Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-26
WEST AND SOUTH.


Hon. T. W. Ferry was reelected U. s.
Senator by the Michigan Legislature, on the
10th, and Hon. William Window was re-
elected U. s. Senator by the Minnesota Leg
islaturc. The Legislature of Arkansas
elected A. II. Garland U. s. Senator.
John d. Laymsn, Lucius, his son, and
George Bradbury, aged thirteen, were in
stantly killed by the explosion of a thrcsh-
ing.machine boiler on the farm of Albion
Bradbury, at Bloomington, Mimi, on the
10Th.
Gen. Terry reports that on Dec. 1S Lieut.,
Baldwin, with three companies OF the Fifth
Cavalry, defeated Sitting Bull, who lost his
camp property and sixty ponies and mules.
The Indians escaped with little beside what
| they lad on their persons.
knife, revolver and q pair of bullet
molds were identified at Ashtabula, Ohio, on
the 16.h, as the property of D. NJ. Helbridgc,
of Gereva, Ohio, who perished in the wreck
Ex-Gov. Alvin Saunders was elected U. s.
Senator by the Nebraska Legislature on the
18th.
The Tennessee Legislature on the 10Th
elected James f. Bailey U. 8. Senator for the
shor; term, on the sevcnty-third ballot.
The seventeenth ballot for U. s. Senator
was taken in the Illinois Legislature on the
10Th, resulting: Logan 90, Palmer ST. scat
termg l6. Necessary to choice, 1O2.
One hundred and seventeen cases of small
pox were reported in New Orleans from the
lst to the 10Th, including several among the
Troops in the Custom H ouse and one in the
State House.
a German Protestant Orphan Asylum near
81. Louis was burned on the morning of the
18th, and two children, Eugene Long, six
years old, and Willie Benner, perished in the
Games.
The unidentified and unrecognizable re-
mains of nineteen Of the victims Of the late
railroad accident were buried on the 18th at
Ashtabula. The services were attended by a
large concourse Of people, many persons
from abroad being present. Members OF the
Masonic order acted as pall-bearers. Three
bodies, unidentified, were not buried with
the others, hopes still being entertained that
they may be Identified.
The twenty fifth annual meeting OF the
B'nai-B rith of the United States commenced
at Cincinnati on the 21st, 100 members being
present.
Charles Collins, Chief Engineer of the
Lake Shore Il Michigan Railroad Company,
committed suicide at his house in Cleveland
on the night of the 18th by shooting himself
through the head. His body was not dis
Ecovered until the Goth. Deceased testified
before the legislative committee investigating
the Ashtabula disaster on the above date,
and was not seen from the evening of that
day until his body was found as stated. He
was very sensitive man, and the criticisms
Of the press and public deeply affected him,
snd 1t is supposed that at the time Of COM
hitting the deed he was laboring under
aJerratiou of the mind. Mr.. Collins had
leen connected with the Lake Shore Road
almost from its inception. He was fifty-two
years of age.
The twenty eighth ballot in the Illinois
legislature on the 22d for U. S. Senator re-
suited: Logan %, Anderson 81, scattering
IL Necessary to choice, 10l,
The Governor of Iowa has issued an order
fer the reorganization of the State militia
under the name of the National Guard OF
Iowa.