Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-09
west AND aOUTH.

JAMES i. HARRIS, OF GeOrgeUoWn,
williamson County, Texas, who has obtained
large sums Of money by transmitting clrcu-
lars through the mails IN the north asking
financial aid for a supposltitious community
Of sufferers by the failure Of the crops, has
been arrested by a special agent Of the Post
Office Department and lodged in Jail.
j. b. O'MAHUNDRo (Texas Jack, )the
noted scout and plainsman, died in Leadville
on the 2Sth ult.
GEORGE ELLIOTT, a fast young man
Of Elkhart, Ind, shot HIS sweetheart, Miss
Mamie Darcy, in the head twice on the 27th
ult. She died in about thirty minutes. Elliott
then killed himself.
A PRIVATE letter from Fort Buford,
Dakota, complains that the garrison is very
poorly guarded and in danger Of an attack by
Sioux at any time.
The Ohio Greenback State Conven-
tion will be held at Columbus July %.
An incendiary attempted TO burn the
Lake House at Buena Vista, Col, on the night
Of the 9th ult., but was caught in the act and
chased by a mob who fred several shots fatal
ly wounding an unknown man and seriously
wounding Calvin Moon and J. A. Mathews.
The levee which protects the bottom
lands in Hancock County, ILL.,, broke on the
night Of the 2Sth ult, and the water poured
through the creVasse two hundred feet wide.
All the wheat and corn and other crops we're
ruined. Eighteen thousand acres Of land
were overlooked.
CHICAGo's population, according to
the census, is nearly 10000.
The State Republican Convention of
Kansas will meet at Topeka September LIST.
The Illinois Supreme Court has
affirmed the constltutionality of the State
railroad laws, aud the Illinois Central will
appeal the case TO the United States Supreme
| Court.
THE Leadville extension of the DEN
yer & Rio Grande Railroad was completed to
within three miles Of Leadville on the 29th
ult.
THE National Conference of Chari-
ties and Correction convened in Cleveland on
the 9th ult General r. Brinkerhoff presided.
THE following State ticket was nomi-
mated by the West Virginia Republican Con
ventlon on the Both ult. For Governor
George G. Sturgis; Attorney General, George
B. Caldwell Auditor, John A. Cunningham
Treasurer, Richard Burke State Superntend-
L
Judge Of the Supreme Court Of Appeals, Ed
win Maxwell.
NEAR twelve o'clock on the night Of
the goth ult. meteor as large as a barrel,
started from the zenith, plunged down the
northeastern sky and exploded with a report
that reycrberated for thirty seconds and shook
the earth at Macon, Georgia. The meteor was
five seconds falling, during which time the
city was lit up as by an electric light. The
time between the disappearance Of the meteor
and the report was about three minutes.
A GALVESTON NetOs special from Fort
Stockton says Major r. s. Lawrence and corps
Of the Texas Pacific Railroad, after a number
Of days Of extremesuffering from thirst in the
White Sand Hills, arrived at Pecos river with
out loss Of life, Some stock and wagons were
abandoned at different intervals for forty miles
> Those first arriving at the river went In search
OF Others A number when found were crazet
by thirst and had entirely stripped themselves
: They were found within q hundred yards Of
Pecos river drinking the blood Of ANIMAL
they had slain. Some men were almost blind
Q Arriving at the river they plunged in heaC
= foremost. But for the bravery of the mos
experienced a large number would have per
ished
THE Sny levee, which begins at {
= point between Quincy, ILL.,, and Hannibal
Mo-, and ends near Alton, ILL.,, broke on tn,
= 9Oth ult at point some fifteen miles below
Hannibal. At the river where the crevassC
4 occurred, an entire family, Mr.. Freeman hi
. wife and children, we're drowned. It is feare,
: other lives were lost. A strip of countr!
forty miles long and four to ten miles wild
was protected by this embankment, embrac
ing the richest farming land in Illinois, Mil
after mile OF fine corn fields we're ruined an,
thousands Of acres Of wheat in the stack ant
unstacked were submerged.
In the Seventh Iowa Congressiona
District, ON the 30th ult-, Hon. John A. Kas
son, now Minister at Vienna, was nominate,
, as the Republican candidate for Congress b.
I a unanimous rising vote.
, A PLEASURE boat on Lake Mime
b tonka, Mimi, exploded her boiler on tn
/ LIST, completely wrecldng the boat and .killin
n three persons and injuring eight others, tw
Q fatally.