Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24
EPIT0ME OF THE WEEK
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.


ACCORDING to Constantinople dis
patch of the 14th the Austrian Ambassa-
dor had again asked the Grand Vizier of
Turkey to suspend hostilities and open
negotiations with the insurgents.
THE annual report of the Attorney
General, which was sent to Congress on
the 14th, is thus summarized In an AS
ISOLATED Press dispatch: He urges that
District.Attorney be paid by salaries
only, to be graded according to place; that
the District of Columbia be no exception
to the law; giving the appointment of AS
sistant District-Attorneys to the Attorney.
General; that a uniform mode of select
ing jurors for United States Courts be
provided by law; that a law be passed
forbidding the payment Of Deputy.Mar-
shals by certificates or due bills, and the
advance of any money to Marshals
whose accounts are unadjusted at
the Treasury over six months. lie refers
to the case of Brigham Young, and asks
further legislation. The labors of the
Supreme Court and Court of Claims are
alluded to, and it is suggested that such
legislation be had as will enable the latter
court, aided by the Attorney General, to
increase the safeguards against improper
testimony by devising different mode of
taking it, and to force old cases to early
trial or require them to be dismissed with
out power of restoration. To these ends
he proposes, after consultation with the
court, to draft bill and submit it to the
present Congress.
Rev. JOHN HENRY HOBART BROWN,
Bishop-elect of the Fond du Lac (Wis.)
Diocese, was consecrated at Cohoes, N.
Y, on the 10Th. Several Bishops of the
Episcopal Church and large number of
clergymen participated in the ceremonies.
Bishop Welles preached the sermon.
THE National Cheap Transportation
Convention met in Chicago on the 18th.
A large delegation was present
AN order was issued from the War De.
partment on the 18th dissolving the Court
of Inquiry in the case Of Gen. Babcock.
This action was taken at the suggestion of
the accused, on the ground that he would
be afforded chance of vindication in the
United States Court at st. Louis.
A FRIGHTFUL explosion occurred on the
| 10Th in coal mine at Framieres, near
Mons, Belgium. 1t was reported by a
telegram of that date that the bodies of
110 miners had already been recovered.
The explosion was caused by ire-damp.
In the United States Circuit Court at
Covington, KY, on the 10Th, j. NJ.
Schintker, F. r. Rineskamp, F. Macke
and - Steimiede, engaged in the recti-
flying business, pleaded guilty of viola
tiOns of the Revenue laws.
A VERDICT of guilty was rendered in
the United States Court at indianapolis
on the 18th IN the case of Deputy Col
lector Hill, charged with conspiring to de
fraud the Government.
THoMAssEN, the man arrested upon the
charge of causing the late dynamite ex-
plosion ON the Bremen Haven docks, died
from his repeated self-inflicted injuries on
the morning of the 10th. Before his death
he said his true name was William King
Thompson, and thathe was native of the
city of Brooklyn, N. Y. During the late
war he followed the fortunes of the Con-
federacy, and commanded noted block
ade-runner. He had resided in Germany
since the war ended, and had sought to
repair his shattered fortunes by securing
insurance upon supposititious merchan-
disc shipped by ocean steamers. To Sc.
cure the benefit of this he had con-
structed an internal machine, oper-
ated by clock-work, so arranged that
at the end of week the explo-
sive material would be struck with q
thirty pound hammer, when vessel and
cargo would be sent to the bottom IN mid
ocean. The careless handling of the
package on the deck had precipitated and
anticipated the catastrophe. A Bremen
dispatch of the nth says it had been as
certained that one of these machines had
been placed on board the steamer Saller,
which took the place of the disabled Mosel
and left Bremen Haven on the 10th for
Southampton and New York. The con.
fcssion OF Thompson indicated to the
authorities the names of his cOnfederates
and they had been arrested. On the 18th
the total number of killed and wounded
by the explosion was estimated at 200.
A LONDON dispatch of the 18th says
Peru had made default in the payment of
the interest of her public debt.
AN excursion, composed Of about SOC
people from Washington, including the
President and Mrs. Grant and several OF
the Cabinet officers, the members of the
Supreme Court and a majority from both
houses of Congress, arrived at Philadel.
phia on the evening of the nth, for the
purpose of visiting the Centennial build
ings and grounds.
THE steamboat U. S. Pike, loaded with
cotton, sugar and molasses, and lying at a
wharf in New Orleans, was burned or
the night of the 10th, together with nearly
the entire cargo. Several persons on the
boat were badly burned. A number o.
missing deck hands are supposed to have
jumped overheard and drowned.
HENRY HoLLENscHEID, a German, six
ty-five years old, was haaged at Herman
Mo-, on the 18th for the murder of hii
son-in-law, Christian Alband, in June last
AT a conference of the united Christian
representatives of Bosnia, on the 18th, i
was unanimously resolved to continue the
conflict with Turkey until every Turk hat
been expelled from the country. An agen
had been appointed to visit the various
capitals and ask the powers to accord bel
ligerent recognition to the Herzegovinians
SEVERAL hundred mechanics and labor
ing men at Montreal, Canada, who have
been recently thrown out of employment
turned out in public demonstration OF
the nth, demanding means of support fol
themselves and families. Some riotoui
doings were INDUCED in, and the police