Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-07-19

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at the Pottsyllle (Pa.) mines on the 10th.
New York dispatch Of the 18th says thu
bondsmen Of Gen. Merritt, the new Collector
Of Customs, are Representative Chittenden
eI Congressman Williams, Walter Phelps, NJ
o. Roberts and Reuben f. Fenton.
WEST AND SOUTH.
During the morning of the 9th the drying
room of the Western Steam Tobacco Works
owned by B. Leldersdorf Il Co., Milwaukee
Wis, was burned. The stock is almost to-
tai loss estimated at $4,000; insurance $780,
900. The building was owned By Frederick
Vogel. Loss $4,000
At Atlanta, Ga, on the 9th, in a game of
baseball, an alteration occurred between
VIM. Lawshe, twenty-one years old, and Sam
uel Venable, fifteen years. While Lawshe
had VenatIedo on Jne nth urr,r- rod...' r. 2 r
Mitchell, boy 81 teen ,,..',, ,,,i - of
Venable, came up with bat and struck Law
she two terrible blows on the head, resulting
in his death.
The Michigan Democratic State Convention
met at Lansing on the 10th and nominated the
following officers For Governor, Orlando
NJ. Barnes; for Lieutenant Governor, A. P.
Swineford, Marquette; Treasurer, Alexander
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George H. Murdock, of Berrien: Auditor
General, W. ]. B. Schermerhorn, of Lenawee
Commissioner of State Land Office, George
II. Lard, Of Bay; Attorney-General, A. b,
Morse, Of Iona; Superintendent of Public In
struction, j. Truesdale; Member Board of
Education, E. F. Uhl, Grand Rapids.
The Democrats of Missouri met in State
Convention on the 10th at jefferson, and
placed in nomination the following ticket
Judge of Supreme Court, Elijah Norton /;
Register of Lands, ]. E. McHenry; State Su-
perintendent of Public Schools, R. d. Shan
non; Railway Commissioner, A. NJ. Sewer.
The Ohio Editorial Convention met in Cleve-
land on the 10th. Mayor Rose in the evening
delivered an address of welcome and rendered
to them the freedom of the city, and was re-
| sponded to by President Mack. Gen. Garfield
was introduced, and addressed the convention
| in his usual terse manner. On the 11th they
| elected the following officers for the ensuin q
year; President, /. F. Mack Vice-President,
| L. Harper; Secretary, Miss Lille Darst; AS
sistant Secretary, j. K Newcomer; Treasurer,
E. R. Alderman. In the afternoon the men,
| bers of the convention, many of them ac-
companied by their wives and children, left
on the City of Detroit and enjoyed a sail on
the lake, and in the evening they started on a
grand excursion to Philadelphia, Cape May
and New York. 1t was left with the officers
to designate when anu where the next meeting
would be held.
On the 18th, Mike Shaw, the wife murderer
was hanged at Milledgeville, Ga.
A telegram from st. Louis on the 18th says
the weather has been intensely warm there
this week, the mercury having ranged from 95
to 102 in the shade during the day, and from
so to 80 at night. Numerous cases Of sun
| stroke have been reported.
A telegram of the 18th from Madison, Wis.
says the storm which has prevailed through
out the State for the past two days has been
of a very severe character, and great damage
has been done to the crops.
| Dubuque, iowa, dispatch of the 18th says
the rain storm which visited that State on the
morning and evening of the above date did a
great deal of damage to railroad property.
The walking match at Chicago, which closed
on the evening of the 18th, in which Daniel
| OLeary challenged Schmehl to walk $50
miles while he walked 215. Schmehl won,
having completed the $50 miles at $3.50, while
| OLeary did not finish his 275 miles until
| 1850.
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tory Of P. NJ. Gurant, in Galloway County,
Kentucky, on the 18th. The amount of to-
bacco seized is about 10000 pounds
On the 18th Henry Wise was hanged at
WATERFORD, s. c., for the murder of Mercer
Brown, his rival in a love affair
Lieuts. Henry and Rucker were drowned on
the 18th near Camp Supply, Arizona Ter.
| The latter is a brother-in-law of Gen. Sheri-
dan.
I On the morning of the 14th jeremiah Ken
nedy, of Chicago shot his wife, killing her
instantly. He then shot himself through the
| heart.
A printer named CLEANS Anderson, of Men
neapolis Minn., fell from the third-story win
dow of the City Hall building to the sidewalk
on the 14th and was instantly killed.
The Chicago TribUns'S special of the 18th,
from Fort Thompson, Dakota Ter, says the
visit of Commissioner Hoyt to the Indian
agencies is developing astounding official
fraud and rascality on the Missouri River, and
a conspiracy between the agents and traders
which startles the natives.
A number of frightened negroes from Ken
lucky, opposite Cairo, brought a report that
a band of Ku-Klux visited all the negroes in
that vicinity on the night of the 18th, giving
them twenty-four hours to leave the country.
Later information prove them to have been
half dozen of drunken youths, one of whom
reclIlessly shot at a negro, inficting flesh
wound in the arm.
Robert NJ Lowe, white man, was shot and
killed by Calvin Anderson, colored, near Bel
Buckle, Tenn, on the 18th, while Lowe anc
fifteen others in disguise were engaged in
breaking down his door.