Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-20
WEST AND SOUTH.

WEST AND SOUTH.
Some State Militia have been ordered tc
Breathitt County, by the Governor Of Ken
tucky.
John O'Connor, ex-member of the Ohio
Legislature, has been sentenced to one year.
imprisonment in the Montgomery County
jail, and to pay the costs of prosecution. He
was recently convicted in the United States
| Court for forging certain papers to procure
an invalid pension.
| jury at Nebraska City, Neb., found
Henry jackson, Henry Martin and William s.
Giyens guilty Of murder in the second degree
for killing man named Slocum and outrag.
ing his wife. The evidence seemed to war.
rant murder in the first degree, and the Judge
SO stated in his sentence of pententiary for life
which he passed upon the murderers. On the
morning of the 10th a crowd assembled at the
Jail, broke open the doors, seized Martin and
jackson, took them short distance from the
courthouse and hung them to a tree.
Gov. Hampton's leg was amputated below
the knee on the 10th. His condition is not
considered dangerous. If he survives he will
go to Washington as United States Senator,
the Legislature having elected him to that
position by an almost unanimous vote, on the
10th, only two votes being cast against him.
One hundred delegates representing sixty
seven counties, were present at the Ohio State
Grange council at Columbus on the 10th. The
order is represented to be in a hourishing
condition, the secretary reporting 977 oranges
with about 10000 active members.
In the Anchor flour mill, at st. Paul, Mimi.
on the 9Th, while workman with a lantern
was endeavoring to correct stoppage in the
Hour elevator, the dislodged -four fell in
cloud OF dust and instantly flashed into
name, which spread to all parts of the
building so rapidly that all attempts
to subdue 1t proved Intellectual and the
mill was wholly destroyed. No loss of life
occurred, though the man with the lantern
was severely burned. The mill was owned by
Gov. j. s. Pillsbury and valued at $4,000, on
which there was an insurance of $4,000.
Seven citizens of Natchitoehes Parish, La.
were arrested on the 18th, on the affidavit of
j. r. Hornsbey, who charges them with con-
spiracy to prevent him, by force, intimidation
and threats Of bodily harm and injury, from
giving his support and advocacy in legal
manner toward and in favor of the election
OF j. Madison Wells, for Congress, at the No
vemoer election. The prisoners gave bail in the
sum of $4,000 each for their appearance before
the United States Court.
mob broke into the Jail at Brainbridge
Ga, on the 9th, and killed VIM. Cooper, col
ored, confined for the murder Of a prominent
citizen named John McGaughery. Cooper
had previously been wounded by the mob.
Three persons were arrested at Hillsboro,
Mo-, on the 10th, for obstructing the track of
the st. Louis, Iron Mountain Il Southern
Railway, near Sulphur Springs, for the pur-
pose of plunder. The New Orleans train
passed over the obstruction, but did not leave
the track.
Mrs. Harrison and three children, residing
on farm south Of Kearney, Neb, were mur-
dered on or about the Sth. Their dead bodies
were discovered in a hay stack on the 18th,
A man named S. d. Richards is suspected of
being the murderer; he has left the country
and reward is offered for his apprehension.
On the night of the 9th, two men named
Mitchell and Ketchum, accused of cattle steal
ing and murder, were taken from the Sheriff
OF Custer County, Neb., by a mob Of armed
men, who tied them to a tree and burned them
both to death. The mob was composed of
twenty-five men, nearly all herders and masked.
Karus trotted a mile in 2:14]6 at Stockton.
CAL, on the 12th.
OF $50 convicts hired TO the James River &
Kanawha Canal Company by Virginia, last
year, thirty-two died from exposure and bad
treatment. The Legislature has ordered an
investigation.
On the l3th while G. w. Lane, wife and two
living on the Mississippi River, be- |
low Sabula, Iowa, were sleighing on the ice, it |
gave way suddenly, and all of them were
drowned.
From ten to thirty inches of snow fell in |
Western Missouri, Kansas and Iowa on the |
18th. The storm was the heaviest known for
years.
Pryer Jones and Smith jackson, colored, |
we're hanged at Bastrop, Texas, on the 14th. |
Both died in five minutes from the drop.
Four negroes confined In the courthouse at |
Lake City, Fla, on the charge of attempting |
20 burn mill at Mount Carrie, and beating |
-he superintendent's wife to compel her to |
give up some money, were taken from the |
guardson the morning of the 14th by band of |
masked men, who shot two of them dead and |
nortally wounded the third. The fourth es- |
,aped but afterward surrendered to the au- |
,horities
John A. Wright, Indian Agent at Lembi |
'ioner OF Indian Affairs that two Indian pris-
'pers, hostiles, were taken from the guard at
salmon City, on the night of the I'd, by a mob
md shot TO DEATH The names of some OF the
mob are known, and include former sub
and late agency physician at Lem
ii Agency.
At Meridian, Texas, on the night Of the
9th, fifty masked men compelled the taller to
,pen the prison, and entered the cell where
wo prisoners named Mort and Tom Harrels
we're confined, and riddled them with buck
hot.
Gov. Hampton's condition on the 18th was
ess favorable, and doubts we're entertained of
lis recovery.
b. II. Eddins, tried in the United States Cir
'uit Court at Memphis, for fraudulently stuff
Ing ballot-box at Bartlett, Tenn, with Dem
'cratic tickets at the last Presidential elec.
ion, had verdict Of guilty returned against
him on the 18th. Eddlns was Judge Of the
election and prominent citizen.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
England has repealed the clause of the con-
agicus disease act, requiring all imported
'attle to be slaughtered Immediately upon
heir arrival in that couRtry.
panic prevails in financial circles in Great
Britain on account of the frequent and heavy
'ank and commercial failures.
The death OF Chief-Justice Monahan, OF Ire
and, who was an Attorney General during the
roubles OF 1S4s, is announced.
somep parties who had conspired to dethrone