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

A Bismarck special Of the 18th says party
Of twenty-five men with teams had arrived
from the Black Hills. When one days march
from the Hills they had a skirmish with the
Indians and lost one man, and one wounded
in the foot. They report the miners in GER
tain localities as very successful. There is an
overstock Of provisions in the Hills ard
bacon has sold as low as sixteen cents and
four as low as four dollars per hundred.
The quarrel in the Republican party in Ar
kansas has been settled. Brooks, the "regu-
lar'' nominee for Governor, on the 10Th le-
clined to accept and the place was rendered to
Gen. Bishop, the "new-dealn nominee, who
accepted.
Hon. G. A. Fnkelnburg, the Republican
nominee for Governor in Missouri, has de-
clined the nomination.
Gen. Wade Hampton was nominated for
Governor by the South Carolina State Demo-
cratic Convention on the 10th.
The strike on the Ohio & Mississippi Rail-
road was reported ended on the 18th.
Damage estimated at $4,000 was done by
a rain-storm on the 18th and 14th in Talla-
hatchie County, Miss.
Col. d. R. Anthony, Of LeavenwOrth, was
nominated for Governor on the nth by the
Kansas State Republican Convention.
By collision between freight and passen-
ger trains on the Nashville g. Chattanooga
Railroad, on the 17th, both locomotives and
the baggage car were wrecked and three per-
sons were iniured-One fatally. On the
Evansville " Charlottesville Railroad the ex-
press train struck COW and jumped the
track, wrecking the engine and tender, and
killing the engineer. A collision occurred
on the Ohio 81 Mississippi between a freight
and passenger train and the locomotives,
baggage and several freight cars were
wrecked. The fireman Of the passenger train
was fatally injured.
The mail train on the Evansville II Craw-
fordsyille Railroad was thrown from the
track near Fort Branch, Ind, on the night of
the 18th, killing the engineer, Geo. w.
Shearer, and badly injuring the fireman.
An attempt to rob train on the Kansas
City, st, Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad
was made on the night of the nth. A party
of men had planned an attack on the pay car,
which was expected over the road that night,
but by mistake stopped the regular passen-
ger train. When the error was discovered
the would-be robbers rode off and the train
pAONOSuSus IL piONNui hOWSNSii bhab lhO phJ
ear was attached to this train, and to this
fact alone, perhaps, it escaped being robbed,
Ex-Gov. Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee.
has peremptorily declined the Democratic
nomination for Presidential Elector-at-Large.
Jesse James, in letter To the Kansas City
Times on the 10th, denies that he had any
thing to do with the train robbery; claims
that he can prove an alibi, and says KerrY's
confession is a tissue of lies.
Hilton Il Libby, successors to A. 7. Stew
arts business in New York, have leased two
large buildings in Chicago, which they will
occupy as a wholesale dry-goods store, to be
known as the Chicago branch of A. T.
| Stewards New York Home.
Atty.-Gen. Alex. Pope Field, of Louisiana,
died on the 10th
Henry Smith and Squire Hammond, young
men, in jail at Owenton, Owen County, KY,
for the murder OF Robert Martin, of that
county, were taken from the Jail on the morn
ing of the 10th by a masked band of forty
men and hanged upon tree near the town.
The citizens generally approve the deed.
A terrible wind and rain storm passed over
a portion Of Western Missouri on the even
ing OF the 10th. The depot and many build
ings at Edgerton were destroyed and several
persons seriously injured. Bridges ON the
Chicago Il Rock Island Railroad were badly
damaged, large trees were uprooted or twist