Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-10-26
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.

ing. lie ana OJnerS SuDSCrlDeu money |
toward getting the college located in
North Columbus. The effect Of the de-
cision is that Deming will not be released |
from paying his subscription by Neil |
guaranteeing the same without his knowl- |
edge or consent.
The Grand Lodge of Masons was in
session at Columbus on the 18th. OFF, |
GERS we're elected as follows. w. Gun |
ningham, of Newark, Grand Master;
Reuben @. Leeman, of Toledo, Deputy
Grand Master; Joseph Estewart, of
Springfield, Senior Grand Warden; S. s.
Fisher, of Millsville, Junior Grand War
den; F. ]. Phillips, of Georgetown,
Grand Treasurer; John d. Caldwell, of
Cincinnati, Grand Secretary. The ques-
tion of recognizing colored Masonic ord
ers was laid on the table. A resolution
for subjecting to discipline members do
ing acts subject to penal correction, ex-
cept the selling of liquor by hotel keep
ers, was offered and laid over until next
session. 1t was decided to hold the next
session at Dayton. Fifty new charters
were granted.
Mr.. CUMNnNGToN, Grand Master of the
A. F. g. A. M. of Ohio, is Statistician in
Secretary of State Barnes office.
JAMES RUPP, while working alone in a
saw-mill near Sandusky, on the 10th, was
caught in the cOgs of revolving wheel,
and gradually drawn in between the
cogs and literally crushed to death by
inches. Scarcely a whole bone in his
body was found.
Mrs. BRENDELL was fatally burned at
Cleveland on the 18th by the explosion
of gasoline stove.
On the 10Th, at the close of the session
of the National Christian Temperance
Union at Cleveland, the Ohio members
organized the Ohio Christian Temperance
Union and adopted:
Being fully persuaded that all men may
be saved by the grace of God and the power
of human sympathy, we, delegates of the
several County Temperance Unions OF the
the State of Ohio, in convention assembled,
with humble dependence upon Almighty
God, do adopt for our government the fol-
lowing constitution:
ARTICLE l. This association shall be called
the Ohio Christian Temperance Union, and
shall be auxiliary to the National Christian
Temperance Union.
ART .. The object shall be to promote the
temperance cause in the State of Ohio in the
splrlJ OF Jnb IOilOWlDg w TN
toward noue and charity for all, etc"
ART. 3. 1t shall be composed of delegates
from the different county and local unions OF
the State, in the ratio of one for every 300
members of such organizations in each
county, chosen in such a manner as the
county and local unions may determine.
ART. 4. The officers of the union shall he
| a President, q First and Second Vjce-Presi-
dent a Corresponding Secretary, q Record
ing Secretary and Treasurer, who, together
| with three other persons, called managers,
| shall constitute an executive board, hve OF
| whom shall be quorum for the transaction
of business. These officers and managers
shall be elected by a majority vote of dele
gates present at tie annual convention, and
| they shall continue in office until their sue
| cessors are chosen. Their duties shall be
such as usually pertain to such officers and
what the annual convention may impose
upon them. They shall also have power to
| fill vacancies in the board.
ART 5. This union shall meet annually in
convention al such times and places as the
| convention shall from time ho time select;
| but if any convention fails TO fix the time and
place the Executive Board shall have puwor
| to do SO.
ART 6..The duties of this Union shall be
to elect delegates to the convention of the
| National Christian Temperance Union, as di'
| rected by their constitution, to devise ways
and means to inaugurate the temperance
movement in every county OF the State where
| no organization exists, provided always that
no purely sectarian or partisan measure shall
ever be entertained.
ART Z. Any county having not less than
800 members may form an auxiliary union
by adopting constitution and agreeing To
cooperate in the plans of the State Union.
The Executive Board, after approving such
constitution and receiving certified list OF
officers duly elected, may issue charter to
such auxiliary unions.
ART. 8. This constitution may be amended
by a tWo-thirds vote of delegates present al
any annual convention, provided two of the
auxiliary unions have previously recon
mended such amendment
Permanent officers were elected, as
follows:
President-Henry Camp, Cleveland.
First Vice PreSident-Mai. Frank Baird, o.
Canton. .-...
Second Vice- President-J. H. Taylor, o
Cincinnati.
Treasurer-John McClymonds, of Cleve
land.
Recording Secretary-L. B. Logan, of Eu
cld.
Corresponding Secretary-C. Brown, o
Erecutive Committee-J H. Hardy, of Cleve
land; 1. H. Justice, Of Youngstown; 7. j
Mattox, of Toledo.
The following resolutions were adopted
Resolved, That the basis of this organiza
ton shall be Gospel temperance, as mani
. tested in song, prayer, the Bible and the MuT
ply temperance pledge.
ReSOIved, That its motto will be: VIII
/ malice toward none and charity for all"
, Resolved, That its object shall be, by al
. honorable means, to rescue the inebriate an
to promote and promulgate the principles o
temperance throughout the State.
Resolved, That while this organization aC
| A., A., A irlt
God for grace, II shall keep itself forever FIRE
from sectarian influences and bias.
D ResolUed, That in order to reach men OF a
, political parties and beliefs, IL shall in n
! sense become a political party, or the tool q
any political party, or as body affiliate VIII
any political party which does now or ma
hereafter exist.
8 Resolved, That il is desirable as soon q
q ! NAV be to call a State convention for NOR
: complete organization of a State Christla
y Temperance Union, which shall embody
its constitution the principles OF these resc
lutions and prepare for Immediate actiV
| field work.
: Resoived, That we request all the new
papers friendly to the cause of temperate
in this State to publish the proceedings {
l. this meeting and the constitution adopte'
: that it may be brought to the attention
It all, and that we request all unions 10 send
their reports to the Secretary OF this organ
zation.
C. NJ. FUDGE and Henry Hutchinson
were arrested in Dayton on the 19tl
y charged with the murder of an old ms
Ie named Mcclure, whose body was four
ID in the canal there on the 10Th.
t. JOHN GEARHART, eight years of az
le was drowned at Columbus on the 20
IT while playing in a skiff with two col
As panions.
Two SECTION men named Walter j.
" and Owen McKenna got into an alterC
" ton at Newark on the 18th, when j.
struck McKenna in the breast with
y, pick, penetrating the lungs. joy was
~ rested McKenna cannot live.
~ ~ REV. DR.. WM HUNTER, of Pit
~ burgh, editor of the CtristiGa AdUOod
no o died very suddenly at Cleveland on I
18th, of apoplexy.
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