Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-02-04
EPIT0ME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIc NEWS.


mated TO MIR. Orth, the United States Min.
lister, its desire to have copy of Secre.
tary Fish's nete to Mr. Cushing. Mr..
Orth telegraphed the fact to Washington
and asked for instructions. The American
Government declined TO allow copy to
be given.
IT was announced at Berlin on the Goth
that the insurgent leaders in Herzego.
vina had rejected all proposals for peace,
and declared their intention TO vigorously
prosecute the war against Turkey.
AT Charlestown, W. Va, on the 25th,
two men named Dawson and Estep, in
Jail for the murder of man named Lee,
were hanged by mob. After they were
taken from the Jail, another prisoner
named Hines, who had killed colored
man named Dooley, was demanded by,
and given up 10, a number of colored
citizens, who proceeded with him to the
woods and there lynched him by hang
ing.
A. G. HEsING and Jacob Rehm were
among the parties indicted by the Grand
Jury of the United States District Court
in Chicago on the Goth for conspiracy in
connection with whisky frauds.
A GALVESTON (Texas) dispatch of the
26th says revolution had been started in
the northern and central portions of Mex
leo, near the Rio Grande, and that Gen.
Hererra had pronounced for the move
ment, and surprised the authorities at
Parras.
TIE Kansas Republican State Conven-
tion to select delegates to the National
Convention is to be held at Topeka on the
Gath of May.
Two workmen in factory at North
Adams, Mass, we're blown TO pieces on
the 26th by an explosion of nitro -gly-
cerine.
In recent financial article the London
Times declares that the direct cable has re-
peatedly been cut by malicious parties,
and that the knowledge of this lawless-
ness has been used for stock -jobbing pur-
poses.
REV. JOHN RUSSELL of Detroit, Secre.
tary of the National Committee of the
Prohibitionists, has issued call for a
convention to be held at Cleveland, May
II, for the nomination of President and
Vice President of the United States, every
State being entitled to two delegates for
every member it sends to Congress.
A RECENT Vienna special says commit
tees had been formed in seven Servian
cities, including Belgrade, having for
their avowed object the dethronement of
Prince Milan
The Bavarian Minister of War has been
stringently admonished from Berlin to
discontinue the exemption from conscrip.
ticn hitherto accorded TO priests and theo-
logical students.
THE London Daily NeDs of the 9th
states that writs had been served on Gen.
Schenck, the American Minister, Albert
Grant and others known as the promoters
of the Emma Mining Company.
THE National Woman's Suffrage Asso.
citation assembled in annual convention al
| Washington on the 9th, Mrs. NJ. j. Gage
presiding. The proceedings were opened
with prayer by Rev. Olympia Brown.
Fred Douglass made speech in favor of
woman suffrage.
A NUMBER of the parties indicted in
Milwaukee for whisky frauds plead guilty
on the Goth, having withdrawn their form
er pleas of not guilty.
Senator Patterson, of South Carolina
was advised on the 26th that the Secretary
of State had issued certificates to Moses
and Whipper as Circuit Judges of that
State, and that the latter would be sworn
in under this certificate at the proper time
These are the two men whom Gov
Chamberlain declined to commission after
their election by the State Legislature.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 2Sth say:
there was great agitation in Posen ovel
the proposed law to make the German Ian
guage compulsory in the public offices
and the courts of law, and disturbances
were feared.
THE official Turkish account of the re
cent engagement on the road between Ire
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numbering from 1000 10 1O,0 600 men, wer'
defeated by about 5000 Turks, after a five
hours battle.
IT was believed at Springfield, Mass.
on the 2Sth, that the whole amount o.
losses by the Northampton bank robbery
would prove TO be over 81 900, 900, nearly
one-half of which is negotiable.
Four men, former employees of til,
Lake Shore Railroad, whose names ar,
given as L. H. Hartwell, Charles and H
Dwight and William Emery, alias $50
phus," boarded the express train, east
ward bound, on the Lake Shore RoaC
near Toledo, Ohio, on the night of tn,
Goth, with the intention of robbing tn
United States Express COmpany's safe o
its money packages. The would-be rob
bers were captured while in the very &c
by Toledo police officers and Unite,
States detectives, who, getting wind q
their intention, were ON board ready 70
them. They were taken to TOlc 10 an,
lodged in Jail on the morning of the 9th
The express messenger had in his charg
in the car 1915, 900 in currency and $125
900 in bullion.
IT was reported at Madrid on the got
ult. that the Carlists had suspended tn
bombardment of San Sebastian and n
moved their siege artillery. The Spanis
Bishops had ordered that the bodies of a
persons who died prior to Feb, o, 1877
and who were only married civilly, be e,
humed and removed from the consecrate
burial places.
ACCORDING to RagIsa dispatch of tn
Goth ult., the insurgents were in full r,
treat, pursued by the Turkish troops
They had burned nine villages.
A VITToRIA (Spain) special of the 30t
ult. announces the capture of Aregria b
Gen. Quesada.
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