Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-06


the street railroad company, one Of whose
cars was the scene of the assault, and whose
employees, she claimed, should have protect
ed Mr.. Putnam.
Roberts elycerine magazine, at Scrub
Grass, Pa, exploded on the 23d, killing Harry
j. Wolfe, telegrapher, and r. A. Wright, tor.
pedo agent. Only the fragments of their
bodies were recovered
1t was recently stated ut the Police Head
quarters In New FORK that since the middle
OF October thirteen persons had been report
ed missing, and no trace of them could be
found.
The official returns Of the vote in New
York for Presidential Electors show the
following result: Grant and Wilson, 44O,-
699; Greeley and Brown, 3S2, ,270; O'Conor,
1854; Temperance candidate, pol. Total,
S24,563. Grants majority over Greeley So
$50; over all, 5G,695.
At Princeton, Ind, on the 22d, Thomas
Camp was hanged for the murder of John
R. Bildersback.
A sensation has been caused In San Fran
cisco by report that Mrs. Fair had entered
into plot, previous to her second trial,
with restaurant waiter named Frank for the
poisoning of Judge Dwinelle and the op-
posing counsel.
The recent report that a number of work
men were snowbound at the western end of
the Wlnona & st. Peter Railroad, in Mime
sofa, and were in danger of starvation,
proves to have been greatly exaggerated.
Later news is to the effect that an abund-
ance of supplies we're within reach, and no
special distress was anticipated.
There was a destructive fire in Milledge-
vile, Ga, on the 22d, which destroyed the
hotel block, containing several stores and
residences.
The official count OF votes in Tennessee
show: Greeley, 94,219; Grant, s5, ,633. Gree
ley's majority, 1885, Brown, for Governor,
81 600; Freeman, 81, $50; Browns majority,
1881. Maynard for Congress, So,s25; Cheat.
ham, 65,57S; Johnson, $4,000; Maynard's
majority over Cheatham, 1924; over John
son, 1926.
The gratifying news is received that
another of the boats in which the passen-
gers and crew Of the burned steamer Mis-
souri, embarked was saved, and that several
persons who have been counted among the
lost have reached Nassau in safety. The
telegraphic account of their experience at
sea states that several Of those who left the
burning vessel in this boat became crazed
by their terrible privations and jumped over
board.
The West Virginia Legislature has elected
D. d. Johnson, of Tyler, President of the
Senate, and William w. Miller, OF Wheeling,
Speaker Of the House,
The President has appointed Albert W.
Walne as Pension Agent at Des Moines,
Iowa.
On the 22d, according to a London dis
patch received at the British Embassy in
Washington, the British flag, which, since
the Ashbupton Treaty of 1916, had waved
jointly with our own over the island OF San
Juan, was hauled down, in Difference to the
decision of King William. The United States
authorities are now in sole possession of the
island
A report was started in New York on the
25th that the Hon. Horace Greeley had be-
come insane and been confined in lunatic
as iuns.~ rnis report was subsequently con-
tfadlcted. 1t seems he was suffering to
some extent from nervous prostration
caused by the loss of nearly all sleep almost
for over month during his
wife's illness. A dispatch from Whitelaw
Reid on the evening of the 25th states that
the report of Mr.. Greeley's being insane
was without any foundation whatever, that
his complaints were Of negative nature,
and that he would be able to resume his
editorial duties in a short time.
Meara, who attempted to assassinate ex-
Alderman McMullen, Of Philadelphia, has
been sentenced to six years and nine months
imprisonment, and to pay fine Of $1,000.
A suit has been instituted by the Erie Rail-
way Company against Daniel Drew, to re-
cover 81, ,O00, 900, alleged to have been embez-
zled by him while Treasurer of the Company
in 1863, by the sale of fifty thousand shares
of watered stock.
The following States chose Greeley elect
ors Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas,
Georgia and Maryland. The remaining
States voted for Grant. The Electoral Col
lege stands: For Grant, S01 Greeley, IS.
The official majority for Grant in Wiscon-
sin is is, ,493.
The Democratic majority in Missouri, on
Governor, is 80, ,443. On the other State Off
GERS the majority is considerably larger.
The horse disease in Cincinnati was said
to be abating on the 25th, and many horses
were being brought out on the streets.
William Pitt Kellogg has been elected
Governor of Louisiana by majority of 12,-
76l. The rest of the Republican State ticket
majority in the new Legislature.
Hart, Republican, is reported to have
OF over 1900, for Governor Of Flori-
da, over Bloxham.
Two men were killed and fifteen injured
by a railroad collision near Wilmington,
Del, a few nights ago.
Brigadier General Irwin Mcdowell has been
appointed to succeed the late General
Meade. General Mcdowell has been assign
ed to the command of the Department of
the South. Major General Hancock Is as
signed to the Department Of the East, of
which General Meade was in command.
Hon. Charles Sumner arrived at New York
on the Goth, from Europe.
At Yonkers, N. Y, on the 25th, four
youths, whose ages ranged from sixteen to
twenty-one years, being out for sport, en-
four cans of nitro -glycerine, which
had been deposited in an excavation two
feet deep, on the line of the newly-con-
structed portion of the New York & Boston
Railroad. Two of the young men wanted
10 see what effect an explosion would have,
and SO dropped large stone upon the cans.
The tremendous explosion which followed
was heard for miles, and shook the houses
In the vicinity. Two of the party were hor-
ribly mutilated, their limbs being blown in
all directions, and their remains were scarce.
ly recognizable. The other two were fright
fully wounded, but might recover.
The Northwestern "corner" eliminated in
New York on the Goth, when the stock de-
clined, and was offered at 100, with $50 bid
1t was believed the clique had taken in cash
between So, 100000, and s., ,OO0, 900, and that
one or two millions of difference remain to
be adjusted by the Courts.
A New York dispatch Of the Goth says; "a
number of reporters yesterday visited several
intimate friends of Mr.. Greeley, both in this
city and Westchester County, where Mr..
Greeley is, and all represent that that gen.
Ileman is simply suffering from III health,
owing TO an attack OF nervous prostration."