Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-04-04

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for the murder Of his wife. There wer
about four hundred spectators present.
The Bulls Head Bank Of New York CIT,
has failed, and It Ia stated that large defal
cations have been discovered on the part o
some Of It's officers. n was a state institu
tion, and carried a large amount OF de
poslts, especially from butchers and drov
ers.
A dispatch from st.. Louis, Goth, says
"The strike on the st. Louis, Kansas City
Northern Railway is practically ended
Everything has been quiet to-day, and traini
have run without molestatjon. The Com
pany has now over fifty new engineers, and
freight trains will resume running to-mor
row. About forty strikers, and those en-
gagged In obstructIng the road, destroying
property, and interfering with trains, are
now In jail at different points and are to
be prosecuted to the utmost extent Of the
law"
Local option elections we're held through
out Pennsylvania on the 2lst, BY these
elections each ward or township In the State
settles for itself whether It will license liquor
selling. The larger towns, like Pittsburgh,
and the mining and manufacturing districts,
are shown by the returns to have given
heavy majorities for licensing. The coun'
try districts vote the other way.
Another mysterious murder has occurred
In Brooklyn. Charles Goodrich, wealthy
resident Of that city, was found dead on the
morning of the 21st, In the basement of a
residence where he was in the habit of
sleeping alone. Three pistol shot wounds
were In his head, two Of the bullets being
imbedded in the brain. It was thought that
some thief was aware of the fact that
Goodrich was In the habit of sleeping in
this house alone, and supposed that he car
ried considerable money about him, and that
he had broken into the basement, and on
Goodrich's coming down stairs had way;aid,
murdered and robbed him.
The Wisconsin Legislature adjourned sine
die on the Goth.
Governor Bagley, OF Michigan, has ap-
pointed Mrs. Harriet A. Tenny, State Libra.
rian, and Samuel Fl. Row, State Commits
| sioner of Insurance.
Near Wickenberg, Arizona, March 18th,
the Apaehes murdered Augustus Swain and
James Mcdonald. Their bodies were horri-
bly, mutilated. Swain was one of the first
settlers, and for a long time Government
guide.
According to the complete returns of the
New Hampshire election, straw's majority ia
272, the vote being-straw, "a, ,010; Weston,
81, ,9s1; Blackmer, 1859; Mason, 69S. The
Republicans have four of the five Council
lors, nine of the twelve Senators, and ma
iority Of about 50 in the House. Two of the
three Congressman are Republicans.
In the case of the murder of Albert Goetz,
in Chicago, the Coroner's Jury brought in a
verdict charging Joseph Tansey with hav-
ing committed the crime, and holding Luke
Healey, Patrick Nolan, John Sheridan and
Patrick Kearney as accessories after the
fact"
The Erie Railway freight ard passenger
buildings at Long Dock, Jersey City, to-
gether with their contents, were burned on
the 21st. The loss is estimated at about
$500, 600.
Rock Island, ILL.,, has been designated un.
der the act of Congress, as the location of
the national military prison, and the Secreta-
ry Of War has appointed a Commission to
determine upon the site and plans.
A report was current in New York on the
22d that Foster took poison the night be-
ore his execution, and was under its inhu-
ence at the time Of being hung. A Tombs
physician says he would have died of the
poison had his execution been delayed until
ten o'clock.
A Manchester IN. H. dispatch of the 22d
says the friends of Hon. 8. N. Bell, the Dem
ocratic candidate for Congress in the Sec
ond District, claimed that he was elected by
a majority of four votes.
The Secretary of War has officially pro-
mulgated law Of great Importance to SOL
diers, approved on the last day of
the last session. 1t provides that the
Secretary of War may issue duplicate dis
charge papers in all cases of loss, but such
duplicate may not be accepted as a voucher
for payment of any claim against the United
States or as evidence in any other case.
General Spinner, on the 22d, entered upon
the thirteenth year of his service as Treas
urer of the United States.
The Treasury Department in Washington
has commenced preparing for the payment
of the bounties under the recent law equal
izing and extending them.
The Legislature of Missouri, on the oath,
adjourned until the first Wednesday in JAN
uary next.
The deficiency in the assets of the sus-
pended Bulls Head Bank of New York City
is ascertsined to be $257 900.
Lieutenant Governor Milton H. Petit, of
Wisconsin, died at his residence at Kenosha,
on the night of the 23d, aged forty-eight
years.
In the Senate, on the oath, there was quite
alengthy debate upon the question of re-
considering the confirmation of Mr.. Casey
as Collector at New Orleans. The motion
to reconsider was, after considerable oppo-
sition, finally laid on the table by a vote OF
25 to %. The confirmation in the first
instance was by a vote of % to Is.
Sen Ator Caldwell has resigned his seat in
the United States Senate. He placed his
resignation In the hands of Governor Os-
borne (then in Washington, on the cath,
and sent letter to the Vice-President, an
nouneing what he had done.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
and directed a rigid enforcement of the
regulation which requires the Treasurer and
Assistant Treasurers and depositaries OF the
United States to refuse the payment Of al
official checks of United States disbursinl
officers if pre- sented more than foul
months after their issue, and all
treasury drafts and disbursiug Off
cers' checks presented more than three years
after their issue. All checks, the payment
of which has thus been refused, will have tC
be forwarded to the Secretary of the Treas
ury, the former for examination and verih
cation with the drawers accounts, and the
latter for statement of new accounts.
Advices from the Modoc country state
that Generals Candy and Gillem have had 8
talk with Captain Jack, which amounted tc
very little, Jack merely asking an amnesty
and to be permitted to stay at Lost River,
The troops have gone into camp on the east
Of Tule Lake.
Marshall Magruder, who shot with intent
to kill Clarence ]. Lockwood, in boarding
house In Madison street, In New York City,
on the Goth of January last, has been found
guilty and senten ced to ten years in the
States prison, with hard labor.
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