Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-04-19
THE EAST.

At the session of the New England Method
ist Conference at Westiield, Mass, on the
9th, resolutions were adopted declaring it the
duty of citizens, and especially of Christians,
to prevent the election of bad men to civil
offices, deploring the corruption in society
and prevalence Of COmmunstic infdel senti.
ment. The course of the Government toward
the African, Indian and Chinese was declared
to be full Of injustice, bad faith and cruelty.
The Baltimore S.Ohio Railroad Company
on the 10th declared dividend of per cent,
payable in stock of the company.
1t was discovered on the 10th that S. A.
Chace, Treasurer of the Union Mills at Fall
River, Mass, was a defaulter in the sum of
S4S0,OOO. The defalcation is represented by
an oyer-issue of notes 1t has been going on
for years. Chace occupied a high social posi-
tion and has been resident of Fall River
since 1872. Besides being Treasurer of the
Union Mills he was President of the Second
National and Five Cents Savings Banks. He
acknowledges his guilt.
Bishop Andrews, of the New York Method
list Conference, has decided that the licens-
ing of women as preachers is against the
doctrines of Wesley The advocates of the
new departure have taken an appeal to the
General Conference of Methodists of the
whole country in 1880
The Secretary of the Treasury has com
pleted negotiations with members of the late
syndicate for the sale, for resumption pur-
poses, of S50,OOO,0OO AZ per cent. ffteen-year
bonds at par and accrued interest and - per
cent, premium on gold coin--$l0 0O0, 900 to be
issued Immediately and S5,000,000 per month
during the remainder of the year.
Bayard Taylor, L. S. Minister TO Germany,
sailed on the 1lth from New York.
The amount of the Chace defalcation at
Fall River was stated on the l2th to be $5l9,-
600.
On the 12th Peter McNIanus and John
O'Neill, Mollie Maguires, were arrested at
Shamokin, Pa, for being implicated in the
murder of Coroner Fred. Hesserin December,
1874. Six other Mollies have been arrested
for burning Swenck's coal-breaker at Mt.
Carmel in June, 1875.
Gov. Hartranft on the 18th signed the death
warrant of Dennis, alias Bucky, Donnelly, i'm
plicated in the murder of Singer and Wren at
Raven Run, Pa, in 1862. The warrant takes
effect May %. The State Board Of Pardons
having decided TO hold the case of Jack Kehoe
over for the present, Gov. Hartranft has with
drawn his death warrant.
Mrs. Catherine Keenan, died at Brooklyn,
N. Y, on thel3th from the effects of the bite
Of a cat.
Gen. Henry A. Smallcy, of New York, re-
ceiver of the National Capital Insurance Com
pany and other institutions, and prominent
"societyn man, is missing, and it is reported
that deficiencies exist in his accounts to the
amount of $20,0O0 and that trusts placed in
his hands have not been accounted for.
On the 18th f. +, MasGrett, Cashier Of the
fremont Honse, Boston, committed suicide
because, having lost the funds of the house at
faro, the proprietors refused to compromise.
Mollie Mcguire named John Acton was
arrested at Oscola, Pa, ON the 18th, for com
plicity in the murder of Hesser at ShamOkr
in 1874.
Chace, the Fall River thief, was arrested OF
the 18th upon two complaints, each charging
embezzlement of 100000, and locked up.
George T. Bigelow, ex-Chief-Justlce of thu
Massachusetts, Supreme Court, died at Boston
on the l2th, aged sixty
The Broadway New York; Bank com
menced paying out gold on the 18th in sums
of $500 and under.
| Notice was given on the 10Th of reduction
of wages in all the Lowell (Mass,) mills o
from 8 to Is per cent.
Four-ffths Of the weavers in the Cochec,
Mills at Dover, n. H., struck ON the 15tl
against reductio on in wages of ~ per cent
Chace, the Fall River defauter was ar
raigned on the 18th and in default Of 5000, 90,
bail committed to Jail
Gold sold down to lOOls at New York on tn,
10th and subsequently was quoted at %Gl4
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WEST AND SOUTH.
The strike ON the Atchison, Topeka q SAINT,
] Fe Railroad was practically ended on the 10th