Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-05-26

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was stolen.
At Binghamton, N. Y, on the 18th, Ed
ward II. Rulloff was executed, by hanging,
for the murder, in August last, of clerk
engaged in defending his employers store
from robbery. Rullof had made frequent
applications for stay of execution, or
Communication of sentence, on the ground
that he was the only possessor of an inn
portant secret relating TO the formation of
language.
Eleven jurors had been obtained and the
panel exhausted, on the 18th, in the Foster
murder trial in New York city. A new
panel was ordered.
The Secretary of the Treasury has de-
cided, in relation TO the redistribution of
the $54, 100000 National Bank circulation
that the whole must be reserved for the,
exclusive use of the Southern and West
ern States. The Secretary has accordingly
refused to authorize the starting of new
bank in Boston.
A War Department order was issued
on the 18th, containing the Presidents in
structionsto officers in command of troops,
directing them how to act under the pro
visions of the Ku-Klux act
A fearful nitro-glycerine explosion oc-
CURED about five miles from Titusville,
Pa, on the 10Th About four hundred
pounds of the compound were exploded
while being transported in a wagon, and
the driver, Chas. @. Clark, as well as the
horses and vehicle, was blown to atoms,
and a barn forty rods distant was de-
molished. An excavation five feet deep
and twelve feet broad was made in the
roadway. The largest fragment of Clark's
body which had been found is portion of
his face. The horses shoes were stripped
off and broken, and nothing was left of
the wagon, but splinters of wood and iron
were scattered broadcast for several hun.
dred yards. A woman was knocked down
by missile of some kind, which entered
the window of her dwelling, nearly a
quarter of a milo distant.
The Congressional Ku-Klux Committee
on the 10th adopted resolution for the
appointment of subcommittee of eight,
to proceed at once with the investiga-
tion, and continue the same as long as it
deems expedient, with authority to take
testimony whenever they consider it ad-
visable, by subcommittee of its own
obtained to the full committee, at meet
ing to be held on the Goth day of Septem-
Der next, or at such earlier time as the sub
committee shall notify the joint select
committee to meet. The following are
the names of the subcommittee Senator
Scott, Chairman; Senators Poole and
Blair; Representatives Poland, Coburn,
Stevenson, Beck and Van Trump.
PERSONAL.
At the recent annual meeting of the So
ciety of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, at Boston, the following officers for
the ensuing year were elected: Grand
Commander, General Burnside, of Rhode
Island; Senior Vice Commanderin. Chief,
General Lewis A. Wagner, of Pennsylva-
mia; Junior Vice COMMANDMENT. Chief
Colonel James F, Coy, of California; Sur
geon-in- Chief, Dr. Samuel A. Greene, OF
Boston; Chaplain, Rev. Mr.. Connor, OF
Ohio. The meeting next year was ap-
pointed at Cleveland, Ohio.
The officers for the ensuing year of the
| Cavalry Corps of the Army of the United
: States are: President, General Sheridan
Vice Presidents, Gems. David Nc NJ. Gregg
Horace Binney Sargent, John B. Mcintosh
| B. F. Grierson, Geo. A. Custer, Judson
! Fitzpatrick and James II. Wilson; Secre.
tary, Mai. G. J. Whitehead; Treasurer
! Maj r. r. Corson.
At Cincinnati, on the 18th, the Olympics
of Washington, defeated the Forest Citys
) of Cleveland, in a game of base-ball-12
toS.
In game of baseball at Fort Wayne
on the 18th, between the Kekionga Club
3 of Fort Wayne, and the Chicago White
Stockings, the latter were victorious-14
} to 5.
Lieutenant Howard B. Cushing was
killed in recent fight with the Indians in
the MILESTONE Mountains.
7 The national Lincoln monument, now
, being erected at Oak Ridge Cemetery
s Springfield, Ill, will be completed on the
3 1st of July.
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1 Putnam, commenced in the Court of Oyer
s and Terminer of New York city on the
r 10Th. The prisoner seemed unconcerned
: -Four jurors were secured.
Horace Greeley arrived at New Orleans
q on the 18th, en- route for Texas.
At Fort Wayne, on the 18th, the Keki
onga Baseball Club defeated the Olympics
# of Washington-12 to 6.
: The following nominations were sent t.
r the Senate by the President on the 18th
n David H. Budlong, Collector of Intena
8 Revenue Fifth District Missouri; DaviC
o B. Emmett, of Kansas, Receiver of Public
It Moneys at Humboldt; George H. Wright
o of Iowa, Register of the Land Office a
Sioux City; Postmasters-Orrin B. In
d gals, Belvidere, ILL., Charles o. South
Il ard, Morris, H.. Phineas Graves, Albion
IS Mich. Alpheus M. Beebe, Owasso, Mich.
S, Volney Belknap. Erie, Pa. Miss Ella
x Peck, Greenville, Pa.
W In game of baseball played in Chi
d cago on the 10th, the White Stockings, @
" that city, defeated the Olympics, of Wash
IS ington-14 to 4.
O. The President sent the following nomi
,e nations to the Senate, on the 18th RobeI
or H. Milroy, United States Marshal for Wy
oming Territory; Edwin S. Stanton, 30
n, of the late Edwin M. Stanton, Secretar
ID of the Territory of Columbia.
ir AT Boston, on the 10th, the Red Stool
IL ings, of that city, were defeated by tn
of Haymakers, of Troy, in game of bas'
es ball-29 to IA. On the nth the Hay
ne makers were defeated by the Harvards-
ST 10 to 8.
IS, Simon 7. Powell, of Newcastle, hi
at been appointed Supervisor of InternI
ig Revenue for the State of Indiana.