Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-11-15

about twenty whites and sixty Chinese oper.
atives in wooden mill. The former were the
aggressors. Several were severely hurt on
both sides and one Chinaman was probably
fatally shot.
| Mrs. Sergeant Noonan, married to a mem
Der Of the 9TH Cavalry and laundress at the
military post at Fort Lincoln, d. r., died on
the 3lst ult., and It was discovered after her
death that she was not a woman at all but a
man. She had been married three times, and
as she was worth considerable money It is
supposed she purchased her husbands silence.
She had been with the 7th Cavalry nine years.
Government stable was burned at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan, on the 3D., and thirteen
mules perished in the flames.
Five two-story brick tenement houses were
| burned at st. Louis on the 9th. Christ Muel-
Ter was very badly and Mrs. Kettering fatally
burned, and little boy belonging to the lat
ter nearly suffocated.
The annual meeting of the Woman's.Na-
tional Christian Temperance Union convened d
at Baltimore on the 9th. One hundred and
eighty delegates were present from nineteen
States, including all New England and Middle
States and most of the Western States.
The Grand Jury in the United States Court
at Chicago, on the Sth, returned indictments
against John Macarthur, ex-Postmaster, John
w. Gregg Ed. A. Miller and William S. Col
sen, clerks, for embezzlement of Government
funds
While out hunting, on the 7th, Gov. Hamp-
ton, Of South Carolina, was thrown from his
mule, and mis- leg was broken in two places.
the bones protruding.
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had been in search of William Collins. the
leader of band of train robbers in that state
overlook his man at Pembina, d. T., on the
Sth, and attempted to arrest him, when Col
Inns resisted, and both men drawing their re-
volvers fired simultaneously with fatal effect,
both dropping dead almost instantly.
One hundred and eghty-o ne indictments
were found against Illicit distillers in the
United States Court in session at Charleston.
w. Va, on the 9th About 300 or 400 more
are likely to be found before the adjournment
of court.
Ex-Gov. Chamberlain, of South Carolina,
has notified Atty.-Gen. Youmans that If il be
true that an indictment has been found
against MIN in that State he shall voluntarily
appear to meet it.
The United States Grand Jury at Cincinnati
found an indictment against John O'Connor.
ex-member of the Ohio Legislature, on the
charge of forging a pension certificate, and
he was arrested at Dayton, Ohio, on the 9th.
A man named Dakin tried at Marshalltoyn.
Iowa, on the 9th, and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment for the murder Of John X. Slough
in March last, has made narrow escape from
being punished for a crime he never COM
mitted. An Italian named Rass, formerly in
the employ of the murdered man, made a con-
fession on the 10th, stating that he killed
Slough.
The Most Worthy High Court of Foresters
of the United States and Canada, began its
annual session at St. Louis on the I2tb.
number Of female attendants at the Co.
lumbus, Ohio, Lunatic Asylum were discharged
on the 1lth, for excessive cruelty to patients
confded to their care. An investigation by
the authorities has shown that for months
these attendants were in the habit of ducking
patients for violation of rules, and as this
mode of punishment is strictly prohibited in
the institution all proven guilty of having
practiced it will be discharged.
Norman g. Judd, prominent politician of
Illinois and Minister to Berlin during Presi-
dent Lincoln's administration, died of paral-
ysis at Chicago on the l1th.