Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-09
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.

Rev. ALFRED BLAKE, Trustee of Ken
yon College, and Principal of Harcouri
School for Boys, died at his residence in
Gambler on the G0th ult.
JOHN A. SHIPMAN was confirmed by
the U. s. Senate on the goth ult. as Post
master at Springfield and j. B. Neall al
Eaton.
CLEVELAND levies tax of 29l mills
Cincinnati 27.04 mills; Toledo "A mills;
Dayton % mills, and Columbus 81 mills.
ALLEN T. WIKoFF was on the 31st con.
firmed by the U. s. Senate as Pension
Agent at Columbus.
Col. PLUMB, the newly-elected Kansas
Senator, Is native of Ohio. He left
GAINESVILLE in 1867, when nineteen years
of age.
AN old gentleman named Geiger, with
his wife, two other ladies and child, met
with serious accident while crossing
Rocky Fork, a stream near the eastern
limits of Franklin County, on the 2Sth
ult. They were all in an open wagon,
and had driven through the bridge, when
the horse became frightened at some
object and plunged down an embank-
ment some twenty feet, throwing the
whole party out. Geiger had his skull
fractured and his wife sustained quite
serious internal injuries.
OK the night of the Both ult., between
the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock, a
gang of forty-eight tramps made des.
perate attempt to capture freight train
standing on the track near the Wooster
depot. The train was going west they
boarded it, threw off the switch twice,
and stabbed one of the brakemen seri-
ously in the back. Marshal Lightcap
and Policemen Dyer and Miller then APP
peared on the scene and n desperate
fight began. Five of the tramps we're
badly cut in the head, and two others
shot, one through the breast and the
other through the arm. They were final
ly driven out.
THE Ohio Dairymen's Convention was
held at Cleveland, Jan. 81 and Feb. 1 .
The Treasurer reported the receipts the
past year as $194.S0; expenditures
$20340, leaving deficit of $500. Va
rious topics Of special interest 20 dairy
men were discussed. The following Of.
ficers were elected for the ensuing year:
President, r. P. Cannon, of Portage; Vice
Presidents, T. J. Forbes OF Trumbull,
T. B. Weir of Ashtabula, D. L. Pope of
Geauga, N. A. Jenkins of Portage, s. II.
Carter of Lake, John Welton of Summit,
q. W. Crozier of Lorain, G. B. Cham
berlain of Medina, William Williams of
Medina, d. Pettibone of Cuyahogs; Sec
retary, s. D. Harris, of Hudson; Core
spending Secretary, NJ. c. Lawrence, Of
Cleveland. The convention adjourned
to meet at Cleveland the last Wednesday
of January, 1873.
The State enumeration of children of
school age in 1876 was ,025, ,000-a gain
over 1875 of 5000. The gain in 1875
was $1,000, but the towns and cities
which gave that gain show falling off
this year. There is but little change in
country places.
THE sworn statement of the civil en-
gineers employed by the Legislative
committee to examine into the Ashta-
bula disaster has been submitted. After
referring to their calculations on the
relative strength of different parts of the
bridge and their observations at the
wreck, they submit the following: l..
That all the tension members had very
large factors of safety and were abun
dainty able to sustain all strain that
could possibly come upon them in this
bridge 2. That all the compression
members, except the counter-braces,
were deficient in that capacity, having
very small factors of safety. 3. Con-
sidered with reference to the location of
the break, it appears that the weakest
point in the braces was at or near the
break, and that the weakest point in the
top chord was at the center, though the
top chord at the point of failure does not
show state of security much greater
than that of the braces. The probability
is that the braces failed first and there
by involved the failure of the top chord
also. But inasmuch as both members
were weak, and were involved in the
break, it is of little importance which
member took precedence in the failure.
The factors of safety throughout the
compression members were 80 low that
failure must have followed sooner or
later. They say Of other defects in the
bridge that while they were not directly
the cause of the failure they were such
as might in themselves have led to fail
ure. They further add that the material,
so far as they were able TO judge. was
of superior quality, and with few excep-
tions the workmanship was very superior.
They find no evidence of weakness in
this bridge which could not have been
discovered and prevented.