Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-08-09
THE EAST

John McCann was suffocated on the night
of the Both ult,, while attempting TO save
books and papers from his burning paint
shop in Troy, NY.
The Maine Republican State Convention
met on the Both ult. at Portland, and renom-
mated Gov, Conpor. The platform adopted
invites the most rigid scrutiny into tn c man
ner in which the Republicans have conducted
the affairs of the State; favoPing wise prohibit
tory Legislation; insisting that both forms of
debt of the nation shall be paid with the same
fairness and integrity -with which an honest
man seeks to pay his individual debts; de-
mands honest money for the people; that cur
rency must be made as good as coin and re-
deemable in it; congratulates the country on
the unmistakable evidence that the near ap-
proach to stable currency is prd pairing the way
for an early revival of business and industry
that the evident purpose Of the Democratic
party is to pay hundreds of millions of sus-
pended war claims of disloyal men already
presented to Congress, making it doubly i'm
portant, now that the Senate is soon to pass
under Democratic control, that the House of
Representatives should be under the control
of the Republicans.
Fifty thousand tons of Scranton coal were
sold in New York on the 3lst ult. Prices
ranged from S3,22l5 to $500.
Martin Weaver, of MilleSsburg, Pa, was killed
and three others more or less injured on the
evening of the 3lst ult. by the Niagara ex-
press while crossing the Southern Central Rail
road in wagon.
The carrier pigeons which started In race
from Columbus, Ohio, to New York on the
26th of July, landed at Lancaster, Pa, on the
morning of the 3lst ult., 1875 miles from New
York and on direct route for the latter city.
A telegram OF the 1st says U. S. Marshal
Payn's paper mill at Chatham Village, N. Y,
was burned. Loss 100000; insurance S25, 900.
On the same day the Passaic Ice Company's
building at Oldham, n. j., was burned. The
loss is estimated at $65,OOO; no insurance.
John Stevenson and William Mitchell, dock
idlers quarreled in Philadelphia saloon on
the LIST and the former was killed.
On the LIST, by the breaking of a swing at
Homecoming, Nd, Mary Pritchard was killed
and two men fatally injured,
A New York dispatch of the 1st states there
were sixty-seven failures in that city during
the month of July, with aggregate liabilities
of S5,73s,17l.
The Greenback State Convention met al
burlington, W., on Ine ISL, ana adopted
series of resolutions as follows: That all
money shall be a full legal tender in every
case and to any amount in payment of every
species of Indebtedness; Congress shall create
suitable amount Of money In a safe and con
Venient form to meet the necessary require
ments Of the business and labor of the coun
try; official salaries, bonds and all other obi
cations shall be discharged In legal-tendel
money; public lands should be devoted 10 act
ual settlers in limited quantities; rigid econ
omy should be enforced in every branch Of
the public service; that graded income ta'
be levied on all net incomes exceeding So 900
that the joint resolution declaring the prinei
pal of the bonds payable In coin was an act o.
fragrant injustice, The convention adjourned
TO meet at st. Albans, Aug. %, when Stat,
ticket will be put In nomination.
On the 1st Count de Bodiseo, the Russian
Consul at New York city, died at White Sui
phur Springs, Va.
The Secretary and Treasurer of the New
Ysrk Optical Company, Isaac Bohman, disap
peared on the %, and It is asserted that h
,ehas taken large amount Of money belonging
70 the firm,
A fire at Parkersburg, W, Va, on the I'd dc