Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-15
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Interesting Home and ForeIgnhsws.
Congress-.

Interesting Home andForelgn News.
Congress.
HOUSE, May 8.-Mr. Singleton Missy,
a conference report in the Consular
aud Diplomatic Appropriation bill, and it was
agreed to. Tho following bills were reported
from committees and ordered placed on the cal
endar; nd TO amend the patent laws; ira transferring
to the War Department. The contested cleo
tion case of Curtin VS.: Yocum of the Twenti- |
eth District of Pennsylvania, was then taken |
up, but without final action the House ad-
journed.
SENATE, May 10.-The President pro
tenn. lai dbefore the Senate a communication
from the Secretary of the Interior stating that
his estimates of March 9th. $780, for deflcien-
navy pensions had been found insufi-
cient and transmitting increased esti-
hour the Kellogz-Spotford resolutions were |
taken up and Mr.. Hoar spoke against their
miItee on the Diplomatic t an1 Con uiar Appro- @
Ia priation ] Pill was thea p3esented BY Mr. Eaton
introduced and reported: For The survey |
of lands within railroad subsidy limits; to ex-
tend III the time for completing the Northern Pa, |
cifc Railway; appfopriating 81, 900 to rebuild
Memorial Hall at Dayton, Ohio: to reclaim |
waste and arid lands. The bill was passed re-
quiring the President to open such negotiar |
tions with France, Austria and Italy, as he may |
deem advisable, with Ia view to removing the |
reSt lotions on the importation of tobacco into |
those countries. The joint resolution requir- |
ing the President to call an International San
C., was reported from the Committee on Epi- |
demio Diseases and passed.
SENATE, May 1.-THE House amend
ment to tho joint resolution authorizing the
President to call an International Sanitary
Conference was c,ncurred in Consideration
af
olutions and Mr.. Hill, of Georgia, spoke in their
advocacy. :. .HoUsE.-rhe Cuctin-Y ocum con-
cal.e1 up and the minority resolution was
adopted declaring Seth Fl. Yocuu entitled to
tee of the Whole or the Legislative. Executive
and Judicial Appropriation bill, but without
final action the House adjourned.
Domestic.
A KENTUCKY lad who in fight killed
the father of the girl he had seduceti, was ae-
quilted, and few minutes after the prcsenta-
tion of the verdict married the young woman.
INFORMATION has been received at.
Washington that the Nicararg,la Govern
ment has granted a liberal concession to Amer
leans for an Inter-Oeeanc Ship Canal Com
pany.
A NEGRO who murdered white wom-
an near Fairview, Ford County, KY, on the
7th, was taken from the guards who were TAX
ing him to jail, shot several times and l, :
hanging to a tree.
The two hundred and fiftieth anni-
versary of the settlement of Boston will take
place Oh the 18th of September.
EIGHTY buildings in the town. of Rix-
ford, Pa, were destroyed by fire on the 9th.
The fire was caused by gas explosion in
stove. Two tanks containing 33,001 barrels
OF oil were also burned.
Two TANNERIEs and twenty-eight
buildings, including slaughtcr-houses, stables
and dwellings, with their contents, were
burned at Pittsburg on the 9th.
The Texas express train on the St.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Rail road,
when about seventy miles from st. Louis, on
the 9th, ran into washout caused by storm.
The engineer and fireman were killed and
three passengers slightly wounded.
GENERALS GRANT and Sherman will
attend the Wisconsin Soldiers Retnion June
Sth.
A PILLAR of ore forty feet high in
Tifft's shaft, Minevillc, N: Y, fell on the sth,
killing two persons and injurips several
others.
A FIRE at Kinderhook, N. Y, on the
night of the Sth, destroyed the business por-
ton of the village.
IT was reported at Denver, Col, on
the 9th, that a party of twenty-five miners
prospecting in the Lower Gunnison Valley,
were attacked by Ute Indians the 9TH and
twelve of the mining party killed.
In the storm of the 4th off the mouth
of the Columbia River, Oregon, more fisher
men than at first supposed were drowned. The
bodies of twenty-five had been recovered up to
the Sth.
FOURTEEN peIsons are reported to
have perished in fire at London on the 7th.
A PEsTH correspondent telegraphed
on the 9th that a haii-storm had devastated
the greater part of West Hungary. Almost
all the windows and roofs of the houses in the
towns and villages were destroyed, and vines,
fruit trees and green corn crushed to the earth.
A BERLIN dispatch states that the
British Government has issued a circular note
urging on the powers the execution of the
treaty of Berlin, but refraining from any very
detailed proposals.
A VIENNA dispatch says the Albani-
ans have issued proclamation declaring their
independence.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused
ut Carksvillc, Tenn. on the Sth, by the arrest Of
Dean LYLE a negro, who had become insane
through religious excitement. He resisted
the officers and was shot three times before
he surrendered. When the officers entered
his house they were attracted by smell
of putrid human hesll, and; on making
search they found two of Lyle's children, aged
respectfully three and five years.. dead witt
their necks broken. FROM the appearance O
the bodies, decomposition havingcommenced
they must have been dead for some time. 4
Coroncr's jury was summoned and the yerdic
was that the children came to their death b,
violence. Parties from the neighborhood sa,
the impression is that the murder WAS insti
gated by his wife and another negro woman
who have both welded strong influence owe
Lyle, and that he did the killing to relieve th
women of the care of the children, believing
that for the occasion he was Herod.
COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS BENTLEY
has submitted revised estimate of the amount
required for the payment of pensions which
fall due prior to July 1st as follows: For arm,
pensions, S, ,50O0 900; navy pensions. S225, 900
pay. and allowance, $4,000; total, So, 140,0Oo
THE House Committee on Coinage
weights and Measures has authorized Repre-
sentative Bland to report favorably to tn
House the bill authorizing the Secretary O
the Treasury to establish an assay office at st
Louis, Mo.
A SALT LAKE CRY dispatch of tn
10th states that brother of the Ute Chic
Douglass, with $50 White River Indians, me
and women; encamped near Salina, Utah, ha
asked a merchant to get them forty kegs c
powder. They were well mounted, clothe
and equipped. 1t was rumored that certai
Utah bands were to rendezvous at Salina Cam
for pow-wow. The people there apprehen
trouble.
AT Rome, N. Y, on the 10th, one {
the boilers in the Merchant Iron Mill explode
killing four men and injuring many Others
several fatally. The mill was badly wrecked
DIR. LIVINGSTON, ex-Indian Agent, hs
been acquitted again, making the fifth cas-
without conviction.
THE little village of Otsey, SEQ
County, ILL.,, was nearly destroyed by wint
storm on the night of the 9th. Twenty bull
ings we're either totally or partially destroye'
No lives were lost.
THREE thousand one hundred an
.tbirty-seven immigrants arrived at New Yol
on the 10th.
THE town of Guthrie, a station on ii
Springfield division of the Illinois Centr
Railroad, and which contained only half
dozen houses, was destroyed by fire on t
10th The fire was caused by a hghtn1i
stroke.