Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-01
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LbtH EASIs
At meeting OF the coal operators in New
York on the 22d the combination was broken
up. This causes great excitement in the
coal region, as 1t is probable that the price
OF coal will decline, and a reduction Of
miners wages will follow. Miners latterly
have been making from one third to one-half
time, and the outlook for winter is gloomy.
The Supreme Lodge of the World, Knights
of Pythias, convened in Independence Hall,
Philadelphia, on the 22d, S. s. Davis, of
Nashua, n. H., presiding. Attn conclusion
of the session there was q fine parade OF
knights of Pythias, fully 1900 men being
in line, comprising delegations from every
State and Territory in the Union and from
the British provinces.
The tannery OF Blake & Higbee, at Wo-
burn, Mass, was burned on the 22d. Loss
$4,000.
The Soldiers Orphans Home at Phillips
burg, Beaver County, Pa, was burned on the
22d. Loss 2O,OOO; partially insured.
The New York State Republican Conven-
ton was held at Saratoga on the sd. John
VI. Francis presided communications from
,ne Liberal Republican Convention, also as
sembled in Saratoga, pledging their support
to Hayes and Wheeler, was accepted, and the
delegates from the Liberal Convention in
yited TO seats in the convention. The reso-
lutons adopted approve Gov. Hayes decla-
ration for civil-service reform; denounce the
action of the Democrats in repeating the
date for resumption; also denounce Con-
gress as false on the currency subject, on the
safety OF the public schools and on civil
service reform, and for the removal of Union
soldiers; deny the claim of credit TO
the Democratic administration for the
reduction of State taxation and recog-
nize the patriotism and public serV-
ices of President Grant The following tick
ct was nominated: Governor, Ex-Gov. E. d.
Morgan; Lieut. Governor, Sherman Rogers;
Judge Of the Court of Appeals, George F.
Danforth; Canal Commissioner, Daniel G.
Spencer; State Prison Inspector Charles A.
Trowbridge; Electors-at-L Large, Abraham
Parker and William II. Seward.
The New York Liberal Republican Conven-
tion, in session at Saratoga on the 23d, in
dsrsed the nomination of f. D. Morgan by
the Republicans, and action on the other
nominations was referred to a special COM
mittce. resolution requesting the dele
gates to take active measures for organizing
Delegates from eighteen counties to the
New York Liberal Republican Conyention at
Saratoga on the 23d held meeting and re-
solved that, as they had been denied admis-
sion to the convention unless they pledged
themselves in advance to support the Re-
publican administration, the convention was
incompetent and unauthorized to act as
Liberal Republicans. A resolution recon.
mending all true Liberals of the country to
support the st. Louis nominees was adopted.
The President and Mrs. Grant visited the
Centennial Exhibition on the 23d.
A conference of delegates elected by the
Methodist Church North and South to effect
a union of these bodies was held at Cape
May on the 2Sd and a satisfactory basis OF
union agreed upon
BY n collision on the Montpelier & Wells
River Railroad, on the oath, between mail
and freight trains, both engines were
wrecked and several passengers injured, one
Mrs, Langley-fatally,
The Prohibition Convention of Connecticut
was held at New Haven on the oath. Reso
lutions were adoptcd-condemning bott
political parties; demanding that the whisky
ring be broken up and that faithful officers
be retained in office. A full State ticket was
nominated, headed by Joseph Cummings
ID. D., late President OF Wesleyan University
for Governor.
s, w Crawford, a quack doctor confined
In the Jail at Berkeley Springs, W. Va, OF
the charge Of poisoning William johnson
was taken therefrom on the night of the 2SC
by body of masked men and hung.
A Philadelphia dispatch Of the oath say
orders have been sent TO nearly all the mine
in the anthracite region to cease work,
Mrs. Paulina Wright Davis, widely know
from her connection with the woman's right
movement, died at Providence, r. L., on tn
gath.
One hundred and fifty masons and stone
cutters sailed from New York for Scotland
on the oath, under contract to work at Green
ock. Taeir wages will be ten pence an hou
for eight hours a day. One hundred an,
fifty more win soon follow.
A grand reception was given to the officer
and crew or the bark Catalpa, which brough
over the escaped Fenians, at New Bedford
Mass, on the evening OF the 18th
The steamer Colon, which sailed for Aspir
wall Aug, II, returned TO New York on tn
26th in disabled condition. BY an aeclden
when three days out her engine was CON