Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-05-31
THE NEM WORLn.


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The bill giving effect to the Treaty of
Washington came up in the Canadian Parlia-
ment on the 18th. After the rejection of
two hostile amendments, the bill was order
ed to n second reading by vote Of III to 90.
This practically ratifies and confirms, so FAR
as Canada ia concerned, the Treaty of Wash
ington.
The Boston Common Council, by vote of
80 to 20, have passed an order requesting the
Trustees Of the Public Library TO open the
reading room on Sundays.
In Chicago, on the 18th, a carpenter named
Edward Simons shot his wife through the
head, innicting fatal wound, and then COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in the
sal14o ts,Nnner. tt seems the wife had ap-
piled for divorce on the charge Of desertion
and neglect, and her husband had made an
unsuccessful effort for a reconciliation.
! 4 cail has been issued for the Wisconsin
Democratic state Convention to be held in
Milwaukee June IL, at which delegates to
Baltimore will be chosen.
The Texas State Republican Convention
has elected delegates to Philadelphia, with
instructions to vote for Grant and Governor
Davis.
! Libbie Garrabrant, for the murder OF Ran
| som T. Burrough, at Paterson, N. j., has
been sentenced 20 be hanged on July 19.
Judge Jones, Of the Circuit Court at Buff
falo, has given decision that publishers Of
SunCay papers cannot collect for advertise
ments, if advertisers refuse to pay for them
Extensive fires in the woods in different
sections of the East, were reported on the
18th. Several hundred acres in Maiden,
Mass, had been burned over, and many
dwellings were damaged. The fires on the
line of the Delaware, Laokawanna ~ west
ern Railroad, about Scranton Pa, extend
thirty-fve miles, and threatened the con-
sumption of all the timber of that region.
The village of Tobyhanna, had narrow
escape from destruction, the forests all
around it having been on fire, the
wind blowing the einders over the town IN
showers. A woods fire had been raging in
the vicinity of Yappak, L. l., two days and
nights, moving rapidly along the Long Island
Railroad track. About 5000 cords of wood
had been destroyed.
Chief Justice Barbour, at New York, has
given careful opinion, holding that th'
United States statutes of 1866 and 1867, per
hitting defendant, not a resident of thu
same State, as plaintiff, to remove his case
at any stage of the suit, from State to thu
United States Court, is unconstitutional.
terrible domestic tragedy was recentl.
enacted at Thornton, III. Solomon Nc
p Crackin was shot and fatally wounded b.
his son Samuel. According to the som
t statement before the Coroner's jury, corro
borated by his mothers evidence, MIR, Nc
I Crackin had been abusing his family, whicl
he was often in the habit of doing, and o.
; this occasion had assaulted his wife an
daughters, threatening to throw them on
of doors. Samuel interfered and ordered hi
! father to desist. McCrackin turned upo
, the son, threatening to kill him, and in tn
I ensuing melee seized three-pronged speal
: got his son into a corner, and was about I
Q stab him with the spear, when the latter fire
= three shots at his father from a revolver, IL
i Hicting wounds from which the father sui
: seauently died. The son gave himself u
/ Immediately after the tragedy,
Red Cloud, with twenty-five of his trib'
!, left Pine Bluff, Wyoming Territory, on I'll
J. nth, for Washington. They are accomp
. MED by DR.. Daniels, Indian Agent and Int
n prefer.
|, The Democratic State Convention of III
=, nois has been called to meet at Springfield
o on the Goth of June.
/ A fire at Flint, Mich, on the morning
:. the 18th, destroyed S150,oO0 worth Of pro
g erty.
, The Arkansas Republican State Conve
E, ton met at Little Rock on the 18th. II
State and National Administrations were
e dorsed, and the delegates to Philadelph
I'd instructed to vote for the denomination
u General Grant, The course of senat
=, Clayton was indorsed, and the Brooks par
al denounced as disorganizers.
a In the United States Circuit Court,
"a Baltimore, on the 18th, in the case of T.
be United States as, George w. Murdoc
IL Register of Elections in Anne Arund
"a County, who was indicted for violation
90 the Enforcement Act, by refusing negroes
"a. opportunity to register, verdict of gull
ed was returned. Notice Of appeal was give
er The Virginia State Conservative Commit
ON 81, has issued call for Convention at Rio
lat mond the 9th of June.
as A New York dispatch Of the Goth says:
m Herald correspondent has interviewed
1n' Secretary Seward ON the Alabama Clair
MI Mr. Seward said that few people understo
is the Alabama Claims question, or they wo'
Dnt not get excited over it. He referred to
al johnson Clarendon Treaty as a means
,1Sd overcoming all difficulties in the case, a
de. stated that the people, If dissatisfied W