Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-26

deavoring to control their action by with.
holding their food.
The second census of St. Louis shows
a population Of 34l ,OO0.
SITKA, Alaska, was visited by Sc
we're cyclone and heavy shock Of earthquake
on the 26th OF October. The wharf was
wrecked. A party of miners just returned to
sitka from the interior and the head waters
Of the Yukon River report the finding of nu-
merous gold diggings and indications Of rich
| pacers. Another expedition will 20 out next
season.
A CONSTRUCTION TRAIN on the Dallas
| & Wichita Railroad went through a tempo
rary bridge on Hickory Creek, near Lewisville,
Texas, on the 10th. Thirteen laborers were
wounded, three Of whom died a few hours
afterward. Half Of the others will probably
die.
At Denver, Col, on the morning of
the nth the thermometer was fourteen de-
grces below zero. On the mountains the
mercury ranged from twenty-five to thirty be-
low, w,according to location, Breckenridge thirty
nine, Leadville twenty below.
EIGHT bodies were found among the
ruins Of the s.. Peter (Miun) Hospital on
the 18th. Twenty-Five patients were missing
but the farmers in the country around we're
bringing in stragglers almost hourly and
thus diminishing the number lost.
A SPECIAL train carrying four COM
| panies Of the Sixteenth Infantry, struck a
broken rail near Corsica, Texas, on the 18th,
ditching four coaches Twenty-Five men were
wounded, several seriously.
The vote of Kentucky, lacking one
county, stands; Hancock, 147, ,448; Garfield,
103,93l; Weaver, 11,49S; Dow, 257; Hancock
over Garfield, 43,5l5.
OK the 18th while Corwin Call, a
miner, residing at Logan, Ohio, was empty
ing quantity Of blasting powder into a sack
which his wife was holding, the powder ex-
/ ploded. Mrs. Call was burned to death and
Call will likely die. The room was badly
shattered.
OHIo's wheat crop this year amounted
to So, So, ,794 bushels.
A FIRE at Goshen, Ind, on the 18th,
| destroyed a saw-mill, two business blocks, six
stables and number Of warehouses. Loss,
| $4,000 to $4,000.
A DIFFICULTY occurred at Moreland's s
Station, KY, on the 18th, between Cave Row
sey and Ad Glen on one side and NJ. Caualy
and Houston on the other. Rowsey and Glen
were wounded, the latter MORALLY dying on
the following morning
LIEUTENANT KIsLINGBURG's COM
mand, stationed at the mouth Of the Mussel
Shell, was attacked by Indians on the 9TH
General Miles sent reinforcements.
THE British steamer Oceanic sailed
] from 90 Ia Z. vi
and Hong Kong, carrying away $50 Cinnamon.
In the municipal election at Chat
tanooga, Tenn. on the 18th, Hart, Republic
an, was elected Mayor.
CHICAGO is to have a $500, 600 opera
house.
JUDGE TAYLOR was nominated by the
Nineteenth District Republican Committee,
at Warren, Ohio, on the 10Th, for Congress-
man, to fill the uneXDired term of General
Garfield.
The official list of missing and dead
furnished by the st. Peters (Nlnn.) Asylum
officers on the 18th contained the names of
thirteen dead and eighteen missing, ten of
whom were reported as probably burned.
The Democrats of the Alabama Leg-
islature have nominated James L. Pugh for
United States Senator.
AN investigation made by reporters
Of the Chicago Tribune shows that there are
fifteen factories in that city alone engaged in
manufacturing bogus butter, which is put
upon the market and sold as genuine butter.
The compound, which is called " butterine," i"
or suine," is made up In four grades, the
best being fifty per cent. creamery butter
and the other fifty per cent. an equal mixture
of lard and beef tallow.