Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHlC NEWS.

DEhION w bbl HAS duuItnbtu u ltlltI W
the members of Brooklyn Plymouth
Church, requesting them TO join with him
in calling mutual council to investigate
the charges against Mr.. Beecber,
MEssRs. ScH1ITz AND BERGENTHAL, dis.
tillers Of Milwaukee, Wis, convicted of
shipping crooked whisky without record,
as required by law, have been sentenced
to pay fine of 81 900 each and to be i'm.
prisoned in the County Jail for four
months.
A. L. WILSON, Of Louisville, KY, has
been appointed by Secretary Bristow to be
Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department,
to fill the vacancy created by the resigna-
ton of Avery.
THE Bank of America, of New Or.
leans, has suspended.
THE Supreme Court of Wisconsin has
recently reiterated a former decision that
the agent of an insurance company, au-
| thoriZed to take risks and issue policies
against fire, may waive by parol condi-
tion in a policy issued by him.
IT is stated that the recent accident on
the New York Central Railroad, near
Buffalo, was caused by the carelessness of
a flagman, VIII. Signaled the freight train
to "come on" when the express train was
already past due on the same track.
The schooner j. G. Jenkins foundered
in Lake Ontario, near Oswego, few days
ago, and all persons on board, nine in
number, were lost.
A MAN in New York city, named Patrick
Toney, few nights ago saturated the
clothing of his wife with kerosene oil, ,
and then set it on fire. She was terribly
and probably fatally burned.
Hon. IRA HARRIS, formerly United
States Senator from New York, died re-
Gently at Albany, aged seventy-three
years. He was elected to the Senate in
1861 and served one term.
THE German Federal Council have re-
Gently adopted a resolution appropriating
100, 900 marks to the sum previously al
lotted to facilitate the display of German
products at the Philadelphia Centennial.
CHIEF-JUsTIcE WAITE, in a private
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opinion that the position he holds should
be bar to any aspirations for the Presi-
dency. He says the Constitution might
wisely have prohibited the election of a
ChiefJustice to the office of President of
the United States.
A BERLIN dispatch of the Cd says that
Turkey had energetically protested to
Montenegro against the Montenegrins
taking part in the Herzegovinian affair,
and that the great powers had unanimous
ly indorsed that protest.
IT was reported at Vienna on the I'd
that Gen. Kaufman had demanded of Rus
sia reinforcement of $4,000 men, with
artillery, or otherwise he would not be
able to relieve the garrison at Khokand,
his entire force being required to guard
the frontier.
AMONG several failures which were re-
ported in London on the 2d was that of
BruggIote Bros, stock and share brokers,
whose liabilities reached $350,OO0.
IL letter to President Grant, dated the
I'd inst, Gen. Babcock demands court
of inquiry and an immediate investiga-
tion of the accusation that he was men,
Der of the St. Louis whisky ring.
THE anniversary of The Methodist Freed
mems Aid Society was held a, Washing
ton on the evening of the 2d, There was
a large attendance.
THE first fast evening mail-train be-
tween New York city and ST. Louis left
the former city on the evening of the 1st.
JOHN W. BINGHAM, one of the principal
parties charged with whisky frauds at
Evansville, Ind, was before the court at
Indianapolis on the I'd, and withdrew a
former plea of not guilty to five separate
indictments pending against him, and en-
tered plea of guilty. Several other
members of the Evansville whisky ring
HAD previously confessed their guilt.
THERE was report at Vienna on the
Sd to the effect that the Princes of Abys-
sinia had appealed through American
missionaries to the United States to pro-
tcct them against Mohammedan inva-
sion.
Two OF the defendants in the Milwau-
kee whisky suits-Tah and Weimer-
were found guilty on the Sd. Louis
Rindskopf was sent to Jail for contempt
of court in refusing to answer questions as
to payments to ring officials disclosed by
his check-stubs. In the Avery trial at St
Louis the jury brought in a verdict on thC
Sd finding the defendant not guilty on the
first, second and fourth counts of the in
dictment, but guilty on the third count,
He was taken to Jail.
A SECOND letter from Mrs. Moulton tc
Plymouth Church was published in New
York city on the Sd, inwhich she emphat
ically relterates her charges against Mr.
Beecher, and declares that the church ha(
acted unjustly toward her. She specifies
the questions she wishes to be submitted
to the council of churches to determin,
whether her past conduct has been propel
and justifable and the action of thu
church in dropping her name in so sum
mary a manner in accordance with justice
and fairness toward her. At a business
meeting of Plymouth Church, on thu
evening of the Sd, Deacon Vests letter t.
the church was laid ON the table, and res
olutions were introduced declaring tn,
publication of such letters by their au
thors in advance of, their actual presenta
tion to the church in meeting as
sembled as a fagrant and presump
lively intentional insult; that tn,
contents of the West letter, ii unexplained
by him, constitute an aggravation of hi
acknowledged oflense in publishing it il
advance of its presentation to the church
and instructing the Examining Commit
J tee to summon Mr.. West before them TO
a satisfactory explanation OF his conduct
! or full and ample apology therefor
4 Mr.. Beecher said he heartily approved o
the resolutions, and declared that tn
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