Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-09-05
General News Summary,
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The Turkish troops have succeeded in tap,
ttirins and killing the C6rayanny brigands;
who were implicated in the brutal massacre at
Marathon. The brigands made a desperate
but futile resistance, and were finally over
powered.
Advices from the north of Spain, received in
Madrid on the 22d, and which were deemed
trustworthy, report the Carlist troops as being
discouraged and insubordlnate. The Republi-
can army, under command Of General Sanchez
Bregna, numbering $4,000 men, had entered
Bilboa. The Carlist forces occupying the city
withdrew without offering battle.
A collision occurred on the Great Northern
Railway at Retford, England on the 23d, be-
tween freight and an excursion train. Both
were badly wrecked and four persons were
killed and fifteen badly injured, several of
them beyond hope of recovery.
George Bidwell, Austin Bidwell, Edwin
Noyes and George Mcdonnell the Bank of
England forgcrs, have been found guilty and
sentenced to penal servitude for life, the high
est punishment under the laws for their Of
fense Before the verdict was rendered George
Bidwell and Mcdonnell stated that they were
the only guilty ones, and exonerated the other
TWO from uli CohipllNltN III llc
Sir Samuel Baker and party have reached
Cairo, returning from their expedition into
Africa.
A Vienna dispatch Of the 26th says that, of
1000 medals awarded exhibitors at the Expo
sition 400 go to America. There was much
dissatisfaction with the results of the Exposi-
ton. 1t is charged that a number of articles
which were never entered for competition re-
ceived medals, and that several firms which
had none of their goods on exhibition were
awarded diplomas through manipulations of
the juries. The quantity of goods and speci-
mems which will be returned home from the
American department is very small
Carl Wilhelm, composer of the famous war
song, "The Watch on the Rhine" died at
Schwalkelden on the 26th.
Madrid kilograms Of the Goth state that the
Carlists, who were in large force and under
their favorite leaders, had been completely de-
feated near Estella, and had retired toward the
French frontier. The Carlists had also with
drawn from the usishborhnod of Rerga, hav
ing apparently abandoned the idea of its re-
duction. A Carlist force had entered the town
of Fraga, and the village of Tortella had been
entirely destroyed by the Insurgents in that
vicinity. Senor Emilio CASTELAR, had been
elected President of the Cortes by vote of
1874 in his favor against % blanks.
William Marsell, Postmaster-Gencral of En-
gland, has rendered his resignation, but at the
solicitation of Mr.. Gladstone, will remain tenn
porarily in charge of the department.
A letter was recently received in New York
from the English Consul General at Pesth,
Hungary, stating that the cholera in the latter
city was far worse than publicly reported. The
average deaths had been GOO week in popu-
lation of less than 100000. The disease APP
peared in virulent epidemic form.
A Vienna dispatch of the 2Sth says consid-
cradle excitement had been created among
those interested in the affairs of the Exposi-
tion by the refusal of an English firm to ac-
cept medal of merit which was awarded by
the judges.