Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-02-01
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.

"A JOINT caucus OF the Democratic
members Of the Legislature was held
on the 22d, at which resolutions were
adopted to reorganize all the public in
stitutions of the State; to push the in
vestigation of the Penitentiary manage
ment, and that all political bills be re-
ferred to the committee of the caucus.
A Committee on Bills Relating to
Schools and a General Revisory Com
mittee were appointed.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY bills had
been introduced in the Legislature up
to the 23d.
A MAN named Newsom, living near
cambridge, while attempting to ford
Paint Creek on the night of the 21st
with horses and wagon, was carried
down by the swift water and drowned.
The U. S. Senate on the 23d con-
firmed the following Ohio Postmasters:
+. Lowery, Dayton; j. Mckee, Hamil-
ton; Charles F. Kicks, Massillon.
The twelfth annual encampment of
the Department of the Ohio Grand
Army of the Republic convened at
Geneva on the 23d. Twelve posts were
represented, and many of the COM
rades were present. There are four
teen posts in Ohio, with 568 members.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: Commander, N. l..
Guthrie; Senior Vice, j. H. Seymour;
Junior Vice, d. f. Giddinger; Medical
Director, S. S. Burrows; Chaplain,
Thomas Powell; Council of Admins
tration, Hall of Toledo, Lease of Salem,
Palmer of Geneva, McGillicudy of
Akron, Townsend of Conneaut; Dele.
gates of the National Encampment, A.
F. Sperry, j. NJ. Weaver; Alternates,
Isaac b. Stevens, NJ. j. Enright; His
torian, d. G. Palmer; Assistant, Will
lam Castle. The next annual encamp-
ment will meet at Xenia.
GEN. AUGUST WILLICH was found
dead in his room at the Decker House,
st. Mary's, on the morning of the 23d.
P. LOHMAN, of Toledo, was shot on
the 21st on train on the Columbus &
Toledo Railroad, just as it entered Della
ware, by three-card monte man named
Lew. Hauk, and died at Columbus on
the 23d. Hauk had beaten him out of
some money by the game and then in
the dispute that followed shot him.
The murderer had not been captured up
to the oath.
DIR. MORGAN, the grave-robber in Jail
at Toledo, is dangerously sick with
smallpox. The announcement that
his disease was smallpox caused in
tense excitement among those who had
been brought in contact with him at the
Jail and elsewhere. Morgan says he
was exposed to the disease in Northern
Ohio-probably while stealing the body
of person who had died of it.
A YOUNG man named Cullan acci-
dentally shot and killed himself while
hunting near Kenton on the 23d.
A SHOCKING accident, bv which Re-
becca Zilner, nine years old, was fatal
ly injured, occurred at the foundry at
Middletown on the 23d. She was gath
ering shavings when in some way her
clothing was caught by the revolving
wheels, and her body whirled violently
and rapidly a number of times and then
hurled away fifteen feet, mangled and
torn in a frightful manner. One leg
was torn off and the other left hanging
only by the sinews and cords of the
limb, and she was otherwise badly cut
and bruised.
NE u. lOtudlC Ol tnG ZOJu COn-
tirmed John P. Loge as Postmaster at
Cincinnati.
MIKE BRADY, serving three-years'
term for grand larceny at Toledo, es-
capped from the Penitentiary on the Goth
by climbing over the wall. Eight hours
after his escape he was returned to
prison by his wife, living in Columbus,
who lately completed term in the PEN
itentiary.
ENoCH MEGRUE, Chief of the Gin
cinnati Fire Department since April l,
1857, has rendered his resignation of
that position and it has been accepted.
EIGHT prisoners escaped from the
county Jail at Columbus on the 28th by
cutting piece out of the iron floor of
one cell and then tunneling under the
walls or the building. Three of the
party were under Indictment for burg
larry and one awaiting transfer to the
Penitentiary for three years for burg
larry. One of the party, under sentence
for stealing, was recaptured.