Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-09-05
THK NEW WORLD.


ne bureau 81 Education at Washington
has information that Chicago and Cincinnati
each received from the Vienna Exposition the
grand medal of progress for a system of edu-
cation, teaching and instruction, and Cleye-
land and Jacksonville, ILL.,, are awarded di-
ploma of merit in the same department. In
%his one department of education, teaching
and instruction, twenty-five prizes were award
ed to United States exhibitors.
President Grant and party arrived at Long
Branch from their New England trip on the
22d.
The Ohio State Convention of colored men
met at Chillicothc on the 22d. John Booker,
of Columbus, was chosen President, and c..
L. Maxwell, of Xenia, Secretary. Several
Vice-Presidents were also elected. About
one hundred delegates were present Resolu-
tions were adopted-protcsting against "the
unjust discrimination permitted toward us by
the representatives of the party whom we aid
in securing official positions;" declaring the
colored voters of Ohio ''do not consider them
selves under eternal obligations TO party
which favors us as class only in proportion
as it is driven by its own necessities" and urg-
ing the colored men of the State to refrain
from Internationally pledging themselves to
the nominees Of their local conventions, and
that they use their best discrimination in de-
termining for themselves, in each locality,
whom to vote for, or whether to vote at all.
A Catholic priest whom Bishop Foley had
deposed, has brought suit in the Circuit
Court of Chicago against the Bishop to recover
$25, 600, claiming to have been damaged TO
that extent by the action of the Bishop, which,
he alleges, was a violation of the canons of
the church.
Judge Emerson has sustained the defend
ants demurrer in the case of Ann Eliza
Young VS.. Brigham Young, for divorce,
against the jurisdiction of the District Court.
The Judge held that the Probate, not the Dis
trict, Court had jurisdiction in divorce cases.
A Cincinnati dispatch of the 22d gives the
following particulars of the recent collision
on the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad:
The Hillsboro and Loveland accommoda-
| ton, TO which the accident occurred, left the
Montgomery station on time. The freight
| train, bound from Chillocothe TO this CITY, in
charge of Conductor Pewett, was behind time
| 1t is said that his watch was fifteen minutes
slow, and, in addition, it is reported that the
regular engineer, Smith, and he had some
words at Loveland, in which the engineer said
he would get him into difficulty before he got
to Cincinnati. At any rate, the freight
started started ,So expecting, ting, it is said, tc
Station, but failed, the collision
occurring at sharp curve, while this freight
train was running on the passenger trains
time. The two engines grappled each other
reared upward, and stood almost erect, tho
baggage car following. The passenger coach
es remained on the track, but the shock was
| m 40 M ~ fxtln
seriously hurt, but some slight injuries were
sustained by some persons ON the passenger
train. Charles Rother, the fireman, remained
on his engine, with his father, Elwood Rother
the engineer, and was crushed between the
fre-box and the tender, and the father escaped
without apparently serious bodily injury, bu
he appeared so moved by the excitement
of the disaster that he came from the wreck
| with n disordered mind. Brakeman James
Gerrlogo had, in response to the signal "dowr
brakes, - wound up his brake, and was assist
ing the baggage Samuel w. Harvard
who Is also brakeman, when the shock came
Both were Immediately crushed TO death
Both resided at Hillsboro, Ohio. Walter
| Rhodes, the express messenger, of this city
brother of j. H. Rhodes, of Adams Express
Company, received injuries from which hC
died after reaching the Cincinnati depot this
morning, making four deaths. All the othel
| injuries received were OF no consequence. II
appears clear that the men who brayely re-
mained at their posts and lost their lives
saved the passengers from fearful casualty
The officials of the road acted with prompt
ness. Physicians were taken from this city
and determination is apparent on the part o.
the railway officers to hold the conductor ant
engineer of the freight train responsible before
the Criminal Court.
The inquest was held at Montgomery, th'
scene of the accident, in the afternoon to-day
and the verdict Of the jury was that thos'
killed came TO their death by the crimina
neglect Of Conductor Pewett and Enginee
smith, Of the freight train, in running out Q
their time. The Jury recommended prosecut
ing them for manslaughter
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