Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-15
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mans head.
ALoDGING house was burned at st.
Louis on the 11th and four men were suffo-
Gated. Several dodgers jumped from third
story windows, their exit by the stairs being
cut off, and were more or less injured.
The Massachusetts Greenback Labor
Convention was held at Worcester on the 1lth.
Delegates at large were elected to the Nation
al Convention.
The Ne W York Senate, on the 11tb,
passed concurrent resolution to amend the
Constitution so as to extend franchise to wo-
men.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred at
Fort McHenry on the 11th, which resulted in
the instant killing Of six persons and the
wounding of two others. The parties were
engaged in breaking up condemned Shrapncll
shells.
The United States Supreme Court
has decided In lottery suit brought by the
State of Mississippi for the purpose of sup
pressing lottery company in that State, that
although the lottery company was duly char
tered by the Legislature, that body had no
authority to bargain away the police power of
the State.
Two men were burned to death in a
fire at Danville, Va, on the 9th.
THE Nevada Republican State Con-
vention, held at Austin on the 11th, Instructed
the delegates to the National Convention to
vote as a unit for James G. Blaine.
AUGUSTUS NORRIS, one of the hon
orary commissioners representing the United
States at the Sydney, Australia, International
Exhibition, says the exhibitors from the United
States have been very successful in obtaining
aw ards. In all cases where our leading man
20. have say,f f,ra
ton they have either excelled all others
stood in the first rank. The result will be a
large sale of American articles of various kinds
which have heretofore been unknown in Aus
tralia-
The contest between the railroad
the company, in what is known as the Mussel
Slough district. in Tulare and Fresno Coun-
ties, Cal, eliminated on the 11th in
tragedy. United States Marshal Poole,
who was sent from San Francisco to
serve writs of ejectment on settlers by
virtue of decision of the Circuit Court
in favor of the railroad company, fired
upon by settlers, and in the fight which fol-
lowed four men were killed and two wounded.
THE House Committee on Indian
Affairs, on the 11th, Instructed Representa-
tive Scales to report favorably to the House
the General Allotment bill which provides for
the settlement of all Indian tribes upon agri-
cultural lands in their several reservations,
and authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to
grant them lands in severalty.
THE American Sunday-School Union
celebrated its ffty-sixth anniversary in Broad
way Tabernacle, New York City, on the l1th
| The Union reported an increase of missionary
work beyond the record of any previous year
] During the. year ] ,20 new Sunday-schools
were organized, into which were gathered
| 46, 727 scholars. The aggregate work of the
American Sunday School Union for ffty-six
! years is summed up at Is, ,431 new schools or
ganized in America, containing AL ,0S5 teach
| ers and 2,9I6,599 scholars. The aggregate
cost of missionary work is 81 ,549,5 ,5SS. Sunday
| School books and pacers to the. value of
over $1,000, 900 have been sold and given
| away.
| AT the General Methodist Confer
ence at Cincinnati, on the 11th, it was resolved
to increase the number of Bishops by the cleo
| tion of four new ones.
Foreign.
EIGHTEEN persons were killed or
wounded by the explosion of dynamite mag
azine at Faido, Switzerland a few days ago.
BARTANZA, on the Cameroons river,
west coast of Africa, was bombarded and
burned by the British, recently, on account OF
the capture and ill-treatment of British sub
jects by the natives.
The Captain Pasha at Constantine.
pie was mobbed recently, by women whose hus-
bands are away on service. They threatened
to throw their children under hrs feet.
l In the French Chamber of Deputies,
on the 10th, a draft of the convention of Jan.
uary 15 1880, between France and the United
Il States for settling the claims for damages suf
fcred by French subjects during the civil war
was introduced, declared urgent and voted.
Four thousand horses, 5000 Martin
rifles and 130 900 cartridges have arrived at Scu
tart for the Albanians, who occupy the whole
Turkish officers and men are everywhere fra
ternizing with them.
THE famine in the Province of Aver
baijan, Persia, is increasing. Twelve hun
dred Christians have left the country, Whea
costs EGO per ton in the famine-stricken dis
tricts.
GIUSEPPE MAZZAoNI, Grand Master
of the Italian Freemasons, is dead.
THE German Government is about t,
increase the circulation of silver coin twent
per cent. The proposed increase, it is repre-
sented, will afford an opportunity to recoi
the silver which has accumulated in the hand
of the Government since 1873.
The village of San Luis, Cuba, wa
entirely destroyed by fire on the 11th Seye
! persons perlshed in the flames. Three thou
, sand persons were left without shelter.
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