Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-09-29

Dy Lne TeCbnI hepuOllChn pVaue OOnNSh-
ton of Minnesota: For Governor, Horace
Austin; Lieutenant Governor, W. Fl. Yale,
of Winona-both by acclamation; Secre-
tary of State, s. p. Jenneson, of Goodhue
County; Treasurer, w. NJ. seager; Asso
ciate Justices S. j. II. McMillen and J.
M. Berry Attorney General, j. r. e. Cor
nell.
While several laborers were engaged in
excavating street sewer In indianapolis,
Ind, on the Goth, section Of the bank on
both sides caved in, covering the men
under ten or fifteen feet of gravel and
sand During the day six dead bodies
were recovered and two were taken out
alive. Two more known to have been at
work were missing, and supposed to be in
the bottom of the sewer, making the total
number killed eight
A recent fire in Virginia City, Nevada,
destroyed four entire blocks In the center
of the business part of the city, involving
loss of about $75O,0OO; insurance abou
$35O,OOO.
A New York dispatch of the 2lst says ex-
Councilman Haggerty and Charles Balch
had been sent TO the Tombs charged with
stealing the Comptrollers vouchers. Hag-
gerty is said to be the tool of Mayor Hall,
Mary Conway, q servant girl of Haggerty,
and one of the principal witnesses in re-
gard to the theft, had mysteriously disap-
peared, and all efforts to discover her
whereabouts had SO far proven fruitless.
1t would seem from the servant girls evil
dence already given that the vouchers had
been burned in Haggerty's kitchen, and it
is said that on the evening of the 21st the
ashes were examined and portions of sew
eral burnt vouchers were found in suff1-
GENTLY preserved condition that the fig
ures on them could be made out with the
aid of glass.
The joint committee Of citizens and al.
dermen of New York city met on the 2lst,
and the special committee appointed to
investigate the city accounts reported the
following as correct statement of all
stocks and bonds of the city: First fund.
ed or permanent debt of the city, payable
from the sinking fund, $21 ,S76, ,216; city
debt payable from taxation, $27,s16,350; ;
second temporary debt of the city, paya-
BILE from assessments for the opening and
improving of streets and boulevards, $11,-
| 1924, 800; third, revenue bonds, $22, ,766, 200 /;
total, SIG, 709,S5S; less securities held by
the Commissioners and cash in the hands
of the Chamberlain, $19,422, 1888; net
debt, $97, ,2s7,525.
A Washington dispatch says the last
bond of the two hundred million dollars
in five per cents. recently put upon the
market, was signed on the 21st.
The Congressional Ku-Klux Committee
met in Washington on the 2lst. The
Sub Committee of three-Senator Pool,
and Representatives Buckley and Beck
who were heretofore appointed to make a
digest of the responses of the executive
officers of the late insurrectionsry States,
and the cities of Charleston and New Or
leans were re appointed, with authority
TO procure additional Information. Reso-
lutious were adopted directing the Chair
man Of the Committee to appoint sub
committee of five members to visit
North and South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida, and subcommittee of five mem.
bers to visit Tennessee, Alabama and
Mississippi, and take testimony in those
States. 1t was decided not to be necessary
to send a subcommittee to Virginia,
Louisiana, Texas, or Arkansas.
Mrs. Finley, who killed her three chill
dren, and attempted to kill herself, at
Wabash, Ind, died in her cell in the Jail
at that place on the 10Th, from the effects
of her injuries. The woman was no doubt
insane.
In recent charge to the Grand Jury,
Chief Justice Mexican, of the United
States District Court of Utah, instructed
them to indict persons guilty of violating
any of the laws of the land, including
bigamy or adultery. When the Grand
Jury was selected all polygamous Nor.
mons were rejected
The Coroner of Louisville, KY, has
issued warrants for the arrest of VIM.
Witty, conductor,y and George Patrick,
engineer, of the passenger train on the
Louisville 4 Nashville Railroad which
recently ran into another passenger train
at Randolph station, killing three and
wounding large number. The Coroner'f
jury in their verdict fixed the blame upoI
these parties. They will be tried for man
slaughter.
The majority in favor of the constitu
tional convention in West Virginia il
$50.
A telegram was received in Washington
on the 21st, announcing the result in the
first trials under the Ku-Klux act a
Raleigh, N. @. The case was that of Shot
well and others, charged with taking
Hon. j. NJ. Justice out of his bed, a
Rutherfordton, on the nth of June last
and removing him to the woods, where ht
was assaulted, and afterwards allowed Il
go home. The telegram says that thu
Jury returned verdict convicting eigh
and acquitting three, while five pleaC
guilty. Two colored men were on th'
jury. A motion of the defendants coun
sci for a new panel, on the ground that th'
jury were political partisans, was denied
There were over two hundred other
awaiting trial.
The unveiling of the Lincoln Monu
ment at Philadelphia took place on tn
22d, at Fairmount Park, in the presenc
of 10000 spectators.
There is great scarcity Of factory he'll
in Massachusetts, caused in part by alarm
at the smallpox. For many months tn
mills in Lowell have been run with onl.
about three fourths Of their usual compile
ment.
The new Maine Senate will stand 2
Republicans to Democrats and tn
House ia Republicans to 86 Democrat
and Independent
1 A New York dispatch of the 22d say