Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-04-26
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.

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years, who lived near Mourytown,
started in buggy, in company with a
young man named d. c. Winkle, 10 90
| to Newmarket, to see some relatives
On the way home the young lady
complained of being sleepy, and
leaned her head on the gentlemans s
shoulder, and he supposed she was
asleep, but when arriving at her house,
on alighting to assist her from the
buggy, he discovered that she was
dead. 1t is supposed that she died of
heart disease.
MICHAEL CoNNoRs, 112 years of age,
died at Cincinnati on the 10th.
THE State Temperance Christian
Union held its annual convention at
Columbus on the 18th and 10th. OIL
GERS were elected for the ensuing year
as follows: President, Frank Baird. of
Canton; Vice-Presidents-J. st. j.
Clarkson of Dayton, G. f. Rightmyer
of Springfield, ID. L. M. RAINY of Zanes-
vile. and w. w. Wickman of Colum-
bus; Secretary, Rev. w. b. Chadwick,
of Columbus; Treasurer, w. H. Doane,
of Cleveland. The following resolu-
tions were adopted:
Resol,ed, That the basis of this organization
shall be the Gospel temperance as manifested
in song and prayer, the Bible and the Murphy
temperance pledge.
ReSOiyed, That its motto shall be- ''With
malice toward none and charity for all.n
Resolged, That its object shall be by all hon
orable means to rescue the inebriate and pro-
mulgate the principles of temperance through
out the State.
Resolyed, That, while this organization ac-
knOwledges its dependence upon Almighty
God for His grace, it shall keep itself forever
free from sectarianism and bias.
ResOtUsd, That we consider the work with
children in behalf of temperance as of the
most vital Importance, and believe that the
utmost diligence should be used to promote
the work among the young
ReSotDef, That we tender hearty God-speed
to every organized effort throughout the
State that has for its object the suppression
of drunkenness and the liquor traffic
ReS0tUed, That we tender our thanks to the
retiring board of officers and managers for the
able and efficient manner in which they have
conducted the business affairs of the Union.
The next meeting of the Union will
be held at the Soldiers Home, Dayton,
Oct. l, 1873.
SEVEN petitions in bankruptcy were
filed in the U. S. Court at Cincinnati on
the 18th.
A REPUBLICAN caucus was held at
Columbus on the evening of thes1 9TH,
at which speeches were made by ex-
Cows. Young and Dennison, Gems. Gros-
venor and Beatty and others. A letter
was read from Secretary Sherman, in
which he congratulated the party on
the success of the present Administra-
ton in its Southern and finalcial pol
icies. The only threat, he said, that
endangers public peace and safety is
the restoration of the Democratic party
to power.
On the 18th James Nevins went be-
fore Notary at Columbus and made
affidavit that about July, 1869, when
on the police force in East Saginaw,
Mich, he arrested one John O'Connor
on suspicion of burglary, on which
charge he was subsequently released;
that about August, 1869, said O'Connor
was arrested for grand larceny and SEN
fenced to three years imprisonment in
the State Prison at Jackson. Affiant
further says he has seen the Hon. John
OCOnnor, member of the Ohio Legis-
lature, and it is his firm belief that he
is the same person he knew in 1869 and
who was convicted as aforesaid. A
communication from the Chief of Po-
lice at East Saginaw is published, stat
ing that he recognizes the photograph
of Hon. John O'Connor as the likeness
of John O'Connor, the man convicted |
O'Connor, on being interviewed on the
18th, said he had rendered his resigna-
ton, but now that he had heard about
this matter he would withdraw it.
PAUL RUDOLPH, aged eight, residing
at Air Line Junction, near Toledo, shot
and killed Otto Benning, aged thirteen,
on the 18th. Young Rudolph states
that the shooting was accidental, while
another account makes it the result of
quarrel between the lads. Rudolph
is in jail.
JUDGE GEORGE j. SMITH died at his
residence in Lebanon on the 18th, in
the seventy-ninth year of his age. He
was born in the Northwest Territory,
and had resided in Warren County for
more than seventy-tivey years. He studied
law with Gov. Corwin, with whom he
practiced with much success at Leba-
non. He was Judge for seventeen
years, Representative and Senator in
the Legislature for several terms, Pres
ident of the Senate, and a member of
the Constitutional Convention of 1850
DIR. w. w. ELLsBURY, recently APP
pointed Superintendent of the Column
bus Lunatic Asylum, has resigned, and
the Trustees on the 10Th elected DIR.
FirestOne, of Wooster, in his place. 1t
is understood that DR.. Ellsbury became
convinced that, owing to a want of fa-
miliarity with the treatment of the in
sane, it would be unwise for him to re-
tain his position as Superintendent.
A DAsTARDLY wife-murder was com
mitted in Troy Township, Geauga Coun-
ty, on the 18th, by Leonard w. Stroud.
The weapon used was a large butcher
knife, with which he stabbed her twice
in the abdomen. He then cut his own
throat with the knife, dying in a short
time. Mrs. Stroud is represented as
having been an estimable woman, while
Stroud was a bad-tempered and re-
vengeful old man.
A MAN named jenkins, residing in
Muskingum County, who is about to
die, has confessed that he and two
other men, named Clark and Dodd, in
the year 1868 murdered Mr.. Baugh-
man, residing near Roseville, in Mus
kingum County. Clark and Dodd are
now living in the West, one in Indiana
and the other in Kansas, and the Sher-
iff of Muskingum County has gone in
pursuit of them. jenkins became in
sane some time after the murder, and
was in the insane asylum until he re-
covered.
CHARLES DIMMITT was on the goth
found guilty at Batavia of robbing the
safe of the Clermont County treasury
of S24, 900, and remanded for sentence.
The annual convention of the Ohio
State Sabbath-School Union will be
held at Norwalk, June 4-6.
CURTIS MCVAY, a music-teacher of
Findlay, recently eloped with Emma
Mann, girl of fourteen, living near