Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-12-28
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.


advise the building of warehouses; as
places of detention for those accused of
crime. Under the present mode of con-
finement the innocent are kept with the
guilty, and thereby the Jail is made a
school of vice. They think that in this
way crime can be lessened, as the
younger class of criminals will be kept
by themselves, and where they will not
be in the hearing of the oldest offenders.
1t is proposed that such prisons at Gin
cinnati and Cleveland be used as State
prisons of this kind, and others be
erected at Toledo, Portsmouth and
GAINESVILLE. AS whole, they saw, the
city prisons of this State are disgrace
to civilization. The Board lay out the
following work for the next General
Assembly to perform, which, if adopted,
will make the charitable institutions
consist of the following: Children's
Homes for neglected children; Houses
of Refuge at Cincinnati, Cleveland and
Toledo: a Reform School for Boys, and
one for Girls; City Prisons; County
Jails; Warehouses;; Reformatory Pris-
on and Penitentiary.
The annual report of the Soldiers
and Sailors Orphans Home, at Xenia,
was presented to the Governor on the
18th. 1t states that the health of the
institution is excellent only one pupil
died within the year. The board eX-
press the opinion that the institution
is the healthiest and happiest commu-
nifty in Ohio. The amount of appro-
priation for all purposes required for
next year is S99,500. Present number
of children inmates, 604; number of APP
plications on file for admission, 597.
There has been a gradual increase since
the organization of the institution in
the average age of applicants for adj
mission, and the opinion of Supcrin-
tendent Shaw is given that in twenty
years the functions of the institution as
home for soldiers orphans will cease.
The expense Of carrying on the home
in all departments shows considerable
reduction on the amount used the pre-
ceding year.
Gov. YOUNG on the 18th reappointed
L. G. Delano, of Chillicothe, as Commits
sioner of Railroads and Telegraphs.
The Secretary of State during the
past year has issued 3l9 certificates OF
incorporation, calling for an aggregate
capital of SAG, ,000,00
WILLIAM BURKE, painter, fell from
the new High School building at Cleve.
land on the 18th, distance of eighty.
two feet, andwas almost instantly killed
The Supreme Court on the 18th deci
ded the Victor murder case by overruling
the decision of the court of Franklin
County, and holding that the Governor
has the power to commute the sentences
of lunatics without their consent. i
will be remembered that Mrs. Victor
sought her release by claiming that shC
was sentenced to be hanged and had
never consented to accept impriSon
ment for life in lieu of that sentence.
SUICIDE is very prevalent disease
throughout the State at present.
The body of Mrs. Hine, of Chester
Cross Roads, Geauga County, who wa
buried in the cemetery at that place OF
the 9th, was found in the dissecting
room of the Erie Street Medical College
Cleveland, on the 18th, and delivered tC
her son.
The trial of Mrs. Creighton at Ian.
caster for the murder of her husband
last January ended on the 18th by the
jury returning a verdict of guilty ot
manslaughter, after being out twenty
six hours. A motion for new tria
| was entered.
BY the fall of q scaffold at Doyles-
town, on the 18th, Joseph Keller, al
Akron carpenter, was precipitateC
sixty-five feet to the cellar of the new
Catholic Church on which he was a
work, and instantly killed. His back
neck, skull and leg were broken in thu
fall, and death was instantaneous
Other workmen narrowly escaped in
jury.
On the 10Th the Board of Public
Works filed their annual report will
the Governor. They give a detailed ac
count of the condition of the canals
from recent personal inspection, anC
express the opinion that the Ohio anC
Miami & Erie Canals are in gooC
navigable condition, and that the por
ton between Cleveland and Akron i:
much improved in depth in the last few
years, floating boats of seventy-five anC
ninety tons burthen, instead of sixty
None of the 5000 appropriated by tn,
last Legislature for damages to owner
of lands alleged to have been injured
by the Lewistown reservoir has beer
expended, the board requiring bette
evidence of actual loss than any fur
nished by the claimants. The recen
action of the lessees is stated, and de
sire expressed that the present anoma
lous condition of affairs in relation t.
the canals be speedily terminated.
HENRY BAHUs, a farmer residing nea
Dayton, accidentally fell, on the 18th
striking his neck on a box and beini
instantly killed. His neck was broken
EDWARD ROBINSON, a boy of seven
teen, died at Cleveland on the 10th fror
the effects of pistol-shot which he re
ceived while taking a loaded pisto
from his pocket.
The annual report of II. j. Walls
Commissioner of Labor Statistics, com
pleted on the goth, treats of arbitration
wages, coal mines, rolling mills, prise
labor, the relations of capital and labor
etc. The Commissioner makes the TO
lowing recommendations: That a laN
be enacted prohibiting employers fror
paving in barter, and requiring all pay
ments to be made in money; that tn
contract system in the Penitentiary b
abolished; the passage of law al
thorizing cooperative associations t
be incorporated; that penalty fc
violation be attached 20 the provision
of all mandatory laws, especially tn
laws bearing on corporations and tn
, laws already on the statute books il
tended for the protection of The worl
ing classes; that the Stay law be !
! amended that judgments given for II
wages of labor shall be paid within CT
,, week from the day of Judgment.
, WILLIAM C. COCHRAN, of Bellair
has been appointed by the GovernC
State Inspector ofTobaccO at that poin
INGHAM SCHULTZ has been arrestC
: for firing into and stoning passeng
, trains on the Short Line Railroad, nej
! Columbus, and pleads guilty.
, JOHN MILES was killed by Thom
| Charter in saloon at Mineral Ridl
on the 2lst
HUGH FERGUSON died recently
. nalauara from, the af1pctS of a dose