Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-08-09
WEST AND SOUTH.

dispatch of the 5Uth ult. from Portland
(Ore.) says news has just been received from
Malheur Agency that the hostile Indians were
entirely out of rations. 1t was thought they
were either going to the agency to surrender
or making toward Stein Mountain Several
hostiles passed through near Malheur, clean
ing out a few houses and shooting at citizens
There were tweDty-four new, cases of yellow
fever at New Orleans on the 30th ult.
On the morning of the Both ult. a party of
masked men rode into Monroe, La, and forci-
bly, took from the parish Jail four colored men,
who were charged with murder, and hung
them to the limb of an oak tree in the Court
House square.
A severe hail storm visited three counties of
damage to crops. Hail fell four or five inches
in circumference, covering the ground two or
three inches deep.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company issued
a circular on the 3lst ult. to the dry-goods
trade informing shippers of the increase in
rates on first-class merchandise from New
York to San Francisco from six to twelve dol
lars hundred The reason assigned is that
when the rates were low merchants only
shipped light freight by rail, and sent all the
bulky merchandise by clippers around Cape
Horn.
A dispatch from New Orleans of the 3lst
ult., reports thirty-one new cases of yellow
fever, aud five deaths.
On the morning of the 3lst ult. Edward NJ
Orr shot, and it is thought fatally wounded,
James B. Mclaughlin, lawyer of Little
Rock, Ark. The latter was former resident
of Cleveland, Ohio
The wheat corner at Chicago eliminated on
the 3lst ult., and the highest price for cash
was S1.l0
The Central Pacific Railroad directors on
the 3lst ult. elected the following officers
President, l.. Stanford; First Vice. President
&. p. Huntington; Second Vice-Prcsident,
Charles Crocker; Financial Director, d. d.
Cotton; Treasurer f. w. Hopkins; secre-
tary, f, II. Miller, Jr.
A Milwaukee dispatch of the 3lst ult. says
the corner in July wheat has eliminated The
profits of one firm by the corner is variously
estimated at from 100000 to $4,000.
dispatch says the astronomers from Raw
lins, Wyoming Ter, and other points met at
Denver, Col, on the LIST for comparison of
notes and discussion of observations. Prof
Watson feels certain that he has discovered
Vulcan southwest of the sun, about two de
grees distant. Prof. Draper succeeded in get
ting a photograph OF the spectrum of the
corona, thus proving that most of the light of
the corona is reflected from the sun, and is
not due to ignted gas
telegram of the 1st from Des Moines,
Iowa, says that Warren Cooper, of Madison
| County, was killed by lightning during a
storm on the 3lst ult while stacking hay.
His companion, Mr.. Hildebrand, was severely
stunned. Two horses were killed and the
stack set on fire. The amphitheater and
judges stand at the fair grounds at Winterset
were totally destroyed by the storm. Other
damages are reported. The severity of the
storm was unusual.
dispatch of the LIST says great excitement
prevailed among the miners at Uhrichsville,
Ohio, on account of a reduction of their
wages. Some 260 have stopped work. and the
Others are talking of a strike.
j. S. Iverson and II. S. Salisbury, of Au-
gusta, Ga, met at the Carolina side of the
river on the morning of the 1st, exchanged
shots, missed each other, and the difficulty
was arranged.
On the LIST the Board of Health of New Or
leans reported twenty.four new cases of yell
low fever and seven deaths.
The striking tug-men of Chicago, resumed
work on the morning of the I'd. Their en-
ployers having reconsidered the proposition
to reduce their wages, and taken them back
at the old prices,
dispatch of the I'd says the town of Alta,
Utah Ter, is in ashes, the fire having origi,
mated from lighted cigar and spread rapidly,
consuming 200 wooden buildings. The loss
is estimated at 100000.
| A Muskegon (Mich.) telegram states that
the monument erected to Capt jonathan Walk
er was unveiled at that place on the ID Can't.
Walker was known as "The Man with the
Branded Hand, Va cognomen derived from the
fact that the palm of his right hand waf
branded s. s., "Slaye Stealer," on account OF
his having assisted in running fugitives over
into Canada on his vessel
There were thirty-six new cases of yellow,
fever reported by the New Orleans Board OF
Health on the I'd.
A Chicago special of the Cd says the Land
Agent of the Union Pacific Railroad at Oma
ha has issued an official circular letter giving
notice that that road will not accept as fpa
the recent decision of Secretary Schurz as tC
the right of citizens TO settle on and remain
In undisturbed possession of lands granted
the Union Pacific by the Government. An,
such settlers win be dealt with as trespassers
A New Orleans telegram dated the Sd inst
states that there were thirty.eight new case