Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-07-12

one man fatally, and three or four others
seriously.
News has been received that the steamer
Fannie, which recently sailed from New York
tof Cuba, with company of filibusters on
hoard. han nm ashore on the coast of that
island. and was burned to prevent her falling
into the hands of the spcniards; it sfurther
stated that sixteen men OF phe eXpeultlon
had been captured and shot.
Twenty lady clerks were dropped from the
rolls of the Internal Revenue Office in Wash
ngton, on the Sd, there being no money ap-
propriated to pay their salaries.
The President has appointed Martin B.
Hayes TO be Postmaster at Cincinnati, o.,
Uice VIM. B. Chapman, resigned; N. B. Judd
to be Collector Of Customs s. Chicago.
President Grant left Washington on the
night of the Sd for Long Branch.
A tenement house In Norwich, Conn, was
destroyed by fire on the night of the I'd, and
two French boys were burned to death.
The net profits of the Jubilee ball are un-
derstood TO have been S33, 600.
A table recently published shows that the
value Of buildings erecting in New York is
less by 81, 800, 600 than at the same time last
year, the falling off being attributed to the
strikes.
The concert at the Boston Coliseum on
..be afternoon of the Sd was listened to by a
large auGi!i Gi!ience. Horace Greeley was present
NV invitation. While in the Press room,
prior to being escosrted to the auditorium,
Mr. Greeley responded u general call by
making a short speech
Four boys aged from ten to twelve, named
respectively Kennedy, Martin, Leonard ana
Birmingham, while bathing in the Hudson
River, near Hudson, n. Y, on the Sd, got
beyond their depth and were drowned before
assistance could reach them. In searching
for the bodies, man named James Collins
was also drowned.
Springfield Qll.) dispatch of the Sd says
that, Sin consequence ce of ill-health and the
interference of professional business, Hon.
Lawrence Weldon declines the nomination
for Attorney General. The vacancy will be
filed by the Central Committees"
horrible outrage and murder is reported
as having been perpetrated several days ago
in Mercer County, Ohio. A young girl named
secore was waylaid and dragged into the
bush while on her way to Sunday School.
Her dead body, which was badly .mutilated,
was found few days afterward. Two men,
named Kimble and Mcleod, were arrested
at Fort Wayne, Ind, on the Goth ult.,
charged with being participants in the terri
bic crime
Three Indies, Mrs. Mark Ripley, Lucy
Smith and Lulu Hanson, were drowned near
Janesville, Wis, few evenings ago. The
| two latter went into the river to bathe and
got beyond their depth, when Mrs. Ripley
went to their assistance and all three were
drowned.
! Calls have been issued for the Iowa Liberal
State Convention and for the Democratic
State Convention to meet at DesMoines on
the 1st of August.
In Cincinnati, n few days ago, woman fell
out of a fifth-story window, the fall break
ing her neck.
| Near Belle Plain, Iowa, on the I'd, afreight
train on the Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
road ran into q construction train, and teles
coped the caboose of the latter train, killing
one man almost instantly, and mortally
have si5sgs sy 9therYy BBS9 B9RE Of Itbee %9anded
live.
The Florida Democratic State Convention
is to be held in Tallahassee on the l4th OF
August.
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