Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-07-23
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TlLEGRApHlc, NEWS.

Work. lie Salu Jne expenses oil the trial
had been to him over $75, 900, and had not
Plymouth Church come to his aid he would
have been financially ruined.
THE great annual University boat-race
came off on Saratoga Lake, N. Y, on the
14th; and was won by the Cornell Univer-
sity boys, of Ithaca, Columbia coming in
second, Harvard third, Dartmouth fourth,
Wesleyan fifth, Yale sixth. Thirteen col
leges participated, Bcwdoin coming in
tenth The distance was three miles;
time of winners 16 :53l 4 minutes. This is
the second victory this year for Cornell,
their Freshmen crew having won in the
race the day before.
A DELEGATION of750 Mormons arrived
at New York on the 14th from Europe, en-
route for Utah, under the charge of agents
appointed by Brigham Young. Between
500 and 600 of them are adults, many of
them young women.
INSTRUCTIONS have been issued, under
orders of the President, that, until the re-
suit of the labor of the Commissioners to
treat with the Indians is known, all parties
of citizens who attempt to go to the Black
| Hills country, on the present Indian reser-
vation, be prevented from going, and that
those who are now there be forcibly ex.
PEELED. Gen. Sheridan has ordered Gen.
Crook to take the necessary steps to en-,
force these instructions.
DISPATCHES from London on the 18th
state that heavy rains had occurred in
various portions of England and Wales,
causing destructive floods. The river
| Ogmorc, in Wales, had overfowed its
banks, inundating the town of Brigend,
drowning several persons and much live
stock. At Concarvan a reserve pond for
supplying the Monmouthshire Canal had
burst its banks, entirely destroying
factory and several dwellings, and drown
ing thirteen persons.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the 10Th
of the failure of Lambert Brothers & Scott
of London, with 81, 100000 liabilities.
THE Russian city of Morschansk was
recently destroyed. Over 200 lives were
lost and more than 1000 were seriously
burned. 1t was thought that over 900
buildings had been destroyed.
THE Suffrage Committee in the Con
necticut Legislature have vereported In favor
of allowing women to vote in Presidential
elections.
THE National Division of the Sons of
Temperance, recently in session at Provi-
dence, r. l., voted by States on the propo-
sition to authorize colored divisions, and
it was rejected.
INDICTMENTS were presented by the
Kings County IN. " Grand Jury on the
10th against Joseph Loeder and John J.
Price, charged with having sworn falsely
against the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
and Mrs. Elizabeth r. Tilton
A DIsPA ATcH from Beaver, Utah, on the
14th says John ID. Lee had turned States
evidence, and would be witness for the
prosecution, and make a full statement OF
all he knows of the Mountain Meadow
massacre. 1t is said he has taken this
course because he believed he was sacri-
feed to appease the wrath of the Govern
ment and shield more guilty parties by
perjury, if necessary. The trial had been
set for the 10Th.
THE amount of coin and bullion in the
Bank of England on the 18th was greater
than ever before.
THE provinces of Valencia and Castellon
were reported free from Carlist troops on
the 10th. The insurrection was confined
to the mountains of Navarro and the
Basque and Catalonian provinces.
The first sample of new wheat was ex-
hibited on Change in New York city on
the 10Th.
LoEDER, indicted for perjury in connec-
ton with the Tilton- Beecher case, was ar
raigned in the Brooklyn court on the 10th,
and pleaded mot guilty" Price was not
arraigncd
PRoF. DONALDSON, the daring aeronaut,
who has been travelling in company with
Barnum's Hippodrome and making bal
loon ascensions after the conclusion of the
afternoon performances, made his second
trip from Chicago on the 10Th, accom-
> panied by Mr.. Newton S. Grimwood, a
reporter of the Chicago Journal. After
ascending into the air the balloon
took northeasterly course, sailing over
, the lake in the direction of Muskegon,
Mich. About seven O'Clock in the evening
2 it was sighted by a schooner about thirty
miles northeast of Chicago, at which time
, , the balloon was skimming the surface OF
the lake. The schooner followed after II
until it was observed to rise sud
\ denly into the air, when the chase
0 was given up. A very severe gale
5 occurred on the lake about midnight
: and as no further tidings had beer
: received in Chicago from the balloon ol
its occupants up to the morning of the
Z 18th, grave apprehensions were felt fol
. their safety 1t was the opinion of eX
, perts that the balloon could not possibly
: have reached the Michigan shore befor'
the storm burst upon it, and that the aero
i nauts perished in the lake. 1t is said by
some that the balloon was a rotten, patched
e up affair.
/ A LONDON dispatch of the 18th an
c nounces the death of Lady Franklin, widow
. of Sir John Franklin.
}, A MEETING, attended by over 1900
d people, was held in Hyde Park, London
. on the evening of the 18th, to protes
against the grant of e15O,OOO TO the Prime
!, of Wales for his Indian journey h,.l
Il ENnIELNE, one of Brigham Young
e wives, died on the nth,
MRs. HENRY PEDEN, of indianapolis
n n Ind, used kerosene oil to kindle a fire
r on the nth, and was fatally burned.
n UP TO the morning of the 10Th no def
mite tidings had been received in Chicag
a a from the missing Oeronauts, Messri
% Donaldson and Grimwood A vessel Cal
\. tain reports having seen something loatin
d in the water which had the appearace {
3, being life-preserver and a basket, and al
a. other Captain thinks he saw the body of