Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-08-31
OHIO NEWS ITEMS,

AT Berea, few days since, some
workmen were raising block stone out of
a quarry by means of derrick, and had
gotten the stone in position to be
dropped, and let go the power, when
boy about twelve years of age got caught
in the rope spool, and was dragged into
the coil head foremost. The stone, two
tons in weight, had just started, and
nothing could prevent the calamity. The
spool whirled thirteen times, wrapping
the rope as many times about the boy,
crushing every bone except in one leg
from the knee down. The weight of the
stone was upon each coil, and of course
death was caused instantly, and it took
some time to get the rope off.
THE express companies have with
drawn from the Lake Erie Division of
the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad.
THE monument erected to the memory
of Gen. McCook in Washington Park,
Cincinnati, was unveiled, on the 23d.
AT Osborn, on the 22d, Miss N. Harsh
man and Miss Smythe had a very mar
row escape from drowning. They were
rowing on the mill race, when Miss
Smythe fell from the boat in fainting
condition; Miss Harshman also fell in, in
the attempt to rescue her friend. A
brother of Miss Harshman, seeing the
accident, jumped from second story
window of the mill and rescued the
young ladies, after considerable exer-
ton.
JAMES B. CONRAD was killed at Mas
sillon on the 22d by falling from the
third-story window of the American
House.
A COLUMBUS dispatch of the gath says:
"The people of Westerville, a small
village fourteen miles north of this city,
are greatly agitated over the recent ap-
pointment of Postmistress for the vii
lage Postoffice in the person of Mrs.
Coggeshall, widow of the late U. s. Min
lister to Ecuador. An Indignation meet
ing was held last night, at which resolU-
tions were passed calling upon President
Hayes to cancel the appointment, on the
ground that the citizens did not wish any
change made; that the appointment was
secured by outside influence, and that
they object because, whenever change
should become necessary, they have wild
ows in their midst, made so by the re-
bellion, who, being permanent residents,
should receive public patronage in
preference to strangers. Mrs Cogges-
hall was formerly resident of this
city, but has lived in Westerville
for year past. Certain charges of
negligence were made against the Post
master and investigated by Special
Agent of the department, but what the
official report of the matter was has not
been made known. Mrs Coggeshall is
lady of very limited means, but intelli-
nd
acquaintance of President and Mrs.
Hayes, to both of whom she addressed
letters asking the appointment TO the
Westerville office in case a change was
made. The office is worth 5000 per an
mum. The resolutions were forwarded
to the Postmaster There is
intense feeling in the village over the
matter"
A WASHINGTON o.. O. telegram of the
Gath says: Gentlemen who have just
come from Ohio, and who are we'll ins
formed of the political situation there,
say that there is no doubt that, if the Re-
publicans carry the State, Secretary
Sherman will come out as an avowed
candidate for the Sene:JI ship against
both Stanley Matthews and Gen. Gar.
field"
IT is Just ninety-nine years since the
first sermon was preached to white men
in Ohio.
FRANK FLEMING, assistant yard master
in the Piqua yards at Columbus, was
fatally injured by collision in the
yard between a Hooking Valley freight
train and the caboose of another train
on the Goth. Richard Fletcher was also
seriously injured. asl'-r
ALFRED NJ. RUaaLEs, eight years old,
of Cincinnati, was fatally injured at
Cleveland on the 9th. In company
with several other boys, he was playing
on the stairs leading to the Union Depot
from the eastern end of the abutment,
when in some unexplained way he missed
his footing and was precipitated to the
pavement below, distance of some
twenty feet. He struck on his head
with fearful force, and fractured bis
skull, besides breaking both wrists and
bruising other portions of his body. He
died in short time. His father was
one of the delegates to the Knights
Templar Convention.
A YOUNG man named Harry Dill, while
threshing near Mount Eaton, on the 9th,
had one leg torn off close to his body.
He was going to the top of the thresher,
when his foot slipped and caught in the
cylinder. He died few hours after
ward
Hon, JOHN II. BLosE, of Springfield,
member of the late Ohio Constitutional
Convention, and at present county
commissioner, has been sent to the Day
ton Lunatic Asylum.
GEORGE w. WILLIAMS, pastor of the
colored Baptist Church of Cincinnati,
has been nominated by the Republicans
for the Legislature.