Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-22


Christian AdcocGte.
CHIEF JUSTICE SANFORD E. CHURCH
died suddenly of apoplexy, at his residence
in Albion, N. Y, on the 14th.
A DAsTARDLY attempt was made at
New York City, on the 18th, by some party or
parties to kill the Spanish Consul General by
means of an internal machine.
The Mahoning Powder Mill, near
Ashland, Pa, exploded on the 18th, killing Ed
ward Benzman and injuring five Others.
WILLIAM HARRISON, an Englishman,
has purchased ffty-two quarter sections of
land in Butler County, Kan A house win be
built on each quarter section, and under the
English tenantry system fifty-two English
families will occupy these farms Each family
will have from two to five hundred pounds
sterling.
The village of Stuyvesant, near Hud-
son, n. Y, was destroyed by-fre on the 18th,
involving a loss of 100000.
The National Grand Lodge of Colored
Masons of North America was in triennial ses-
sion at Wilmington, Del, on the 18th.
The American Bible Society held it's
sixty-fourth annual meeting on the 18th. The
annual reports showed the receipts of the year
to have been S60S, ,342.
FOREST fires were raging in Cumber-
land, Atlantic and Burlington Counties, N.
j., on the 18th.
FIFTY Indians attacked an emigrant
party going west in Presidio County, Texas,
on the 14th, and killed man and woman and
wounded two other men.
The house of a Mr.. Miller, near
Wahpeton, Dakota, was destroyed by fire re
Gently and his two little boys perished in the
flames.
In the Whitaker case at West Point,
on the 18th, Southworth, an expert in identify
ing handwriting, testified that the paper on
which the note of warming was written was cut
by an instrument making a ragged edge from
sheet on the other part of which Whitta-
ker, on the day following the outrage, had
commenced writing letter to his mother,
and showed that every indented spot on the
edge of one had its corresponding tooth OPP
posite on the edge of the other. Every one
of the experts, five in all, identified the hand
writing of Whitaker as the handwriting in
the note of warning, three of them being
positive. In an interview Whitaker de-
clarc@ his innocence, and said that the dis
covery of the experts did not amount to any
thing, because all the cadets use the same kind
of paper He was in the habit of tearing whole
sheets into halves to write, and the person
who wrote the note mighthaye come to his room
and secured piece of his paper and with
many samples of his handwriting before him
might have forged the note. Professor Gren-
ner still claims that Whitaker is innocent and
says that he has some important points which
he intends to make known over his own sigma
ture but not to the Court
ANOTHER attempt was made to fire
Milton, Pa, on the 18th. A reward of 5000
was offered Immediately for the apprehension
of the incendiaries. Six hundred and sixteen
buildings were destroyed by the fire on the
14th. The local relief committee issued an
appeal for aid stating that hundreds and hun
dreds OF people, men, women and children,
were homeless and penniless, having nothing
left but the clothes on their backs.
THOMAS WHITE, a white man, was
hanged at Spartanburgh, s. c., on the 18th,
for the murder of Pete Hawkins, a colored
youth.
The Grow Indians have agreed to sell
the Government 1000, 900 acres of their reser-
yation in Montana for $4,000 per year fol
twenty-five years, and the Soshone and
Bannock Indians of the Fort Hill Qdaho)
posing of 100000 acres of their reservation
for $4,000 per year for twenty years.
The President, on the 18th, nominal
ed N. G. Ordway, of New Hampshire, Govern
or of Dakota Territory.
POSTMASTER JAMES, of New York
City, has written letter declining to be
candidate for Postmaster-General.
SAMUEL r. GLEN, a well-known jour.
nalist of the New York Herald, died on the
18th
SERGEANT w. S. JEWELL, in charge
of the signal station at Mount Washington
has been ordered to take charge of the mete
geological department of the Howgate Polar
expedition.
THE investigation into the affairs ot
the First National Bank of Augusta, Me-, has
revealed the fact that the late cashier, Israe
Boothby, who suicided February 3, was a de
faulter for over $50, 900.
THE Supreme Court of Tennessee de.
cided on the 18th, in the bond suits against tn,
city of Memphis, that when the charter of
municipal corporation is repealed and the sam,
people and the same territory is reincorpora
ted under a new name, although with differen
powers and different officers, suit pending
against the old corporation at the date of The
repeal may be revived against the new corpo
ration.
The revenue cutter Thomas Corwin
designated for the Arctic relief expedition, il
making preparations to leave San Francisco OF
| the 22d.
LIE wv CIlt oCSolO1 VI UIl'
German Roman Catholic Association Assem-
bled at st. Louis on the 18th.
THE two delegates from Wyoming t.
| the Chicago Convention were not instructed
One will vote for Blaine and the other fo
| Grant.
A DEADwooD dispatch says the part
of twenty-five men who started on the Goth G
April to recover the stock stolen from job
/ Deffenbaeh, who was murdered in the Inya
Kara Mountains, and to ayenge his deatf
came upon a party of seventeen Indians o
| the 18TH They killed four of them and cap
ured seyenty-seven horses. Joseph Rhodes
one OF the party, was killed.
THE National Committee of the Sc
cialistic Labor Party has issued call to a
those who sympathize with their movement t
have the Government exercise control owe
| land, labor and money, SO that equal right
and opportunities shall be afforded to all, I
/ meet in Chicago June Sth to endeaver to reac
7 harmonious action in support of "a candidat
for President and President, who will /
pledged to carry out these principles.
| AT the Cabinet meeting on the 1St
President Hayes announced that he had dec
ded to appoint Horace Maynard, United Stat,
| Minister at ConstantinopIe, to succeed Gel
eral Key as Postmaster-General.
A FIRE at Coudersport, Potter Cour
ty, Pa, on the 18th, nearly made clean swee
i of the town. But five buildings were lef
| Loss about S200, 200.
THE California Workingmen in cor
vention at San Francisco ON the 18th, adopte
a resolution declaring Allen G. Thurman the
| choice for President.
VICToRIo's Indians have recent
killed eleven men, two women and four chi
dren in New Mexico. Victorio has been large
ly reinforced.
| ANDREW SMITH, defaulting tow
treasurer of North Andover, Mass, has bee
sentenced to six years. hard labor in the Stat
prison.
RED CLOUD, Spotted Tail and otht
chiefs of the Sioux tribe propose to visit Was
ington and hold conference with the Pres
dent on the subject of railways crossing the
reservation.
: THE skeletons of a man and woma
were found recently at New Haven, Ind,
an unfrequented spot the bank of t
Maumee River. A rusty knife laid among Il
bones.
A STATEMENT issued by the Chief
the Bureau of Statistics shows that the tot
value of fexports of domestic breadstuffs frc
the United States during April was $21 ,679, L