Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-07-12
clinlng the candidacy for vice-Prosident of

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the United States.
A call has been issued for meeting in
Chicago on the 18th of the Illinois State
Democratic Central Committee.
The Chicago Tribune of the I'd says: "a
reliable grain merchant, who has been all
over Northern Iowa, says crops of small
grain are the best in ten years. Corn looks
average"
The printers in Milwaukee struck for adj
vanced pay on the Goth ult.
Three boys, two white and one colored,
aged about twelve, were found dead on
Bayou st. John, near New Orleans, on the
evening of the 30th ult. It is supposed they
were killed in the afternoon by lightning.
The dwelling of Mr. Querburn, at Pine
Bluffs Ark, was burned on the 10Th ult.,
and Mr.. Querburn and his daughter were
burned to death while attempting to escape.
A few days ago, at Fort Smith, Ark, Fred
Crosse attacked Miss Annie Mcqueen, a
dressmaker, with an iron bar, striking her
on the head and telling her to the earth.
! Thinking he had killed her he retired to a
room AM shot himself through the heart.
Cause, Jealousy.
Professor Agassiz ana party lett Callao on
the 1st of June for the North.
The Government of Peru has Lately sup
pressed two newspapers and imprisoned
their editors.
Recent Central American advices state that
the Government of Guatemala had ordered
the confscation of all the property of the
Jesuits in Nicaragua, and had also ordered
the expulsion of the Jesuits from the ter
ritory.
The resignation of Valmaseda as Captain
General of Cuba has been followed by the
appointment of General Cordova as his sue
cessor.
It appears from statistics gathered at the
Pension Office that there are living at the
present time two widows of Revolutionary
soldiers who are under forty years of age,
and that the oldest surviving widow has ar
rived at the age of 115 years.
The President returned to Washington on
the I'd, and held Cabinet meeting, at which
| Secretaries Boutwell, and Delano and Attor-
ney-General Williams were present.
BY an act passed at the late session Of
! Congress all invalid pensioners who receive
fifteen, twenty or twenty-five dollars per
month under the act of June 8, 1866, are
now entitled to eighteen, twenty-four and
! thirty-one and quarter dollars, respective
| ly, from the 4th of June, 1872. They may
obtain this increase without formal applica-
tion or the Intervention of an attorney. A
letter, inclosing the pension certificate and
addressed to the Hon. Commissioner of Pen
sions, Washington, D. c., will be sufficient
presentation of the claim for increase.
The President made the following appoint
ments of Postmasters on the 2d; C. E. Yost,
at Omaha, Neb., gice J. T. Griffin, resigned
]. Milton Best Paducah, KY, vice Thos. j.
Pickett, suspended under Tenure-of Office
act; Chas. G.. Clark, Ann Arbor, Mich, rice
H. Dean, suspended SD. McKahan, at Me
nominee, Wis.
1t is stated that the famous horse 10 Eli
OFT recently trotted mile in 2:15115, on a
Boston race-course.
The Jubilee commenced its third week, on
tho lot, with a large falling Off in chorus, or.
chestra and attendance, The feature of the
uay was the Irish band, which was enthusi
astically receNuu.
The New York Sun of a recent date con
tanned an article to the effect that there had
lately arrived at that city from Cuba, o
some island contiguous thereto, vesse
having on board eight large casks of liquo
in each Of which was a dead body, and th'
liquor which preserved them on the voyage
was sold to a wholesale dealer, and by him
it is said, distributed all over the city. o
course much excitement was caused by thii
statement among the liquor-imbibers of New
York.
In a suit of the Erie Railroad against ia,
Gould damages are claimed in the sum o
$40, 900 for fraudulent over-issue of bonds
% | riofi pf
to personal use.
The New York Senate, sitting as Cour
r of Impeachment, has decided to remoy
Judge McCunn, the vote being unanimous
New York dispatch of the I'd says tn
strikers appeared to have given up all ide
of gaining the eght-hour rule.
Extreme hot weather extended over tn
entire Northern tier Of States from Massi
chusetts to the Mississippi, on the lst an
I'd. Twenty cases of sun-stroke in Bosto
on the LIST, where death ensued, had been r.
ported up to noon on the I'd, and a numbC
: of other persons affected by the heat WEI
y then lying in a critical condition. Up to
D. m. on the I'd, the New York police repor
ed fifty-four fatal, and fifty-six non-fat
u cases of sun-stroke. The thermomet
= reached 1925 during the day.
The new Temperance law went into effe
throughout Illinois on the 1st.
p 1t has been definitely ascertained thi
. there were thirty men on the d. A. n
Donald, when she blew up at McGrego
~ Iowa, of whom only twelve were saved.
e The boss plasterers in Chicago struck {
!. the 1st against paying iourneymen s. p
9 day. They offered S4. The plasterers I
8 fused to work at the reduced rates.
IS The Michigan Democratic State Conve
s- tion met at Lansing on the I'd and appoint
;. delegates to the National Convention, al
y passed resolutions indorsing the Cineinn'
=, platform and instructing the delegates
20 vote as unit.
5. A Detroit dispatch Of the I'd says quite
'e strike had set in among the Saginaw lumb
ir mills, the men demanding the ten-hour rul
IN Many of the mills had shut up rather thi
8. accede.
IL A terrible tragedy is reported as having
IN Gently occurred in Iowa. The telegraph
in account SAYS: "a mother of seven childr
," was murdered by her two sons, aged twel
le and sixteen years, at their own home at W.
In Point The lady, Mrs. Warker, had part
e. from her husband, DR.. Warker, some til
rs before, and on learning of her husbands {
n sence from home took this opportunity
J., visiting her children. On Saturday (June
afternoon she expressed a desire to retu
he to her home, where she was working at
Reform School, but the two sons prevail
100 upon her to remain until Sunday mornil
'oO promising then to take her home.
100 stayed, and at five on Sunday morning
,oo two boys murdered her, stabbing her In
1SY back, breast and throat. After killing
800 they dragged her body to the barn and C
,So ,So cred it with hay. The youngest son Il
. started on horseback for Fort Madison
s8S;ss telegraph to his father, who was at Keok
. to come home, that one Of the Children '
l4i very sick. He then returned home.
,oo two boys reported in the afternoon of
$50 ing their mother, and stated that it wal
,os sell defense, and gave themselves up. II
- are in safe keeping. Their father retur
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