Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-10-11
WEST AMI SnuTH-

AT Nevada City, Cal, on the lst, Butts was
hanged for the murder of VIM. Roberts at
Forest Springs about year ago.
The sixty-ninth annual session of the Amer
ican Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions convened at Milwaukee, Wis, on
the lst. The President, Mark Hopkins. pre-
sided. About 1,500 delegates were present.
report was presented showing that the debt
of the society was reduced during the past
year from S4S, 900 to less than $4,000. The to-
tai expenditures for the year were S43s, ,7g7. .O4c
total receipts, 1882 204.73.
Cheyenne, Wyoming dispatch of the 1st
says that John Fl. Brown. one of the parties
engaged in the recent stage robbery at Canon
Springs, was captured few days ago and has
been lodged in Jail. The pursuing party have
also in their hands another one of the robbers
named Burns. They expect to capture the
other three.
The following ticket was nominated by the
Texas Republican State Convention, at Dallas,
on the I'd: Governor, A. b. Norton; Lieuten-
ant-Governor, Richard Allen Comptroller
A Siemening; Treasurer, S. D. Wood; Com.
missioner of Land Office, Jacob Keuckler;
Attorney General, F. w. Miner.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat had a special
from Leavenworth, Kan, on the Sd, stating
that the troops had fight with the Cheyennes
at four o'clock that morning, but did not
name the place. One Lieutenant a corporal
and five soldiers were killed. Thebodies of
thirteen settlers, killed by the Indians,
were brought into Buffalo Station, Kan,
on the I'd. Another dispatch from
Topeka, Kan, same date, says that band of
runaway Indians crossed the Kansas Pacific
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Hayes City, and when eight or ten miles
north of the station came upon a lot of cattle
men, when a hand-to-hand fight ensued, re,
sulting in the loss Of eighteen citizens killed.
and five wounded. The troops were all west
of Buffalo in pursuit of band that crossed
near Sheridan on the 10Th ult
The California Constitutional Convention
was organized on the Sd, the non-partisan
Democratic and Republican delegates elect
ing all of the subordinate officers Of the Con-
vention, thus completely shutting out all
Workingmen's candidates.
A dispatch from Ogallala dated the Sd saws
a courier arrived there that morning from
capt. Mauck's command. He reports that
the runaway Cheyennes were last seen on the
Republican River; that they had killed every
white man they came across on the route
stolen horses and committed other depreda-
tions There are about lowell armed mounted
warriors, and about $50 squaws and children
in the party.
Revised returns of the Colorado election,
from twenty-one countless place Belford's
(Rep,) majority over Patterson Dem.) for
Congress, at 2,145; PitSins' majority over
Loveland for Governor is $500. Counties yet
to be reported will probably increase the aver
age Republican majority in the State to 5000.
The Greenback vote in the State will ag-
gregate about 1900 The Legislature will be
largely Republican.
United States Marshals arrested a band of
counterfeiters in Lincoln County, w. Va, on
the 3D. The eounterfeiters have been operat-
ing in that section for some time. Fourteen
counterfeiters were also arrested in the mount
aims of Kentucky by the Emitted States au-
thorities on the same day.
The renegade Cheyennes have crossed the
Kansas Pacific Railroad and up to the 4th had
been remarkably successful in eluding the
numerous bodies of troops who are attempt
ing to capture them. The Indians have killed
number of white settlers on Sappa Creek,
about twenty-five miles north of Buffalo
Station. SO far seventeen dead bodies have
been found along the creek. The Indians do
not go out of their way to kill white people,
but If they meet man on horseback they
Kill him and take his horse. They have killed
no women nor children, and have not thus
far mutilated the bodies of their victims.
Henry Greenbaum ex-President of the Ger
man Savings Bank Of Chicago, was arrested
on the 9TH at the instance of T. b. Weber who
preferred charges Of embezzlement of S225,-
600 against him. Greenbaum gave bond in
the sum Of S25,0O0.
A party of Spotted Tail and Red Cloud
Sioux have left their reservations, and are
aiming to form junction with the renegade
Cheyennes, it is reported, with the intention
of making a raid on the Black Hills settle
ments.
Seven additional alleged members of the
Craotree gang of counterfeiters in Ken
lucky and Tennessee were arrested on the 9TH.
A Galveston (Texas) NeUs special from
Mason, Texas, on the 7th, states that infor-
nation has been received of Indian raids near
Junction City. Three girls and a boy named
Dowley were killed. Reports from the sur
rounding country show the Indians stealing
stock and numbering settlers. A general raid
is feared
A Cincinnati dispatch of the 9TH says that a
negro named Wade, living near Greenville,
Ohio, who bore bad character, was on two
occasions notified to leave the county. These
warnings he disregarded On the night of
the 9th he was attacked by an armed mob and
In endeavoring to escape from his house was
shot.
YELLOW FEVER NOTES.
The Howards Of Vieksburg made another
appeal for aid on the lst The fever is spread