Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05
NYEaT AND HOUTII.

A GALEsBURG mL) dispatch of the
28d states that a colored man named Brown
and his wife had been arrested on suspicion
of having been engaged in the robbery OF the
Knoxville Bank, and that their son had been
taken by crowd Of excited citizens and
threatened with hanging unless he would tell
what he knew concerning the robbery. He
thereupon stated that the robbery was com
mitted by Bill Stamps, Of Knoxville, Lew
Ellsworth, barber, and white man named
Ed Adle, both Of MRquoh. He said Adle,
Ellsworth and Stamps went inside the hank,
and he stood on the outside to watch. He
was given box Of nickels for his share,
about 500. Most Of the implicated parties
had been arrested and locked up.
AN enthusiastic gathering, said to
have been one Of the largest crowds ever as
sembled In Chicago, greeted Mr.. Parnell, the
Irish land agitator at the Exposition build
ing on the evening OF the 23d. It was est-
mated that not less than thirty thousand peo-
pie were present. A series of resolutions was
adopted, and speeches were made by Mr.. Par
nell, Governor Cullom, of Illinois, Hon.
Thomas Hoyne, and Others
A PETERSBURG (Va.) dispatch of the
evening Of the oath announces the arrival Of
large number Of colored people, mostly
women and children, H route for Indiana,
They reported that hundreds Of others would
follow.
JESSE JAMES, the outlaw whom a
detective named shepherd claimed TO have
killed near Kansas City some months ago,
was In 81. Louis on the cath.
Four oattle-thieves were recently
hung in the vicinity Of Deadwood by the Wig
ilantes.
THE Michigan Greenback State Con-
ventlon, TO choose delegates to the National
Convention in Chicago win meet at Jackson
on the nth OF March
THE Illinois Republican State Con-
ventlon will meet at Springfield on the 10Th
of May.
The following We're elected as mem
bers of the Indiana Republican State Central
Committee by twelve of the District Conyen-
tions held on the 25thi First District, H. S.
Bennett, Vanderburg; Second, Robert Evans,
Knox; Third, w. M. Hurley Floyd; Fifth,
J, s. Jordan, Morgan; sixth, Isaac Jenldn-
son, Wayne; Seventh, John Q, New, Marion;
Eighth, H. II, Boudlnot, Vigo; Ninth, A. l..
Kumler, Tippecanoe; Tenth, NJ W. Tomlin-
sou, Cass; Eleventh, Alexander W. De Long,
Huntington; Twelfth, Robert stratton, Al
len; Thirteenth, W. O. Graves, Kosciusko.
John c, New was elected Chairman,
THE Iowa Democratic State Conyen-
ton 10 select delegates 10 the Democratic
National Convention has been called TO meet
at Burlington ON the 1th OF April,
OK the 26th district delegates to the
Republican National Convention were chosen
IN Indiana. -Four districts favored Blaine and
one sherman; In the others no instructions
were given.
ACCORDING to San Francisco tele-
grams Of the Goth the workingmen Of that
city had resolved to discontinue their calls
upon employers OF Chinese and, for the pres
ent, 10 abandon the meetings on the sand
lot II was believed that Vigilance Com
mittee had been formed, and that any at
tempt ON the part OF the sand-lotters to
create a disturbance would be summarlly sup
pressed. The merchants had held meet
| inga with a view TO raise subscriptions for the
benefit of the unemployed, but it was not
announced what the outcome Of the meeting
was.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the
9th that the Joint Executive Committee Of
the Eastern and Western trunk lines had met
In Chicago the day before, and decided TO re-
duce rates on grain between Chicago and Oh,
sea-board i've cents per hundred pounds, 4
take effect on March l. A corresponding re
ductlon ON other articles was agreed TO, I,
take effect on March s.
On the 26th General Adams arrived
lat Fort Lsayenworth, with Chief Douglass