Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-05-03
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.

lector and ASSesSeHoF The tlrSt District,
was notified by SBetary Sherman on
the 10Th that his resignation, to take
effect on the 30th, would be accepted
by the President.
PRESIDENT S. II. MCCALL1sTER, of
Buchtel College, has resigned, to take
effect at the end of the present school
year, when he will depart for Europe.
JUDGE MILTON SUTLIFF died at War
rem on the oath of apoplexy. He was a
member of the State Senate in 1851 and
1852 and served one full term upon the
Supreme Bench of the State.
The Democratic caucus of members
of the House on the oath voted to in
dorse the Cleveland Reorganization bill.
The caucus also agreed that the State
institutions should be reorganized.
DAVID ECKsTEIN and William c. How
ellis, of Ohio, were confirmed by the u.
S. Senate on the oath, the former as
Consul at Amsterdam and the latter as
Consul at Toronto.
Suspicious being entertained that
Mrs. Rebecca Hyatt, who died at Mar
shallville, near Wooster, recently, was
poisoned, her remains were disinterred
and an inquest was held by the Coro-
ner. Portions of her body were taken
to Hudson for examination, which
showed traces of strychnine in the
stomach. The jury rendered verdict
that the deceased came to her death
from strychnine at the hand of her hus-
band, DR.. William b. Hyatt, who was
therefore placed under arrest. She
was his second wife, and had consider
able property.
THE storm on the oath did great dam
age to property in various parts of the
State and caused the loss of four or five
lives. John Lotto, living near Denni-
son, while going home from blowing,
was Overtaken by a wind-storm, and
passing under a tree it blew down
on him, killing him and his team in
stantly. At Bellaire the storm was
very severe. A portion of the wall of
the Goblet works was blown down,
crushing seven of the workmen, and
two of them receiving fatal injuries.
Rowley Small, resident of Bellaire,
was killed, and workman named
Chris. Connors so badly injured that he
cannot survive. Connors is native of
Boston. Harry Myers of Boston, Hen
ry Carr, a stakeholder in the factory,
and resident of Bellaire, David Hand
ley, Con Sullivan and William Gill, all
of Bellaire, sustained severe injuries.
At Salem $4,000 worth of property
was destroyed. A brick school-house
near Kensington was demolished and
all of the scholars injured A man
named Taylor was fatally injured near
Liberty, being struck with a barn-door
blown by the wind-storm. Warren suf-
fered the most severely. The total loss
there will probably not fall short of
$4,000. At least one-third of all the
houses in the city were more or less
damaged.
ZELLER, the Tiffin defaulter, is be-
lieved to be in Canada.
daughter, returned verdict of murder
in the second degree on the oath.
THE four prisoners who escaped from
the jail at Cleveland were recaptured at
South Bend, Ind.
THE House, on the 26th, passed a bill
prescribing new system of drawing
juries in such counties as by order OF
the Courts of Common Pleas shall adopt
this method. 1t provides that Town
ship Trustees shall return to the County
Auditor names of electors equal to one
in thirty of the inhabitants, and from
these names a board of county officers
shall elect certain proportion and
place them in wheel, from which
juI4es for the year shall be drawn.
The four prisoners who recently es-
capped from the Cleveland jail were ar
rested at South Bend, Ind. ,on the 26th.
The fifty-ninth anniversary of the
foundation of Odd-Fellowship was cele-
brated at Toledo on the 26th by nunler-
Gus Ohio and Michigan lodges.
REPRESENTATIVE O'CoNNOR, rising to
a question of privilege in the House on
the 27th said for some days past he
had not been in his seat for reasons
which must be obvious to all. Charges,
serious charges, had been made against
him. But he did not rise to plead to
any indictments. He would not do it.
He had placed his resignation in the
hands of the Speaker, but it had not
been acted upon, and in view of the re-
cent charges preferred against him he
now withdrew it publicly. He denied
the right of this House, or any other
body, to investigate charges of miscon-
duct on his part before he became a cit.
izen of the United States. There had
been developed a disposition in the
House to push him down and
back into the gutter, and ruin
the character which for eight years
he had been endeavoring to build
up. What could his prosecutors hope to
gain? All the injury possible had beer
done and John O'Connor could not bt
further ruined. A reputation and ref
ormation which he had been laboring
for eight long years to establish, which
should fit him to associate with honest
men, had been ruthlessly torn down, anC
there appeared to be settled determi
nation to drive him to the wall. He
reiterated his denial of the right of tn,
House to 90 back of his citiz izenship, anC
with considerable emotion said:
Should an investigation show that hav,
been guilty of indiscretions or even crimes
prior to my becoming a citizen of this coun
try, and having suffered the penalty therefor
great God why pull me down now! | have
been endeavoring to live upl,ightly since, anC
now throw myself on the generosity of thu
House and the magnanimit,y of my enemie
body, poor in purse and full of bodily infrmi
ties.
Then, bidding the House to procee,
with the investigation, he left the hall
AT Botkins, on the 26th, while Mr.
Knipple was boiling varnish, it caugh
fire, and in trying to ex tinguish the flame
some of it was acci' ientally thrown ol
Mrs. Hinke, who was standing near b.
at the time. In m Oment her clothe
were in flames. She. ran into the street
where she met her husband, who, wit
help, succeeded in extinguishing tn
flames, but not un til she was terribl
and probably fatally burned. Mr.. Kink
was also very seriously burned Will
engaged in exiting lishing the fire.
EX-CONGREssM. AN VANCE arrived
Cincinnati on the 27th from San Fral
cisco in charge of a friend. He is PR
nounced insane.