The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-06-16

The reported killing of five children
by cars near New Haven, Conn.,, is not
credited.
Western Union earnings show an in.
crease $500. 600 in the five months oil
this year.
Wood and Fletcher, sentenced to be
hanged at Natohez, Miss, on the o inst.
have been granted Iehearing.
The democratic state central commit.
Tee of Chic decided to hold the state con-
vention in Columbus July 20.
Specie engagements at New York on
the 9TH were s., $50 200. One firm sends
81 ,OO0, 900 to Genoa on account of an
italian loan.
Five hundred cattle were poisoned at
Montreal on the Sth, by eating noxious
weeds while grazing near that city bofore
being shipped to Europe.
A party of American railroad hands ut
Iago. Mexico, attacked a number of Mex
leans on the 9th, and three Americans
and several Mexieans were killed.
Wool growers of Texas, ut q conven-
ton in San Antonio on the 9th, decided
not to support any man for congress who
does not advocate protection OF wool.
A balloon high mp in the air and driv.
ing rapidly northward was seen at Jack
son, Mich. about noon on the Sth. The
occupants were performing evolutions
on pendent trapeze bar.
At meeting of the American Medical
Association at st. Paul on the 7th the
New York State Medical Association was
declared ineligible to representation be-
cause of its declaration on homeopathy.
Z. Quinn and David Goodrich. the in
mates who fired the Ohio asylum for
imbecile youth in Nov, 1881, by which
the state lost some $500 900, were ac-
l Quilted of arson on the ground of insan-
ity.
Fred w. Newburgh, the forger who
secured $40 600 from the Ohio state
treasury, and against whom fifty-two in.
dictments were returned, was taken to
the penitentiary for six years, having
pleaded guilty TO two indictments only.
A marble tablet is preparing at Fair
| Haven, Vt. to commemorate the deeds of
/ General Custer and officers and men of
the 7th cavalry, who fell in tho massacre
of ths Little Big Horn, Wichita and
/ Bear Paw mountain. The tablet will
soon be sent to Fort Leavenworth.
Operators OF lower Rausisch creek are
building a dam so the water may be
turned In to extinguish the ire in the
burning part of the mine that is isolated.
1t is hoped the fire may be drowned out
| within TIVE weeks. Two hundred and
| fifty men, in the meantime, will be
thrown out of work.
A dispatch of the 10th saws: About
/ 40 new miners went TO work in the Cum
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will 60 to day or Monday. The Knights
of Labor have issued an edict to all
miners to remain away from the Cumber-
land region pending settlement of the
present difficulties.
A break occurred on the east side res
ervoir towards Vaughan street, Portland.
Me-, and q torrent of water passed
through Vaughan street, crossing Con-
gress street, then down q steep hill to
Grove creek, cutting a chasm 10 feet
wide, carrying away pavements. curb
stones and shade trees and flooding cell
lars. No person injured.
The Ohio greenback state convention
which met at Columbus on the Sth had
| fifty delegates, one per cent. of the whole
number apporttoned the counties. 4
| long series of resolutions opposing mo-
nopolies were adopted and ticket nomi-
| mated: Secretary of state, Geo. l.. Hafer,
of Miami county; supreme Judge, L. b.
Tuttle, of Lake county; member Of board
of public works, L. B. Stevens Of Lucas
county.
Adolph Schoninger, Polish Jew who
was sent 10 the Nebraska penitentiary for
stealing, but who was subsequently sent
to the insane asylum about eight months
ago, has for seven months persistently
refused food, except what was forced
down him. His weight fell from $50 to
so pounds and on the Sth he died. A
few hours before death he ate voraciously
and to the last moment lamented having
violated Christ's commands to him by
eating.
4 syndicate has been formed in st.
Louis for consolidation of coal and iron
interests of that section and southern
Illinois. It has secured contracts from
a number of railways running through
the section mentioned and they already
have invested million and half in this
direction and in mines. and will erect
large steel and carwheel works att new
town of Harrison, Ill. It is thought
the Laciede iron works will be moved
there. It is also contemplated to build
q railroad to Iron Mountain, Mo.
Intelligence from the south coast is 10
the effect that Ecuador is in the throes
of revolution, Peru is in anarchy and dis
order, and Chill smitten by epidemics
and cur. ed by brigandage. $50, 600, 900
in spurious bank notes have been put in
circulation in Peru and many hitherto
respectable people are involved. The
people of Peru are so anxious peace
| should be made that some leader will be
for ,ed into the position of concluding
terms with Chill. The Indian rising in
the interior has been suppressed. The
principal departments of Ecuador are in
arms against the dictator.
Mrs. ScoVille has given to the press
for publication copy of a petition ad
dressed to President Arthur, asking fol
stay of execution in the case of Chas
j. Guiteau until commission of compe
tent physicians acknowledged by the
fraternity to be above adverse criticism
shall be appointed, and shall examine
into the question of his insanity. The
following note Is addressed to the public
Gas there is not sufficient time to make
canvass for signatures to the foregoing
petition, to the many who fully indorst
it, / ask every cne who is in favor of thu
petition to seud their names through tht
mails to me. Address. Mrs. Francis nj
Scoyille, room 63, 80 Randolph street
Chicago.
A dispatch from Rome OF the 9th says
The family of Gen. Garibaldi have de
cided to abandon cremation, owing t.
practical difficulties in the way of it's ac
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