Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-08-30

Curtis, Of Troy, for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and
Fletcher Tarble, of swanton, for Treasurer.
VIM. II. McFadden, Chief of the Philadel-
phia Water Department, has discovered an
extensive and systematic case of robbery, by
false entries, in his department. Fifteen
thousand dollars have been traced, and Chief
McFadden thinks the amount will probably
reach hundreds of thousands, and that the
robbery has extended over a period of ten
years. Six clerks have been arrested.
John Scull, editor of the Somerset, Pa,
Herald, was drowned near Cumberland, Md,
on the 23d.
At a meeting Of the railroad managers in
session at Saratoga on the 23d a resolution
favoring pooling arrangement was adopted.
The committee appointed to confer with the
representatives Of propeller lines agreed that
the difference between all rail and lake east
bound rates from Chicago be ten cents per
barrel on flour, and on all fourth class freight
except grain, pork in barrels, lard,
flax or grass seed, five cents The West
ern Executive Committee agreed that live
stock rates from Chicago to New York, taking
effect Sept . oh~n lie sixty cents per 100
pounds; from East st. Louis sixty-hve cents
and other competing points to be in proper
tion to Chicago rates. 1t was agreed that no
return passes whatever shall be given to ship
pers OF live stock or men in charge of the
same, but that all issue of free passes on ac-
count of live stock shall he conferred to the
man in charge of the same, and good only on
the trains on which their stock Is being
hauled.
A three-mile scull race took place at Beach
Bottom, near Wheeling. Va, on the 24th be-
tween Clayton, of Wheeling, and seibert, of
Pittsburg; the former won the race by three
boat lengths. Time, %
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company and
the Union Pacific Railroad have extended
their freight contract, which would have
terminated Aug. 81, for sixty days longer.
Edwin Forrest, the celebrated trotting
horse who made . IA in the great exhibition
trot at Hartford, Conn, on the 23d, has been
sold to a New York gentleman for Sl7, 600.
One thousand men employed in various
iron mills of Philadelphia, went out on a
strike on the 26th ON account OF a reduction
of wages
Pittsburgh received case of yellow fever
on the steamer Abner O'Neill on the Goth.
The Board of Health had the patient removed
TO a hospital above the city Immediately after
his arrival. No danger is apprehended.
On the 18th the sloop yacht Zephyr, with a
fishing and shooting party from New York on
board, was capsized in Sheephead Bay, and
four Of them, including the Captain, were
drowned.
Pittsburgh has subscribed over $1,000 and
cities Of the South.
Ex-Gov. Padleford, of Providence, r. l., died
in that city on the 26th, aged seveDty-one.
WEST AND SOUTH.
A violent rain-storm visited Muscatine, Iowa,
and vicinity, on the night of the Goth. The
rainfall was ass inches, the heaviest known
since 1851. Considerable property was de-
strOyed, but no lives lost.
In response to Il call for aid for the yellow
fever sufferers from the Mayor of Memphis,
Tenn, the Mayor of Boston on the Goth au-
| thorized tho fornAar IN draw on him at sight
| for Sl,500.
Dennis Keamey spoke at Chicago on the
Goth. He proposes visiting st. Louis, Louis.
vile, Cincinnati and Philadelphia, speaking
one or more times at each place. He will
| canvass Massachusetts, this fall.
In the Cincinnati City Council on the Goth
| the result of the recent vote on the issuance
of two millions of dollars in bonds to COM
plete the Southern Railway was formally an
| nounced. This action will permit immediate
resumption of work on the unfinished road.
A fire at Cincinnati, on the 2Oth, partially
destroyed the warehouse of Frieburg IL
Workum, liquor dealers. Loss about SG5,OOO
insurance $4,000.
The agents of the Memphis Howard Asso.
citation, Messrs. VIM. j. Smith and Butler P.
| Anderson, sent to Grenada, Miss, for the
! purpose of looking carefully into the situa-
tion of everything connected with the yellow
fever in that town, reported as follows on the
2Oth "The epidemic, considering the size
of the town, appears to be the most malig-
nant and fatal that has ever been known
in the country and this after only nine
days. The fever is unabated and unchecked
Great want is felt for nurses and money
| to pay them, for there have been persons
here sick for long periods without a sin,
| gle attendant. At present contributions
| amount TO not more than one-half of what
seems to be necessary. The funds are GER
| tainly managed by the Relief Committee with
a vigorous economy and wise judgment, and
| the men who handle them are known to the
business men of the Southwest as a certain
| guarantee for their faithful application to the
purpose for which they are intended We
hope the liberal and generous contributions
made up to this time will not cease. The ap
peal TO the charitable has no equal in the sal
history of this disease"
Adyices have been received from Oneida
Idaho, that party of Indians attacked Skel
ton McCaleb and party of freighters, mum
berng fourteen men, on the 10th, near Salmon
City, Idaho, and killed McCaleb. From Sat
urday morning until Monday noon the Indians
numbering about thirty, kept up the firing
The freighters used flour as a breastwork, ant
fought them off. Lieut.. Wilson, with twenty
five men, reached the freighters Tuesday
evening and escorted the train to Round Val
lev. Fears are entertained for other parties
on the road.
U. S. Marshal Fink, on the 2lst, seized tn
property of Thomas O'Neil and NJ. T. Allen
tine, sureties of Christian NJ. Allentine, o
Milwaukee, Wis, to satisfy judgments oh
tanned by the Government in the whisky trial
of 1875. 1t is said that levies will be made OF
the property of other members of the RIM
and their sureties, against whom the Govern
ment has judgments.
The American Association for the Advance
ment of Science met at St. Louis on the 2lst
The biennial session of the Grand Arc
Council of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternit
was held at Indianapolis ON the 2lst. Report
from thirty-two chapters were received, ind
eating lourshing condition of the fraten
ty at large.
A telegram from Jackson, Miss, on the 2ls
says a panic existed in that town on accouI
: of the yellow fever, and that the people wer
fleeing from the pestilence in every direction
The town was almost deserted, and bushes
{ of all kinds suspended.
7 The Governor of Arkansas having been il
] formed that political campaign clubs, orgal
lied after the manner of military companie
t were being organized in Phillips Count
| caused special order to be issued on the q
declaring that all organizations in PHILLIP