Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-31
EPIToME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEeRAPHIC NEWS.


unanimously rejected the Sultans firman,
proposing sundry reforms, as unworthy of
confidence. They had foimed sort Of
provisional government,
The British training-ship Goliath was
burned at Gravesend on the morning of
the god. Twenty boys we're thought to
have perished.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 22d
pronounces erroneous a report that Secre-
tary Bristow had ordered to be paid to the
Union Pacific Railway Company the sum
adjudged due by the Supreme Court.
In South Boston, on the god, large gas.
main running under Federal street ex-
ploded with loud report, tearing up the
pavement for a long distance. The street
was tlTonged with people at the time, and
many were buried under the debris. A
grain house was badly shattered and the
foreman instantly killed. A number of
persons were blown into the water and
drowned. The number of victims as far
as ascertained up TO the morning of the
23d was as follows: Killed, 90; fatally
injured, A. seriously hurt, o; slightly, 8.
Seven persons were still missing and were
supposed to have been blown into the
water
THE Bank of Brandywine, at West
Chester, Pa, made assignments, on the
22d, for the benefit of its creditors. 1t
was thought depositors would be paid in
full.
A SEVERE earthquake shock was felt in
Richmond, Va, on the night of the 22d.
The guests at the different hotels were so
alarmed from the rocking of the build
ings as to assemble in the parlors en- des.
ha6ilIe, ready to leave. The alarm was
general, the shock being felt in all parts
of the city, and citizens leaving their
domiciles in fright.
A SUIT in the Circuit Court at ST. Louis
against the Missouri State Lottery, man.
aged by Murray, Miller & Co., charging
them with usurpation of their franchise
and praying for judgment of custer, was
decided on the 22d against the defendants
An appeal was taken to the Supreme
Court.
THE Commercial Loan Company and
Savings Bank of Chicago suspended on
the 21st. 1t was stated that depositors
would realize about eighty cents on the
dollar of their claims.
AN advance in railroad freights over
the different routes between the East and
West has been recently established.
CHEN LANG PIN and Yung Heng are
the names of the recently-appointed Min
listers from China to the United States.
A RECENT Washington dispatch says
the Granger cases, involving the question
of the right of States to regulate the car
rying rates of railroads, will be further
argued before the Supreme Court ON the
11th of January.
A VIENNA dispatch of the 23d says
thirty-six Turks had recently been ar
rested for conspiracy to murder some of
the Christian subjects of Turkey. 1t was
reported that the Prince of Montenegro
had negotiated loan of 81 ,000,0 900 and
Herzegovinians.
NEWS was received at ST. Petersburg on
the 23d, Of the complete suppression of the
Khokand rebellion. The neighboring re-
bellious tribes had also been defeated with
very great loss.
A HAVANA telegram of the 23d says a
report was current in that city that VIM.
NJ. Tweed had arrived there on a schooner,
and had been seen by several New
Workers in that city, who had known him
by sight.
SAN Francisco dispatches of the 23d
state that news had been received there
from San Diego that a revolution was in
progress in Northern Mexico. The Yagul
Indians were in revolt, and Gov. Pesquiers
had levied a special tax to carry on the
war.
IT was thought in Boston on the 23d
that the number oflives lost by the gas
explosion would be reduced to five, as
several persons who were reported miss.
ing had appeared all safe. One or two Of
the injured would probably die.
UNDER instructions from Judge Knight
of the Circuit Court, Chief of Police Nc
Donough, of st. Louis, notified the man
ayers of the Missouri State Lottery tina
no further selling of tickets or drawing,
would be permitted after the 23d.
A TELEGRAM from Cairo, Egypt, on tht
oath states that an expedition consisting
of Il, 900 men would start for Abyssinii
at once. 1t would be accompanied by
every American officer in the Khedive'
service.
A BERLIN dispatch of the Goth says tn,
leading American residents of that cit,
had called a meeting for the purpose o
protesting against the structures of tn,
German press on American character il
their comments on the Bremen. Havel
, plot,
| THE royal palace at Barcelona, Spain
was almost entirely destroyed by fire ol
the 26th.
ACCORDING to a Washington dispatcl
of the 26tll it appears from official col
respondence that the Mexican Secretar
of Foreign Affairs had stated, in reply +
request of our Minister to Mexico TO
permission for regular United State
troops to follow raiders across the border
that the Mexican Executive had no au
thority to grant such request without tn
: consent of Congress. Minister Foste
said in reply that the acknowledgment b.
the Mexican Government of its inabilit
to restrain the lawlessness of its own citi
! zens would afford the strongest possibl
argument to all advocates of the gcquisi
ton of territory there may be in til
, /, United States. Mr.. Foster further sal
that the citizens of Texas must be pre-
, tected, and if protection did not com
T, from the Mexican Government it mus
come from ours.
EIGHT lawyers of Franklin, La, fey
days ago handed to Judge Mentz, of tn
= st. Mary's Parish Court, a document
: signed by themselves, requesting him t
q ocs al ~ /.