Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-09-20

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unless the same be authorized by direct vote
Of the people; that the Labor Bureau shall
be sustained that land of equal productive
capacity shall be subject to equal taxation
whether cultivated or not; that the telegraph
companies must be forced to sell news upon
equal terms to any paper; that no person shall
be taxed for that which he owes, in other
words all persons shall have the right to de-
duct from the value OF their estates the sum
of the mortgages thereon; that the system OF
letting out convict labor is detrimental to the
workingman and should be abolished that
the public lands are the property of the peo-
| pie and should be reserved for actual settlers
The Prohibitionists of Massachusetts, held
their State Convention at Worcester on the
| 18th. The following ticket was nominated
| Governor, Rev. DIR. Miner; Lieutenant Gov
ernor, George G. Ewing; Secretary of State,
d. B. Gurney' Auditor, j. Yome; Treasurer,
David N. Skillings Attorney General, o. r.
Gray. The resolutions express an uuwaver-
ing purpose to legally suppress the liquor
| traffic; invite the cooperation of women in
their work; the equal protection of all citi-
I zens property should be relieved of the bur
den oi double taxation.
At Altoona, Pa, on the afternoon of the
18th, while some railroad men were testing the
track in yard, the engine ran into number
of cars and wrecked them. Joseph johnson,
brakeman, was killed; the superintendent
Of the yard, Charles McCulley, had both his
feet cut off, and the chief dispatcher, Joseph
| Sands, had his arm broken and was otherwise
| injured. Conductor James Boyd, Engineer
Jackson, two brakemcn and a fireman were all
slightly injured.
The steamer Cimbria arrived at Philadel-
phia on the 18th with officers and men for
four Russian steamers being constructed
there.
Near Hunters Point, N. Y, on the 18th, an
accident occurred to train on the Long ISL
and Southern Railroad, and the engine and
three cars went down an embankment. One
man wss killed and several severely injured.
Hon. Frank A. McKeon was nominated for
Governor, and Hadley B. Fowler, David H.
Young and L. r. Peterson for Railroad Com
missioners by the Democratic State Convention
of New Hampshire, which was held at Concord
on the 10Th. Resolutions were adopted ieclar-
ing in favor of stable currency, just payment
of the public debt, and but one currency for the
Government and the people, the laborer and
officeholder, pensioner and soldier, the pro-
ducer and bondholder; that the present tariff
laws are a restriction upon the trade and
commerce between our own andforeign coun-
tries; that President Hayes obtained his seat
through fraud unparalleled in the history of
the world, and call upon the Democracy and
people throughout the land to stand with
them in demanding the yindication of the
right and the condemnation and punishment
of the wrong; express sympathy for the work
ingmen, and congratulate the people of the
South upon their restoration to the rights of
self-government.
At Erie, Pa, during the storm on the night
of the 18th, house situated on Mill Creek
was carried away by the flood, and its occu-
pants, James Dodworth and sixteen-year-
old daughter, were drowned. The storm did
great damage to property at Meadville, Pa,
and several lives were reported lost.
A refinery belonging to the Standard Oil
Company, at Titusville, Pa. was burned on
the evening of the 18th. Several lives were
reported lost.
Near Bradford, Pa, on the 18th, q glycerne
magazine, containing seventy pounds of gly-
cerine and 100 pounds of dynamite, exploded
and n. b. Pulver, j. B. Burkholder, Andrew
2. Higgins and Charles Page were blown into
fragments.
On the 14th John Hendrickson, of Babylon,
Long Island, probably fatally shot his wife
and niece and then killed himself.
A trapeze performer named Robert Carvel
la fell fifty feet from balloon at Phoenix, n.
j., on the 14th and was killed
The Maine House of Representatives, ac-
cording to a Portland dispatch of the 14th,
stands sixty-fve Republicans, two Democrats
al hy RapubIinoOc narnn
Gratis and ifty-seven Greenbackers. Sixteen
of the twenty-seven Democratic Representa-
tives were chosen on straight Democratic
tickets, over both Republican and Greenback
candidates, and will have the balance Of power
in the House. The other fourteen were
chosen by Greenback aid.
The Superior of the Trappists at Sept Fonds,
Department of Allicr, France, has purchased
land in Pennsylvania for POO monks from Sept
Fonds, Mount Mellary, ireland, and Maria
stein. The monks will themselves erect a
monastery aud other buildings.
At the School District election held at New
Haven, Conn, on the 10th, the issue being
the re-establishment of devotional exercises
in public schools, the ticket in favor of re-es-
tablishment was elected by $500 majority.
The Catholics united with the Protestants to
bring about the success of the Bible ticket.
WEST AND SOUTH.
Buffalo Bill during play at Ford's Grand
Opera House, Baltimore, on the night of the
10th, in firing pistol which happened to be
loaded with a ball cartridge, shot youth
named Michael Garner in the shoulder
The Adiutant-G of Texas has received
a report from Sheriff Kerber, of FL Paso
County, which states that on the 2Sth ult. one
of his deputies arrested Antonio Alizares, a
fugitive from the penitentiary, and also under
indictment for the murder of Judge Howard
and others, and put him in the San Elizio Jail,
and that the same night party of Mexicans
from Mexico crossed the river and rescued the
prisoner.
General Howard has held a conference with
Chief Moses at Priests Rapids, at which as
suranees of continued friendship were ex-
changed, and Moses expressed a willingness
to go on reservation of their own choice,
but not one remote from their country.
A Deputy United States Marshal and posse
attempted to arrest three brothers of Bald
win County, Ga, named Ennis, for illicit
distilling on the 10th, and desperate fight
ensued, in which one of the posse was mortally
and one severely wounded
The Republican State Convention of Ten
nessee on the 1lth nominated Dr. Z. NJ.
Wight, of Chattanooga, for Governor.
A correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocedp,
now with Gen. Miles, sent that paper a special
from Mammoth Springs, National Park, under
date of Sept. 0, stating that Gen, Miles had a
fight with the Bannock Indians on the morn
ing of the 4th. Gen, Miles command consist.
ed of twenty-seven men of the Fifth Infantry
and thirty-fyo friendly Crows. He surprised
the Bannocks at daybreak, and after two
hours battle, in which Capt. Bennett, French
scout and one Crow Indian were killed of his
force, defeated the Bannocks, who had thir
teen killed and thirty-four men, women and
children taken prisoners.
A Bismarck, d. T., dispatch of the 18th
states that report had reached that place
that over 1000 hostile Sioux were on Sunda,