Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-07-06
OHIO NEWS ITEMS,

was killed by a falling Darn, and TWO
other persons were seriously injured from
the same cause. Mr. Clicks residence
was leveled to the ground, and Mrs.
Click suffered broken leg and arm.
Two students of Wittenberg College
were knocked senseless by falling bricks.
A dozen large buildings lost their roofs.
At Reading Henry Reisenberg's stable
was blown down, instantly killing the
proprietor At Lancaster residences and
stores we're unroofed and the Catholic
Church steeple blown down. At Buoy
rus great damage was done to shade
trees, roofing, smoke. stacks, etc, The
long trestle-work of the Ohio Central
Railroad, over the Sandusky River, was
prostrated. At Columbus a new brick
and a new frame structure were blown
down.
RANSOM 4. RANKIN has instituted legal
proceedings against the proprietors of
the Columbus Sunday Morning Ne1os,
claiming $4,000 damages for alleged
libel.
THE Adjutant-General is about to send
blanks to the various County Auditors
throughout the State for distribution, to
be filled out with names of Union soldiers
buried in Ohio whose graves are not
marked.
A SANDUsKY dispatch of the 2Sth says
there Is intense excitement at Kelley's
Island over the mysterious disappearance
of Mrs. Selfe, widow, resident for a
number of years on the island. 1t was
at first supposed that she left home while
laboring under atemporary alteration of
mind, but there is now very little doubt
that she was waylaid and murdered and
perhaps thrown into the lake Some of
| her clothes were found on the beach.
The people of the island are out en- mdsse
searching for her, but have not found
her yet.
AT their recent meeting at Columbus
the Trustees of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical College determined by lot their
terms of office, as follows: Sir Years
David Sinton, First District; Chris. Kin
singer, Second; Cyrus Fahoner, Third;
Harmon Hoover, Seventh; T. G. Jones,
Ninth; Joseph Sullivant, Twelfth; Thos.
Mickey, Fourteenth. -Four YedrS-H
G. Duel, Eighth District; Ralph Leete,
Eleventh; D. w. Caldwell, Thirteenth;
j. G. Jameson, Sixteenth; A. Cornell,
Seventeenth; G. W. How, Eighteenth; E.
F. Ensign, Nineteenth. TWO Yedrs-R.
P. Finley, Fourth District; ]. P. Schnei
der, Fifth; W. H. Scott, Sixth; Warren
P. Noble, Tenth; A. w. Glazier, Fif-
teenth; w. S. Streator, Twentieth.
A DECISION was rendered at Columbus,
on the 2Sth ult., by Judge Bingham in
the Common Pleas Court, in the case of
Mrs. Sarah M. Victor. A few years ago
Mrs. Victor was convicted in Cuyahoga
County of murder in the first degree, she
having poisoned her brother, and SEN
fenced to be hanged. The Governor
commuted the sentence to Imprisonment
for life. Mrs. Victor has since been con-
fined in the Ohio Penitentiary. In Janu-
ary, 1876, she applied to the court in Co
lumbus to have the original sentence
carried out, on the ground that
she had not consented to the
communication. Judge Bingham, after
having the matter under advisement
! for eighteen months, has rendered an
opinion that Mrs. Victor is in law an es-
capped prisoner after conviction, and is
sued an order to the Sheriff to deliver
her to the Cuyahoga County authorities
to await action by the courts of that
| county. Atty.-Gen. Little at once ap-
piled to the Supreme Court for leave to
file petition in error, which was grant
ed, and stay of execution of Judge
Bingham's order was also granted until
the case can be finally heard Mrs. Vic
tor will, accordingly, remain in the Pen
itentiary for the present.
THE Cleveland Public Library was
temporarily closed on the 1st. Cause,
no money to pay running expenses.
ONE of the young lady graduates of
the Cleveland High School wore six
cent calico dress at commencement.
BY an act of the Legislature of last
winter chattel mortgages and bills of
sale are required to be recorded like
mortgages for real estate. Prior to June
1 all that was necessary to make a
chattel mortgage good was to file it with
the Recorder. Now to make them a
lien they are required to be recorded.
The Clerk is entitled to forty cents for
making the record.
NoTRE DAME UNIVERSITY, South Bend,
Ind, has conferred the degree of LII D.
on Hon. Frank Fl. Hurd, of Toledo.
THERE were 1865 prisoners in the
State Penitentiary on the 2Sth.
A GIRL aged three years, daughter of
Benjamin Woodward, of New Straits
vile, died recently from the effects of
poison received into the system by chew
ing wrapper taken from bar of soap.
AT Columbus, on the goth ult., Patrick
Curren, of Shawnee, Perry County, while
in state of intoxication, became desirous
of notoriety and claimed to be the mur
derer of the Weldon family near Gore
Hooking County. He was arrested, taken
10 Logan and placed in jail. UPou being
taken before the Mayor he became
frightened and plead not guilty, and es'
tablished TO the satisfaction of everybody
that he knew nothing at all about the
murder. He was discharged.
c. T. LAMAN, the man who, few
months since, embezzled $l,577 80 from
the American Express Company at Cleve
land, was sentenced on the goth ult &c
Imprisonment in the Penitentiary for two
years.
THE following is published by reques
of the Chairman of the Executive Com
mittee of the Ohio Sunday school Union
There will he a fifth Sunday in July. Tn,
peculiar significance of this lies in the fac
that all Sunday schools are urged TO Civ,
their collections on that day to the Ohio
Sabbath school Union, to aid that unsecta
rian, undenominational society in organic
ing the work in all the counties in the Stat
and in establishing schools In all destitut,
places. Superintendents and Treasurers car
I remit to Mr., w. NJ. Reid, Treasurer OF thu
Ohio s. s. Union, Bucyrus, Ohio. The Uniol
has no sdlGried officers and asks pecuniar,
aid to eXtinguish diminished debt, involved
for mission wOTk-of only about 81 ,0OO-an'
TO carry on future operations. it also ask
all Christians, of any and all denominations
/ either to co operate with its officers and mem
bers in organizing County Unions and estab
fishing schools in all destitute localities, o
to do it Independently.
THE Coroner's jury in the Gore trage
, dy rendered verdict on the 2Sth ult
,, that Weldon, Mrs. McClurg and he
daughter, Miss Hite, came TO their deaf
by wounds made by w, V. Terrill an
: others not known to the jury. The eX
animation of King was in progress o
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