Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.


sustained the verdict of the jury against
Harry Adams of murder in the first
degree. He will be hung at Dayton on
the 9th
THREE masked men entered the house
of Rinard Felber, a few miles south OF
Cleveland, about two o'clock on the
morning of the 10th, and while one of
them knocked him down and held him, an.
other held his wife, while third went
through the house, and stole all the val
uables that could be found. They got
thirty dollars in money, silver watch
and revolver. The men were masked
by having calico sacks, with holes cut
for the eyes and mouth, stretched over
the head. No description could be gwen
of them except that they were all Large
men, and that one of them had on
brown overcoat.
JOHN FIsHBAUGH, living near West
Liberty, shot himself on the 10Th and it
is believed cannot recover. Afiliction
with neuralgia is supposed to have been
the cause of the suicide.
A BARN belonging to Michael Shon-
dale, near Marshallville, was entirely con-
sumed by fire few nights since All of
his stock was lost, consisting of twenty.
seven head of sheep, two horses and
some cattle. The family was absent
from home when the fire was discovered.
No insurance.
A MAMMOTH copper boiler is being
constructed at Cleveland for the Charles
town navy-yard. 1t is to be eighty feet
long and six feet in diameter, and to
cost about 100000.
GEORGE S. ATKINSON & Son, proprie.
tors of the Lagonda House, Springfield,
have made an assignment; liabilities,
$4,000.
The work of laying the track be-
tween Norwalk and Milan, on the Wheel
ing & Lake Erie Railroad, was begun on
the 18th.
On the evening of the 18th the accom-
mediation train on the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton Road ran over and killed
the eight.year-old daughter of William
Bruins, a gardener, near Cincinnati. She
was playing in her fathers yard with her
brother and sister and the two youngest
got out and were playing on the railroad
The girl hearing the train coming rushed
out to get her little brother and sister
back into the yard. She succeeded in
getting her sister out of the way safely
and was after her little brother, who
jumped out of the way of the train and
got over in safety, but the daughter who
was following close behind him was
caught by the train and fatally crushed.
THE Republican State Central Com
mittee held meeting at Columbus on
the 10Th. Besides the members, there
were in attendance many prominent Re-
publicans from different sections of the
State. The only questions of public i'm
portance discussed were where and when
to hold the State Convention. Among
the places mentioned were Cleveland
Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo. Three
ballots were had. On the last one Cleve-
land received eleven votes, Columbus
five, and Cincinnati one. Cleveland was
therefore fixed upon as the place. The
convention will be held Aug. 1.
THE annual State Convention of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians convened
in Sandusky, on the 10th. Twenty-three
counties were represented. The follow
ing officers were elected: State Delegate,
John Haggerty; State Secretary, B. F.
Mulligan; State Treasurer, d. j. Ryan,
all of Cincinnati.
THE Ohio Conference Camp Meeting
will begin it's fifth session Aug. Is, near
Lancaster. Rev. T. w. Stanley, of Lam
caster, is Chairman of the Executive
Committee, which has charge of all the
business interests of the meeting. Revs.
Keen of Delaware, Hill of Newark, and
Jones of Columbus have charge of the
religious services. 1t is expected that
one of the Bishops and other eminent
ministers of the church will be present.
OF the III inmates of the Ohio Peni
tentiary in 1876, gil were the children
of Methodist Episcopal parents, 1S9 of
Roman Catholic, 93 of Baptist, n of
Presbyterian, 80 of Lutheran and 81 of
Protestant Episcopal. About one-third
of them had attended Sunday school
SARAH F. CREIGHTON, indicted for
murder in the first degree, at Lancaster,
plead not guilty, and was held over
until June IA, when she will be tried.
AT Toledo, on the Goth, Judges Prem
tiss, Caldwell and McMath, sitting at
Chambers, rendered decision in the
Cleveland, Sandusky & Cincinnati Rail-
road case, commonly known as the Rush
X. Sloane case, dissolving the injunction
and vacating the receivership under
which Sloane was appointed general man
ager. An appeal will be taken.
PosTMAsTERs were commissioned on
the Goth; George Womeldorf, Middle
port; Frank z. Bishop, Elyria; James r.
Holcomb, Mallet Creek. ..
HARRY ADAMS, sentenced to be hung
at Dayton ON the 27th, has been respited
until May 25.
THE Southern Ohio fairgrounds have
been leased for beer garden.
JOHN S. SMECK, the Liberty Township
defaulting Treasurer, was arrested at a
little village in Iowa on the 10Th.
THE Cincinnati Commercial on the
21st published crop prospects from s6
points in Ohio, as follows Wheat-8 re-
port a fair crop, 40 good, 30 unusually
good; peaches-15 report fair crop, 35
good, 8 unusually good, 81 failure.
THE Murphy movement is growing ia
interest at Columbus On the 22d be-
tween 5000 and 5000 persons attended
the meetings.
were arrested in Dayton on the 23d as
accomplces in a recent diamond rob.
berry in Nashville, Tenn. Diamonds to
the amount of $4,000 were found in
their possession. LH
W, II. NORRIS, Treasurer of Jackson
Township, Hardin County, is under ar
rest, charged with being defaulter for
$1,000
Legislative.
In the Senate, on the 18th, bills were
passed authorizing County Commits.
sioners to offer rewards for the appre-
hensiOn of horse-thieves; appropriating
$50, 900 to the Columbus Hospital for the
Insanei authorizing Probate Courts to
appoint new assignees or trustees of in
solvent estates, when from any cause the
positions shall become vacant. nrescrib.