City.
AT Haverhill, Mass, on the 11th,
Smith H. Brown and Charles Abbott were suf-
focated in a burning building, and Mrs. Emma
Roberts severely injured by jumping from
| window. -
The Erie Canal will be open to navi-
cation April Goth.
| The Massachusetts, Greenback State
Convention will meet at Wooster, May 10.
|
West and South.
CHANNING'S s centennial was celebrated
by numerous Unitarian churches in England
and America on the 7th. tF
THE Oregon Democratic State Con-
vention, held at Portland on the Sth, adopted
platform advocating economy in public af-
fairs, uniform taxation the regulation by leg
| islatve acts of the rates of common carriers,
| the maintenance of the public schools, free
elections without interference by military, con-
| demning the keeping alive of the bitterness of
the late war, censuring President Hayes for
vctoing the Chinese bill, opposing the protec-
tive tariff and denouncing the third term
movement.
DURING the progress of fire at Dixon,
ILL.,, on the morning OF the Sth, terrible ex-
plosion occurred in one of the buildings, throw
ing down a wall and hurling several fremen
who were on the building into mill race. OF
these Ezra Becker and William Schum were
killed, and several others were burned, bruised
and terribly mutilated.
AS A passenger train on the Bellaire
& Southwestern Railroad was passing over a
trestle-work about eighteen miles from Bellaire,
on the Sth, the hind car jumped the trestle,
and the car went over a distance of fifteen
| feet. The car contained fifteen or twenty pas
/ sengers, of whom five or six were injured more
| or less.
A STEAMSHIP which arrived at Balti-
more on the Sth from Bremen, brought 1852
emigrants, nearly all of whom went West.
DESTRUCTIVE prairie fires were raging
north of Sioux Falls, Dakota, the 9th. A
number of farmers lost their buildings and
'crops, and several persons were reported to
have been fatally burned.
The Democratic delegates from Ore
gan to the Cincinnati Convention, though not
positively instructed, are for Tilden. reso-
luton indorsing Tilden and Hendricks was
| adopted by a vote of six to one.
GENERAL HATCH, with part of his
command, attacked three hundred Indians in
| a camp in the San Andreas Mountains re-
Gently. The fight lasted six hours, the In
dians retreating, leaving their dead behind.
A Captain and seven soldiers were severely
wounded. A large amount of stock was capt
| ured.
AT Wilmington, n. c., on the 18th,
| while the firemen and citizens were endeavor-
ing to save the stock in a burning building, a
portion of the wall fell, killing one person and
severely injuring seven others. -
THE Louisiana Democratic State Con-
vention, for the selection of delegates to the
National Convention, was held at New Or
leans on the 18th. resolution was adopted
favoring General Hancock for President, but
the delegates go uninstructed, except to vote
as the majority may decide, and for the MAIN
tenance of the two-thirds rule.
In suit at Chicago on the 18th con-
cerning the oleomargarine patent, the aston
ishing fact was brought out that although
oleomargarine is never quoted in market or
kept by any merchant such. has sale in
the country of ninety weight million pounds per
annum.
AT Lodi, Wis, on the 18th, the house
of ]. R. Collins was destroyed by fire, and
John T. T. Hidden, John Rathburn and Henry
Harris were buried in the ruins. Rathburn
and Harris perished. Hidden escaped, but he
was SO badly burned that his recovery is doubt
full.
CONSIDERABLE excitement prevailed in
White County, Ga, on the 18th, over the dis.
covery of gold in the Nachoochee Valley.
JAMES BLACK, negro, who at
tempted to outrage Mrs. Hattie Ferries in
Dinwiddie County, Va, was taken from the
Jail by an armed body of masked men, on the
night of the 18th, and hanged.
GENERAL GRANT and party arrived al
Memphis on the 18th.
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