Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-11-25
PERSONAL.

The Atlantics beat the Athletics at base
ball in Philadelphia, on the 14th-14 to 12.
The case of ex Mayor Chahoon is before
the courts again, writ of error having
been granted by the Court of Appeals at
Richmond, Va.
A young man named George Heffran, of
Pottsville, Pa, surrendered himself at
Randolph, Mass, on the 18th, as the MUIR
derer Of Benjamin Nathan. He proved to
be insane.
The President has appointed VIM. G.
Ebert, Pension Agent at Macon, Mo-, nice
John t. Clements, removed and George
E. Webster, Pension Agent at Fort Glib.
son, c'ce Alexander Clapperton, removed.
Calvin W. Starbuck, founder and princi-
pal proprietor of the Cincinnati DaSly
Times, died suddenly in that city on the
morning OF the 10Th. He was forty-eight
years old.
Michael ST. George, State Inspector of
Registry, New York city, is held in $4,000
bail for trial, charged with allowing per-
sons to register Illegally after being chal-
lenged by the Federal Supervisor.
President Grant has commenced the
preparation of his annual message, and
will devote the greater part of every day
hereafter to that until its completion
A Washington dispatch of the 10Th says
:" There have been conflicting verbal and
published reports concerning Minister
Motley, but the question is now settled be-
yond dispute by the declaration of Presi-
dent Grant himself that he has actually re-
called Minister Motley and instructed
Secretary Fish to advise him accordingly"
The recent Ohio Female Suffrage Asso-
citation, at Columbus, elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: President,
Mrs. DIR. II. NJ. Tracy Cutler, of Cleveland ;
Vice-President, Mrs. NJ NJ. Cole, of Sidney 4;
Recording Secretary, Mrs. Mary Graham,
of Cincinnati: Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. 4. ID. Stewart, of Springfield; Treas
urer, Mr.. L. H. Grail, of Cincinnati.
John s. Dean, of Madison, has been ap-
pointed Assistant Secretary of State of
Wisconsin, in place of T. S. Alden, re-
signed.
The sentence of Daniel G. Burdick, who
was to be hanged at Little Valley, N. Y,
on the 25th of November, for the murder
of negro named Baker, has been COM
muted to imprisonment for life
Capt. George Rushland, of Springfield,
has been appointed State Librarian of Illi-
nois, ctce Rudolphe Rummel, deceased.
The Odd-Fellows' Grand Lodge of Indi-
ana has elected A. H. DeWolf, of Vincennes,
Grand Master; Dr. E, Fl. Berry, of Indian
apolis, Grand Secretary; and James A.
Weldman, of Kokomo, Grand Representa-
tive
An attempt of the son of United States
Senator Stockton, of New Jersey, to cow
hide Col. j. A. Freeze, editor of the Tren-
ton Sentinel, on the 18th, resulted in his
receiving severe punishment by Freeze,
who broke a large cane over lis head,
seized the cowhide and beat him till he
made his escape.
A New York Tribune special from
Washington, on the 18th, says the Presi-
dent had again informed prominent gen
tleman that instructions had been sent to
Mr.. Motley to turn over the United States
Legation in London to Mr.. Moran, the Sec
retary, and to return home at once He
also stated that no successor to Mr.. Motley
had been chosen, and that he should not
tender the appointment to anybody in
writing.
The trial of George Vanderpool for the
murder of Herbert Field, at Manistee
September 8, 1869, closed at Kalamazoo
on the 18th, and the case was given to the
jury at 3 BOP. m. A verdict had not been
rendered up to II o'clock. A Detroit
dispatch says:
This is the second trial, and it has occu.
pied twenty-six days. The defendant,
Vanderpool, is charged with having killed
Herbert Field, his partner in the banking
business at Manistee in the western part
of this State, in their banking house, on
Sunday, Sept B, between IL and IL o'clock
a. m, leaving his body in the bank until
after 10 o'clock that night, and then throw.
ing it into the Manistee river. Fields
body was found on the shore of Lake
Michigan, about thirty miles north
of Manistee, ten days after he disappeared,
with two large cuts in his head. Wander
pool was arrested three days after Fields
disappearance, charged with his murder.
The evidence against Vanderpool was en-
tirely circumstantial, but very strong He
was tried at Manistee in February, 1870,
convicted, and sentenced to the State
Prison, solitary confinement, for life, high
est penalty for murder in this State A
new trial was applied for and granted, with
a change of venue to Kalamazoo, which is