Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-06-12
Domestic.

IHE NavaJoeS and UteS have had a
grand pow-wow near Terra Arnulla, New
Mexico, and it is understood the result of the
council was to make war in common on the
whites.
THE delegates to the National Demo-
cratic Convention from Alabama were not in
structed The preference is generally under
stood to be for Field, Thurman, Bayard and
Hancock. 1t is understood that none are for
Tiiden.
HERMAN LIssBERGER, a metal mer-
chant and importer at New York City, sus-
pended payment on the I'd, with liabilities be-
tween $20U0,090 and $4,000. 600.
The South Carolina delegates to the
National Democratic Convention are re-
ported to be unanimously for Bayard.
ADMIRAL AMMEN has received dis
patch from Engineer Menocal, stating that
the Nicaraguan Congress has confirmed the
concession recently made by the President of
that Republic to an American Company for
the construction of an inter-oceanic ship
canal across the Isthmus.
G. w. SCHoFIELD, President of the
Pittsburg Chain Company, suspended pay
ments on Tie 4th with liabilities exceeding
S2OO0,000-
The First National Bank of Mead
fllle, Id-, ClOsCQ ttS QOOIS Oh Gl1t Sill.
No business of Importance was trans
acted in the Senate on the 4th. In the House
Fernando Wood stated that he would not call
up the refundng bill this session, but gave
not ce that he would bring it before the House
on the first Wednesday IL December next.
Fl. r. II. PRINCE .EoPoLD, of En-
gland, attended the Republican Convention
at Chicago on the 4th, ard remained spec
fofn for ahor1f m ho4- q hoIf
THOMAS J. CHURCHILL was nomina-
ted for Governor by the Arkansas Democratic
Convention on the 4th.e.-
A FIRE in the Chinese quarters at
Nevada City, Cal, on the 9th, destroyed about
fifty buildings and number of stores and
other buildings in the business part Of the
town.
AGILE TAKATo, Secretary of the Japa-
nese Legation IN Washington City, commit
ted suicide on the 9th. He left a letter stating
that he had been concerned in the insurrec-
ton of 1877 and had forfeited his honor.
JOHN G. THOMPSON, JR., of Ohio, son
of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Rep
resentatives at Washington, was shot and Sc
riously wounded in the abdomen on the 4th, at
Highland Falls, N Y, by Beaumont Buck,
of Texas. Both were candidates for admis-
sion to the West Point Military Academy and
land Falls. Buck, who had been victim
of a mild form of haZing by the other
students, became enraged at some remarks
made and drew revolver and shot Thomp-
son.
A GREAT tariff demonstration and
picnic under the auspices of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel Workers was
held at Beaver, Pa, on the 5th. About 25 600
people were present.
OVER two thousand emigrants arrived
at Baltimore on the 5th and left for the West
in the evening.
A VIOLENT storm swept over st. Louis
and vicinity the 5th, doing great damage
to property and causing some loss of life.
PRESIDENT HAYES has been elected
Vice President of the American Bible Socie-
ty-
TWENTY horses were burned to death
in a sale and feed stable, at st. Louis, few
days ago.
JOHN BRoUGHAM, the actor, died in
New York City on the 7th.
EPHRAIM HOLLAND, who has had
much notoriety from connection with election
frauds at Cincinnati in 1876 was shot on the
night of the nth, by Marshal Wooding, gam
bier The ball struck Holland in the upper
part of the right leg near the groin.
A TERRIBLE wind storm passed over
Hancock County, Ohio, on the 7th, doing an
immense amount of damage. In Orange
township the Sabbath school of the English
Evangelical Church, to the number of sixty,
had assembled when violent gust caught the
roof and tore it from its fastenings. At the
same time the south gable of the church,
which was of brick, fell in with crash, bury
ingbeneath the ruins the major portion of the
congregation. Twenty-three persons were in
c1rv r,r,& a%aIfr
The scene was frightful in the extreme.
CHIN Ian PIN, the Chinese Ambassa-
dor to the United States, has arrived in New
York
The public debt of the United States
has been decreased nearly s75, 100000 since
june 1, 1879.
VICToRIo's band has gone to the Blade
Range Mountains, near H;llsboro, New Mexi-