Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-11-05
EPTToME OF THE WEEK
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHlC NEWS.

business and thicklysettled portion of the
city was laid waste, all the hotels, church.
es, newspaper offices, public buildings,
telegraph and express offices, stores and
business places and large number of
dwellings being burned. Ten thousand
people were rendered homeless.
A COLUMBUS dispatch of the 26th gives
the vote for Governor and Lieutenant
&c vernon at the recent election in Ohio as
follows: For Governor: Hayes, 297, ,s13 (;
Allen, 202,264; Odell (Probibitionis0,
2,597. Hayes plurality, 5,540; majority,
1859. Lieutenant Governor: Young,
297931; Cary, 2s7,06s; Thompson, $780,
Young's plurality, 9,063; majority, $685.
THE news received on the 26th from the
recent election in Oregon indicated the
election of Lane Dem.) TO Congress by
about / 200 majority.
A RECENT New York dispatch gives a
rumor current in that city that the mem
bers of the secret order of United Irish
men Redivivi of New York had held a
secret meeting at which Thomas Nc
Geaghan, accused of betraying the secrets
of the order, was tried convicted and
sentenced to die the death of traitor.
A YOUNG daughter of r. A. Hotchkiss,
of Burbank, Dakota, was SO badly burned
a few days ago by the explosion of a kero-
sene lamp that she died shortly after.
THE statue to Stonewall Jackson, pre-
sented to Virginia by a number of En-
tod
at Richmond on the Goth. Fifty thousand
strangers were in the city on the occasion,
and the demonstrations are said to have
been very grand and imposing.
OFFICIAL returns give the following
figures for the Gubernatorial tickets at the
late election in California;: Irwin, Dem
ocrat, 81 500; Phelps, Republican, 81 1922 /;
Bidwell, Independent, 29,752; Lovett,
Temperance, 356. Irwin's majority over
Phelps is 80, 1877, and 10 over all.
THE German Parliament assembled on
the 27th. A speech from the Emperor
was read by the Secretary of State. 4
Berlin special of the same date says a
council Of physicians, acting in behalf of
the Supreme Court, had decided that
Count Won Arnim was unable to bear the
term of Imprisonment to which he had
been sentenced.
QUITE severe earthquake shock was
felt at Memphis, Tenn, and vicinity on
the evening of the 27th.
THREE of the participants in the late
murder of the four Italians in Denver were
arrested on the 27th. One of them, an
Italian, confesses to having played his
harp while five others cut the throats OF
their victims.
THE total damage by the fire in Virginia
City was estimated on the 27th at from
$4,000, 900 to $7,000,000. Two men were
killed by a falling wall. Unless immedi-
ate relief was received the suffering of the
homeless and destitute would be intense.
The school-houses, the only public build
ings which escaped the flames, had been
converted into temporary lodging houses,
but they did not afford shelter for half Of
those whose homes were destroyed. Bread
was scarce, but liquor was plenty, and the
streets were alive with drunken mob
The military were protecting the property
of the city.
PRESIDENT GRANT has issued his proc.
lamation designating Thursday, Nov. %
as day of thanksgiving and prayer
throughout the United States.
DIR. LINDERMAN, Director of the United
States Mint, states that the conflagration
at Virginia City will result in decrease
of 81 900, 600 per month of gold bullion
and of $1,000, 900 per month of silver
at that place for the next four months.
JOHN DoLAN has been convicted of the
murder of James H. Noe, in New York
city, and sentenced to be hanged on the
10th of December.
A RECENT London telegram says tha
up 10 Oct. 16 there had been over 100000
cases of cattle plague in England anC
Wales.
A REPORT had reached Boston on thu
2Sth that two ships-the Jewess and the
Della NJ. Long-which sailed from tha
city year ago last February, and had no
J been heard from for q long time, and al
English craft, name unknown, had been
boarded by the savage inhabitants of tina
locality and the crews-thirty in numbe
were captured and taken ashore ant
eaten by the cannibals, only one man es
Gaping to tell the tale. The survivor wa
I. one OF the crew of the Jewess, who tol,
the story to a Biddeford (Me.) Captain
who had come across him at foreigl
2 port.
BENJAMIN BoYD and wife, arrested a
r Fulton, Ill, by United States officers, on
e charge of counterfeiting, were brought be
, fore Commissioner Hoyne at Chicago o
0 the 27th, and, waving examination, wer
/. held for trial in bail of $4,000 for tn
; man and $4,000 for the woman. Th
q briggs party, arrested at Centralia on
e similar charge, were taken to Springfield
and committed to Jail in default of bal
ranging up to 10000, to await the actio
c Of the United States Grand Jury.
IT was rumored at Madrid on the 2St
q that the Carlist Gen. Dorregaray had bee
shot, by order of Don Carlos.
Q A VIRGINIA CRY telegram of the 29t
Il says the mines in that place were all righ
g there being no fires in the workings. I'll
% damage done to the Ophir shaft was lin
y tied to a few feet at thetop. The rebuilt,
20 ing of the mining mills and machinel
70 would be begun at once A number
n firms in the city had resumed busines
DO Relief was being daily forwarded fro
. . San Francisco and other localities.
: 1T was reported in Vienna on the 99t
II ult. that the Turks had murdered six
Il Christians in Bihacza, a fortified town ne
the Dalmatian frontier.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the 20
lS ult of the failure of DIR. Strousberg, car
o. talist, financier and railroad contractor,
=, Vienna, with liabilities amounting
:" %, 900, 900 guilden.