Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-23
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed from 7,lcanp, d AtsonpnyinGDsles.

OF the priests were wounded, three OF them
tataily...Thc cholera has appeared In The
province ofrOude, India, Mr.. Beecher's
direct examination. was cohclndedy on the
18th, the witness making broad and
emphatic dental Of ever having com
mitted, or proposed.to TO commit the crime
charged against him. Mr.. Fullerton then be.
gan the cross. examination. The condition
OF affairs In the mining regions Of Pennsyl-
vanle ssald to be improving, and II is thought
that the strike is about over The national
Industrial Congress met in Indianapolis on
the 18th, twenty eight delegates being in at
tendance. Katie Hess, a seventeen year
old girl living about eight miles north Of Kir.
by, Ohio, few evenings ago hurried up the
hre In the cook-stove by pouring kerosene oil
upon 1t, when the Inevitable explosion fol.
lowed, and she was so badly burned that she
died In about two hours. The building
and Contents, were entirely. DESTROYED. "a
young mau named Fred Brandenburgh,
aged about eighteen years, was found diving
from starvation and exhaustion under a pile
oflumber, in San francisco, on the morfiinr
OF the 18th. He stated before his death that
he crawlcd under the lumber nine days before
Other lumber was piled around, stopping
his egress. a
TRURsD4y, April 15.-The Turks are
reported TO have murdered nearly 800 Chris
uans in Roumelia and Bulgaria during the
last three months -. The Carlists have lately
surprised Port Aspe, near Santander, and
carried of 200 prisoners and four pieces
OF artillery. ..All the clerks in the Post!
-ofiee Department implicated in the recent
mail contract frauds are said to have
been dismissed by the Postmaster. GEN
eral....A Wilkesbarre tPa.) dispatch
says the miners Of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre
Company, of whom 10000 are idle, are fully
determined not to resume work unless their
demand for an advance Of 10 per cent. Is
granted. Nooutrages have been committed
by these men. Business is badly Frustrated
throughout the valley on account of
the long-continued strike Tho. In
dustrial Congress in session at In.
dianapols has adopted a declaration of prin.
clples, and has also unanimously passed res
olutions coudemning the lockout of the
g men employed In the mining regions of
pennsylvania, "by a combination of six
monster eoal-mining and carrying corpora.
tions, because unwilling TO accept reauc.
tion OF 30 or 40 per cent of tner wages,
for which reduction there is no real justifica
workingmen Throughout the country to for
ward to the treasurer OF the congress as gen
erous financial assistance as their circum
stances win permit, to be applied to the relief
Of victims Of the alleged conspiracy on
the part Of said companies. The Lou. !
isisna' Legislature met at noon on
the l4th, and was, says New Orleans dis |
patch Of that date the most orderly for many
Tho
sworn in. A resolution was adopted in the
House referring the claims of those who are
included in the award to the Committee on
Elections. Both parties seemed to accept the
award without opposition. Gov Kellogg's
message was long aid elaborate
FRIDAY, April 16.-There was a long
and exciting debate in the British House of |
Commons on the 18th over a petition praying |
for the dismissal from the bench of those |
Judges who sat in the Tirhborne trials, on |
the ground of partiality aud corruption, and |
for The Impeachment of the Speaker
oil the House of Commons for SINH |
lar reasons. On motion OF the Premier the |
petition was rejected. .. William j. Sharkey.
the convicted murderer who, some months J
ago, escaped from tho New York Tombs
prison, has been arrested in Cuba, and is In
irons at Havana, awaiting passage TO New York |
THE Postofiice Department in Washington.
is said to be in receipt Of information that
parties who have secured contracts for large |
number Of mail routes in the Western States
are systematically offering to subiet them,
thereby assuming in effect the position of
mail-route brokers. - Owing 10 the ILL., |
ness of Mr.. Fullerton the Beech
er trial was, on the morning of the |
18th, postponed until the 10Th =. The Tooth /
anniversary of the Pennsylvania Society for
the Abolition Of Slavery was held in Phila- |
delphia on the 14th....A foot and a half of |
snow fell throughout New England on the |
14th, obstructing the railroads . The |
Louisiana House of Representatives has
by a vote Of 80 TO 10 accepted the Con-
gressional award according TO the terms OF
the Wheeler compromise as a basis Of set |
tlement, and the members unseated by this |
award have retired. resolution has been |
adopted-S9 as Democrats and "A Repub-
licans) TO Is Q8 Democrats aud 5 Republi |
caDs)-declaring that, without approving the |
Legislature will not disturb the Kellogg
State Government, nor seek to impeach the
Governor for any past official acts, but will
yield him support in enforcing the laws and
maintaining the peace of the State. The
Illinois Legislature has adjourned sine die,
SATURDAY, April 17.-It is reported at
Madrid that the Carlists have seized num-
Der of women and children in the province of
Soria, and threaten to shoot them unless they
are ransomed....A "A party of three per-
sons ascended from Paris in the bal
loon Zenith, on the 10th for the pur-
pose of making scientific observations. The
hal a4t 4
OF over 10000 feet. Two OF the aeronauts
were suflocated to death, and when the bal
loon reached the ground the third was almost
insensble and so severely affected that his
recovery was considered doubtful A second
and successful attempt made in Providence, r.
l., on the 10th TO electa Senatorand nine Rep
resentatives iu the General Assembly re-
suited in a choice of the regular Republican
ticket, supported by the liquor interest, by $50
majority. This probably secures the election
OF Henry Lippitt for Governor and the repeal
of the revolutionary and State Constabulary
law. \ recent Omaha dispatch states that
owing to high water travel has been entirely
suspended on the Union Pacific Railroad be-
tween Laramie City, Wyoming, and Ogden,
UIah. The water is six feet deep in many
places. 1t is impossible TO predict when
travel can be resumed, as the eanons are
still full of snow. The Union Pacific officials
advise travellers for Utah and California not
to start until notice of the blockade being
broken is given. -. The Louisiana House OF
Representatives reorganized on the 10Th by
electing Estele Compromise Conservative
Speaker. The ballet stood sixty,slx for Estelle
8 10 thirty-ive for Wiltz...A recent Are at
Charlotte, N. C., destroyed about 5000 bales
ofcotton, the depots of the North Carolina and
Charlotte, Columbia q Augusta Railroad
Companies and anumber ofpriyate residences.
Loss $250,0O0i about two-thirds insured
MONDAY, April 19I-A serious riot oc-
curred In Glasgow, Scotland, on the 18Th, at
the opening of some pleasure grounds in the