Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-06-22
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.

ed leave to file petition in error 10 re-
verse the order and judgment of the
Court of Common Pleas of Sanduskv
County in the case of the Cincinnati,
Sandusky & Cleveland Railroad Company
Us. Thomas M. Sloane. This decision
amounts to an custer for the Sloane party,
and restores the road to the Farlow man
agement.
THE annual convention of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union of Ohio was held
at Sandusky on the 18th. About sixty
delegates were present, representing
thirty societies. The officers reports
show an increase in membership. The
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Rev. M. M. Mears, Columbus; Sec
retary, ]. B. Callahan, Cincinnati; Treas
urer, William A. Manning, Cleveland.
The convention adjourned to meet at
Springfield, the second Tuesday in June,
! 1878.
THE thirty-second annual convention
of the Ohio State Medical Society met at
Putin Bay on the 18th One hundred
delegates were present, representing all
parts of the State. DIR. W. ]. Scott, of
Cleveland, was elected President of the
! society.
THE Marietta, Pittsburgh g. Cleveland
railway stock and franchises was sold at
auction, by order Of the court, on the 9th,
! for $500, 600 cash, and was purchased by
Mr.. Cyrus w. Field, of New York, for
the frst-mortgage bOndholders residing
in London, Amsterdam, New York and
Ohio.
AN old man, named Isaac Connors,
committed suicide at the Warren County
InfirmaTy on the 11th by thrusting
pocket-knife into his throat and hacking
ut it until the loss of blood forced him TO
desist. He was a man over sixty years
old, son of a once prominent physician
of Lebanon.
THE Leader speaks of Cleveland as
"sylvan retreat"
ALEX. MARTIN, of Gallipolis, convict
in the Penitentiary for grand larceny,
met with shocking accident in that in
stitution on the 18th. While attending
spoke turning machine, his left arm
was caught by its revolving knives, and
torn off just below the elbow. Martin
was formerly employed in another depart
ment of the Penitentiary, and this was
his first day at the machine which so ter
ribly crippled him.
On the 14th the U. S. Court at Cleve-
land granted writ authorizing the U.
5. Marshal to take possession of the
Cleveland, Sandusky s. Cincinnati Rail
road.
The Ohio Normal Music School will
be held at Xenia this summer, the ses-
sion beginning July 5.
THE Democratic State Convention will
be composed of 744 delegates.
In Cincinnati, on the 14th, John Nc
Herman, noted counterfeiter, was SEN
fenced to two years in the Penitentiary
and fine of $5 900. Andrew Tully and
Mike Dolan, of the same gang, were SEN
fenced to twelve months in the County
Jail.
THE Wilmington Journal reports that
two young men have discovered gold
deposit in one of the hills of Clinton
County, and have brought in several
pans of sand which yielded one dollar
and fifty cents to the pan. The cautious
young men refuse to divulge the wherea-
bouts of the bonanza.
HARRY ADAMS was hanged Mt DAYTON
on the 10Th for the murder of Henry
Mulharren, a soldier, Feb. 13, 1876. On
the scaffold he made rambling speech
asserting bis innocence. He appeared
either drunk or crazy. Adams neck
was broken by the fall
T. s. MCBRIDE, Jr., one of the propri-
tors of the Bergen House, at Mt. Yer
non, was shot and killed on the 18th by
William S. Bergen. The cause of the
shooting was controversy over
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knowledge of. Bergen went to gun
store, got a revolver, loaded it, returned
to the hotel and, taking deliberate aim,
shot Mcbride in the back of his head,
the ball lodging over the left eye. He
died in two hours. Bergen was arrested.
THERE will be 744 delegates in the
Democratic State Convention.
Rev. DIR. IRWIN was sentenced at
Cleveland on the 18th to thirty DAYS in
the Workhouse and to pay fine of fifty
dollars on the charge of being suspi-
cious person. He has no money, and it
will probably be ten months before he
will lecture again.
RECEIVER Farlow has taken posses
sion of the Cincinnati, Sandusky g.
Cleveland Railroad, the Sloane party va
eating.
The gentlemen now most prominent
ly talked of as Republican candidates
for Governor, before the Republican
State Convention, which meets in Cleve-
land on the 1st of August, are ex-Atty.-
Gen. Taft of Cincinnati, Hon. w. II.
Upson of Akron, Judge William Law
renee of Bellefontaine, Hon. w. z.
Rowland of Ashtabula, Hon Charles II.
GrosvenOr of Athens, and Judge T. G..
Jones of Delaware.
MARION CoRBIN was killed near Dub
lin on the 10th by being thrown from "a
wagon. The wheels
passed over his breast.
RICHARD A. PRoCToR says that when he
went to lecture in Dayton he was placid
ly left by the manager of the course, not
only to see after all the arrangements
for suspending diagrams, but 10 take
the lions share of the work of hanging
them. The manager was good enough
to look on and to give me instructions as
to the lecture itself-informing me, for
that SO-andso (naming de-
servedly eminent American lecturer) had
spoken only for an hour and quarter.
Now paid him, said this worthy, to
give a full-sized lecture, not short
of two hours The proprietor of the
hall, who was also present, and helping
me as much as he could, remarked that
a lecture had not ought to last two hours.
But the manager of the course whispered
to me this was only to save the gas.
"A curious child-murder recently oc.
CURED at Charlestown, Mass, Charles
three years Old, being killed
by playmate named Welch, two and