Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-08-09

master, and Mrs Baker, Of Texas were Sc
riously, and several Others severely, injured
Acting Secretary of the Treasury Richard
son has directed the Assistant Treasurer at
New York TO buy, on the first and third We'd
nesdays of August, 50, ,O00, 600 worth of bonds,
and on the second and fourth Wednesdays,
81, 100000, making s6,000,00o in all, and to
sell on the first, third and fifth Thursdays,
81, ,000, 600 of gold, and the second and fourth
Thursdays s2,000,000, making T,0O0,000
in all.
A Washington dispatch of the Goth says
the Government had official information
from Geneva Of a satisfactory character in
relation to the American Claims.
In remarks to friends on the 9th Mr..
Greeley intimated that he should not make
any more speeches for several months.
The Excise law was strictly enforced in
New York and Brooklyn on Sunday, 2Sth.
Two liquor dealers in Brooklyn were tried
on the Goth and sent to prison for twenty
days for keeping their shops open on Sun
day.
Early on the morning of the 9th, mob
of three hundred persons took from Jail, In
Warrensburg, Mo-, John Sharp, who muir
dered John Erskine few days before, and
hung him The Sheriff resisted the mob,
but they attacked the jail, front and rear,
preached the wall and took the prisoner. He
confessed the murder His body was deliv-
cred to his family, consisting of a wife and
three children.
BY a lamp explosion in Cleveland on the
evening of the 2Sth three Germans, Mr.. and
Mrs. Koepka and Mrs. Lestz were severely
burned. Mrs. Koepka was SO badly injured
that her life was despaired Of
A recent letter from San Diego de Cuba
reports several minor successes for the Cuban
insurgents at Suama, Barjugua, and other
points, and asserts that they were preparing
to resume hostilities on a large scale.
The residence of Ralph Waldo Emerson at
Concord, Mass, was burned few mornings
ago. The fire caught from defective chin
ney. The house was fifty years old. Emer-
sons library and collection OF articles Of
virtu were saved.
A conference of the National Labor party,
as represented by the delegates to the
Columbus Convention, was held in New York
City, on the S0th Iilt. About sixty members
were present. The session was q stormy
one, and the committee previously appoint
ed to inform Messrs Davis and Parker of
their nomination at Columbus were severely
denounced as being political tricksters and
traitors to the Labor party. A subsequent
meeting of the representatives of New York,
Pennsylvania, Indiana, Connecticut, Mary
land, Delaware, Ohio, Kentucky, Georgia
and Virginia passed resolutions denouncing
the so-called Labor Reformers as tricksters
and wire-pullers, and announcing their with
drawal from that body.
By the explosion of a rafttug on the Mis-
sissippi, near North McGregor, Iowa, on the
Both ult., six persons were killed and four
badly scalded and otherwise injured.
Democratic State Convention has been
called in Oregon, to elect delegates to the
Louisville Anti Greeley National Convention.
By an accident on the Kansas Pacific Rail-
road on the 30th ult, one hundred miles
west of Brockville, Kansas, five emigrant
assengers were killed. and several employees
injured. A bridge had been destroyed by a
water-spout, and the train, running at full
speed, was precipitated into the river.
The wife of Simon Goff took chloroform at
Sterling, H., on the 29th ult., in order to
have tooth extracted. She died instantly
while in the act of inhalation, and the Cor
oner's jury exenerated the dentist.
I The First National Bank of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, was recently robbed of $4,000.
Daniel Ford is the Republican nominee
| for Congress in the Sixteenth Ohio District.
The Iowa Grand Lodge of Good Templars
will hold their nineteenth annual session in
Des Moines, August 27th, and their reunion
the preceding evening.
The application for an injunction to re-
strain Mr.. Cheney from officiating as minis
ter of Christ Church, Chicago, has been de
MED by the Circuit Court.
fire at Jefferson, Texas, on the 3Oth ult.
, destroyed two entire blocks of buildings
Twenty business houses, including the st
Charles Hotel, were burned. Loss estimated
at S150,0O0. Supposed work of an incen
diary.
riot occurred in Savannah, Ga, on the
Goth ult., caused by negroes attempting tC
ride in street cars set apart for whites. A
car was fired into by the negroes and the riot
became general. Two ladies and four chill
; dren were shot while standing in front of theil
homes. Several negroes were wounded
The police were armed with muskets ant
ordered out by the Mayor, but the carr
. stopped running and the demonstration
ceased. Three young men were arrested
charged with ejecting negroes from cars
and their cases were postponed by thu
United States Commissioner until August l
The new whisky regulations went into eff
> feet on the 3lst ult, There was an unprece
dented demand for stamps at the Revenue
Bureau in Washington, by holders wishing
to remove whisky placed in bond prior t
u June 6. The new beer regulations went int
: effect on the lst.
President Grant and family arrived at New
= York from Long Branch on the 3Oth ult.
:, and left in the evening for Thousand Isles, il
= the st. Lawrence River.
:. A fire at Hunters Point, L. l., which be
y gan on the night of the Goth ult., consume,
;, a large quantity of petroleum on the wharf
: ready for shipment; also four ships AM
three canal boats, loaded with oil. Many o
= the sheds owned by Rockefeller 81 Co., con
tanning thousands of barrels of oil, were en-
y y tirely destroyed. The loss would amount t.
about S400000.
> A New York dispatch of the 3lst ult. say
Horace Greeley had reconsidered his pun
!. pose of making stay on Long Island. II
a had concluded, in company with his family
; to visit his old home in New Hampshire
where he would remain month or more.
A A little daughter of Lawrence Dempsey
a living near Amboy, ILL.,, in lighting a fir
a with kerosene, was burned to death.
r Jay A. Hubbell, of Houghton, is the Re
n publican candidate for Congress in the Mint
). Michigan District.
n The Michigan Republican State Conver
n tion met at Lansing, on the 31st ult., an
4 nominated; For Governor, John j. Bagley
4 Lieutenant-Governor, Henry II. Holt Secr'
a tary of State, Daniel Striker, renominated
Auditor-G General, William Humphrey, rC
II nominated; Commissioner of Land OalcC
n Leverett H. Clapp Attorney General, .Byro
/. d. Ball; Superintendent OF Public InstruC
ton, Daniel B. Briggs.
!. Col, A. G. Matthews, of Pike County is tn
4 Republican candidate for Congress from tn
Eleventh Illinois District. General j. A
!, Garfield has been renominated by the Repul
? licans Of the Nineteenth Ohio District, an
,. Charles Foster by the Republicans of tn
Tenth Ohio Dtstrict