Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-29
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IHE missouri Democratic State Con-
vention for the selection of delegates to the
Cincinnati Convention, was held at Moberly
on the 26th. The convention reaffirmed the
declaration OF the principles enunciated by
! the st. Louis convention of 1876 and declared
its faith in the honest integrity and exalted
patriotism of Samuel j. Tilden and Thomas
| A. Hendricks, without expressing any prefer
ence as to who shall receive the nomination
OF the Democratic party at Cincinnati. A
resolution in favor of the two-thirds rule in
| selecting candidates for President and Vice
| President was adopted.
The following ticket was nominated
| by the West Virginia Greenback Convention.
held at Charleston on the Goth: Governor,
Colonel N. B. French; Auditor, G. w. Hayes;
PUBLIC Schools, w. J. King; Attorney GEN
eral, Cyrus Hall Judge of the Supreme Court,
j. A. Thompson.
SENATOR Brown, of Georgia, pre-
sented his credentials ON the 26th and was
sworn in.
In the boat race at Washington, on
the Goth, between Hanlan and Riley, the
former won the race by ten lengths.
In the Senate, on the 26th,a Ex-Gov-
ernor Brown took the modified oath and then
took the seat as Senator from Georgia In the
place of Gordon. The Deficiency Appropria-
tion bill and the bill defining the terms of the
1
the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was consid-
cred in Committee of the Whole. After dis
posing of six pages of the bill, thus finishing
about one-half of it, the committee rose and
the House adjourned.
THERE were four cases of sunstroke
in New York City on the 25th The thermom-
eter indicated ninety-four degrees in the after
noon.
ROBERT KEIGH, cashier of the San
Jose, Cal, bank committed suicide on the
25th. He was defaulter to the amount of
S26, 200.
DISPATCHES from various parts of
New Hampshire and Massachusetts indicate
that the 26th was the hottest day ever expe-
rienced there. The thermometer ranged
from ninety-sx to 102 in the shade.
A CONVENTION has been arranged be-
tween the United States and Canada by
which the exchange of postal money orders
has been simplified and the cost reduced.
The great trial of Nihilists at St. Pc
tersburg was concluded on the Goth. Mich
ae1off and Saburoff were sentenced to be
hanged; DIR. Wiener to fifteen years hard
labor in the mines, and the others from eight
to fifteen years.
| THOMAS THURSToN. who killed his
business partner at Leavenworth, Kan, last
January, met R. d. Anthony, editor of the
| Times, on the street on the Goth and after
passing him turned and fired two shots at
| him, neither of which took effect. One of
| them, however, struck John P. Douglass,
making severe scalp wound, and the other
| struck Lucien Baker, lawyer, standing on
| the sidewalk, in the left side and about two
inches below the nipple, infiicting dangerous
| wound.
ACCORDING to an advertisement in
the London Daily Telegraph. ladies
moving in fashionable society may
without interfering with their social po-
sition realize from 4100 to f300 a year
by introducing the high-class wines of
an established house. A commencing
salary of fifty pounds per annum and a
liberal commission are promised.
AN old beau is ready to dye for the
girl who loves him.
COOP many clothes washed over board
Monday -i'AE ~ - =