Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-02-13

burned almost to crisp. Most of the other
inmates were more or less burned. -. On the
morning of the 9TH the Green Bay night ex-
press train, about twenty miles north of the
Kishawaukee bridge, near Harvard ILL.,,
struck broken rail, throwing three passen-
ger coaches, q Pullman sleeper, baggage
car and a second-class car into the ditch
twenty feet below The stove in the baggage
car was overturned and set fire to the car, and,
as there was no means of extinguishing the
flames, the entire train and contents were con-
sumed. Forty persons were more or less in
jured, but no lives were lost, the passengers
escaping from the burning cars by means of
| the windows.
SATURDAY, February 7.-Gen. Slckles
has taken final leave of the Spanish Govern
ment, and placed Secretary Adee in charge of
the legation. M. Buffet has been reelected
President of the French Assembly By Il
recent collision between two trains ON the
Great Western Railway in England several
persons were killed and Others injured IA
London telegram gives a report that Glad.
stone, being assured of majority in Par
! lament against him, has sent in his resg-
nation to the Queen. In the Ma
tional Grange at st. Louis re-
port was received from Secretary Cof-
| fey, of the State Grange of Missouri, stating
! that there are 1,600 subordinate Oranges in
the State Several amendments to the Ma
tional Constitution were proposed. Charles
ton, S. c., was unanimously chosen as the
next place of meeting. Several standing
committees were appointed Mr., Thompson,
representative from Canada, reported that
they had ten live Oranges ia the Dominion,
some numbering over 100 members each; that
they wanted to establish a Dominion Grange,
so as to have under their control fixed head
quarters, and their most earnest desire was to
see the organization become international in
character.
MONDAY, February 9.-The London
press unanimously recognizes the complete
ness of the defeat of the Government in the
! Parliamentary elections. A cable telegram
says Gladstone will await the conclusion of the
elections before deciding as 10 what course the
Government must pursue. President Grant
has appointed the following-named gentlemen
as the Board of Visitors to the Military
Academy: General Charles j. Hamilton,
Wisconsin; Commodore C. R. II. Rogers, u.
S. N; j. d. Cameron, Pennsylvania; A. b.
Kindig, Iowa; Francis Wayland, Yale
College; A. P. Temple, Tennessee, and
Richard p. Hammond, California. -.
Three Boston hotelkeepers, arrested
for violation of the Massachusetts, Prohibitory
law, were before the Police Court on
the 7th. The proprietor of the fremont
House pleaded guilty, and escaped with fifty
dollars fine and costs. The two others pleaded
not guilty, and were each sentenced to three
months imprisonment at hard labor, besides
the payment of fine of seventy-fye dollars.
They appealed, and will carry the case through
the courts The Territorial Legislature of
Montana has PASSED a bill to remove the capl-
tai from Virginia City to Deer Lodge. IA
Columbus (Ohio) dispatch says the success OF
the women's temperance movements at
other points has caused the disciples
of temperance in that city to organ
ize, and arrangements are being made for
grand attack at that point. Dio Lewis has
been called on, and will be there to start the
movement Jefferson Davis has sailed from
New Orleans to Liverpool, his physician hay
ing recommended a sea voyage.
TUESDAY, February 10.-A Berlin dis
patch announces the death of David Friedrich
Strauss, the eminent German theologian...
A London telegram states that the diplomatic
representatives of Spain at Brussels, Berlin
and Lisbon have resigned. "A second
decree has been issued by the Japanese
Government, this time peremptory one,
recalling all the students residing abroad
Of hn
those who have given the very highest proofs
of advancement. .Jovellar, Captain General
of Cuba, has declared the entire
island in a state of siege, and ordered the
mobilization for active service OF four volun-
teers out of every ten, this moblllzatlon 10
begin Immediately and continue SIX months
All persons between the ages OF twenty ana
forty.five, not volunteers on the lst Of Feb
ruary, are to be enrolled in the militia. A
communication from the members OF the
Boston Grange was presented on the 9th to
committee of the National Grange appointed
to consider the important question whether
the membership of the Grange entitled 1t TO
recognition. The memorial recites that It's
members were the only persons in Boston VINO
took any interest in the movement or did any
thing to assist National Deputy Abbott in his
work in Massachusetts,. They plead that the
Grange was organized by Mr.. Abbott, as the
representative of the National Grange, and
was accepted by the State Grange, and plead
that they are ''interested' in agriculture
in way to bring them fully within the
scope of the organization. -. The resolution TO
remove the headquarters of the National
Grange to st. Louis has been referred to
special committee Of five, to report at the
eighth session of the National Grange. The
following is the committees; Messrs.
Parsons, of Minnesota; Warden, OF Flor
ida; Hamilton, of Alabama; Cotton, OF
Vermont, and Allen, of Missouri. The
committee to investigate the condition OF the
homesteaders in Northwestern Iowa have re-
Gently returned to Des Moines. In the coun-
ties Of Lyon, Sioux, OBrien and Osceola
there is great destitution, and, unless relief
be speedily granted, there will be much suf-
fering and many must leave their claims.
FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS-.