Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-13

The total payment TO army and navy
pensioners in Ohio during the last fiscal year
was s5,537, ,5l0S8. There are g, 800 Ohio PEN
soners on the rolls. There are 12,538 in
valldA 1875 widows, minors and dependent
relatives, s64 widows with children, and 7Ss
widows without children. There are us sur
vivors Of the war of 1912, and 2,O26 widows OF
soldiers ofthat war
A ST. LOUIS dispatch says informa-
ton comes from Texas that what Is known
down there as the Grand Army Of Occupa-
tion, an organization whose object seems to
be the invasion Of Mexico is assuming con-
siderable proportions. The movement is at
tracting good deal Of attention and the be-
lief is expressed that II the Government does
not interfere serious trouble will result.
PERRY JEFFERSON was fatally shot
by two negroes at Maysllck, Ky, on the 3D.
The negroes were lynched.
STANBREY @. ANGELO, correspondent
Of the Liverpool Courier, who was with Prince
Napoleon In Zululaud when the latter was
killed, was found dead beside the track Of the
Union Pacific Railroad near Cheyenne, on the
morning Of the 9TH. He had been run over by
the cars and ended his life by shooting him
self through the heart Angelo had been
writing up the West for his paper and left
Cheyenne on the 4th for Yellowstone Park to
join Secretary Schurz's party
The freight houses of the Indianapo-
lis q st. Louis Railroad, at East St. Louis, to-
gether with some fifty cars, most Of them la
den with general merchandise, were burned
on the 5th. The loss of railroad property and
freight in cars Is roughly estimated at $780,
600. The value Of the merchandise In the
freight houses Is not known.
THREE passenger cars in an excursion
train returning from Niagara Falls 10 Jack
son, Ohio, via the Springfield Southern Rail-
road, went through bridge and into the canal
at Waverly, Ohio, on the 9th. One hundred
and fifty passengers, residents ofJackson and
vicinity, were on the train. One passenger
was killed, ten severely and five slightly in
iured The accident was caused by the front
car jumping the track and dragging the other
cars down an embankment.
r. L. EDWARDS, a Christian preacher
at Ennis, Texas, was called out on the night
Of the 5th and shot by unknown parties.
AN Omaha special to the Chicago
Tribune, on the 9Th, stated that former res.
ident Of Jacksonville, ILL.,, had identified the
two prisoners at Fremont, Neb., supposed IA
be the Benders, as the MeGregOrs Of Jack.
sonVille. The man says he knew them there
as hard characters and he left Illinois for Kan.
sas with them in a wagon train, and that Nc
Gregor, who is thought TO be identical with
Bender, went to Labette County. Old Bender
made confession, believing that his wife had
escaped from prison. His story tallies with
his wife's exactly
In Webster County, Ga, on the 9TH,
Mrs. Woodson L. Gunnells, wife of a well-to
do farmer, poisoned herself, four Of her chill
dren and five Of her step-children. Mrs. Gun.
nells died. and no hopes Of recovery were en-
tertained for three Of the children. The other,
were believed to be out of danger. A note IN
the handwriting Of Mrs. Gunnells was found
under some morphia on the table, in which
she stated that she had deliberately admins
tered morphia TO the children and herself
with the intention of destroying them all
and that she was not actuated by any domes
tic trouble.