Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-15
OHIO NEWS ITEMS,

THE bids for furnishing paper for the
State work were opened at the Secretary
of States Office on the 4th. The Cleve-
land Paper Company was awarded the
contract for furnishing the same at the
following rates: Double super royal
book paper per pound, 9.47 cts; double
fiat cap, 1890 cts; folio post, 1890 cts;
fiat cap, 1880 cts; fat letter, sos cts;
cover paper, 1898 cts. The contract for
deny paper was awarded to the Harding
Paper Company al 1920 cts. per pound
JOSEPH KELLEY, boy fifteen years
old, living near Basil, was accidentally
killed a few days ago by his brother
George, who was putting a shotgun
away.
THE attendance upon the State Fair on
the 9th was comparatively small. The
display of cattle is not as large as last
year, but finer strains of blood are shown.
This is true of sheep. The display of
horses is large and fine, and the same is
true of hogs. The fruit show is immense.
The other halls are about the same as
last year.
On the Goth ult the eleven-year.old
son of David Taylor, the editor of the
Delphos Herald, was thrown from his
horse, breaking his right arm in two
places, which produced lockjaw, from
which he died on the morning of the 4th.
THE bridge over the canal near Millers-
port fell in on the Cd while huckster
wagon was crossing. There were man
and little girl in the wagon, and the
whole party, horses and all, were pre-
cipitated into the water, twenty-five feet
below. The little girl was badly hurt,
but the man escaped with few bruises.
Hon. DANIEL SEGUR, a prominent citi-
zen of Toledo, committed suicide on the
9Th by shooting himself in the head with
pistol. He had been i'll for some time
and the act was committed while in fit
of mental alteration.
THE State Horticultural Society met at
Columbus on the 9th and examined and
discussed several new varieties of fruit.
Arrangements were perfected for making
full exhibit of Ohio fruits at the Cen
tennial, space for 1900 plates having
been reserved.
THE State Executive Committee of the
Prohibition party met at Columbus on
the 9th and chose an Electoral ticket to
cast the vote for Green Clay Smith in the
event that the State should go for that
gentleman in November. The following
are the names of those chosen: First
District, Z. j. Morris; Second District,
David Kinney; Third District, T. U.
Ustie; Fourth District, Samuel Scott;
Fifth District, Baxter Stewart; Sixth Dis
trict, S. D. Shaffer; Seventh District,
William j. Hannah; Eighth District,
Thomas Evans, Jr.; Ninth, Thos. N.
Davy; Tenth, to be supplied; Eleventh,
Harvey Scott; Twelfth, Geo. II. Hood;
Thirteenth, Martin Deal; Fourteenth, j.
H. McIlheny; Fifteenth, Milton Harvey;
Seventeenth, Richard Brown; Eighteenth,
j. II. Robinson; Nineteenth, E. j. Pin
ney; Twentieth, Jno. S. Prather.
L. II. LYON s. Co.'s sash and door
factory at Cincinnati was destroyed by
fire on the 9th. Loss $4,000.
PRoF. GEORGE II. WHITE, of Amherst
College, has accepted a call to take
charge of the preparatory department of
Oberlin College. Prof. White graduated
at Amherst College in 1870, and for three
years served as Principal in the Hopkins
High School in Hadley, Mass, and for
the last three years has served in Am
herst College as instructor of Latin and
Greek.
A sTREET-cAR was run into by a
passenger train on the Little Miami Rail-
road in the eastern part of Cincinnati on
the 7th. G. T. Snyder was killed, and
two passengers on the street-car seriously
injured.
CLEMENS PETERMAN, young man en-
ployed in Crawford, Kaufman 81 Co.'S
last and peg factory, at Dayton, was
caught in the shafting on the 7th and
terribly bruised and mangled. He may
possibly recover, but it is doubtful.
EIGHTEEN Young Mems Christian AS
sociations have been organized in Ohio
since the convention of 1875.
THE State Fair closed on the 9th,
about 5000 visitors being in attendance.
WILLIAM LOVE, aged twenty-three, of
Harlem, Delaware County, having trouble
with his sweetheart, girl of fifteen
years, went crazy, and is now confined
in jail, a raving maniac.
AS THE Republicans were raising
pole $50 feet high at Lancaster on the
evening of the 9th, the rope broke and
the pole fell, killing Charles Drinkle,
George Fisk and Charles Hoffman, and
wounding several others. Two men
have been arrested on supicion of cutting
the rope and third party has been de-
tanned as a witness, having asserted that
he saw one of the parties arrested run
away from the spot where the guy part
ed, with butcher-knife in his hand.
The State Fair closed on the 9th, about
6,000 visitors being in attendance.
THE Columbus & Southeastern Rail-
road, capital stock $3.50, 900, was incor-
porated on the nth. 1t runs from Muir
ray City, Hooking County, to Ashville,
on the Scioto Valley Road, and is in
tended as a coal feeder for that road.
The work of construction will commence
at once.
THE expenses of the State Fair this
year exceeded the receipts by about
$6,50O
PLANS for the new music hall in Gin
cinnati, to be erected with what is known
as the Springer fund, have been decided
upon. The hall will occupy the site of
the old Exposition building and willhave
a seating capacity for hfty-fve hundred.
The length of the building will be 1926
feet; width, 1872 feet; the hall proper will
be 100 feet long by 11S deep, with cor
ridors 1S feet wide on each side and a
vestibule in front AZ by 112 feet. The
style of the building will be Italian
Gothic. The material has been con-
tracted for and work will commence at
once.
THE Prohibitionists Of the Fourth
District have nominated j. IL, Blackford,
of Preble County, for Congressman.
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