Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-01

that there will be partial failure of the crop
for one hundred miles north and south of To-
peka. Many persons insthe 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 to be 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 23d.
Gold and silver have been discovered in pay
ing quantities near Ashland, Wisconsin.
Kearney was released ON writ of habeas
corpus on the 23d.
Charles De Young, editor of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, was shot and killed by I. NJ.
Kalloch, son of Mayor I. s.. Kalloch, on the
night of the 23d.
The Memphis Board of Health has issued an
order that after May 10 no prints or goods of
any character from tropical ports through
Southern ports, will be admitted into Mem
phis until first subjected to such inspection
or regulations as may be prescribed by the
Board.
A terrific tornado passed through Green,
Christian, Sangamon and other counties in
Illinois, on the night of the 24th, and de-
stroyed an immense amount of property,
killed dozen or more people and injured
large number.
Dennis Kearney's habeas corpus case came
up before the Supreme Court on the 24th. The
court decided that it had no power to review
its own action, and Kearney was remanded to
H.. 1.
tence.
Railroads and telegraphic connections be-
tween Alta on the west and Tuckee on the
east side of the Rocky Mountains, was COM
pletely cut off from the Goth until the 25th on
account of heavy snow storm along the Pa
cific Railroad. Over sixteen feet of snow fell,
and in some places it drifted to the depth of
forty feet.
The steamer Strasburg, which arrived at
Baltimore on the 25th, brought 1914 emigrant
passengers from Germany, Austria, Sweden
and Norway.
The cause of the shooting of Charles De
Young, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle,
by I. NJ. Kalloch, is said to have been the circu-
lation of pamphlet by the former rejecting
on Mayor Kalloch, father of I. NJ. Kalloch.
The Oregon Republican State Convention,
held at Portland on the oath, adopted resolu-
ton instructing the delegates to the National
Convention to vote for James G. Blaine.
The sixty-f anniversary of American Odd
Fellowship was celebrated at st. Louis on the
26th ult.
A special to the Memphis appeal from Ma
con, Miss, says that on the night of the 25th
ult. fearful cyclone struck the northern part
of that place, resulting in sad loss of life
and wholesale destruction of property. Eight
cen persons were killed outright and forty more
or less injured, some perhaps fatally. Shortly
afterward water-spout visited the scene to
render it more horrible. Men and women were
found decapitated, limbs torn from the body
and otherwise mutilated quarter of mile
from their homes. The stock was all killed in
that vicinity.
The Chicago Times says: con the day of
the Marshfeld tornado large-sized roof landed
in door-yard near Lawrenceburg, Ind. Care
full investigation in the neighborhood fails to
disclose building minus its covering, and the
belief is gaining ground that the visitor came
from Missouri"
In the recent trip of the steamship Ohio
from Bremen to New York, thirteen children
died during the passage. The deaths were
caused from overcrowding and ill-ventilation
in the steerage department. The matter is
being investigated by the Superintendent OF
immigration at Castle Garden.
Frank Grill was hanged at Newton, N. j.,
on the oath ult., for the murder of his daugh-
ter IN June last. When the handouts were
placed on his wrists he asked the Sheriff to
take them off and warm them, and also to
warm the moose.
The gold fever is spreading in Georgia.
Two brothers at Nacoochee have taken out 2, zoe
| pennyweights in nuggets from eighty square
| feet of earth. Another party on the same lead
| took out nugget weighing LOG pennyweights
There was bloody affray at Ellsworth, Ill,
on the 26th ult. between Frank Bailey and
Henry Stovenour on one side and Abraham III
Hendryx on the other. The former went to
| Hendryx's farm for the avowed purpose OF
settling some old scores by thrashing him
| Hendryx shot both men, killing Bailey in
/ stantly. Stovenour died shortly afterward
Hendryx gave himself up.
John Dyer, notorious desperado, who has
caused much trouble to the people of Mclean
County, ILL.,, appeared in that county on the
25th ult. when an alarm was given and a mum
| Der of citizens turned out to hunt him. Ht
| was followed in the woods and refusing tc
| halt was shot number of times and captured
He may survive.
| There have been fifteen hundred cases O.
measles in Michigan City, Ind, during the las
| three weeks.
| White stock thieves killed John Deffebach
and ran off $50 head of horses from Inyan, Da
kota, on the Goth ult. Deffebach was one O.
the heaviest stock men in the West.
| A boiler in a shingle mill at Savannah, Ga.
exploded on the 9th ult., killing Lewis N
Torrent, superintendent, and George Hughes
engineer. Eight Others were injured.
| William P. Gillespie, of Columbus, Ind, OF
/ ri Jao@ Iad faxx- dow l,o g.
sion that he and others, names not given
Jamisoa ten years ago and divided between
them a large sum of money found on his per
| son.
The st. Louis Merchants Exchange Relic
Committee has issued an appeal to the chari
tably disposed people of the United States TO
assistance for the sufferers by the recent cy
clone in that State. The committee will fur
nish information to any parties having fund
to forward to the points needing assistance
and will receive and disburse any money o
supplies sent there for that purpose.
TT. Joseph T. Webb, a brother of Mrs. Pres
ident Hayes, died at Minneapolis, Mimi, o.
the 27th ult.
Prof. H. R. Palmer conducts the May Mus
cal Festival at Marion, Iowa.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
The exodus from Montreal continues TIL
United States customs authorities are keepin
register of the Canadians leaving for th
United States from each station, and durin
the three weeks of April no less than 2,0C
persons had left by one railroad alone to settl
in the manufacturing districts of the Easter
States.
: resident of Victoria, British Columbi,
writing from there under date of Marc
Is, says the snow was then three feet deep. A
the stock had been frozen to death. The ole
est Indian never saw such terrible winter
The estimated loss by the confagration i
Hull, Canada, on the 21st, is between two an
three million dollars with no ins urance.
The Queen, on the 22d, accepted the resie
nation of Lord Beaconsfield as P, ime Mini,
ter, and sent special messenger to Lor
Harrington desiring his attendance at tn
Castle.
81 Gladstone went to Windsor Castle on th
i 23d in obedience to Royal command, and a,
cepted the duty of forming Cabinet.
The London Standards Bombay correspond
ent says there is no truth in the reports of til
death of King Theebaw or of the massacre
Mandalay. s=
The Mayor of Berlin gave grand entertain
ment on the 23d in honor of the foreign exhil
| itors in the fishery exhibition. The Mayor pa
ticularly mentioned the splendid collection c
the United States.