Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-10-26
WEST AND SOUTH.


The Market Street Savings Bank, of San
francisco, failed on the 10Th. Cause: De-
positors wanted their money. The officers
assert that all claims against the bank will
be paid.
Robert NJ. Cordes was elected, on the 10th,
President of the Most High Court of Forest.
ers at Louisville, Ky.
Buckley and Guild, the fugitive officers of
the State Savings Bank, of Chicago, returned
to that city on the 10Th, and will assist the
Receiver in Strengthening out the accounts
of the institution.
The Triennial Council of the CoDgrega-
tional Church commenced its session at De-
troit on the 18th.
The case of the Government against John
A. Joyce, in the U. g. District Court at st.
Louis, was decided on the 18th in defendants
favor.
Union, at Cleveland on the 18th, Francis
Murphy was elected President.
The Home Savings Bank of Elgin, H.,
failed on the 18th.
The Kansas City Times of the Goth pub
lished an account of huge land swndle in
which it alleges "one of the largest banking
houses in Austin, Tex, two Chicago houses,
bankers and real estate dealers, and two at
torneys in st. Louis, bank and two real
estate dealers in Indianapolis, and others in
Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh are to
be and have been arrested for being connect
ed with the fraud" 1t says there has been a
system of forgery in practice in this country
for the past eight or nine years. The mode
I,Nf rlyin hxT tha 10 hotT
agents in each district, with attorneys in the
cities. An old man or woman Of wealth
falls suddenly sick; the doctors give her
or him up as likely to die. In some
places this gang have doctor as one
of their agents and he assumes the death
of the victim at the proper time. A person
having been assumed to die, and the gang
having examined the records of the property
belonging TO the doomed person, the heirs
are sought for and duly examined by the
gang. The deeds are prepared in due form
and woman or man leach members OF the
gang) appears before justice or notary, and
the dying mans property is duly decided
away before his death, his name forged and
that of his wife, and the same placed or
record"
The National Christian Union ended its
meeting on the 10Th.
Senator Morton's condition is reported de.
cidedly favorable.
The Congregational Council, in session a
Detroit, adjourned sine die on the 22d.
Dispatches from the Sitting Bull Commits
sion received on the 22d say the Commis
sioners offered him free pardon, many pres
ents and honorable and just treatment. Tn
chieftain rejected all their offers and the com
mission started on their return home.
The effect of the order stopping the coin
age Of the trade dollar was TO cause "col
ner" in San Francisco, and raise their pric
from 90 to 9S1S6D99.
The Bank of Bunker Hill, Ind, suspende
payment on the 22d. "Depositors will b
. paid In flll"-of course.
A disbolical attempt was made TO wrecl
an Ohio IL Mississippi train at Noble, Ill
early on the morning of the 22d. All tn
cars were more or less injured, but no pa
senger was injured. 1t is believed the act wa
performed by six section5men recently di
charged.
An editorial In the Indianapolis Journ
of the 2Sd, expressing Senator Morton
views upon the duty of Republican member
} of Congress, says; We have seen nothin
, which, taken either separately or collectiy