Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.


arrested for the robbery of the Clermont
County Treasury.
OK the 11th an iron bridge spanning
Yellow Creek, in Poland, gave way
while building was being moved
across it, and the building, men and
horses fell with it into the stream twen-
ty feet below. Harry Mohernin was
killed and John Robinson and William
Bishop seriously wounded.
ABOUT forty military officers met in
convention at Columbus on the 18th to
consider matters connected with the
State militia and effected permanent
organization. Col. George Freeman
was elected President and N G. New
bert Vice-President A committee was
appointed to memOrialiZe the Gener-
al Assembly to grant them pay for
services during the late labor troubles
and during the encampment, for uni
forms and subsistence, and transporta-
ton for the encampments during the
present year.
The four-years-old son of Hon. r. S.
Duncan, of Cardington, was drowned
in cistern on the 18th.
PAUL BERK, farmer living near
Wapakoneta, fell from his wagon while
returning home a few evenings since,
and broke his neck.
THE managers of the Tri-State Fair
Association are at work on the second
annual fair, to be held at Toledo in Sep
tember next. 1t is proposed to have a
grand military encampment of all the
| militia in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
H. &C. ii lat 1 a1
diers will be in attendance, which will
make it one of the largest military en-
campments ever held in this State since
| the war.
GEORGE Z. KIDDER's house at Def
ance was burned on the 14th and he
perished in the flames.
A STATE Christian Temperance Union
Convention will be held at Columbus,
April 10.
The Lunatic and Deaf and Dumb
| Asylums receive $50, ZOO by the will of
Matthew Russell, of Jefferson County.
On the 10Th bill was introduced in
the House to redistrict the State for
Congressional purposes as follows:
| First District-Clermont County and so much
of Hamilton County as is contained in First,
! Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh,
| Eight, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth
! Wards of Cincinnati, and townships of Ander
| son, Columbia, Spencer, Symnes, Sycamore
| and Mill Creek with corporations of Reading,
Avondale, Clifton and Riverside, and all the
municipal corporations situated within the
| bounds of township lines so named.
| Second DiStrict-Balance of Hamilton COun-
| ty contained within limits of Thirteenth, Four
| teenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty
first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty
| fourth and Twenty-ffth Wards of Cincinnati,
and townships of Colerain, Springfield, Green,
| Delhi, Miami, Whitewater, Harrison and Cros-
| by Townships, with municipal corporation of
| Glendale and all other municipalities con-
| tanned therein.
| Third DiStrict-COunties of Brown, High
land, Clinton, Warren and Butler.
Fourth DiStrict-Counties of Montgomery,
Darke, Preble and Miami.
| rim DiStrict-Counties of Clark Logan
Champaign, Shelby, Mercer and Auglaize.
SirH DiStrict-Counties of Allen, Hancock
Putnam, Paulding and Van Vert.
Segehth District-Counties of Lucas, Fulton,
Williams, Defiance and Henry.
ETghh DiStrict-Counties of Adams, Scioto
| Pike, jackson, Ninton and Hooking.
Ninth District-Counties of Greene, Fayette
Ross, Pickaway and Fairfield.
Tenth DiStTct-Counties of Franklin, Del
aware, Union and Madison.
| E7egenh District-Countieso of Crawford, Wy
aIluOI, liaTulll, Marion ana MOTTOW.
T,CdtM DiShict-Counties of Seneca, San.
dusky, Ottawa, Erie and Huron.
Thirteenth DiStrict-Counties of Lawrence
Gallia, Meigs, Athens and Morgan.
Fourteenth DiStIict-Counties of Washing
ton, Monroe, Noble, Guernsey, Belmont ant
Fifteenth District Counties of Licking
| CoshoctOn, Muskingum and Perry.
SirteatH DiStrict-Counties of Stark, Car
roll, Harrison, Tuscarawas and Holmes.
Seventeenth DiStric-Counties of Knox, Rich
land, Ashland and Wayne.
Eighteenth DiStrict-COunties of Lorain, Me
dina, Summit Portage and Geauga.
Nineteenth District-Counties of Lake, Ash
tabua, Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana
T,cntieh DiStriet-County of Cuyahoga.
j. S. TRIMBLE, Mt. Gilead banker
has suspended payments and made III
assignment for the benefit of his credit
ors. The failure has caused intense eX
citement among the depositors, nearl,
all of whom are laboring men, who ar,
now left penniless. The liabilitie
greatly exceed the assets.
JACOB WEBER, an employe at Tole
do brewery, died on the 18th from
singular accident He was slackin,
lime on the 18th when large chunk o
lime burst, striking his face and film;
with burning material his mouth, ear
and eyes, in consequence of which h
died in great agony, the hot lime liter
ally eating through parts of the head
LEGISLATIVE.
Senate, March PA number of dc
titions were presented. A bill was in
troduced, to authorize municipal COZ
porations to borrow money in advanc
of the collection of taxes. Adjourned
HOuSe.-No quorum present.
a Senate, March I3.-Bills were passe
to codify the laws regulating costs
Q criminal cases before Justices of tn
Peace; making it unlawful for any PEI
J son or corporation to issue any checl
$ scrip or other evidence of indebtedne,
: payable otherwise than in lawful none,
to prohibit the sale of goods at hight
d than cash price by employers to person
doing work orlabor for such employer
d to authorize appeals in alimony case
to reorganize the Girls Industri
q Home. A resolution was offered
o submit constitutional amendmel
providing for the election of Townshi
/ Trustees for three-yearS' terms.
number of new bills were introduces