Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-11-30
/ OHIO NEWS ITEMS.


A HIGH-HANpED outrage was COM
mitted on the night of the 18th in Stokes
Township, Logan County. A party of
masked men went to the house of Clark
McMichael, farmer, and took his wife
and children from bed to the stable and
gave them bed to sleep on, then took
McMichael to the woods, and, while
some guarded him with revolvers, others
leveled his house with the ground, after
which they ordered him to leave the
county within two hours, under pain of
death '
ABRAHAM LOwENBERG, ex-Recorder
of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, Ancient
Order of United Workingmen, was
arranged before Justice of the
Peace, at Cincinnati on the Goth, on
charge of embezzling 50, 700 of
the funds in his keeping. He had no
defense 20 make, and was bound over
to the Grand Jury. In default of bail
he was sent to Jail Lowenberg held
the office of Recorder two years. His
accounts the first year were correct, but
the second year he used the money of
the lodge to buy stock for II shoe store,
which he started in Greenville, in the
name of his wife. He was there when
he was arrested. His bondsmen are
able to make good the deficiency and
Lowenberg offers to give up two poll
cies he holds, for $1,000, if he is not
prosecuted; but the officers of the Grand
Lodge are determined to make an ex-
ample of the first defaulter in their
ranks.
LIEUT. BEERS, for eight years past in
4 a .I
ton, died on the 10Th.
The Trustees of the Ohio Agricult-
ural College met at Columbus on the
21st, and elected the following officers
Warren p. Noble, President; Joseph
Sullivant, Secretary; II. S. Babbett,
Treasurer; Executive Committee, T. G..
Jones, A. c. Hoover, A. G.. Devol, ,To-
seph Sullivant and w. S. Streator.
CHARLES Allen, who was shot by a
burglar at Grafton on the 18th, died on
the 21st. A reward of 900 is offered
for the arrest and conviction of his muir
derer.
DAVID CREW, farmer living near
Miltenville. boasts of raising nine
bushels and eight tpounds of potatoes on
thirty square feet of ground, and chal-
lenges any farmer to show better yield
than this.
PERRY BowsHER, the supposed muir
derer of the McVeys, near Chillicothe.
has been removed to the Columbus Jail
| for safe keeping. His trial will not take
place till next term of court. His re-
moval was conducted very quietly, no
one except the authorities being aware
| of his absence for some hours after his
departure.
j. j. CoLLING, for long time
Secretary of the Western Insurance
Company, of Cincinnati, is found to be
Il defaulter to the amount of $4,000
The company is said to be secure from
loss.
AT meeting of the representatives
of the Ohio Mutual Fire Underwriters
at Columbus on the 23d, thirteen com
panies were represented. A resolution
was adopted declaring that the rates OF
the stock companies now doing bust
ness in Ohio are entirely inadequate,
and agreeing that the mutual companies
there represented shall do less business
if necessary, rather than accept sucl
low rates.
DIR. HALEY, of Columbus, wa,
wounded, supposed fatally, near Sun
bury on the 2Oth, by the discharge ot
companions gun, while hunting.
ONO has 1924 oranges and u mem
bership numbering 3,977. During the
year seventeen new oranges have beer
organized.
The entire grading on the Spring
field, Jackson Il Pomeroy Narrow
Gauge Road is completed between
Washington Courthouse and Spring
field. The ties for this part of the roaC
are all ready for laying, and the pros
pect for speedy completion of the roaC
is bright.
The Ohio delegation in Congress
voted as follows on the amendment tC
the Resumption act: YeGs-Banning
D., Dickey, d., Ewing, d., Finley, d.
Gardner, R., Jones, R., Mcmahon, D.
Rice, D., Sayler, D., Van Vorhees, R
three Republicans and seven Demo
Gratis. NdyS-Cox, Danford, Foster
Garfield, Mckinley Monroe and Town
send-all Republicans. Messrs, Neal
Southland and Keifer did not vote-th,
latter being paired with Hon. S. S. Cox
ROBERT G.. DENIG, of Columbus, tn,
Acknowledgment of the ill-fated man
of-war Huron, lost on the coast of Nortl
Carolina on the oath, is among the saved