Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-05-02

airy being In hot pursuit Five Of the Govern |
ment troops were killed and ten wounded.
The Grand Jury Of woodford County, iii.
nois, has failed TO find an indictment against
Mrs. Workman, the Eureka murderess for the
killing Of Mrs. Hedges. The vote stood three
for and nineteen against bill.
The Dominion Government has abolished
the tolls from freights on vessels passing
through the Burlington Bay Canal at the head
Of Lake Ontario.
Concerning the new postal law Washington
dispatch of the 10th says: 1.-THE third section
Of the Postal Appropriation Act Of the last
session repeals all laws permitting the trans
mission by mail of any free matter whatever
from and after June 30. Under this law, quar-
terly prepayments Of postage will be required
on all newspaper exchanges and county news
papers the same as is now and will be then re-
quired In the case Of all mail subscriptions,
namely: five cents per quarter for weekly
newspapers, thirty cents per quarter for papers
published six times per week, and thirty-fve
cents per quarter for daily papers. Prepay
ment per quarter or per year Is to be made
either at the office where mailed or at the office
where delivered. In other words, the same
rule will be applied to all newspapers, by
whomsoever sent or received"
About 700 members of the order of st. Girls
pin recently struck in Cincinnati, in conse-
quence Of their employers refusing.to recognize
their order.
Details of the peace conference at Camp
| Verde, April 6, were received on the 10th. The
conference resulted in the unconditional sub
mission and surrender of the two worst bands
of the Apaches. Peace was brought about
| crl,t tl,o Of fhn
who have for the last twenty years defed the
| Government Over 200 warriors have been
killed in the last campaign in the fastness of
the Apache country.
President Grant and party reached St. Louis
on the 18th.
The Supreme Lodge Of the World Of the
Knights of Pythias adjourned on the 20th to
meet at Pittsburg on the Sd Of April, 1874.
Edward Booth received an ovation at New
Orleans ON the 10th, upon being released from
the parish prison, where he had been inearcer-
ated twenty four hours by Judge Hawkins for
contempt Of the Superior District Court in con-
| tinuing business and refusing to pay taxes TO
Governor Kellogg's collector, Judge Hawkins
having issued an injunction restraining Booth
from doing further business until his taxes
were paid. A procession with band Of music
escorted Booth from prison through the princi-
cipal streets to his place of business At the
corner of Camp and Gravier streets, Kellogg
was hung in effigy to a lamp-post, and the efIigy
was afterward burned. A telegram of the Goth
says the impression was gaining ground that
the presence Of United States troops would be
required in every parish of the State TO enforce
obedience to the Kellogg government. A
special of the Goth announces that large meet
| ing of the property-holders of Ouchita and ad-
| joining parish was held at Monroe on the 10Th,
which was addressed by Governor McEnery.
The meeting resolved to pay no taxes to the
Kellogg government
A dreadful accident occurred on the Ston-
ington & Providence Railroad on the 10Th.
| While running from Stonington to Boston,
passenger train fell through the bridge at the
Richmond switch. Six cars were burned-three
passenger and three baggage-and seven pas
sengers were killed outright or burned to
death. The engineer aud fireman were burned
to a crisp at their posts. special dispatch of
the Goth gives the following particulars:
"The train left stonington about thirty-five
minutes late, and was running at the rate of
forty miles per hour. As it approached the
bridge the fireman aud engine-driver
became aware of the existence
of the watery gulf before them,
but saw the danger too late to prevent the dis
aster, or even save their own lives by leaping
from the engine. The locomotive jumped the
! gap, about thirty feet wide, and landed on the
other side in a sand bank, plunging into it with
such force as to wreck her completely. Some
idea of her speed may be ascertained from the
fact that piece of rail was broken up and
shot through the boiler so that it remained
like shaft exposed at both ends The en-
| gineer, Wm. Guild, when discovered, was be-
tween the driving wheel and engine, there
being but just enough of his body left to
identity him. The fireman, George Eldridge
was crushed to jelly. There were
about eighty passengers, and the scene can
better be imagined than described. As
| overturned stoves and lamps set fire to the
| woodwork, cries for assistance rent the air
| from the smoking caldron, frantic husbands
calling for wives, wives for husbands, sons and
| daughters. Some escaped through the car
windows, Others were pulled out of the water
| below, while many more were writhng beneath
| the ruins. One man with his body partly out
of the window could extricate himself no fur
| ther and was calling wildly, "Oh, save me,
am burned to DEATH" His screams and moans
were not needed, and death put an end to his
| sufferings. When Mr.. Allen met his death he
was standing on the front platform Of car,
| and as the train struck his foot was caught in
graphing iron and in this condition he was
| burned to death"
General Pieltan, the new Captain General of
Cuba, arrived at Havana on the 18th, and was
received with due formalities in the presence Of
a large concourse. Little enthusiasm was man
ifested.
A Lincoln (Neb.) dispatch of the 21st says
reports of the recent storm west of there
show that it was one of the most severe ever
known. There had been great loss of life and
property. Many persons were frozen to death
in their houses. Men perished near Grafton,
Harvard and Hastings, on the B. & NJ. Rail
way, while trying to feed their stock. The
wind unroofed and blew down houses, and
hundreds Of cattle and horses smothered by
the snow filling up the barns. Houses were
rendered uninhabitable in several cases, and
families perished while trying to reach their
neighbors.
Mrs. Myra Bradwell, of Chicago, some time
ago, made application, under the State statute
TO the Judges Of the Supreme Court of Illinois,
for license to practice law, the application
being made in due form. Pending the appli-
cation, she also filed an affidavit setting forth
that she had been citizen of Vermont and is
now citizen Of the United States, and that,
therefore, she was entitled in the State of I'LL
nois to any right granted to any citizen Of the
former State, under the provisions of the Four
teenth Amendment The State Court over
ruled the claim, and the case was then appealed
to the United States Supreme Court, in which
a decision has just been rendered affirming the
judgment of the Court below
A terrible fire occurred recently in Republic
County, Kansas, by which many houses, sta
bles, horses, cattle, ETC., were destroyed. The
house of a Mr. Crane, near Belleyille, was
burned, and his family, consisting of his wife
and four children, took shelter in the residence
of Mr.. Bennett. On the following night the
storm took the roof on Mr. Benefits house,
a stone building, and blew in hesgable end,
causing 1t to fall into the cellar, where the in
mates had taken refuge, and Mrs. Bennett was
severely injured. In the morning, Mr.. Ben
nett went to procure assistance. When he
returned, he found that ehe floor had fallen
in, and his wife and children, tsgether with