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

York. This leaves the gang only $4,000 of
their plumber for fighting their way through
the courts.
The Court of Claims at Washington has rem
dered Judgment against the United States in
favor Of ex-senator Alexander Caldwell for
$500, ,S69 on a contract for army transportation
in Nebraska in 1896. Chief Justice Drake
dissented.
A recent Washington dispatch says that
owing to the Modoc massacre and the excite
ment consequent thereupon, the release of
satanta and Big Tree is not now ordered
The President and the Secretary Of the Interior
have control Of the matter.
General SchofeId telegraphed to Washing
ton on the 21st that he had every confidence In
his troops, and was doing everything possible
to make successful the movement against the
Modocs, who, he believed, were still in the
lava beds
A coored messenger in the New York Gus
tom House has been promoted to a $1,000
clerkship. He is the first colOred man to
serve as a clerk in the Custom House in that
city.
A Washington dispatch of the 21st says:
"Governor Kellogg informs the Attoney-Gen-
eral that matters are quiet in Louisiana, except
in four or five parishes, and his request for
troops to be sent thither was to prevent pos
sibe outbreak He denies that he sent com
missions TO the Fusion officers in Grant Parish,
or any other than those first commissioned.
Taxes are being collected rapidly. During the
first quarter of the present year the amount
collected was s254, 600 against sl33, 900 in the
corresponding time of the previous year"
On the 21st, the first vessel Of the season
passed through the Welland Canal from Lake
Erie into Lake Ontario.
The gas stokers employed by the Cincinnati
Gas Light and Coke Company have struck for
an advance of wages from $3.50 to $500 per
day.
The larger portion Of the town OF Chico,
CAL, has been destroyed by fire.
An engineer officer recently arrived in Wash
ingtou with plans of Southern coast canal, to
connect the Rio Grande with the Atlantic, near
Savannah, Ga. They have been submitted to
the Government, and will be laid before the
convention of Southern Governors, who meet
at Atlanta in May to discuss the subject Of in
ter-continental transportation.
Up to the 22d, 81, ,4S9 immigrants had ar
rived at New York since January /, against
46, 7S3 during the same time last year.
A woman named Craig tried to kindle fire
with kerosene oil at West Liberty, Iowa, on
the 21st, and was buried the next day Her
husband had his hands badly burned while try
ing to smother the fire.
A special election in Milwaukee on the 22d
to fill the vacancies occasioned by the inelegi-
bility of certain candidates, elected at the reg
ular election on the 1st of April, resulted in
In II, Il
can, for Mayor, over Levi II. Kellogg, by l ,260
majority, carrying nine out of the twelve
wards. Emil Walber, City Attorney, and j.
NJ. Whaling, Alderman of the Seventh Ward,
had no opposition. Mr.. Kellogg had a ma
| jority Of $50 over Ludington at the regular
election, but was ineligible on account of
holding the Office of Counsellor.
Joseph O'Neal, of Fulton, H., has been SEN
| fenced to be hanged for murder committed
on an island in the Mississippi River, near that
| place, some time last fall.
On the 22d the first colored graduate of the
Law School in the District of Columbia was
admitted to practice in the Supreme Court OF
the District
| At the recent municipal election in Quincy
| H., the Democrats elected their ticket by q
majority of about 500.
Mrs. Anne Hennessey, wife Of George Hen
nessey, a respectable shoemaker, in New York
City, few evenings ago, during an insane I'll
choked her tive children, one three years old
and the other five months, and then roasted
the bodies on the stove.
The New York Senate, on the 2Sd, voted
II to 12-to repeal the Usury law.
News from the Modoc seat of war up to the
23d states the loss of the Mod0cs in the recent
| fight at seventeen killed and many wounded
| Captain Jack and his band were still in theil
lava-bed stronghold, and General Gillem was
| trying to cut OF their escape and supplies,
The Treasury Department at Washington
| has received information of considerable vio
lence being committed along the Texas border
by Mexican desperadoes. Recently an Ameri
can ranchero, living near Fort Quitman, was
brutally murdered by the Mexicans, his body
thrown into the Rio Grande, and his animals
horses and mules, driven into Mexico by his
| murderers. Immediate pursuit was started by
| party of citizens, and the Mexicans wer,
| overtaken. A fight ensued, in which the pur
| suing party was defeated and returned Il
Quitman without having accomplished the re
| covery of the animals or the arrest of til,
and New Mexico, Cochise nominally at peac,
with the United States, continues to practice
his fayorite pastime, and occasionally roasts q
white man, merely as a matter Of amusement
Doc Colburn, messenger for Captain Dar
| ling, arrived in Kansas City on the ed, anC
reported the finding of thirteen dead bodies o.
white men, all in one place. The bodies were
| found on Medicine Lodge Creek.
The Commissioner of the General Land OF
| fee at Washington has recently issued regula
tions under the act providing for the sale o
United States lands containing coal, approved
| March last, as follows:.
Any individual of 81 years Of age and citizen o
the United States, or who has declared his inten
0n 10 become cor such may G enter by legal
may enter not TO exceed 30 acres. Any associa
| ton, II not less than four persons who shal
ing and improving any coal mine or mines
may enter not exceeding $40 acres
The price per acre ia $40 where the land is situated
| more than fifteen miles from any completed rail
road, and so per where the land is within If
| teen miles Of such road. In conflicts, when i'm
provements, etc, have been commenced subse
quent TO March Sd last or shall be hereafter com
| menced, priority OF possession aud improvement
| shall govern the award, when the law has beei
| fully complied with by each party. mere pos
| session, however, without satisfactory improve
ments, viii not secure the contract TO the rst oc
| cupant, when the subsequent claimant shows hi
| fun compliance with the law.
A boy named Wilfred Fits is in Jail a
Exeter, N. H., charged with the killing of an
other boy, named Emerson, while he, the mur
derer, was in a somnambulistic state. Recently
while in a similar condition, Fits got hold o
razor belonging to one. of three prisoners il
the Jail, and attempted to cut their throats
According to recent statement in the New
York Tribune arrangements have been mad
for 2l 300 passengers to Europe by steamship
sailing from New York during the next thre
| months.
| Henry Fralich was hanged in Syracuse, n
Y, few days ago, for the killing, in Angus
| last, of Peter Schaaffer.
President Grant and party left st. Louis OF
the morning of the Gath for Denver
| A singular affair has occurred in Madison
Wis. Several months ago one Jacob Smiti
mysteriously disappeared, and his wife mad
contradictory statements as to his whereabouts
/ halt % ,k..st tI..k. 4.