Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-11-08
WEST AND SOUTH.


The annual reunion of the Army of the
Tennessee was held at Indianapolis, on the
Both ult., and was largely attended. Among
the prominent men present were Gems. Sher-
man, Gresham, Harrison, Poe, Wilson and
Gov. Williams. Col. William w. Villas, of
Madison, Wis, was the orator, his theme be-
ing The American Soldier" A letter was
received and read from Gen. Grant, in which
he notifies Gen. Sherman that he has given
up his trip around the world; that after a
short run to Africa he will return to Paris,
where he will remain until his departure for
home.
J. d. Patterson, Of Charles City, Mimi, at
torney of the e. NJ. 81 st. Paul Railroad, was
killed, and Frank Church, Superintendent of
the United States Express Company, and
Fred Merrill were injured by the ditching of
construction train upon which they were
riding near Sheldon, Mimi, on the Goth ult.
Frank Roberts was hanged at Virginia City,
Montana, on the 3lst ult., for the murder of
Morrison of the Crow Reservation.
A Confederate monument, the work Of the
Ladies' Memorial Association, was unveiled
at Augusta, Ga, on the 3lst ult. The star
spangled banner and Confederate flag were
blended and surmounted by an olive-fringed
streamer with the word Peace"
Joseph A. Heman & Co., bankers, Cincin-
natl, suspended on the 31st. Liabilities, from
S175, 900 to $3.50, 900; assets, small.
Forty-nine Indian children, gathered from
agencies on the Upper Missouri River, passed
through Omaha, on the LIST, In charge of Capt.
Pratt. They are to be placed in the Hamp-
ton, Va, school, and will be educated at the
expense of the Government
Advlces from various points along Lake
Michigan report that serious damage was done
to shipping during storms which prevailed
the last days of October and LIST of November.
Four vessels were driven on the beach at
Grand Haven, Mich, the barque Woodruff
was sunk at White Hall, the barge j.. H. Rut-
ter off Ludington, and the schooners Lake
Forest, Worts, d. r. Owen and John Kilder-
house were sunk at other points. The Captain
of the latter vessel was drowned, as were also
two of the crew of the Woodruff.
| A special to the Chicago Tribune from
Keokuk, Iowa, states that 1t has been discoY.
cred that A. Mackay, of that city, has been
receiving bodies of recently buried people,
graves having been robbed at Beacon, Ia, and
two bodies barreled and shipped. Two bar.
rels were consigned to Mackay on the 31st
ult., and on opening one Of them the body OF
a man recently buried at Beacon was found
MackaY was arrested.
Gen. William w. Dudley, of Richmond
Ind, with Pope's Army of the Potomac, has
discovered among his papers a diary which
contains daily entries of the whole Pope cam
paign and settles many disputed points
brought before the Fitz John Porter Commis
sion. 1t has been placed at the disposal o.
the committee.
Mansfield and Mclaughlin, road agents
who were being taken from Laramie to Dead
wood for trial, were taken out of the coach b,
five masked men on Platte River on the nigh
of the LIST and hanged on cottonwood tree
Jeremiah Kennedy, whoma jury at Chicago
on the I'd found guilty OF wife murder, bu
found also that he became insane after tn
deed, proved the correctness of this peculia
verdict on the morning Of the 4th by cuttin
his throat from ear to ear with a razor Dor
rowed from an inmate OF the jail.
A Chicago dispatch of the 4th states tina
the schooner John P. March, with crew O
four, is reported a total wreck with all O.
board lost, at Good HarbOr, on the norther
shore of Lake Michigan. The storm is said +
have been the severest seen on the lakes for
number OF years.