Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-01-24

December 90, near Salt River, not warrior
escaped. All the band were killed. and
twenty. y.Hve women and children were cap
tured.
Recent dispatches from various parts OF
Minnesota give further details Of the terrible
nature of the recent storms. At Fergus
Falls eight people are known to be frozen;
at Morris four, and scattered through the
interim ediate country seven or eight others.
Two men were found near st. Peter, sitting
up in a sleigh, frozen stiff, wrapped In
buffalo robes. At worthington, two team
sters have been found dead.
Governor Oglesby and the other Illinois
State officers elect were formally installed
on the 18th.
The trial OF Mrs. Ellen @. Wharton for the
alleged attempt TO poison Eugene Van Ness
was begun at Annapolis, Nd, on the 18th.
At New Orleans, on the 18th, both
McEnery and Kellogg were inaugurated as
Governors-the former by the Warmothites
and the latter by the Pinchback faction.
Warmoth and Pinchback each delivered
valedlctory address. General Emory tele-
graphed on the 11th to Washington as fol.
lows:
"AsMr Kellogg has been declared by Governor
Pinchback and the Legislature, which designates,
as Governor elect Of Louisiana, presume II is In
tended by my instructions that l shall also reeog
otherwise instructed. have addressed letters 70
the General commanding the armv, on the 9Th
and eth Inst; b but they may not reach him IN time
plcated, and in my opinion the use OF troops
simply to keep the peace cannot lead to satisiac-
here"
The new Chief Of the Sandwich Islands,
who fills the place of the deceased Kama
hameha as Regent, is a Yankee by the name
OF Elisha H. Allen, who has long been Chief
Justice in the Islands. He was formerly
leading lawyer in Bangor, Maine, and at one
time represented his district in Congress.
Durant has commenced suit against James
Brooks and Oakes Ames, to recover Credit
Mobilier shares alleged to have been fraudu-
lently obtained or unlawfully appropriated.
The Commissioners appointed to make a
valuation of all the real estate in the Dis
trict OF Columbia belonging to the United
States, except public buildings, and also
grounds which have been dedicated to pub
lie use as parades and squares, report the
total valuation at SIG, ,1S6, 1886.
The New Hampshire Republican State
Convention met at Concord on the 14th.
Governor Straw was nominated for re-elec-
tion by acclamatlon. Edward P. Hodsdon
was nominated Railroad Commissioner.
Recent attempts to secure the repeal, by
the Chicago Common Council, of the law
prohibiting the sale Of liquor on the Sab
bath, have finally failed, the ordinance as
rieIn noll "a tad tat
The two Houses Of the Missouri Legisla-
ture voted separately for United States Sen
ator on the 14th. The vote In the House
stood Bogy, SO; Henderson, 33. In the
Senate Bogy, 25; Henderson, 10; absent, 9.
One OF the fues of the boiler of the steamer
Julia st. Clair collapsed near Eufaula, Ala,
few nights ago, scalding thirteen persons,
mostly colored deck hands and firemen. One
man died instantly. One was drowned, two
were mortally injured, and one unaccounted
for.
In the Louisiana Warmoth Legislature, on
the 14th, General W. McMullen was elected
United States Senator to fill Kellogg's unex-
pired term. For the long term Governor
Warmoth received votes in the Senate and
| IS In the House, the largest number cast for
any one candidate. Pinchback was elected
United United States Senator by the Kel
logg Legislature. In the Senate, when q
motion was made to go into an election for
United States Senator for the short term,
q number of Senators stated that the Senate
was not informed that such vacancy ex-
listed.
The Kansas Legislature met on the 18th.
The House organized by selecting Josiah
Kellogg, of Leavenworth, Speaker; A. R.
Banks, OF Lawrence, Clerk.
The recent terrific hurricane of snow, at
tended by intense cold weather, in the
Northwest, was most calamitous in its ef
fects throughout Minnesota. Scores Of per
sons who were caught in the storm arr
frozen to death. All the railroads and tn,
common roads in the State were blocked
with huge snow-banks, rendering trans
portation impossible. The storm brok
upon the State, from the northward, YER
suddenly, and continued to rage turiousl.
for over two days. Some idea Of the exten
Of the storm and It's fatal effects may b
formed from the following particular
given in st. Paul dispatch of the 18th:
"The list OF deaths by the late storm is receiV
| ing hourly acceseions. So far the greatest nun
Der Of casualties reported from Brown Count,
in the vicinity Of New Ulm, within few miles o
which eighteen persons are known to have pc
ished. A gentleman from Redwood Falls say
that when he left there, thirty-seven death
had been reported Of persons frozen in s Reayill,
Center. Among the fatal cases mentioned In Sfl
ley County are p. B. Baker, A. X. jenkins an
County are Thomas O'Connel. with team; NJ
Tenny, young man named Morehouse: L.
Fox, wife, child, and nephew, Of New ulm, wel
overtaken by the storm on tho Redwood road, h
| Thew
themselves with the sleigh-box and sacks OF nou
! until Wednesday morning, when the nephew an
child died. The mother held the dead body OF HI
child in her arms until Friday morning, whe
, they were discovered and taken TO Marshal
Mr.. Fox is very badly frozen, and his wife is 4
sAne. A dispatch from Fergns Falls says that Il
loss OF life in that vicinity already reported
twenty, while the loss OF stock can be countt
by hundreds. Houses have entirely disappesr'
3 beneath the huge snow-drifts, and travel Is g
tirely blockaded and stopped. Morris dispatt
, mentions the finding Of the dead bodies OF
! Fretand, man named oleson, and a Mr.. Beake
A SOP OF Mr Beakey is missing, and has undoue
, edy perished. Hans oleson was found, aft
being out forty-eigbt hours, badly frozen, al
4 will probably die. Christian Heg was caught
the storm on Tuesday and buried In a drift, whe
he remained until Saturday afternoon, when
: was found, badly frozen, but may recover. Ho
II. r. Wells of Preston, Fillmore Count
= reports the loss OF minister and fami
from Lime Springs. Iowa, who were visiting
y Fillmore County. The minister. with his wife a.
!. two children, undertook to reach home, and VIII
, | near home the horees gave out, and he took o
d child and made his way to the house, but in
n turning to the cutter, where he left his wife a
remaining child, he was lost and was found |
' next day frozen TO death. His wife and child, j
8 in the cutter, were also founo dead, but the o
a taken to the house was found alive"
= In the Kellogg Legislature on the 15t
= = John Ray was unanimously elected Unit
States Senator, to fill the term made vaca
by the resignation of Kellogg.
> "A man in North Canton, Conn, W
e recently left fortune of $3.50. 900 by I
u death Of his brother. In examining t
papers of the deceased he came across
70 later will, by which the property was
4 vided up among relatives, churches a
.. charitable enterprises. As the man h
. the last will entered in probate, the pc
y pie call him crazy,
IN -Thin La how a Maru I.nndnn innhria