Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-05-26
EPIToME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEeRAPHIc NEWS.

18th, their efforts to obtain pardons or
mitigation of their sentences having
proved unavailing. Mckee paid his fine
of $4,000.
THE National Prohibition Convention
was held in Cleveland, Ohio, on the nth.
Gen. Greene Clay Smith, of Kentucky,
was nominated for President of the United
States, and G.. T. Stewart, of Ohio, for
VicePresident. The resolutions reaffirm
the prohibition plank of the platform of
1872, and declare in favor Of equal SUI
frage and eligibility to office, without dis
tinction OF race, religion, creed, property
or sex.
A DISPATCH from Fort Laramie, Wy.
r., on the 18th, says the Indian war, for
years predicted, had actually begun. For
months numbering of white men had been
confined to the Black Killers, but recent
ly United States mail-carrier, en- route
to Camp Robinson and Red Cloud Agency,
had been killed, scalped and fearfully mu-
tilated.
THE Iowa Democratic State Convention
was held at Des Moines on the nth, about
800 delegates being in attendance. Dele
gates to the National Convention at ST.
Louis were chosen, and were instructed
only to vote as a unit. They are said to
be mostly for Tilden. The resolutions de-
r1and tina. the National Convention select
for standard bearers men, whose lives,
private and official, are guarantee of
their ability to carry on the work of re-
form made necessary by the crimes and
corruption Of the Republican party; favor
an early return to specie payments, but
deprecate the forced resumption contem-
plated by the "Sherman Resumption act
OF 1875" and demand its repeal, on the
ground that it has had and is now having
blighting effect on industry.
THE Democratic State Convention of
Ohio assembled at Cincinnati on the 18th.
Hon. George H. Pendleton was chosen
permanent President. The following
nominations were made: For Secretary
of State, William Bell; Judge of Su-
preme Court, William E. Finch Member
of the Board of Public Works, H. p.
Clough; Electors at Large, Judge Will
lam Lang and Granville Stokes. The
financial resolutions of the platform
adopted declare in favor of the immediate
and unconditional repeal of the Specie
Resumption act; the defeat of all schemes
for resumption which involve either
contraction of the currency, perpetuation
Il f,a Of ba ,,4a
burden Of the debt; the gradual but early
substitution of legal tenders for National
Bank notes; the issue by the General Gov
ernment alone of all the circulating
medium, whether paper or metallic. The
Delegates-at-Large to the St. Louis Con-
vention are requested to favor the nomi-
nation of ex-Gov. Allen for President
THE expedition against Sitting Bull
the bad" left Fort Lincoln ON the 18th,
under command of Gen. Terry.
A MEETING of Plymouth Church
(Brooklyn) was held on the evening of the
18th, and resolution expelling Henry c.
Bowen was offered, when Clarence Bowen
handed in protest of his father against
SuCl aSblOh OSihS NohNh Wy ShulCu. II
was read, and vots was then taken on
the resolution, which was carried unani-
mously.
A BOILER explosion occurred on the
steamer Pat Cleburne on the night Of the
nth, about six miles below Shawneetown,
ILL.,, and the vessel was burned. Five
persons including the Captain (Fowler),
an express agent named Dick Partridge,
and Charles Cotton, the second mate, lost
their lives, and several of the passengers
and crew were seriously injured.
THE National Independent Convention,
in session at indianapolis on the 18th,
adopted a platform and nominated the
following ticket: For President, Peter
Cooper, of New York; for Vice. Presi-
dent, Newton Booth, of California. A
New York dispatch states that Mr.. Cooper
had said he would decline the nomination,
and that he hoped William Allen would
be nominated and elected.
THE Kentucky Republican State Con-
vention was held 1t Louisville on the 18th.
Delegates to the National Convention
were elected, and al esolution was passed
strongly recommending the nomination
for the Presidency of Secretary Bristow.
Resolutions were also adopted in favor of
speedy return to specie payment, and in
opposition to any postponement of the
time fixed in the present Specie Resump-
ton law.
AccOpDrNyo to a Naxp Orlaopo disnatcb
read in the United States Senate by Mr..
Morton, on the 18th, from the private
secretary of Gov, Kellogg (who was then
in Washington fugitives from the scene
of the recent troubles near the Mississippi
and Louisiana line had reached New
Orleans, and the details Of the outbreak
were horrible; six white men and sixty
negroes had been killed. An Associated
Press dispatch from New Orleans on the
18th says the reports of the trouble had
been greatly exaggerated. One white
man and two negroes killed and several
negroes wounded covered the casualties
as far as known. The military declined
to interfere.
ACCORDING to Paris special to the
London Telegraph Of the 10th, the Mussul-
man inhabitants Of Piedor, in Bosnia, had
attacked the Christian quarter of the towp
and massacred 100 women and children.
II was expected that the widows of the
murdered French and English Consuls al
Salonica would receive $500, 900 each in.
demnity from the Turkish Government
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 10Th
says the House Committee on Foreign AT
fairs had not yet finally acted on the re-
port of the subcommittee affecting Gen
Schenck, but the members were agreed
that, while he was not himself
guilty of intentional wrong, he
was a party with others in spec
ulative enterprise which resulted in great
loss to British subjects, and that his be
coming a Director in the Emma Mine
Company was altogether improper and in,
compatible with his position as American