Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-06
THE NEW MORLD.


Gold closed in New York on the Goth at 11S1S
@llSH.
The Dominion House of Parliament has
passed resolution for the admission of Prince
Edwards Island into the Canadian Confedera-
ton on the first of July.
The number of miners who lost their lives in
the recent explosion in the Nova Scotia colliery
is ffty-nne.
Judge Charles p. Daily, of New York, Presi-
dent of the Geographical Society, speaking of
the death of Captain Hall, of the Polaris Arctic
Expedition, says that the letter-writer who
started the poisoning story on the expression
of suspicion by an Esquimaux would not
have done so had he known the breed They
do not know what truth means. "Joe" is
spoken of as a well-meaning man, but Hans
is a man of very bad reputation, and was near
being hanged by DR., Hayes on one of his ex-
petitions, SO convincing was the proof that he
had been the cause of the death of Mr. Sontag.
Judge DAILY is not inclined to accept as true
the stories told of Captain Buddington by
those who have been rescued, and he alludes
to the circumstance that Tyson and Myers
were the men who were reported as showing
insubordnation at Disco. Captain Hall, he
says, however, was not capable of leading such
an expedition, and did not care so much that
the North Pole should be reached as that he
should reach it,
A st. Paul (Minn) dispatch Of the 23d, says
William Seeger had pleaded guilty to articles
Of impeachment, and was formally sentenced
to expulsion from office.
News received from the Modoc war on the
23d, announces the surrender ito General
Davs) of flfty-six men, women and children
Of Captain Jacks tribe, including fifteen war
riors, among the number "Hooka Jim"
Bogus Charley" "Shacknasty Jim, )" "Curly-
head Doctor" Frank" and others, the best
fighting men Captain Jack had. Captain
Jacks whereabouts were unknown. 1t was
thought he had twenty warriors with him, and
was in the Pit River Mountains.
News was received ip Washington on the 2Sd
that Colonel Mckenzie had made an attack on
the camp Of the Kickapoo and Lipon Indians,
about eighty miles from Fort Clark, Texas.
The Indian loss was nineteen killed and two
wounded and former chief of the Lipons
and forty-one women and children were
captured, besides two villages and accumu-
lated property destroyed. Colonel McKenzie's
loss was three men wounded, one mortally.
A Washington special to a New York paper
says the President had stated that Colonel Nc
Kenzle's raid agains' the Indians into Mexican
territory was made in pursuance of orders, and
that our Government is determined to stop out
RACES on the Texas frontier at all hazards.
most terrific tornado passed over por-
tion of Washington County, Iowa, on the af-
ternoon of the 22d, tearing down houses and
fences, uprOoting trees, and scattering de-
struction along its pathway. A dispatch from
Washington says that the whirlwind was
about half mile in width, and that 1t re-
sembled a huge balloon in shape. A num-
ber of persons were killed by falling timbers,
and by being caught up by the storm and
dashed violently to the earth. The damage to
property is immense. The tornado tore
schoolhouse to pieces, and carried girl
fourteen years of age about quarter Of a
mile away When found she was smashed to
a Jelly. Miss Smith, the teacher, aud six or
eight scholars were hurt, some badly. Eight
persons were known TO have been killed.
Up to the 25th four hundred and twenty
eight bodies had been recovered from the
wreck Of the steamship Atlantic, leaving l1s
passengers unaccounted for.
The graves of Confederate soldiers at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, were decorated with
flowers on the 24th by the ladies OF the Monu'
mental Association. Two or three thousand
people visited the grounds.
The Grand Jury at Dayton, Ohio, have re-