Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-08-24
WEST AND SOUTH.

The National Educational Association con-
vened at Louisville, KY, on the 14th, about
800 delegates being present.
By a collision on the Canada Southern
Road between passenger and freight train,
in Toledo at midnight on the 18th, both en-
gnes were demolished and Lewis Young, en-
ginecr of the passenger train, was killed.
The fifteenth annual session of the
Knights of Pythias of the world opened at
Cleveland on the 14th. Delegates. were
present from nearly every State in the Union,
and there were besides some 1000 or 5000
Knights in attendance. At the opening Of
the convention a speech of welcome was de-
livered by the Mayor of Cleveland. The
grard parade in the afternoon was partici-
pated in by 1900 Knights.
The National Educational Association, at
its session on the 18th, elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: John d, Han
cock, of Ohio, President; H. A. NJ. Hender-
son. of Kentucky, First Vice-President; w.
d. Henkle, of Ohio, Secretary; j. Orwood
Wilson, of Washington, Treasurer; John
Eaton, of Washington, and NJ. A. Newell, of
Maryland, Counselors- at-Large.
Senator Morton has arrived at his home in
Indiana in very feeble condition. One of
his arms is paralyzed.
Atty.-Gen. Daniel, of Virginia, died on the
10th. He was renomiuated as Attorney
General by the recent Conservative Conven-
ton and made a speech accepting the nomi-
nation.
Fort Clark (rex.) telegram says Mexi-
can cattle-thieves drove $50 head of cattle
across the Rio Grande on the 14th.
The Chicago, Burlington 81 Quincy Rail-
road Directors on the nth declared semi
annual dividend of 4 per cent.
Prof. Watson, of the Michigan University
observatory, announces the discovery of a
new planet. 1t is now in the right ascen-
sion, 81 h. IA m,, and in declination Is deg.
40 IN. south. 1t shines like a star of the
tenth magnitude, and is moving west and
north.
The propeller City of Madison was burned
on Lake Michigan, thirty miles north of
Kenosha, Wis, on the night of the 10th. All
hands saved.
The Supreme Lodge, Knights Of Pythias,
concluded its session at Cleveland on the
18th and adjourned to meet at Indianapolis
on the fourth Tuesday in August, 1878.
About 200 houses in the town CT Gayville,
d. T, were destroyed by fire on the 18th.
BY the explosion of a locomotive at the de-
pot at st. Joseph, Mo-, on the 10th, Fireman
Snyder was killed; Engineer Conger was
badly scalded, and Benz. Pratt was seriously
injured.
A San Antonio (Tex,) dispatch of the 18th
says Gen. Ord had received telegram from
Gen. Benavides, stating that of the eight out
laws who attacked the Jail in Rio Grande City
three have been captured and the prospect
for the capture OF the rest is good, and that
the neutrality laws shall be enforced. The
Kickapoos had driven herd of horses into
Mexico and Gen. Schofield and Gen. Mar
anio had gone to the place where they
crossed the river.
On the 18th two men named Weston and
Garner were arrested at Chicago on a charge
of forgery. These men, in connection with
other accomplices, have been carrying on a
system of forgery for some time by which
they have swindled various banks out of
millions of money. Forged checks as high
as $4,000 have been drawn and paid.
U. s. Deputy-Collector Charles b. Vadin,
of Richmond, Va, has been held to bail,
charged with the embezzlement OF Govern
ment funds, which he states were lost gam
bling.