Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-24
West and South.

THE newly organized Lincoln Guard
of Honor at Springfield, Ill, held memorial
services at the catacomb of the Lincoln monu-
ment, on the morning of the 18th, in COM
memoration of the fifteenth anniversary of
Abraham Lincoln's death.
EXTENSIVE forest fires in the Wilder
ness (Va.) region have done serious damage.
NATHAN FAwCETT and Jacob Null
drow, colored, were hanged at Mexico, Mo-,
on the 10th, for murder committed in Sep
tember, 1879. On the same day William s.
Bates was executed at Barnwell Court House,
S. c., for the murder of Stephen w. Bush at
dance last Christmas eve.
The Judge of the Supreme Court at
San Francisco, on the 18th, rendered decis-
ion on Kearney's appeal, confirming the judg-
ment of the lower court Kearney, anticipate
ing the decision, had left the city.
HIGH waters have caused the Missis-
sippi to break through the 1evees in many
places, doing much damage.
A LAND slide at Mineral King, Cal,
on the 18th, crushed the boarding-house of the
Empire Mine. One report stated that fifteen
men were missing and four known to be killed.
Other advices stated that all the men were
alive. but a number were badly hurt.
A PETERSBURG, Va, dispatch on the
18th, stated that the forest fires which had
been raging in that vicinity for a week had be-
come uncomfortable. Barns and stables in
large numbers had been destroyed. In many
instances farmers had lost all their crops,
horses and farming implements.
THE Giant Powder Works across the
bay from San Francisco, exploded on the 10Th,
killing twelve white men and twelve or fifteen
Cinnamon. All the victims were blown te
atoms. There were six houses inside the works,
and all were blown to sliyers, but the workmen
in them escaped. The cause of the explosion
is said to have been carelessness.
LEWIS COUNTY, w. Va, is excited
over the doings of some unknown miscreant
or miscreants who commit mysterious mur-
ders. On the 10th man named Hefner was
shot by an unknown person while sitting on
his porch, and day or two later man named
John Shreve was found dead concealed in a
fence corner. The citizens are forming a vigi-
lance committee.
GENERAL GRANT arrived at his home
in Galena ON the 10Th.
A FIRE at Galena, Kan, on the 18th,
destroyed eight buildings, including the City
Hall and ST. James Hotel.
AT Baltimore, on the 10Th, a number
of the survivors of the old Sixth Massachusetts
regiment, celebrated the nineteenth anniyer-
marching through that city for Washington
under the first call of President Lincoln for
troops in 1861.
THOMAS AMBROSE, late Clerk of the
United States Court at Cincinnati, gave bond,
on the 10Th, in the sum of $4,000 on three in
dictments found against him for embezzle-
ment, perjury and making false claims against
the Government.
In the Police Court at San Francisco,
on the 10Th, the Prosecuting Attorney asked
for commitment for Kearney. The latter
asked for delay to enable him to make applica-
tion to the Supreme Court for a writ of Habeas
coYpxs. The Court denied the request, and
Kearney was taken to the House of Correc-
tion, where he was dressed in a conyict's garb
and placed in a cell.
THE Indians, near Ehrenburg, Arizo-
ma, are on the war-path.
AT Corunna, De Kalb County, Indi-
ana, on the night of the 10Th, a. party of twenty
went to the house of Tunis Miller, whose
daughter had been recently married, to give
the married couple belling. Isaac Mil
Ter, a brother of the bride, went out
to try to induce the men to go away, and
being assaulted by John Williams, Miller shot
him dead. Miller was arrested.