Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-08-01

an fhlhn nhIncu TllOne WIS recently exam
ined at New Haven, on charge OF keeping |
Italian boys in a condition of servitude, to |
profit by their earnings. He was held in bonds |
OF $4,000 for trial in October, and was COM
mitted to Jail for want of bail.
The Manitoban Court, before which Messrs. |
Fletcher, Bentley, Hoy and Keegon, citizens |
OF Minneapolis, have been undergoing an ex-
animation on cha.ge Of attempting to kid |
nap the bogus Lord Gordon, rendered its de- |
cision on the 23d, committing the prisoners
for trial.
The Chicago Tribune Of the oath says the
Chicago & Alton Railroad had decided not to
prosecute the suits which It instituted some
time since against a number of farmers in Nc
Lean and Livingston Counties, who delayed
the business of the road by refusing to pay
more than the legal fare, and also by declining
to be elected from the train. In a conference
held at Springfield on the 23d, between tho
representatives Of the Road and the Railroad
Commissioners the former stated that its tar
iff would be rearranged within the ensuing
four weeks so as TO remove all cause for the
complaints Of extortion evoked toy the present
rates.
Governor Carpenter Of Iowa has offered
reward Of $500 each for the apprehension and
delivery Of the Rock Island train robbers. A
st. Joseph (Mo,) telegram of the 23d says it
was known there that the robbers had been
traced into Nodaway County, Missouri 1t
was confidently believed they could not escape
The whole country was aroused, and the oflic-
ers in every town and village were on the
alert.
1t was announced on the 23d that the
cholera panic had subsidized at Mount Vernon,
Indiana One death was reported in Cincin-
natl on the 23d, and two at Carlni. Ill. Within
the previous week ten persons had died of
cholera in the village of Grafton. Illinois.
cholera case was reported in Wheeling (W
Va.) on the 23d, and Lagrange, KY, had
eighteen deaths from that disease within three
days.
delegation Of prominent South Carolinians
had an interview with Attorney General Will
liams on the oath, and urged that the further
prosecution of Ku-Klux Offenders in the South
be discontinued, as that organization was
broken up, and cessation of prosecutions
would have a conciiatory effect upon all
classes Of that section. They also urged
that those convicted and serving out
! terms of sentence be pardoned. The At
! ey-General, in reply, said that instruc-
tions had already been issued to stop the pros
ecutions against the Ku-Klux offenders, ex-
cept in very aggravated cases, and some of those
convicted had already been pardoned 1t was
the policy of the President to pardon them all,
keeping the most aggravated cases, however,
until the last
Governor Grover Of Oregon, has ordered an
election on Monday, Ooctober l3, to fill the va
cancy in Congress caused by the recent death
OF Hon. Joseph G. Wilson.
The Farmers Union estimates that the
wheat crop of Minnesota this year will weld
surplus Of 10000, 900 bushels for export The
| Union advises the farmers to market all their
wheat as soon as possible for fear OF still
lower prices.
State Temperance Convention met at JEFF
! ferson City, Missouri, on the oath. Dr. w. s.
Holland was elected President, and Rev. ].
| Wesley johnson, Secretary. DIR. William
| Ross, Grand Worthy Patriarch and Lecturer
Of Illinois, was present, and delivered an
address, in which he defended the Illinois
Temperance law and urged an organization in
Missouri.
| The farmers of Dodge County, Wisconsin,
met in convention on the oath, and adopted
preamble setting forth the grievances of the
agriculturists of the country, and adopted a
resolution inviting their brethren throughout
the State to meet in convention at Milwaukee,
on Thursday, August 81, 1873, at ten o'clock
a. m. 'for consultation and such other action
as may be deemed best for our interest and
that of the State, and to that end we recon-
mend that each Grange in the State be entitled
to three delegates, to be elected by each Grange
and Commissioner, under seal, signed by the
proper officers"
Seven cholera deaths at Mount Vernon, Ind,
on the oath. None in Cincinnati.
One thousand Mormons arrived at Salt Lake
on the oath, from Europe.
AT Logansport, Ind, on the oath, Miss
Lizzie Bures, servant girl, employed at the
Freeman House, attempted to start q fire in
the stove with coal oil. Her clothes caught
fire, and she was seriously, and probably
fatally, burned.
A Des Moines Qowa) dispatch of the oath
says the new Rock Island grain tariff for the
Iowa Division reduces the prices up to that
station. West of there they are slightly ad.
| vanced.
James NJ. Mcdonald, Vice President of the
Pacific Bank, is the Democratic candidate for
Mayor Of San Francisco.