Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-07-13
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.

killed at Defiance, on the 4th, by the
premature discharge of a cannon.
THE State Teachers Association com
menced its annual session at Putin Bay
on the 3D. George W. Walker, of Lima,
was elected President of the Superinten"
dents Association for the coming year.
A SHORT time since an insane woman
named Margaret Jacobs was placed in
the Cuyahoga County Jail by the proper
officers. From the time she was taken
there she refused to take any food or
nourishment of any kind, notwithstand-
ing the efforts of the attendants and
others. She gradually became more in
sane and died on the LIST. A post n10rtem
examination showed that the woman
starved to death.
THE preliminary examination of Joseph
King and VIM. V. Terrell, arrested for
committing the recent tragedy at Gore,
was concluded at Logan on the I'd. Ter
rell was remanded to Jail, charged with
murder in the first degree. King was
discharged there being no evidence i'm
plicating him.
THERE are 115 cities and towns in this
State in which the school enrolment is
FIVE hundred or more OF this number
forty eight pay salaries to the Superin-
tendents of 81, 500 and upward. Fifty
seven pay salaries of from 81 1000 to
81 ,450. The remaining ten are under
81 zoe. In sixteen of these towns and
cities the women teachers receive $50
month and above, the average equaling
$e5. In twenty -four the wages per month
are exactly $40. In fifty-one others the
average is near $35.
THE body of William Cortaine, one of
the employees of party of United States
surveyors now surveying the lake coast,
was found in the water one mile west of
Port Clinton on the 4th. The Indications
are that he was murdered, as his body is
considerably mutilated. Cortaine re-
sided at Detroit, where he has wife and
one child
AN inmate of the Warren County In
firmary, eighty years old, named Kipp,
was found on the morning of the 4th
near the building with his head fearfully
crushed. He was thrown, or had fallen,
from the fourth story window, and must
have been killed instantly.
DIR. OTTo ZIRKLE, veteran of the
Mexican war, who came to America with
Carl Schurz, under sentence of Danish
ment from the German Government, died
at Columbus on the Sd.
EVA EDWARDS, thirteen years of age,
was shot and killed by her nine years-old
brother at Cincinnati on the 4th. The
event was made more shocking by its
circumstances. 1t happened in the pres
ence of the girls mother. Mrs. Edwards
was fluting dress for Eva to wear to o
picnic in the afternoon, and the girl was
standing by her side. The little boy had
picked up loaded Enfield rifle, careless
ly left in the room and was playing with
it, when by some means it was dis
charged and the girl instantly killed, her
blood spattering the white dress in her
mothers hands.
| A SENSATION was occasioned at Colum-
bus on the 9th by the publication of the
statement of large defalcation by W.
q. Faxon, teller, and Frank McClelland,
bookkeeper, of the clearinghouse of
Bartlit & Smith, of that city. The OPP
erations of the defaulters extended over
considerable period of time. Faxon
and McClelland were discharged from
the service of the bank some time ago.
Both have confessed to being the only
persons implicated. They are very highly
connected. The bank is one of the old
est and most reliable in the city, having
been in existence for twenty eight years.
AT the recent session of the State
Teachers Association at Put-in-Bay the
officers for the ensuing year were elected,
as follows President, 7. G. Mendenhall;
Vice Presidents, Mr.. E. W. Mccoy of
Cincinnati, Miss Lucia Stickney of Cleve-
land, II. p Ulford of Chillicothe, Miss
M. NJ Ebbart of Tiffin, A. A. Mcdonnell
of Toledo: Executive Committee, E. F.
Moneton, j. Nj. Goodspeed. The meet
ing next year will be held at the same
place.
COMMODORE NJ. MEREDITH, of Ma
rengo, Morrow County, was drowned on
the night of the 9th in the Olentangy
River while crossing in buggy.
THE damage done in Morrow County
by the hail and rain storm on the 5th is
estimated at $100,000; in Crawford
County $4,000.
MRs. NATHAN EVANS attempted to ford
the Moose Run, about six miles west OF
Granville, on the evening of the 9th.
The stream being swollen by the heavy
rains her buggy was carried down and
Mrs. Evans was drowned. uer Douy
was found in pile of driftwood two
miles below the ford.
THE body of Mrs. Selfe, the missing
Kelley's Island woman, was washed
ashore on the 7th near where her clothes
were found. The Coroner held an in
quest on the remains and the jury re-
turned verdict that deceased met her
| death in some manner unknown to them.
In game of baseball at Columbus on
the 9th between the Tecumsehs of To
ronto and the Buckeyes of Columbus,
eighteen innings were played, the score
at the close being one and one.
Two NEGROES, employees of the Miami
Valley Railroad Company, while engaged
at work on the bridge just below Leba.
non, short time since, had quarrel
and a fight ensued, in which each re-
ceived serious injuries about the head by
stones thrown by each other. One was
taken to the inirmary and has since died
of his wounds. The other was lodged in
Jail.