Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-03-17
EPIToME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEeRAPHIC NEWS.

A HORRIBLE accident occurred on the
Harper's Ferry branch of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad, about sixty miles from
Baltimore, on the night of the 9th, which
caused the death of eleven persons and
the manning of many others. A way
freight with a passenger car attached was
on its way north, and when crossing the
bridge over the Shenandoah Valley, at a
narrow passage, the structure gave way,
the whole train rushing into the river be-
low. The bridge was 132 feet high and
about 200 feet long.
THE Berlin Ecclesiastical Court has de-
posed the Bishop of Munster for violation
of the German Ecclesiastical law.
GEN. BELKNAP was formally arrested
on the 9Th, and taken before the Wash
ington Police Court, where he waived
examination and gave bail in the sum
of $25, 900 to appear for trial when
wanted.
A SEVERE battle has recently been
fought between the Turks and the Herze-
govinian insurgents, at Metrovizza. The
latter were altogether successful, the
Turks losing 1000 killed and many
wounded, as well as all their artillery and
provision trains. The Herzegovinian loss
was insignificant,
AT State Convention held on the 9th
the Independents of Connecticut nomi-
mated: For Governor, Charles Atwater; I;
Lieutenant Governor, Francis Gillette;
Secretary of State, Lucien " Penny;
Treasurer, Loren +. Judd; Comptroller,
John Ii. Peck. The resolutions adopted
demand the unconditional repeal of the
Resumption law, the practical abolition
of the National Bank system, the receipt
of greenbacks for customs, and the issue
of bonds interconvertible with green
backs, and bearing a rate Of interest suf-
ficiently low to keep them, and conse-
quently greenbacks, at par with gold.
GREAT excitement prevailed in Brussels
on the 10th, over the discovery of an ex-
tensive defalcation in the National Bank
there. One of the clerks had embezzled
5000, 900 francs, but was arrested On the
eve of leaving for the United States.
THE village of Hazel Green, Wis, was
visited by tremendous tornado on the
afternoon of the 10th. Twenty five build
ings were leveled TO the ground, and eight
persons were killed outright. Several
were severely injured.
A LANDSLIDE, caused by heavy rains,
at Coalcant, in Northern Germany, on the
night of the 10th, buried eight houses and
twenty-six persons.
Much damage was done in the British
isles by violent storm on the 18th.
A BUDA-PEsTH telegram of the 18th an.
nounces the continuance of the great in
undation. Between the 7th and the 9th,
in five small townships 521 houses had
been carried away.
WASHINGTON Associated Press tele-
grams of the 18th state that it would be
several days before the judiciary Com
mittee would be prepared to report arti-
cles of impeachment against ex-Secretary
Belknap. No material testimony had
been taken since that of Marsh. Six or
seven persons in the vicinity of Marsh &
Evans late trading post had been sum-
moned to testify. A member of the Ju
dietary Committee had said that proof,
independent of that of Marsh, could be
procured to support the charges against
the ex.SecretAry. The District Attor-
ney had stated that the evidence pre-
sented so far to the Grand Jury
was insufficient to warrant it in
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more than probable that, unless Marsh
could be brought back to testify, it would
be impossible to punish Belknap through
the medium of criminal prosecution.
A VERY severe storm visited Elizabeth
town, Mo-. on the evening of the 10th,
and prostrated some seventeen houses,
killed five persons and severely wounded
several others, some probably fatally. At
Hassard, three dwellings and the railroad
depot were blown down and three persons
killed. At California and other points in
the State much damage was done to prop
erty.
AN Alexandria (EgypD telegram of the
18th says that on the preceding Wednes-
day the Abyssians had attacked the
Egyptian army. The fighting continued
until the next day, when the Abyssinians
were driven off, leaving King Kassa, the
Grand Vizier, six chiefs and 5000 war
riors dead in the trenchesImThe Egyptian
loss was heavy, but the&tory was COM
plete.
On the morning of the 18th the boiler of
a locomotive exploded at the Union De-
pot, in indianapolis, and was completely
wrecked, at the same time demolishing
another engine standing on an adjoining
track. The engineer of the latter was in
stantly killed, and the fireman severely in
jured. The engineer and fireman of the
former were on their engine at the time,
but were not injured. The engineer was
thrown twenty feet from the engine into
the street The whole west end wall Of
the depot and ten or fifteen feet Of the
roof were completely demolished.
A GOOD deal of excitement and curios-
ity has recently been caused in Bath
County, Ky, by the fall from the sky of
considerable quantity of what had the
appearance of being flesh, in pieces rang
ing from about the size of a pea to that
of human finger. Specimens were sub
mitted to a scientist of Louisville, who
concluded that they were probably the
dried spawn of Batrachian reptiles, doubt
less that of the frog. He thinks they had
been transported from ponds and swampy
grounds by currents of wind, and had
ultimately fallen on the spot where they
were found.
FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.