Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-07-21
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

THE Democratic State Convention o
Iowa will be held at Des Moines on th,
30th of August
PRESIDENT GRANT has received lette
of congratulation from the King of Italy
on the occasion of the Centennial celebra
ton
THOMAS SETTLE is the Republican can
didate for Governor of North Carolina
and w. A. Smith for Lieutenant Gov
ernor.
A BAND of 800 Mormons, from Europe
left New York a few days ago for Utah
Some of the men have as many as eigl
wives.
Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil, an,
his party, sailed from New York fey
days ago, for Europe, in the steamship
Russia.
- MRs. WILHELMINI SPECH, who was {
have been hanged at Buffalo, N. Y, o
the 21st, has had her sentence commute
TO Imprisonment for life.
The noted building in New York cit
known as Castle Garden has been destroye,
by fire. 1t has been in use for numbe
of years as an immigrant depot,
The Executive Committee of the n ev
York Liberal Republican State Commit
tee have called State Convention, t
meet at Saratoga on the 23d of August.
DURING the week ending July 10 thcr
were 1893 deaths in New York City, be
ing an increase of 440 over the previou
week. The extreme hot weather was tn
cause of the increase.
ONE of the boilers of the British iron
clad turret-ship Thunderer exploded re
Gently while the vessel was on her tria
trip, and twenty five persons were killet
and about fifty wounded.
OFFICIAL reports received at the Wa
Department in Washington state tha
Gen Clusters body was not mutilated il
the least but that Capt Tom Custer
heart was cut out and carried away.
A MEETING of Gen. Custer's old com
rades was held in Washington few even
ings ago, at which resolutions of respec
were adopted and steps taken for tn,
organization of Custer Monument Asso
citation.
A MAN who arrived at Fort Sully few
days ago from the Black Hills reports tha
certain claims at Dcadwood were payin.
81 600 per day. As high as So, 700 in on,
day had been taken out of some of them
Rich discoveries were continually bein.
made.
THB petition of James Bagley an(
Others TO set aside the will of A. T. Stew
art has been dismissed by the Judge o
the New York Surrogate Court. The dis
missal of the petition does not preven
proceedings TO break the will in othe
courts, aud counsel for the claimants say
they will press the matter.
AT State Convention held in Chicag,
few days ago, the Prohibitionists of Hi
nois nominated State ticket and adopted
the platform of the National Convention
James +. Simpson, of Greene County, il
the candidate for Governor, and A. Y Nc
Cormick, of Adams County, for Lieuten
ant Governor. Electors Large were also
chosen.
A MAN named Haywood Grant, who
was hanged at Rome, Ga, a few days ago
for arson, confessed to having committed
four murders, one of them being the kill
ing of Gen. Hindman, at Helena, Ark, il
the summer of 1869. Gen. Hindman wa!
fired upon through an open window by al
unknown assassin, and the murder has re
mained mystery up to this time,
In their recent circular, Dun, Barlow 4
Cur state that the failures in this countr,
fol the last three months have amounted
y S43, 100000 During the correspond
ing period last year they amounted to
$G3,000, 900. During. the first six month.
of 1915 the failures amounted to $40, 600,
900, and during the past six months they
have reached $107 10000
The two daughters of Mr., and Mrs
Lawn, of Clear Lake, Iowa, were left a
he ne alone few days ago, and whel
getting ready to prepare supper th'
yolnger girl poured kerosene on the fir,
in the stove to hurry up matters. An ex
plosion followed, her clothes were set OF
fire, and she was burned to crisp. He
sister attempted to rescue her from thu
flames, and was herself terribly, anC
pr badly fatally, burned. The girls wer,
aCs,d respectively eight and seventeen
years.
THE first State election to come off vii
be held in Kentucky, for members of the
Legislature and Circuit Judges, on thu
fir, Monday in August. Next will follow
the election in Vermont for State Officers
an members of the General Assembly
OF he first Tuesday in September. Or
the first Wednesday of September will
be held the California election for mem
bers of the General Assembly and of Con
gress. On the second Tuesday of Octo
ber, besides the elections in Ohio and In
diana will he held elections i'm Iowa No