Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-29


The Philadelphia & Reading Coal and |
Iron Company suspended payments on the 21st. |
The suspension created great excitement in
Philadelphia.
THE annual session of the General |
Conference of the Methodist Protestant
Church began at Pittsburg on the 21st.
The Arctic relief ship, Thomas Cor
win, sailed from San Francisco on the 22d.
JUST previous to the final adjourn
ment of the Illinois Republican State Conven-
ton written protests were handed to the Sec |
retary by representatives of several anti-Grant
Congressional districts, against the action of
the Convention in selecting delegates for their
districts. ass
SECRETARY SHERMAN sent letter
from the Assistant Treasurer at New York to
the House on the 22d saying the additional
amount of silver he can receive will not ex-
coed $40, 900, 900, making with what was then
on hand, $2S, 900 900. The silver in the vaults
weighed five hundred tons.
THE Senate, on the 22d. confirmed
N. G. Ordway, of New Hampshire, Governor
of Dakota Territory. < |
EDENBURG, Pa, was nearly destroy
ed by fire on the night of the 22d. Seventy
buildings, mostly stores, were burned. The
ure originated IN Cne Olu CDlCcu SIdbeS T1ObSl.
which was unoccupied. Estimated loss $780,
900.
THREE bishops were ordained, on
the Goth in st. Louis, by the African Metho-
dist Episcopal General Conference.
THE Omaha strike ended on the 22d.
The strikers were taken back by the company,
and the Government troops were sent back to
Fort Omaha and the militia ordered to leave
Immediately.
THOMAS BOYD, of Kentucky, who re-
Gently made fearful leap into the Kentucky.
River, jumped from the middle of the Suspen-
sion bridge at Cincinnati, on the 23d, into the
Ohio River, distance of ninety-four feet. He
| turned twice in the air and struck the water
with his head and shoulder He was picked up
unhurt.
JOHN KELLER, American Express
Agent at Redhook, N. Y, has decamped with
Sc, 800 belonging to the Redhook National
Bank.
1t was reported in San Francisco on
the 23d that an excursion train from San
Francisco to Santa Cruz on the new narrow
gauge road had gone through trestle at
Santa Cruz. Ten were killed and sixty wounded
THIRTY-Two Indian Chiefs of the
Sioux Nation arrived at Yankton, Dakota, on
the Oath, on their way to Washington and the
Carlisle Indian School. p
AT the M. E. General Conference at
Cincinnati, on the 24th, it was agreed to hold
| the next meeting in Philadelphia.
Two BROTHERS, Bill and Bud Bussly,
| fought duel in the Indian Territory recent
| ly. Bill was killed.
The residence of Mrs. Balser Friedler,
| in Lock Haven, Pa, was burned few days
| ,oip of Eria
in the ruins. There are suspicious of murder,
| robbery and arson.
THE body of the wife of Emil Bier
the other d ay with her throat cut. On table
| in the room was a note from her husband say
| ing he killed her because she was unfaithful.
A BOLT occurred in the Louisiana Re-
publican State Convention held at New Or
leans on the oath. Pinchback and Judge
Beattie with thirty-six delegates, left the hall
| and organized another convention. The reg
ular convention elected sixteen delegates, who
| are said to stand seven for Sherman, seven for
Grant, one for Blaine, and one (senator Kel-
logg), preference not known. The bolting
| Convention elected a full Grant delegation to
Chicago
THE Greenback headquarters have
been opened at the Palmer House in Chicago,
with General B. F. Butler in charge.
DURING fight between roughs at
Troy, N. Y, on the oath, John Wall, an ex-
convict, shot and killed Supervisor Philip
Casey, who was attempting to quell the dis
| turbance. Wall fed, pursued by the in
furiated mob. During the chase duel
took place between Wall and the
was shot in the head and side but not fatally.
A man named Frowley was also shot and in
jured slightly and a child was shot in the hand.
| Wall when captured had a narrow escape from
| lynching.
FOURTEEN persons were killed and
twenty-three wounded in the railroad accident
on the South Pacific Coast Railroad, near San
ia Cruz, CAL, on the 23d.
AT Piqua, Ohio, on the 25th, barrel
of gasoline exploded in the cellar of the resi-
dence of Mrs. DIR. Jones. The house imme-
diately caught fire and two boys aged re-
spectfully ten and fourteen persisted in
the flames. Miss Kate Newland, sister
| of Mrs. Jones and Mr.. Fred Amendt, were
dangerously burned. Mr.. Amendt and the
two boys had gone into the cellar to look for
a leak in the gasoline barrel. One of them
| lit match and the explosion followed in
stantly.
A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone passed
through Mitchell, Dakota Territory, on the
25th, doing much damage to life and proper
ty. Several persons were killed and a num-
blown down.
THE st. Louis Republicans special
| from Santa Fe says advices from Los Lunos
states four more ranchmen have been killed
near Tulerosa by Indians, and estimate that
| In Soroces County and Magule, in the mount
aims, some fifty Mexican herders and five
including two rs have been
first of May is said to be seventy-eight.
THE Colorado Republican Conven-
tion, held at Denver on the 25th, adopted a
resolution requesting the delegates to Chicago
to use all honorable means to secure
the election of Grant. Another reso-
luton was adopted that while the
Republican party Of Colorado express a
Grant they recognize in James G. Blaine one
Of the purest patriots and most able men that
America has ever produced.
In the Delaware Democratic State
Convention at Dover, on the 25th, resolution
were adopted instructfng the delegates to vote
for Senator Bayard for President, and recon-
mending the National Convention to adhere
to the two-thirds rule.
THE President has nominated James
o. Putnam, of New York, Minister to Bel
gium, vice William Corsin Goodloe, resigned.
A LAD at Somerville, Mass, is under
arrest for the murder of playmate fifteen
years of age. W
Two Peoria brewers roomed together
recently. One retired early locking his com
panion out. The latter got a key, entered the
room, kicked and stamped the sleeper to deatl
and fed.
: THE Wabash River has overflowed its
banks and greatly damaged crops in Indiana.
JUSTICE JARVIS, of Statesville, North
. Carolina, dropped dead the other day while
, in the act of marrying couple.
Sixty English millers arrived at New
York City on the steamship. Bolivia, on the
25th, on their way to the International Exhibi
tion in Cincinnati.
Foreign.
The Archbishop of Quebec has issued
a pastoral letter against trade unions, threat
ening to excommunicate any Catholic who
, attacks or conspires against persons willing te
, | work. TsS
THIRTEEN of the men who wrecked 8
passenger train in Spain last year, have beer
sentenced to death, and thirteen to twent,
. years imprisonment.
: The British Parliament reassembled