Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-09-13
WEST AND SOUTH.


ings Bank of San Francisco, Cal, closed its
doors. Amount due depositors about 1885,
600; assets claimed to be enough to pay de-
positors IN full
The Prohibition Convention of Minnesota,
held at Minneapolis on the Sd, nominated the
following ticket: T. G. Carter for State Audi
tor, William Copp for Clerk of the Supreme
Court.
Senator Blaine attended the opening of the
Minneapolis (Minn.) Exposition on the Sd,
and delivered an address. The attendance
was large. . -- . a r-
Reports from Memphis on the Sd were very
discouraging. While the list of new cases re-
ported was only about sixty the death rate
amounted to eighty-six. Bodies were discov-
cred in out-of-the-way places, which had, from
appearance, been dead several days. Post
master Thompson died on the Sd. The How
ard Association at Vicksburg has called for
more physicians. The number of physicians
there is smalk and they are broken down, and
several are sick. Physicians at New Orleans
announced on the Sd that they can no longer
make reports of new cases for want of time,
and the large increase of new cases. --
The Detroit & Milwaukee Railway was sold
on the 4th to the Great Western Railway of
Canada for S3,5OO,OOO.
New Orleans reported 212 new cases of fc-
yer on the 4th, and - deaths. Holly Springs,
whose citizens so generously threw open their
doors to the afflicted from New Orleans and
other cities, is now in turn afflicted, there be-
ing over sixty cases of fever in the city and
a number of deaths. They have asked for
physicians and nurses. The situation at
Vicksburg remained unchanged. The fever
has broken out in a very virulent form at
Greenville, Miss.
The Kansas Democratic State Convention
was held at Leavenworth on the 4th The
following candidates were nominated: Sec
retary of State, L. w. Barton; Treasurer, c.
G. Black; Attorney General, j. +. Cox; Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction, o. F. Me
Kern; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
r. NJ. Ruggles; Auditor Osbun Shannon.
The Republicans of Minnesota held their
State Convention at st. Paul on the 4th John
NJ. Berry was nominated for Associate Judge
of the Supreme Court; Samuel Fl. Nichols for
Clerk of the Supreme Court; o. P. Whitcomb
present incumbent, for Auditor of State. The
convention adopted a resolution declaring
that the faith of the nation is pledged to pay
its debts in coin, and urge persistence in the
policy of speedy specie resumption.
AT public reception at Chicago on the 9TH,
Senior Zamacona, the Mexican Minister, stated
that by establishing closer commercial rela-
tions the United States could almost monopo-
lize the trade of his country. Increased mar
thine and railroad transportation was, how
ever, indispensable. Freight rates at present
are higher from New York to Mexico than
from Liverpool. The meeting adopted reso-
luton urging Congress to grant subsidies to
the Texas Pacific Il Huntington line from FL
Paso to the Pacific coast, and also to the Topeka
& Santa Fe road.
The Grand Central Hotel, at Omaha, Neb.,
one of the finest hotels In the West, was de-
| stroyed by fire on the night of the 4th. The
building was fve-story brick and cost $780,
600. Insurance on the building 100000, and
on the furniture, which cost S25, 900, 5000.
| When the fire had burned five hours a di-
vision wall fell on squad of firemen who
were in the corridor of the hotel, burying
| four of them, named John A. Lee, Louis
| Wilson, AlonZo Randall and William Nc
Namara. The remains of the menwere taken
out on the morning Of the 5th in an unrecog,
nized state.
A grand reception was given President
Mimi, on the 5th. In the afternoon the
President and Gen. Devens addressed a great
crowd at the Fair grounds The President
confined his remarks to the financial and com
mercial affairs of the country. These he re
viewed at some length Gen, Deyens' speecl
was short and merely congratulatory.
A Tucson, Arizona, dispatch of the 5tl
states that j, II. Adams and Cornelius Finle,
were murdered at Davidson's canon on the 2d
by Mexican bandits. Adams was ex-Sheriff o
Santa Clara County, CAL, and became famou
in his search after the notorious desperad,
and robber Vasquez, Finley, at the time o
his death, was Superintendent OF the Wash
ington mine, Arizona.
Sixty cases of yellow fever were reported a
Hickman, KY, on the 5th.
There was a decided falling off in the nun
Der of new cases at Memphis on the 9th, a
compared with the reports of the few day
preceding; there were, however, nincty-tw
lnterments. Delphi, La, called for help o
the 5th Almost every person in the tow
was reported sick. Six deaths at Grenad
same date.
, The Democrats of Washington Territory
+ convention at Van Couver, on the 9th, non
a mated NJ. T. Cation for delegate TO Congress
A platform was adopted which fayors an e,
4 tension of time for the completion of Il
e Northern Pacific Railroad the improvement
5 of the Columbia and Snake Rivers, and
mands the breaking up of Indian reservation
: and the adoption of new policy regardir
d tribes.
n On the night of the 9TH the steamer Re
n anee, running between Jacksonville, Fla, al
Savannah, Ga, exploded her boiler killiI
e William Moulton, first engineer; Jonah Arr
3 strong, second engineer, and William Dart
second mate. Rev. Dunlap, of Savannah, HI
10 his thigh broken. None of the other passe
!, gers were seriously hurt,