Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-08-22
the American prisoners to visit their husbands


appeared near old Camp Colorado and shetland
stabbed Mrs. Williams, and also shot little
girl of Mrs. Williams and smashed her head
against door post and threw her body into
the fire. They then entered the house and
shot girl eight years old and carried her away
with them.
Sixty.seven bodies Of the passengers lost by
the burning of the steamer Wawasset had
been recovered up to the nth. The great loss
of life is attributed by some to the criminal
greed of the owners of the steamer, who un-
dertook to carry one hundred and fifty passen-
gers when they had license and accommoda-
tions for carrying only fifty, and it appears
that they had very scanty arrangements for
saving lives in case of accident.
The recently-elected General Assembly Of
Kentucky will be composed as follows: Sen
ate, 80 Democrats and 6Republicans; House of
Representatives, 81 Democrats and 10 Repub-
lcans. Republicans gain two in the Senate,
and Democrats one in the House.
The proceedings of the court-martial in the
case of Captain Jack and other Modocs were
received at the War Department, in Wash
ington, on the 18th. II was believed the
verdict was guilty, with hanging as the
penalty.
General Van Buren, is held responsible, by
the Special Commission appointed to invcsti-
gate the charges against him, for all the mis-
management and corruption at Vienna. His
defense of the receipt of money from persons
who received permits to sell liquors in the
American Department is pronounced unsatis
factory, and he is said to have greatly misled
the State Department by his statements in re-
lation thereto. As Chief Commissioner, he
should have superintended every branch Of
the American Department, and should have
selected as assistants only honest and COM
petent men. This he failed to do; and in
consequence corruption and mismanagement
that would have ruined any private business
resulted to the lasting injury of American in
terests and the American fair fame. The
Special Commission speak in terms of the
highest praise of the Commission appointed
by the President, with Jackson Schultz
as chief, and say that the integrity and pru-
dence of the present management are well
calculated to cause the past irregularities to
be forgotten, to restore general confidence in
the American Commission, and to encourage
the hope that the art and industry of Europe
may be fairly represented at our own Cen
tennial in 1876.
The Massachusetts, Republican State Con-
vention is to be held at Worcester on the 18th
of September.
The Maine State Democratic Convention met
at Portland on the 12th and nominated Joseph
Titcomb for President. The resolutions passed
by the Ohio Democratic State Convention were
unanimously adopted.
Much excitement was created among petro-
leum dealers in New York on the 18th, by q
heavy decline in the price of crude and refined
oil. The chief cause of the decline is said to
be the increase in the supply, resulting from
the discovery of eight new wells in Pennsylva-
mia, which were yielding an average of SOC
barrels per day.
President Grant and party, consisting of his
daughter Nellie, his two sons, and the Hon.
Simon Cameron, arrived in Augusta, Maine
on the 18th. They were the guests Of Speaker
Blaine.
Some of the physicians of Chicago say that
there have been up to the 18th, thirty-six fatal
cases of cholera in that city. The Board OF
Health say there have been no cases Of cholera,
only aggravated cases of cholera-morbus.
of the 10th announces a desperate fight be-
tween the Sioux and the Pawnees in the Re.
publican Valley. The former were successful
killing sixty squaws, one hundred warriors
and one hundred and fifty ponies, The Sioux
lost about thirty warriors. Gen. Sheridan in
dispatch to the Department confirms this in
telligence. Word has been received from Col
Stanley, commanding the Yellowstone Expe.
dition. His command was well, but sadly in
need of forage and clothing. The scouting
expedition after the murderers of Mrs. Rich.
ardson and Miss Hall had returned to Fort
Stambourgh without overtaking the party OF
Sioux that committed the outrages.
The Maryland Democratic State Convention
recently in session at Baltimore, renominated
Levi N. Woolford for Comptroller, and james
Franklin for clerk of the Court of Appeals
Resolutions of the usual tenor were adopted
1t seems that the owners of the steame
Wawassct have rendered themselves liable b,
by their violation of their certificate, whicl
restricted them to fifty passengers, to pen
atty Of $40 for each passenger, and the refund
ing of the passage money. Suits are to b.
brought to enforce these penalties by tn,
Steamboat Inspector, and they will also bt
prosecuted for carrying excursionists withou
license.
The Canadian Parliament assembled at OF
tawa on the 18th, and was at one,
prorogued by the Governor General, who an
nounccd that Royal Commission would in
quire into the scandal connected with thu
Canada Pacific Railway, and that when tn
Commission is ready to report he will caus
the Parliament to be summoned for dispatcl
of the business, to give an early opportunit,
of taking such report into consideration
Much excitement grew out of this action o
the Governor General, which met with mucl
opposition.
The Republicans of Pennsylvania have nom
mated r. w. Mackey for State Treasurer, ant
Judge Isaac Gordon for Supreme Court Judge
| In its platform the State Convention endorse tn
Administrations of President Grant and Gov
ernor Hartranft; pronounce against all fur
ther grants of public lands to corporations
condemn the voting for or receiving increase,
pay for services rendered, and demand the re
peal by Congress of the salary bill favor tn
present tariff laws declare the Republican
party to be the only organization competent t.
SO meet the grave issues that are now con
stantly arising as to secure the just rights o
the whole people express sympathy witt
every movement to secure for agriculture an,
labor their due influence, interest, and rights
and declare that the Republican party will b
their ally in every just effort to attain thei
ends.
Recent storms in New York, New Jersey
Pennsylvania and Maryland have done grea
damage. On the Erie, the New Jersey South
ern, the Pennsylvania Central, the Philadel
phia, Wilmington & Baltimore, and other rail
roads, many miles of track were washed away
or so covered with land-slides or floods as to b
nearly impassable Pittsburgh reports that S,
violent rainfall has never before occurre,
there, and throughout the country bridges
culverts, dams, and roadways had been de
stroyed, and a great deal of private propert
devastated.
The fourth annual exhibition of the North
em Ohio Fair will begin at Cleveland, septem
Der 20, and continue five days.
The Iowa Anti-Monopoly State Conyentio