Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-08-29


Lemont, both trains running at full speed, |
when q fearful collision ensued. Both |
engines were completely wrecked, and the
smokingcar of the express train was thrown
atop of the engine of the coal train, and the |
steam passed In upon the passengers through |
seam that was made In the bottom of the car
Eleven persons, all of whom were in the srnok !
ing-caf, were killed, and forty others severely |
injured, many of them fatally.
An Oshkosh (wis.) special Of the 10th says
j. N. Hoaglan, President of the Winnebago
County Convention of the Patrons of Hus-
bandry, had published n card denying the truth
Of the statement that nineteen Oranges in the
county had agreed to hold their wheat until a
rise in the price took place. 1t is said the
Oranges took no action on the subject, and in
dignantly deny any desire or attempt TO or
ganize corner on wheat
The seventh annual reunion of the Army of
the Cumberland will be held in Pittsburgh on
the 18th and 18th of September.
s. s. Cox has been nominated by the Demo-
Gratis of the Sixth New York Congressional
District for the vacancy caused by the death
of the Hon. James Brooks.
A Des Moines dispatch of the 10th says an
| official statement shows that the number of
Oranges In Iowa was 1,750. The number in
| the United States on the 10th Of July was
5000 with a total membership of 250,OOO.
Mrs. Ellen Mckinney, of Chicago, in order
to hurry up the fire, poured Kerosene oil from
can into the stove. Both herself and her lit
tie girl, aged four years, were fearfully, and
probably fatally, burned.
The number of killed and wounded by the
recent railroad accident near Chicago, as re-
ported on the 10Th, was hfty-one. The dead
up to that date were:
Capt John W. Smith, Warden Of the Illinois
| State Penteniiary; j. W, Fleury, Purchasing
| Agent OF the Illinois State Penitenary; Captain
| William Lettle, Springfield, Ill Roger j. Brass,
| Thomas Morton, George Trendel, George Reuter-
and Conrad Web5er, Chlcagoi James 0Nehi'
Joliet; Theodore Steng, Texas; Jacob Gundat,
Oshkosh, Wis; N. Dvelbliss, Springfield, Ill; ; ia.
cob Lauser, Joliet ILL.,. William Davis, fireman Of
| coal train; Joseph b. Niche, jackson, Tenn
John Metzler, Joliet, brakeman Of coal train; and
man supposed, by papers found on him. TO be
| Thomas E. Pollard.
OF the wounded alive on the 18th it was
thought all but A. c. Hickman, of Chicago,
and Frank Bridges, fireman of the passenger
engine, would recover.
Leading physicians have informed the Jour-
nal that, with the exception of a district of
few blocks in the extreme southwestern por-
ton of the city, there is no cholera in Chicago
and that the cases that have occurred in the
district referred to we're not Asiatic cholera,
but of sporadic character. 1t is further as
serted that the general health of the city shows
a better average than the corresponding sea-
sons Of the past few years.
A portion of a passenger train going East
over the Great Western (Canada) Railway,
plunged into the Weland Canal on the 10Th,
the draw-bridge being open. Fortunately no
lives were lost.
The Attorney General has recommended to
the President that pardons be granted to s.
Hood, of South Carolina, and Adolphus Du-
priest and George Holland, of North Carolina,
who are serving out terms in the Albany Peni-
tentiary for Ku-Klux outrages.
recent Washington dispatch says num-
Der of letters had been received from Quaker
and other friends of the Indian peace policy
throughout the country, asking clemency in
behalf of the Modoc Indians lately on trial for
the murder of General Candy. Many of these
letters raise the question that the trial of tho
offenders was Illegal under the decision Of the
Supreme Court in the Milligan civil case that
courts being in existence, military tribunal
| had no jurisdiction. Another question raised
is that General Candy was killed while in ac-
tion as a Peace Commissioner, and not as an
officer of the army in war. These questions
will come directly before the President for his
: action.
! The Massachusetts, Republican State Central
Committee have decided to change the time OF
holding the State Convention at Worcester tC
September 10, as the hall was engaged from
the 18th to the 9th
: ]. c. Abbott, General Deputy of the Patrons
90.
time past in organizing Oranges Throughout
; New England, addressed public meeting a
Boston, on the evening Of the 10Th, on the OBJ
jects of the Order, and then established
Grange in that city.
Rev. Gardiner Spring, for sixty-three year
I the pastor of the Brick Church presbyterian
congregation, in New York City, died at hi
e residence in that city on the 18th, aged s.
years.
d 1t is reported that in a small house nea
La Cygne, Kan, during the night of the 18th
two women and two children were consumed
e and all are believed to have been murdered
l. and the house fired, by the husband of one @
the victims, named Kellar.
J. Puffenberger, the engineer of the coal trai
which caused the recent terrible collision o.
: the Chicago & Alton Railroad, was under al
rest in Chicago on the 10Th. Edward Beant
the conductor on the coal train, who resides i
Joliet, had not yet been arrested, althoug
:, efforts we,e being made to discover his wher,
abouts. Puffenberger seeks to throw all th
- blame for the collision on the conductor, a
I. leging that his (Pufenberger's) watch WI
- fifty minutes slow, and that he was net awaI
-. of this fact. By the rules of the Compan,
y when the orders for the running of trains al
!, violated, the engineer is equally responsb
= with the conductor of the train violating ii
- : regulations Beane was sad to have been
- his home the day after the accident, in hal
crazed condition. 1t is said that after the a
a. cident he was observed running up and dow
y the track, begging some one to shoot him.
At a meeting held at Belot, Wis, on IL
;. 10th, the Southern Wisconsin and NortheI
:. Illinois Agricultural Association organizes
- eleeting the Hon. H. N. Davis, President;
j. Goodwin, Esq, Chief Marshal; Henry
Hobart, Secretary and Treasurer; eleven Vic
y Presidents, and eight Superintendents of d
~ partments. The first fair of the associate
u will be held Friday, September 5, upon IL
W grounds of the Beloit Driving Park Associ
iu ton.
"A In response to a communication from eli;
ar zens of Monroe as to the proper course to
70 pursued regarding Louisiana affairs, Joi
~ MeEnery has written letter advising Sta
,y Convention in December, and the appoin
~ ment of a committee to appeal to Congress.
:, Mrs. Schmidt, of Long Island City, h
% pleaded guilty to an indictment which charg
"a her with attempting to strangle to death
w. ~ child that had been placed in her care, and
"a whose maintenance she was paid $40 mont
~ She was sentenced to six months imprlso
~, ment and fine of Sl25.
Cd The New York Republican State Convcnt
vn will meet at Utica on Wednesday, Septemh
rv "a, to nominate candidates for State officers.
- Mayor Medill, of Chicago, aud family ha
M. gone on a trip to Europe. Alderman L.
~, pond 10 actino Manor of fhe citv I'm the absen