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

The report from Port Jervis, n. Y, of an
alleged outrage said to have been committed
at Thompson, Pa, by two tramps upon the
person OF Miss kennett, a school-mistress
anu that they cut out her tongue to prevent
her from giving any particulars of the deed,
turns out to have been false, and merely the
revival of an old story by certain village
gossips. The only affair approaching the al
legged outrage in any particular occurred near
ly thirty years ago, and the victim was an old
lady about sixty years old, who was waylaid
near the village by a dissipated fellow, out
ragged and then murdered. Her body was con-
cealed near the road, where it was soon after
ward discovered, and the murderer was ap-
pretended, tried, convicted and hung. This
AFFAIR the village gOssips resurrected
changed the time and circumstances, started
it on its rounds, and it was soon telegraphed
all over the country
Washington Thomas, of New York City.
hanged himself on the night of the 9th, after
learning that the Tammany Hall ticket was
defeated. He had been promised an appoint
ment If the Tammany ticket should be
elected.
The body Of A. T. Stewart was stolen from
the family vault in St. Marks churchyard on
the night of the 9th. The robbers removed a
stone from the opening of the vault, broke
open the three coflins in which the body was
enclosed and carried away the contents it is
supposed in a sack. The object of the rob-
berry is the hope of getting a reward.
1t is stated that the directors of the
Union Pacific Railway meeting held in
New York City on the 9th expressed
their Willingness to pay the debt due
the Government In full. The plan proposed
is for the road to issue new bonds for the en-
tire debt and interest, the bonds to bear four
per cent interest, with provisions for a sink
ing fund, and to be secured by the existing
Government mortgage.
A reward of $25,OO0 was offered by Mrs A.
T. Stewart, on the Sth for the recovery of the
remains of her husband, and the arrest of the
robbers.
The New York City Produce Exchange Fire
Insurance Company has closed its doors and
will wind up its business.
A serious disturbance occurred at Tonawan-
da, N. Y, on the sth where the employees of
the Buffalo IL Lockport Railway Company at
tempted to lay track across the track of the
New York Central Railway and were resisted
by the employees of the latter company. The
Sheriff of Lockport enrolled 200 special dspu-
ties and also placed the Niagara Light Guards
under arms. Warrants were issued for the
arrest of number Of the employees of the
New York Central Road.
On the morning of the 9th fire was dis
covered in the Ocean House at Cape May, N.
j., and the alarm was promptly given, but
with the inadequate means at hand nothing
could be done to prevent the spread of the
flames, which soon extended to adjoining
hHiI1fnOQ ,F
forty acres, destroying all of the principal
hotels and many cottages. The hotels burned
were the Ocean, Center, Columbia, Atlantic,
Merchants, Avenue and Congress Hall. The
fire is supposed to have been the work of an
incendiary, as there had been no fire in the
Ocean House since the close Of the season.
The loss is estimated at $400, 600 on which
there is an insurance of about $500, 900.
The suits of E. c. Rogers & Co. and E.
Jones Il Co., against the city of New York for
S9,OOO,OO0 for stationery and printing fur
nished the Common Council during the Tweed
ring days, and the suit of the city against
these firms TO recover 100000 alleged exces
sive payments, have been discontinued and a
settlement effected by the payment to the
firms Of $4,000,
At a conference of trunk line and western
railroad managers, held in New York City on
the 9th, it was decided that rates on eastward
bound grain and fourth-class freight should
be advanced five per cent. after the 25th.
Westward rates were not altered.
Three men, two brothers named Martin and
John Murray and James McHugh we're killed
at Locust Gap, Pa, in the Spring Colliery on
the llth. Two cars that were being hoisted
became uneoupled, and the hind car ran down
the slope and killed the workmen before they
could get away from the track.
At New York City, on the 11th Judge Bar
rett refused a mandamus TO compel the Comp
troller TO pay another S1,0O0,OOO OF the city's
money toward the completion Of the Brooklyn
bridge, on the ground that the $4,000
voted by Brooklyn and New York has already
been paid.
WEST AND SOUTH.
A Portland, Ore, dispatch OF the 5th state,