Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-01

positions the members of the Returning
Boards. John g. Shanklin was nominated for
Secretary Of State; Mahlin d. Manson, Audit
or; William Fleming, Treasurer; Thomas w.
Woolhen, Attorney General; j. II. Smart, Su-
perintendent OF Public Instruction.
The State Grange Of Tennessee on the 10Th
adopted resolutions favoring the repeal OF
the Resumption act, free banking, and the
payment Of all national obligations according
TO the strictest construction Of the original
contract.
Nelson Morris beef-packing house at the
Union Stock Yards, Chicago-the largest in
the country-was burned on the 2lst. Loss
about $150000.
On the night of the 10Th the insane asylum
at Winooskl, Wis, was destroyed by fire and
four inmates, Lucretia Toothaker, Mrs. Me-
Donald, August Althorp and Billy Doe, an In
dian, perished in the flames.
Representative Brandt, of the Minnesota
Legislature, states that he received fifty dol
lars from Liberty Hall, agent of A. s. Barnes
Il Co, of New York, in consideration OF a
promise to vote for the bill repeating the Text
book law.
The agents Of the Postoffice Department
have recovered $1,000 in Canada money which
was stolen from the mail west of Omaha last
July. Moore, formerly postal clerk, was ar
rested in Nebraska, and man named Harmon,
who attempted to exchange the money, was
arrested at Chicago.
The Chief Of Police of Virginia City is under
arrest for liberating Chinese murderer and
putting paid Chinese substitute in his place.
The Illinois Democratic Convention will be
held April II.
Henry Williams "a negro) was hanged at
Isle of Wight, Va, on the 22d for an assault
upon young white lady last September. He
confessed his guilt.
A few months ago, Joseph Brown, Of Carmi,
Ill, committed suicide; two months after his
father killed himself after digging his own
grave, and on the 22d his mother, the last of
the family, took laudanum and died.
The night train on the Texas Central Rail-
road was boarded by six armed men at Aliens
Station, on the 22d, who overpowered the ex-
press messenger, after an exchange of shots
in which one of them was wounded, forced
him to open the safe, from which they took
81, 800, then mounted their horses and rode off.
Enough passengers were aboard to capture
the robbers, but they we're badly demoralzed
and made no attempt at resistance
The new Election law of Utah provides for
secret ballots and registration.
On the 22d the German bark Philip Suppl
cich was wrecked off Cape Hatteras and all
hands were lost
Rande, the Illinois desperate, was found
guilty of murder on the 23d and sentenced to
life imprisonment in the Penitentiary.
Gen. Crook says no immediate trouble is
feared with Sitting Bull.
Joseph c. Duncan, the defaulting President
of the Pioneer Bank, Of San Francisco, has
been captured.
A railroad accident occurred on the Rich
mond & Fredericksburg Railroad on the night
of the oath, by which w. &. Mainwaring of
Baltimore, was killed; Fred. Faulkner, of
Richmond, had one leg amputated; L. F. Don
nelly had both legs amputated, and j. W.
Aldridge, Of Fredericksburg, was seriously in
jured. The accident was caused by portion
of the train becoming detached on down
grade, and when the locomotive stopped the
detached cars crashed into the rear car of the
stationary train, catching the four men on the
platform.
jefferson (0hio) dispatch on the 25th
said ex-senator Wade was growing steadily
weaker and his recovery seemed to be beyond
possibility.