Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.

Cleveland q Cincinnati Railway have
been furnished with bell punches, and
when they take up ticket are required
to punch with care, punch in the pres
ence of the passenjaire."
GEORGE DAWSON, night foreman of
the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad
yards at Cleveland, jumped from car
which he was switching, on the night of
14th, alighting on his head and breaking
his neck.
THE Ohio State Board of Fire Under
writer's held n meeting at Mansfield on
the 14th, which was well attended. A.
j. Walters, of Cleveland, was elected
President, aud G. Henry, of Oberln,
Secretary. Papers were read on adjust
ments, how to obtain business at paying
rates, etc., and the usual topics dis
cussed.
AT the convention of Western Reserve
Dairymen at Garrettsville on the 14th,
the following official board was elected
for the ensuing year: President, John
Gould; Vice. President, Edwin Frost;
Corresponding Secretary, NJ. j. Law
renee; Treasurer, w. w. Stevens; Secre.
tary, Cornelius Baldwin. The attend
ance was very gratifying in point of num-
bers.
THE Ohio State Grange will meet at
Cincinnati on the Goth.
A FIRE at Urbana, on the morning of
the 14th, destroyed eleven business and
dwelling houses, and caused loss esti
mated in the Heighborhood of from
$500 to $4,000. Insurance about
one-half.
Gov. HAYES presided on the 18th at
the annual anniversary of the Children's
Home of Cincinnati.
TUE Compulsory Education bill, passed
on the 14th, permits the parents or guard
ians of children to send them to any
school, parochial or otherwise, or teach
them at home, and they may be excused
from complying with its requirements
by the school boards, or if they live more
than two miles from school, or are
needed to support the parents.
HENRY KIRK, wealthy farmer and
stock-raiser of Fayette County, filed
petition in bankruptcy on the 10Th. Liza
bilities $104 900; assets 100000.
EDWARD HAMMOND, switchman on
the Indianapolis, Cincinnati s. Lafayette
Railroad, while attending to his duties
at the yards in Cincinnati, on the 18th,
caught his foot in frog and was run
over by freight train, killing him in
stantly, the body being mangled into
shapeless mass of flesh and bones.
THE Improved Order of Red Men, in
session at GAINESVILLE, elected the follow
ing great chiefs for the coming sun:
Sachem, j. w. Underhill, of Van Vert;
Senior Sycamore, A. G. Bethard, of
Springville; Junior Sycamore, S. NJ.
Smart, of Dayton; Chief of Records, L.
S. Larose, of Dayton; Keeper of Wam-
pun, M. Rothschild, of Cincinnati;
Prophet, Samuel Ross, of Columbus;
Representatives to Great Council of
United States, W. A.. Brand of Urbana,
Paxton Coates of Cincinnati, and Will
lam j. Little of Cincinnati.
THERE are twenty-four towns in Ohio
that go by the name of Liberty.
THE wife of Capt. Eible, of Hamilton,
left her home late on the evening of the
18th, and on the following evening her
body was found in the canal, she having
evidently committed suicide. She is
supposed to have been laboring under
temporary alteration of mind.
EPH. HOLLAND, a Cincinnati gambler,
indicted for completely in frauds at the
October elections, on the 18th made
full confession. He says he received
about 81 900 to be used in the election.
He had three leaders and thirty eight
men at work on election day, who polled
some 500 votes, No Cincinnati c4ndi-
date is directly implicated, but he says
he had interviews with Democratic can
didates and worked in their interest.
A FIRE broke out in the Chamber of
Commerce building at Toledo on the
18th, originating in the Mansard roof.
The fire damage was light, but large
portion of the building was deluged with
water, damaging the contents of the
various offices, etc, to the amount of ten
or fifteen thousand dollars.
THE pork-house of Shafer & Kemp, at
Middletown, was burned, with its con-
tents, on the 18th. Loss $25, 900; insur-
ance $50, 900.
NEWTON II. HARR, one of the oldest
citizens of Champaign County, died on
the 10th, after long illness. He was
widely known and universally respected,
and had the distinction of being the first
white child born in Urbana.
THE Euclid Avenue school building, in
Cleveland, was burned ON the 10th. The
regular studies were being pursued at the
time of the alarm, and by the GOODNESS
of the teachers the scholars were enabled
to leave the building without casualty,
though many of them lost books and arti
cles of clothing, not having time to Sc
cure them after the alarm was given.
The building was old and the loss on
that was small.
THE Democratic caucus of the two
houses, held on the evening of the 10th,
by a vote of 26 to 16, resolved to send
instructions to the Ohio members of
Congress to resist by all lawful means
the completion of the count and prevent
the Inauguration of Hayes. The minori-
ty, after the caucus adjourned, sent q
telegram to the Congressman expressing
their dissent from the action of the ma
jority.
Legislative.