Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-08-18

9th, bridge across the Hampden road
gave way, causing a general smash.up,
killing one person outright, and injuring
fifty others more or less severely.
Jacob Eisenhardt, German butcher Of
New York city, recently attempted to
punish his little son for a trihing misde-
meanor, and injured him so severely that
he died in few hours.
Official statistics just completed show
that for the fiscal year ending June 30
1870, the value of wheat and wheat flour
exported from the United States was $57,-
429, 800, of which $9,99s,022 was from the
Pacific coast.
The Acting Superintendent of the Cen
sus is preparing table of the number OF
male citizens in each State above the age
of 81 entitled to vote. The following are
the Western States, so far as compiled
Ohio, 593,950; Illinois, 542,S33; Indiana,
377, ,93S; Iowa, 2554 All; Michigan, 274, ,459
Minnesota, 1924; Wisconsin, 2O4,177
Nebraska, 35,092.
The Commissioner of Patents has de-
cided that no party is entitled, as of right
to cover in q single patent more than one
article of manufacture, unless the severa
improvements presented are necessarily
connected with each other.
At the recent election in the city an6
county of st. Louis, Charles Speck, Dem
ocrat, was elected Presiding Judge of the
County Court; W. II. Heath, Republican
Auditor. District Judges-Republicans-
]. II. Fisse, Philip Stremmel, r. G. Allen
Democrats. d. Finney, John Bushy, ]
L. Hyatt.
The National Labor Congress was re
Gently in session in st. Louis, and adjourn
ed to meet at Nashville Tenn, on tn
second Tuesday in September.
The investigation of the coroner in tn
Buffenbarger poisoning case closed at Col
umbus, o., on the 10th, the jury returning
verdict that arsenic was administered to tn
deceased, Peter Buffenbarger, by som
person or persons unknown.
Two Republican conventions were i
, session at New Orleans on the 9th-on
designated as the Warmoth wing, and th
other the Custom House Convention, th
latter being held in the Custom Hous
building, where the meeting was original
, called
A special dispatch to the Louisvil
, Courier. journal of the 18th from w.
, Samuels, Assistant Secretary of Stat
Frankfort, says the Republicans will hay
n about 20 members in the lower house I
the Kentucky Legislature, and that LIE
lies majority will reach 10000.
The up-train on the Houston and Gre
4 Northern Railroad, while pushing tv
flats containing officers of the Compan
n was recently thrown off the track by o
!. structions placed by malicious person
f fifteen miles above Houston, Texas. D
. G. G.. Young, President, aud VIM. I
r Young, Assistant Civil Engineer, we
!. killed; Turner, brakesman, probably
;. tally, and c. L. NOBLE, Chief Enginet
" Superintendent North, and several othe
A. slightly hurt.
Joseph Messner was executed at Roche
ter, N. Y, on the 1lth. He fully confe'
It ed having murdered his wife in Apr
e 1868.
" During the investigation, on the Iii
i of the Westfield disaster, experienced e
n gineers testified that the iron of which t
boiler was made was of the most worthlt
character, and had not been welded thu
d oughly, and in some places the Stag "
a. visible between the layers of the metal.
,e The convention for the interchange
e. postal money orders between Great Brits
IN and the United States will go into eff
s. on October 2, next, and the Post Office l
N partment has completed the prelimins
arrangements for its practical operate
ol OF 2,455 ey.order offices in this col
rt try, $40 have been authorized to is:
IN postal orders on the Postmaster at N
York city for payment in the Uni
e. Kingdom of Great Britain and Irelar
IL and to pay orders issued by him for SUI
in certified by the Post Office Department
d. that country for payment in the Unit
Oh States.
d. The absorption of the California Pac
u Railroad Company into the Central Pac
ne was completed at San Francisco on
h 10th, by the election of Leland Stanfo
ol of the Central, President; Milton S.
than, of the California, Treasurer, a
10 the old Board of the Central Directors
The ordinance repeating the Sum
ls laws, previously passed by the {
NC cinnati Board of Councilmen, was
- iected by the Board of Alderman on
40 18th, by vote of 12 to IL.
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