Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-20
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.

Township, Delaware County, on the
morning of the 8th, and up to the even.
ing Of the 10th no trace of him had been
found. When last seen the child was in
company with Edward Booker, a colored
man employed on Mr.. Havens' farm.
Booker has also disappeared Booker's
wife was arrested at Columbus on the
10th, but denies any knowledge of her
husband or the child Mr.. Havens is in
good circumstances, and it is supposed
Booker has taken the child to hold for a
reward.
A RECOUNT of the votes for City
Solicitor, in Dayton, in the recent cleo
ton gives the election to Col. Smith,
Republican, by one vote. 1t had been
accorded by the Republicans to the
Democratic candidate.
AT the Republican caucus of the House
ON the evening Of the 10th resolution
for adjournment sine die April 80 was
agreed to.
AT Cincinnati, in a suit brought against
Gen. Samuel F. Cary, charging that he
had taken advantage of the confidence re.
posed in him by number of individuals
who made heavy investments in a Colo
RADIO mine, the court found that Gen.
Cary had agreed with his associates and
partners in the enterprise to buy it in
for their common benefit for $50, 900,
took the money to buy it as their agent,
bought it for $22, 200 and divided the
remainder between himself and his
nephew. The balance of $2S, 1000 the
court decided must be accounted for by
Cary to the subscribers,
LESTER STONE, the young man who
was arrested under suspicion of the
murder of Miss Nettie Russman, at
Tiffin, had his examination on the 9th
and was acquitted as being innocent of
the crime laid to his charge. The case
is shrouded in mystery.
THE President on the 11tb appointed
the following Ohio Postmasters: F. E.
Bishop, Elyria; George d. Waldorf,
Lima; James II. HolcOmb, Malbert
Creek.
A MOST unfortunate accident occurred
in Collinwood on the 11th, which re-
suited in the death of the nine -year-old
daughter of Mr.. Fielder, a carpenter in
the village. She and number of COM
panions were on their way home from
school, going through the woods where
some piles of brush were burning. AS
they passed near one of the burning
heaps not more than forty rods from
home, the girls companions playfully
pushed her into the flames. Some men
working on house near by heard her
screams and ran to the place at once A
man named Hales pulled her out and
wrapped her up in his coat. Her limbs
and the lower part of her body were liter
ally roasted. Medical aid was summoned,
but her life could not be saved, and
after suffering until evening she died.
THE boiler at Townsend's saw-mill, at
Blutfton, exploded, on the 18th, with ter
rife force, completely demolishing the
building. Fragments of the boiler were
found nearly quarter of mile distant.
Fortunately no one was injured, as the
men had not commenced work. The
fireman had just left the mill for his
breakfast. The loss is estimated at from
$4,000 to 81 900.
IT has been discovered that Booker,
the abducter, and the boy Willie Havens,
spent the night of the Sth at Bookers
mothers home in Columbus, and that
they left early the next morning. Book
er's mother states that Booker stole a
child some years ago in Virginia, and she
fears he will kill this boy if closely pur-
sued.
BOOKER, the negro who stole Willie
Havens on the Sth, was arrested on the
18th at London, Madison County, with
the boy in his possession, and taken to
Columbus. Booker persistently declares
he did not steal the boy, but that the boy
insisted upon accompanying him because
he had been badly treated by Mrs.
Havens. He says he had no hope of re-
ward for his return, and expected to
take care of him as best he could. The
boy, upon being interviewed, said when
he left home he expected merely to take
walk. He said he had been well
treated by Booker, but had to walk a
good deal, some days as much as twenty
miles. He was delighted at the idea
of being returned to his parents.
THERE are eighty churches in Cleve-
land.
AT Geneva, on the 18th, L. NJ Potter
shot and killed his wife and then COM
mitted suicide. His wife and himself
had latterly had trouble and this was
probably the cause of the deed.
EDWARD BOOKER was taken to Delaware
County on the 14th, and preliminary
examination resulted in his being sent to
the charge of child stealing.
AN Iowa City Qowa) dispatch says "a
very complete investigation proves that
the alleged outrage on the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific Railroad upon Mrs.
George Watson, so widely telegraphed,
was a fgment of the lady's disordered
Imagination. 1t is now known that she
was seized at Davenport by Mysteries, or
some nervous disorder, for which no one
else was responsible, and was bent on
hurting herself or her fellow passengers,
and that only by the watchfulness of
Conductors Glaspell and Davis was she
prevented from throwing herself from
the car"
Two MEN named Tate and Dodson, of
Cincinnati, attempted to settle quarrel
over woman by fighting duel, on the
10th, back of Ludlow Ky. The princi-
pals were in earnest and exchanged two
shots, but the seconds had carefully
omitted the bullets and no damage was
done.
MISS EMMA ABBOTT, the prima donna,
visited the National Soldiers Home at
Day ton on the 18th, and on invitation
sang several ballads to the sick soldiers
in the hospital. An affecting scene oc-
CURED, many of the soldiers bursting in.
to tears while she sang Home, Sweet
Home"
Legislative.
In the Senate, on the 10th, the Gen
eral Appropriation bill was reported
from the Finance Committee, with
amendments. A communication from
Gen. Walcutt, President of the Board of
Directors of the Penitentiary, was laid
before the house. 1t states that the
number of prisoners in the Penitentiary
is now very large and constantly increas-
ing. Many are unemployed, and more
will be shortly unless the board are left
free to control their labor to the best ad-
vantage. Contractors will not renew
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