Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20

the acceptance Of free passes from railroads.
The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, Judge e. II, Thayer,
of the Clinton Age; Vice-President, John
Mahin, of the Muscatine Journal; Secretary,
A. c. Swain, of the jefferson Bee; Treasurer,
Walt Parrott Executive Committee, j. Z.
Allen, of the Clinton Bee; Andy Felt, of the
Nashua Post and L. b. Raymond, of the
Cherokee Leader.
In New York City, DIR. Julius e. Julian has
been sentenced to one years imprisonment
and to pay $500 fine for sending obscene pub
lications through the mails
George Edmonds, a coal miner of steuben-
vile, Ohio, recently bought twenty-five
pound can of blasting powder and put 1t in a
cupboard in his dwelling. While he was at
work and his wife out on an errand, his chill
dren found the can and set fire TO 1t. Three
of them were killed outright, and the fourth
so badly injured that it could not live. The
children were all under ten years of age. The
house was almost destroyed.
At recent term Of the United States Cir
cult Court at Des Moines, Iowa, Judge Love
dismissed the action, commenced last fall,
against c. Augustus Haviland, of the Soldiers
Friend. 1t seems Mr. Haviland had paid out
1915 in the prosecution of the pension
claim, and received only S9.70.
According to Memphis dispatch of the
| 10th, the cholera was undoubtedly increasing
| in that city. The interments that day were lo,
against II the day before, while the undertak-
| ers had received, at six o'clock, orders for IA
for the 18th.
The Postmaster-G General has decided not to
abrogate the postal-card contract, but to give
the contractors time to obtain better paper and
continue the work.
The remains Of the late Minister Orr were
received in New York on the 1lth, and were
escorted by the Knights Templar and de-
tachment of police to the Governors room
at the City Hall, where they were to lay in
state
The New Hampshire Legislature has chosen
the following State officers; Secretary OF State,
B. F. Prescott, of Concord; State Treasurer,
Solon A. Carter, of Keene.
Frank II. Walworth was arraigned in the
Court of Oyer and Terminer at New York on
the 18th, on the charge of having murdered his
father. He pleaded "Not guilty"
DIR. Lewis Z. Meyers dentist of Middle
town, N Y, while drunk recently, stabbed his
father in the breast, near the heart, with a
sharp instrument 1t was thought the wound
would prove fatal
A recent issue of the Chicago Journal says:
| SIN every instance where, previous to the re-
cent judicial elections in this State the farm
ers and anti-monopolists nominated dis
tinctive candidate of their own, and then
united in his support at the polls, the farmers
candidate for Judge was elected"
Itis reported that Captain Jack, in an interview
with General Davis, said: Bogus Charley and
Shacknasty Jim killed General Candy. Allen
David, the Klamath chief, advised them to kill
General Candy, so they did it. am telling
the truth. did not kill him. had it done,
but did not do it. / don't lie. Bring the men
that saw me do this thing. / want to face
them. If had my chains off would tell all
the men who did these things"
The massacre of the Modocs is denounced
in unmeasured terms by the Oregon papers.
The Illinois Press Association commenced it:
ninth annual session at Quincy on the 1lth
At the opening of the session there were about
fifty editors present.
The newly-elected officers of the Masonic
Grand Lodge of Wisconsin are as follows: R
Delos Palford, of Mineral Point, Grand Mas
ter; II. E. Hubbard, of Lacrosse, Senior Grand
|
Junior Grand Warden; w. II. Hiner, of Fond
du Lac, Grand Treasurer; Geo Z. Haskinson
Of Green Bay, Grand Secretary.
The Ohio State Medical Society, at Colum
bus, on the 18th, selected Toledo as their mex
place of meeting, and elected III. j. Harrick, o.
Alvond, President; NJ. J. Conklin, of Dayton
Secretary; H. Edwards, of Lancaster, Assistan
Secretary; and S. S. Gray, of Piqua
Librarian and Treasurer.
In the case of DIR. West, the alleged murder
er of a negro in Delaware, a report of whicl
was published at the time the jury brought il
a verdict of not guilty, on the ground of self
, defense.
Joshua Nicholson and his accomplice
, HallahaR, have been sentenced, at Annapolis
Md, to be hung on the lst of August, for tn
murder of Mrs. Lampley.
The cholera at Nashville was abating ON tn
18th. There were twenty-four interments a
Memphis on that day, against eighteen the da
before.
Mrs. Fisk, as executrix of the estate o
James Fisk, Jr., has recently brought suit sim
liar to the suit brought by the United State
= Government against the Union Pacific Rail
road Company and others. The Credit-Mob
ler Company Gov. Dix, the Hon. George Or
) dyke, the estates Of Oakes Ames and jaime
t Brooks, Oliver Ames, Cyrus IL. Mccormick
Edwin ID. Morgan, and others, are made pal
ties defendant 1t is charged that 60,0C
shares have been distributed among Ii
3 persons forming the Credit-Mobilicr combina
r ton, for which no money was paid, and tina
= vast and fraudulent profits were made on ii
r various construction, telegraph, coal suppl
S and other contracts. The declared object {
4 the suit is to have receiver appointed TO TAX
e charge of the property Of the Union Pacit
/ and Credit-Mobilier Companies; to have II
d stock fraudulently issued returned or paid TO
d and, finally, to have the property or the pr
= ceeds from its sale distributed among the raj
|, roads bona .tide stockholders.
l. At Decatur, ILL.,, recently, Fred Bickes,
u hardware dealer, who had for some time pa
been hard drinker, shot his father in the he'
s with small revolver. Bickes, Jr., had be-
+ on drunken spree, and went into his father
u house while the family were at tea, and was i
$ vited to partake, when he commenced abusir
+ his mother, using the worst of language. II
father ordered him to desist, when he drew
e pistol, leaned over the table and shot h
n father in the face. The wound was thougl
l. to be fatal. Young Bickes then stepped ava
placed the pistol near his eye and fired, Il
l, ball lodging in the brain, inaicting mort
u wound.
The Illinois Press Association at its meetir
D. in Quincy on the 10th, elected the followiI
Is officers for the ensuing year: President,
It d. Buck, Charleston Courier; Vice-President
y 5. j. Bradbury, Waukegan Patriot; E. H.
" Patterson, Oquawka Spectator, Chas. p. Ric
ID ards, Duquoin Tribune; Recording Secretar
e Cadet Taylor, Wenona Iader; Assistant Sc
retary, A. Holt, Kankakee Gazette; Correspo
n ding Secretary, c. N, Whitney, Princeton He
le ald; Treasurer, j. w. Clinton, Polo Pres
* Executive Committee, K. L, Merrill, springhe
m Register, Jas. stoaff, Paris Gazette, j.
e. Moudy, Riehview Democrat A long series
of resolutions were adopted including the folio
oi ing;
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