Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-06-22
THE EAST.

Ex-Goy Hendricks was given a magnif
cent reception by the Manhattan Club, O
New York, on the evening Of the 18th
Speeches were made by ex.Govs. Tilden an,
Hendricks, Gov Robinson and others.
On the morning of the 18th collision oc
CURED near Point of Rocks, between tn
regular train from Winchester, Va, and al
excursion train from Frederick CITY TO
Washington. The engines crushed into eacl
other. Five persOns-Charles F. Keeler
editor of the Frederick Examiner: Richard
Detrow, Dorsey Walker, Howard f. Dickson
and Louis Schley-all of Frederick City
were killed, and seventeen wounded, all OF
the excursion train.
The Attorney General of New York on thu
18th returned to Tweed's counsel the paper.
submitted to him, with the statement tha
the testimony that Tweed could give woulr
not justify his release. Tweed, in a note tc
his counsel, says he disclosed his testimon,
on the personal assurance Of the Attorney
General that he should be released If he did
so. He authorizes his counsel to take The
necessary steps to enable him to confess
Judgment in all cases brought against him
either city, county or State Tweed de
nounces the compromise with Sweeney, as
serting that he and Connolly were as much
In tWring frauds as himself.
Harry Genet, another OF the Tammany
ring, has returned to New York.
Ex-Gov. Hendricks sailed from New York
for Liverpool on the 18th.
The National Eclectic Medical Association
met at Pittsburgh on the 18th.
The annual convention of the Millers' Ma.
tional Association convened at Buffalo on
the 18th, about 800 delegates being present.
The closing exercises of the graduating
class at West Point were held on the l4th
and the members of the class were presented
with their diplomas. Among the graduates
was Flipper, colored, the first of his race to re
ceive commission in the regular army
Dist. Atty. Woodford has filed in the U. s.
District Court at New York the complaint in
the suit of the United States Us. ex-Gov. Til.
den to recover $l5O,OOO alleged due as un.
paid income tax from 1851 to 1871.
The covered bridge over the Connecticut
River between Northampton and Hadley,
Mass, was blown into the river by.a hurri
cane on the l4th. Six teams and afteen persons
were on the bridge when it went over and
Mrs. Sullivan, of Hadley, was killed and
four others seriously injured.
The Union League Club, Of New York, on
the l4th adopted resolutions indorsing Presi-
dent Hayes and Cabinet.
The National Eclectic Convention on the
l4th elected s. b. Mum, of Waterbury, Conn,
President of the association for the ensuing
year.
On the 18th the mill.dam above Nortwick,
N. j., weakened by recent rain storms, broke,
precipitating fshing-pdrty of ten persons
through the sluice.way. Mrs. Reemers, her
daughter Julia, Miss Crewley and Thomas
Pressler were drowned. Mark Fisher and
James osfelt were fatally injured by falling
into the grinder Of the mill below the sluice-
way.
George Balm, Of Missouri, has been elected
President of the National Millers' Associa-
tion for the ensuing year.
The works Of the Jacobus & Rimick Manu-.
featuring Company, at Pittsburgh, were
burned on the 18th. Loss Sl35, 900.
AT Plainfeld, N. H., on the 18th, John
Colby, intending to commit suicide, put cor
rosive sublimate in cup Of cider. His sister
drank II and will die.
The Maine Greenback Convention was held
at Skowhegan on the 18th. Rev. II. e. Mum
Son, OF skowhegan, was nominated for Gov
ernor. The platform adopted demands the
Immediate repeal of the Resumption act of
Jan. IA, 1878; that the Government furnish the
people currency adapted to the wants Of
legitimate business; that, as fast as possible,
National Bank notes be withdrawn and re-
placed by paper money issued by the Govern
ment directly to the people, and be made
iuu legal tender for all debts-except when
coin Is In the contract-reeeiyable for all du.
Ties, dues, taxes, and interchangeable with
low interest bearing bond; that the Govern
ment remonetize silver; that the bonded debt
OF The country be refunded as rapidly as pos.
slble into. interchangeable bonds bearing