Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-08-25

States at a meeting at New York on the 10th,
agreed 70 advance prices 25 per cent on all
classes OF goods
The business portion Of the town Of West
port, N. Y, was destroyed by fire on the
night Of the 18th. Loss $4,000.
The passenger train on the Lake Shore
Railroad which left Cleveland at 1920 on the
night OF the 18th was thrown from the track
near North East, Pa, by the displacement of
rail. The train was running at the rate
OF forty-hve miles an hour and plunged down
an embankment thirty feet high. Fortu-
nately no one was killed. w. II. Clemens,
of Cleveland, had both legs broken, and will
probably die.
The birthday of the Emperor OF Austria
was celebrated in the Austrian section OF the
main Centennial building on the 18TH.
The Connecticut Peace Society has adopted
resolutions opposing the return Of the In
dian Bureau to the War Department; de-
nouncing the invasion of the Black Hills;
charging that the Indian war was forced
upon the Indians to prevent reduction in
the army; demanding an investigation Of
many enumerated outrages by the military
on the Indians; declaring that Gen. Clusters
death was a just rctribution for the slaughter
Of friendly Indians; urging universal am
nesty to ex-Confederates and the removal of
the army from the Indian country
The failure of Hon. Josiah Quincy, at
Boston, is announced.
The whaling bark Catalpa arrived at New
York on the 10Th from New South Wales
with the Fenian prisoners who escaped from
that country some time since. They were
nearly four months on the voyage and had
been on short allowance for two months.
All were in good health and spirits, but ship
worn. The names of the men are: Michael
Harrington, Thomas Darragh, James Will
son, Robert Cranston, Thomas II. Hassett,
John ]. Weslin, alias johnson, John King,
alias Jones, and Thomas Brennan, alias Hall.
Hundreds of prominent Irish patriots called
on them at O'Donovan Rossas Hotel during
the day. The Catalpa partly owned by the
Fenian Brotherhood.
Patrick Butler, one of the Molly Magures
on trial at Pottsville, Pa, for the murder of
James, on the 10Th turned States evidence.
His evidence duplicates all the Mollies now
under arrest, and their conviction is assured,
1t is thought.
A colossal statue of the late VIM. H. Sew
ard was on the 10Th placed on the pedestal
erected for It in Madison Square, New York.
| 1t will be unveiled about the first of Septem-
Der. Its cost is $4,000
| An attempt was made on the night OF the
10Th to wreck the st. Louis express train a
few miles east of Rochester, n Y, near Lin
coin Greek bridge. The embankment at that
! place is seventy-fve feet high and a rail was
so placed as to throw the whole train over.
A man walking on the track discovered the
obstruction and succeeded in stopping the
train just in time. About 100 passengers
were on the train.
At Port Jervis, n. Y, and Milford, Pa,
there was slight frost on the night of the
| Goth.
The employees of the New York 81 New
Jersey Railroad struck on the 2ls and traffic
over the road was suspended. The cause of
| the strike was the non-payment of wages for
four months and the protesting of notes
! given for the previous four months wages.
On the Goth four boys were drowned in the
North River, at New York, the boats in which
they were rowing being run down by steam
boats; four colored persons, attending a
camp-meeting at Red Bank, N. j., were
drowned by the overturning Of their boat in
| Shrewsbury River, and three men-Jas.
King, Patrick Garvey and Jacob Lick-were
drowned by the upsetting of a sail-boat on
/ CaYuga Lake, at Ithaca, NY