Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-09-01

vention met at Madison on the 22d. Hon.
James r. Doolittle was nominated for
Governor, receiving on the first ballot 1913
votes to 81 scattering. John A. Rice, of
Wsukesha County, was nominated for
Lieutenant Governor; Milton Montgome-
ny for Secretary of State; Anton Klaus for
Treasurer; Edward s. Bragg for Attorney
General; L. f. johnson for State Prison
Commissioner; e d. Parker for Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, and Jacob
Bowden for Commissioner of Immigra-
ton.
A New York telegram of the gath says
direct intelligence, by steamer from San
Domingo, reports the country tranquil, no
disturbances having occurred since the
rout of Cabral, at San Juan. The flnan.
cial situation was relieved by the receipt
Of the proceeds Of the United States San
Domingo loan. The friendly tone Of the
report Of the United States Commission of
Inquiry, which had been circulated
through the country, was pleasing to the
people. Baez was preparing to celebrate
the anniversary of the Dominican victory
over the Spaniards.
The official majority for Leslie, Demo
crst, for Governor of Kentucky, is stated
at 37,153.
On the oath the people OF West Vir-
ginia voted for and against convention
for remodelling the State Constitution, by
the adoption of what is known as the
Fleck Amendment. The general impress
sion at Petersburg on the day of election
was that the convention would be defeated
by small majority.
In the late examination made Of steam
boilers, in New York city, nineteen have
been found defective and unfit for use.
The verdict of the Brooklyn Coroner's
Jury in the Westfield explosion case is the
same as the other. They hold the officers
of the Ferry Company, the engineer and
the Government Inspector to blame, and
pronounce the boiler as having been
worthless.
The steamship Carrie ruptured her
boiler, on August II, near New Brighton,
Long Island. The engineer was badly
scalded. The public were kept in ignor-
ance about this explosion till the oath,
when the old boiler was replaced by a new
one, and information of the case given by
the engineer. 1t is said the boiler had
been recently inspected by Government
Inspector Matthews.
A San Francisco dispatch of the 25th
says: Captain Brown, U s. A, sends a
message from Los Flores to Los Angeles,
that he must have larger force or an In
dian war is inevitable. The number of
Indians in Southern California is too in
significant to leave any doubt of the final
result"
Mrs. Colburn, the defendant in the
BLfenbarger case, was honorably dis
charged on the evening of the 25th.
A fire in the West Division of Chicago
on the night of the 25th destroyed the res
idence of Iannh PiI>@i- -, ~ i-s's0 WIG per-
ished in the fames In escaping from the
burning building with his infant child in
his arms, Ribskate and the babe were so
iesrfully burned that their recovery is
| doubtful.
A Wilmington, N c., dispatch of the
25th states that reliable information had
been received there that yellow fever of a
malignant type was prevailing at Charles
ton, s. G. e
The steamer Ladona, owned in New
York, was totally wrecked in late gale
on the coast of Florida, and twenty of the
crew perished. The cargo, amounting in
value to 100000, was all lost.
From advance sheets Of the census, pub
lished in Washington on the 25th, it sp.
pears that the population of the various
States and Territories, as officially and
finally revised at the Census Office, is as