Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-09-20
Two or three of the wounded would

dered his daughter, Mrs Wallace, and dan
gerousy wounded his wife and sonIn.law,
Wallace. The latter, In defending himself,
struck Shercer with a club, causing instant
death. The wounds received by Mrs. Sher
Ger and Wallace were pronounced fatal.
Another fatal kerosene accident In Chica-
go. A girl named Maggie Prindevllle, aged
fifteen years, foollshly ATTEMPTED to hurry up
the fire by pouring kerosene oil upon It from
q can containing nearly gallon Of the fluid.
An explosion followed, and the girl was
fearfully burned, and died In few hours.
The bodies of between TOO and 300 Confed.
crate soldiers, disinterred from the Gettys.
burg battle field, and recently conveyed to
Richmond, Va, by the Ladies' Memorial AS
sociatlon, have been inferred In Gettysburg
Hill, at Hollywood Cemetery, without pub
! lie parade or announcement.
The President has issued o proclamation
abollshlng all duties on imports from Japan
in Japanese vessels, so long as japan OBJ
serves similar rule in relation to exports to
that country from the United States.
At recent meeting Of the Commission au.
thorized by Congress to approve the designs
for a llfe-size bronze statue Of General Jno.
A. Rawlins, late Secretary of War, 1t was
determined that the Commission would re-
ceive designs or models in plaster from any
sculptors who chose to compete. The limit
for competition will be until December l.
The Board Of Education at Hunters Point,
| N. Y, has ordered the Bible to be read In
the Public Schools. Children whose parents
object to the Bible to be allowed to remain
! from school until after the reading.
| The sum to be raised by taxation In New
York City for the coming year is fixed at
$50, ,437, 1928. The rate of taxation is $500 on
each 500.
There were six cases OF sunstroke in New
York City on the 10th.
| The General Council of Internationals will
hereafter have It's headquarters in New York
City. Karl Marx, the most prominent among
the International leaders, will reside In that
city.
The National Democratic General Com
mittee of Brooklyn (anti-Greeley), has been
revived, and has nominated the following
candidates for Congress: Second District,
John T. Henry, Republican; Third District,
A. W. Tenney, Republican; Fourth District,
George W. Baker, Democrat.
DIR. Schoeppe, recently acquitted at Car
Isle, Pa, OF the murder of Miss steinnecke,
The Doctor lays claim to Miss Steinnecke's
estate under said bill, which was admitted
to probate early in 1869.
New York dispatches of the 9th state that
there was not the least doubt Of the inno-
cence Of Forester in connection with the
Nathan murder The prisoner himself
courts an investigation, and feels confident
Of proving an alibi
The Republicans OF the Nineteenth New
York District have nominated II. H. Hallor
an, of Saratoga, for Congress. In the Twen-
ty-second New York District the Democrats
and Liberals have nominated General Rich
ard Sherman.
General Sheridan telegraphs from Duluth,
Mimi, that the Yellowstone Expedition,
started out by the Northern Pacific Railroad
managers, is a failure, the engineers refus-
ing to proceed further than the mountains Of
the Yellowstone Valley, fearing an attack by
Indians.
The Fat Mems Convention met at Putin
Bay, Ohio, on the 10th.
Phietus Sawyer has been renominated for
Congress by the Republicans of the Sixth
| Wisconsin District.
w. H. NJ. Pusey, nominated by the Lib
erals of the Eighth Iowa Congressional
District, has declined, alleging his inability
to leave his business as the reason there
for.
Christopher Rafferty,, the murderer of
Policeman OMeara, in Chicago, has been
tried and found guilty of murder in the first
degree, the jury deciding that he shall suffer
death by hanging.
In the case of the woman, Mrs. Charlotte
| hAr knH In hn
town of Trimbelle, Wis, on suspicion of hav.
ing murdered her husband, two children and
four other persons, by poison, the trial has
been set for November at Ellsworth, Wis.
1t appears that an examination of the
stomachs of four of the victims revealed
quantities of strychnine Quantities OF
arsenic and strychnine were also found in
her house after her arrest.
The stock of grain in Chicago elevators on
the 10th, as per official figures, was 6l6,0 ,029
bushels Of wheat, $780, 1856 bushels Of corn,
S47,226 bushels of oats, 102,602 bushels OF
rye, and 278, ,095 bushels of barley, making q
total of 6,034, ,6s7 bushels, against 5,Sl6, ,299
bushels the previous week, showing an in
crease of 21s, ,3ss bushels.
A recent Goldsboro Is. CO. dispatch says
the cotton crop in that section has sustained
serious injury.
Ex-Governor Perry has been nominated
for Congress by the Conservatives of the
Fourth South Carolina District.
The increase in the money order business
connected with the Post, Office Department
during the year ending June 80, is reported
at about ss,OOO,OOO The total amount OF
business transacted under the system during
| hac Oh ! h.
government made profit of s120,0OO
1t was reported on the 9th that President
Grant and family would resume their resi-
dence at the White House on the 18th. The
President would then commence the prepar
alton for his annual message.
The Comptroller of the Currency has au
thorized the following banks: Washington
Bank, Washington, Ind, capital, $4,000
First National, Carlinville, ILL.,, capital, SIS
900; First National Alliance, Ohio, capita
$4,000.
Forester, the alleged murderer of Nathan
was taken to New York from Washington OF
the 9th, by officers of the first named city
The New York authorities claimed to have
important evidence against the accused
which has not yet been made public.
The New England Fair, at Lowell, Mass.
closed on the 9th, having proved in every II
spect a success,
The Republicans of the Sixteenth New
York District have nominated James 8
Smart, editor of the Washington County
Post, for Congress.
A Burlington (Vt.) dispatch of the stl
says; "Semiofficial returns from all bu
four small towns give Converse AZ, ,222 votes
and Gardner 16,604. Converse's majority
25,o1s. The remaining towns gave, in 1870
J 10 Republican majority. The Senate IL
unanimously Republican, and the House O
Representatives stands: Republicans, 2O6
|, Democrats, 21."
Governor Curtin, who had been removed
} from Brooklyn to New York, was again in
critical condition on the 9th, having beer
prostrated by large numbers of visits from