Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-24

The Alabama Senate on the 18th elected
r. w. Cobb President, and the House elect
ed N. N. Clements Speaker. The Governor,
in his message, calls attention to the State
obligations, which have advanced from Goa
70 cents on the dollar in 1874 TO 92093 cents
at present The public schools, he says, are
prosperous and increasing in usefulness.
The tug Bennett went ashore in the straits
Of Mackinaw during the night of the 18th
and on the 14th the Captain, mate, fireman
steward and another man were scalded to
death in a room over the boiler by steam
escaping from the safety-valve.
The Chairman Of the Republican Executive
Committee of Mississippi on the 18th sent
= telegram to Gen. Garfield, at New Orleans
inviting him and his associates of both
parties to visit Mississippi and make an in
vestlgation into frauds and violence there.
There were two yellow-fcver interments al
Savannah on the 18th.
AT Faribault, Mimi, on the 10th, the
Younger brothers and Cole James, the North
field bank robbers, were arraigned in the
District Court on two indictments, the first
charging them with completely in the mur
der OF Haywood, the bank cashier, the see
ond charging Cole directly with the murder
of a Swede, Gustavson, and Jim and Bot
with completely. They asked and were
granted time to plead to the indictments.
DR.. John Dove died at Richmond, Va, on
the 10th, aged eighty-four years. He had
been a Free Mason sixty-three years and was
the Oldest Grand Secretary in the world. He
was Recorder of the Grand Encampment of
Knights Templar thirty years.
In the libel case of John T. Gibson Us. the
Cincinnati Enquirer the jury on the 18th
rendered a verdict for plaintiff; damages
S3,s75.
A San Francisco dispatch says negotiations
have been about concluded between John Il
Lick, the trustees Of the Lick fund, and the
various benefciaries, which will result in an
amicable settlement.
The business portion of Magnolia, N. T.,
was destroyed by fire on the evening of the
18th
Henry Woods, sixteen years of age, has
brought suit against the managers and Su-
perintendent of the 81. Louis House of
Refuge, and the city, for S3O,OOO damages for
alleged cruel treatment while he was con-
fined in the House of Refuge last year. The
petition asserts that the treatment of the
boy was cruel and barbarous and resulted
in making him cripple for life.
Another of the convicted st. Louis "whis-
ky ring" Con Mcguire, was discharged from
prison on the 18th.
A passenger train on the st. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern Railroad was thrown
from the track near Malvern, on the 18th,
and twenty-eight passengers were wounded,
none fatally. The accident was caused by
broken rail.
Terrence Mullen and Jack Hughes, the
persons who attempted to steal the remains
of President Lincoln from the vault at
Springfield, ILL.,, on the night of the 7th,
were arrested in Mullen's saloon in Chicago
on the 18th. The evidence against them is
direct, their confederate being man in the
employ of the United States Secret Service,
who reported their plan before they left Chi
cago for Springfield on the 9Th, and detect
ives were on the same train with them. 1t
was the intention to capture them in the act,
but the explosion of a cap on one Of the de-
tectives' pistols alarmed them and they es-
capped. Their object was to hold the body
for ransom.
During the performance at Moore's Opera
House, Sacramento, Cal, on the night of
the 18th the floor gave way, killing seven
persons and wounding about 1O0-many of
whom will probably die. The house was
crowded at the time Of the accident.
nephew OF the late James Lick, Of San
Francisco, James w. Lick, filed petition on
the Goth, opposing the appointment of John
H. Lick, son of the deceased, as admins
TRAITOR and asking that he be granted letters
of administration. The petition alleges that
James Lick was of unsound mind during the
past three years.