Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-02-27

Susquehanna and Carbondale, and fell down
an embankment seventy-hve feet, instantly
killing Conductor John r. Harding, Engineer
Cramer, Fireman David Cramer and Brakeman
Thomas Rapley... A New York dispatch says
a praying crusade against intemperance has
commenced in that city and vicinity. The
churches are generally moving in the matter.
The Trustees Of Trinity Church have decided
to no longer lease the property Of the church
for purposes of liquor selling, and other
churches are requesting their members to
stipulate that their property shall not
hereafter be used as saloons. IA boy ten
or twelve years old, the son Of T. Jones, of
Windfall, Ind, while his parents were
at church a few nights ago, attempted to
kindle a fire with coal OIL with the usual re-
suit. The boy died the next morning. -. The
Missouri State Grange on the 21st adopted a
resolution requesting the Missouri Senators
and Representatives In Congress to use their
influence to secure the improvement Of the
Mississippi River and its tributaries. Ac-
cording to dispatches Of the 22d the Women's
Temperance movement was spreading in
Iowa and Illinois. In Oswego, Lexiug-
ton and many other places in illinois, and
in Davenport, Dubuque and elsewhere in Iowa
organizations had been formed and prepara-
tions made for a determined assault upon the
saloon-keepers and their patrons. The same
condition of affairs prevailed in Indiana. In
Chicago praying band consisting of 5000
women was about TO be organized, according
to the Times of the 22d. The city was to be
divided into districts and each district given
over to band of fifty praying women.
TUESDAY, February 24-Late dispatches
state that 100000 persons in India were fam
ishing for want Of food, and that half mill
ion would have perished had they not been
relieved by the Government. AT a late
meeting Of the Royal Geographical
Society Sir Bartle Frere announced that
he had come to the conclusion, after
conference with DIR. Kirk, that the re-
port of the death of DIR. Livingstone was true.
The Queen, at the instance of Mr.. Gladstone,
has granted pension Of 81, GOO per annum to
the children of DR.. Livingstone. "A Wash
ington dispatch says the friends of temperance
in that city have determined to commence an
active crusade against liquor selling
in the capital, IA call has been
published for convention of dele
gates from the Northwestern States to
be held at Rock Island on Tuesday, March "a,
on the subject of cheap transportation. The
call is issued by Major James NJ. Allan, dele
gate from the Illinois Farmers State Associa-
tion to the late Cheap Transportation Con-
vention at Washington, he having been ap-
pointed by the Decatur Convention. -. Three
hundred men went adrift in East Saginaw
Bay on the morning of the 23d Oh a cake
of ice, on which they had built fishing viii
lage, and which was driven away from the
shore by strong southwest wind. They were
carried out into the lake, when change Of
wind to the west brought them up to the east
ern shore of the bay, where two hundred Of
them managed 10 escape at different points.
Two of the men were drowned in attempting
to reach land. One hundred men were still
on the ice up to the night of the 23d.