Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-06-29
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.


THERE are at present about 150 pupils
in the State Institution for the Blind.
The next school year will begin Sept. 1s.
JOSEPH STocKMAN, of Miami City, went
out hunting near Dayton, on the 18th,
with doubie.barreled shot.gu and was
found in the evening with one barrel of
his gun discharged, portion of his left
hand torn OFF and the charge of shot
lodged in his left breast He was uncon-
scious and cannot survive. 1t is sup
posed that he accidentally discharged the
gun while loading.
A CLEVELAND girl wants lover badly,
as the following letter received by the
Postmaster at Toledo testifies:
1923 Euclid ave
Cleveland
June Is 1877
to the Post man
Dear Sir A young Lady wishes 20 corey
spond with some Nice young man in tledo IL
il is agreeable with you Pleas select ane for
me ask him to drop her a note Letthe gentle
man send his portgraph the yong Lady will
also he must bee good Loaking with no
Diferance.
Pleas reply soon yours in haste he moost
not call on her on the account of Pa Pa he
wood Not like it
Oblige A friend
A Clark
Dress Miss Atty Clark
142s Euclid Ave cleveland
Ohio
A YOUNG child of M. B. Grubbs, of
Washington Court House, died on the
nth under peculiar circumstances. Over
three months ago, while playing, it fell,
striking its head. No notice was taken
of the injury at the time, as it was con.
sidered very slight. Shortly after, how
ever, the child was found to have become
cross-eyed and partially paralyzed, which
continued until it died. Physicians sur
mise that blood.vesscl had been rupt-
uIed, and blood collecting pressed upon
the brain.
A FATAL accident occurred on the 18th
a short distance from Napoleon. While
James Rowan was hunting with COM
panion, the former stopped to take some.
thing out of the latter's eye, leaning his
gun by his side while doing so. By some
means the gun went off, the ball entering
Rowan's ear and going clear through his
head, killing him instantly.
REV. JESSIE VANTAw, a prominent
minister in the Methodist Church, grad.
uate of Athens, and formerly editor OF
the Athens Messenger, died on the 18th
at Somerset.
THOMAS HARBRoN, of Hamilton, was
accidentally shot and killed while hunt
ing in the woods near that place ON the
18th by his friend, Harry Jones. They
discovered some birds, and while pro
ceeding toward them Jones' foot slipped
and he fell, the charge in his gun enter
ing Harbron's head
HEAVY rains in Clark and Champaign
Counties for the preceding three days
eliminated on the 21st in terrific fiood
at Urbana. Two houses were washed
away. Smiths tannery was entirely sub
merged and the railroad tracks covered
with two feet of water. The first floors
of many houses had to be abandoned
Considerable damage was done by the
rapid rising of small streams and the
washing away of bridges. Crops are
thought to be seriously affected
THE mother of Senator Stanley Mat
thews died at Avondale, on the Goth
She was seventy-three years of age.
On the evening of the 10Th Mrs. jacob
Shorb, a lady about seventy years of age
fell dead while sitting at window OF
her house at Canton. A dog was shot in
the yard near where she sat, which sud
den fright is supposed TO have caused
her death from heart disease.
THE successful competitors for the
prizes at the fremens tournament a
Bucyrus on the 21st we're: Steamers, Ken
ton first, Lima second; hand engines, Re
lief, of Crestline; secondclass engines
Shelby; also sweepstakes to same; host
companies, Smuggler, of Crestline, first
Niagara, of Gallon, second; hook anC
ladder companies, forty rods run, Result
of Norwalk, first; Rescue, of Nevada
second; juniors, thirty rods run, Twilight
of Tifin; brass bands, Harmonic, O
Tiffin, first, and Shelby Cornet Band
second. The best of feeling and orde
prevailed, and no casualties occurred.
WOOSTER UNIVERSITY has conferred
the degree of LII. d. on Gustave G. E
Weber of Cleveland, Hon. John Nc
Sweeney of Wooster, and Prof. j
McMartin of Athens.
WILL N. LAKE, an amateur, com
menced at Columbus on June 1 and OF
the 21st completed a walk of 500 mile
in 500 consecutive hours. His averag
time was thirteen minutes.
In the case of Kalb, on trial at San
dusky for the murder of jeweler nance
Dewitt at VermilliOn short time age
the jury on the 21st returned verdic
of murder in the second degree.
AT Spencerville, on the Goth, whll
raising a mill, the ropes that held a bear
to its place broke while VIM. Meyers, on
of the workmen, was directly under
helping raise it. In its descent it struc
HIM on the head. Death ensued il
stantly.
Two ATTEMPTS were made by incend
aries to fire the residence of Lazarus,
prominent Hebrew citizen of Columbus
The first attempt was made on the 22C
and the other on the Odd. The fire wa
discovered in both instances in time {
prevent cOnhagration. No clew to th
incendiaries has been discovered.
A TEAM attached to one of the omn
buses running between Dayton and Gel
mantOwn jumped over a bank on tn
side of the road on the 22d, throwing tn
bus over, killing James A. Law and fl
tally injuring Mrs. Richard Schaeffer.
WILLIAM HILL, of Liberty, was browne
| in Bear Creek on the 22d.
THE contract for building the ne
$50, 600 school-house at the Ohio Soldier
and Sailors Orphans Home, at Daytol
has been awarded to Messrs. Gibbs
Mooser, of Toledo. The style of arch
lecture is Gothic.
Two OBERLIN memo. o. Wadswort
and one Jaques-were arrested by
United States officer on the 23d, on th
charge of using the mails for the purpoi
! of frauds. They advertised as the Stel
ograph Publishing Company, and wei
selling Nixon's Mnemonic Method {
Short Hand" They were examined b
the u S. Commissioner at Cleveland, an
Wadsworth was bound over for tria
Jacques being discharged.
THE lessees of the public works of Il
State have notified the Board of Publ
Works that they will decline to pay an
more tent under their lease, and on De
1 will abandon and surrender TO II
State the public works leased by then
They say this action is taken in cons