The Columbus journal., 1880-11-17


is spreading and is supposed to be
Indignantly fatal.
The Inter Oceans Sioux City spe-
cial says that petroleum has been
found at the depth of $50 feet at
Ponca, this State, % miles west of
the city, while boring for coal. Not
flowing much yet.
Col. A. b. MEACHAM, of the Ute
commission, was in Washington
city last week, direct from Denver.
He says the Utes do not want war
and will not fight unless they think
il their last resort.
LEE GUNG, the Chinaman who
was robbed and shot at Chicago on
the 9th, died at the hospital at noon.
Thos. Ssxtcn and Ed. Duggan were
arrested and confessed to having
committed the murder.
THE President decided on the 9th,
in the case of the Hirth murderers,
that Bedford and Queenan be hang
ed Friday, the 10Th inst, and the
sentence of Ssnley Pinn be commu-
ted to imprisonment for life.
FROM Hudson, New York, canes
a report that a man supposed to be
a drover, with considerable money,
was murdered early on the morning
of the 10th on the steamer Escort
near Tivoli, and the body thrown
overheard.
GEN. HANCOCK denies writing
letter to an army officer at Washing
ton touching tie investigation of the
New York vote. He says II there is
a letter of that tenor i'm existence,
purporting to be from him, il ought
TO be produced.
Mrs. NJ. f. WARREN, the head Of
ladies' mining and stock exchange
in New York city, disappeared last
week. The depositors were mostly
females, being poor and hard work
ing women, their losses varying
from s25 to $1,000.
IT was announced last week at
New York that j. Gould has pur-
chased the South Park and Pacific
road, which extends from Denver to
Buena Vista, 135 miles, and has a
nine mile branch from Bear Creek
Junction to Morrison.
GEN. HANCOCK says he has no lot
nor part in the agitation in regard to
throwing out the vote ofNew York,
nor will he have any. He is op-
posed to the agitation. He believes
Gen. Garfield was elected, and
should be insugursted without any
fuss.
The case for criminal libel for
forging the Chinese letter was still
pending in New York on the 9th.
On that day S. S. Morey and Robert
Lindsey, two witnesses examined in
the case, were arrested on a charge
of perjury, and held for examina-
ton.
NINE. BERNHARDT made her debut
last week before New York au-
dicnce of 1000 citizens. She has a
splendid voice, which cleo ctrified the
audience. After the performance, a
grand serenade was given Bernhardt
at her hotel by Gilmore's band of
sixty-five pieces.
A SEVERE earthquake shock oc-
Cured on the 9th in northern Aus
tria. 1t was felt from Vienna to the
Adriatic and the Bosnian frontier.
There were three distinct shocks at
Agram, where q great number of
houses were completely demolished,
and none left uninjured.
The State Journal says that on
Friday last Gov. Nance declared the
Office State of Auditor vacant,an at
once appointed Hon. john Wallichs,
Auditor elect, to fill the unexpired
term. Liedtke, having left the State,
was no longer a resident, and there
fore the Office was vacant.
A CYCLONE passed over Keatche,
Louisiana, on the 10th, literally de-
molishing the town, killing Prof.
Reynolds of the Baptist Church.
injuring many other persons, some,
il is believed, fatally. The destruc-
tion of property was very great,
many houses being wrecked.
PRESIDENT HAYES has appointed
Charles w. Slagle, of Iowa, Otis G.
Clark, of Rhode Island, and A. B.
Nicholas, of Philadelphia, Pa, COM
missioners to examine and report
upon fifty miles of railroad con-
structed by the Missouri Pacific r.
r. Co., west of the Missouri river.
OK the 10th l,5O0 visiting excur-
sionists arrived at Lincoln and more
on the road. They came from the
eastern states. They come mostly
with the view of examining our
young state, and, if pleased with it,
to purchase or locate, and in the
future to make permanent homes.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the Illinois
Central, Michigan Central, and c.