Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-16
THE EAST.

Edward Parr, of Philadelphia, fatally
stabbed his daughter Susan Irwin, on the 9th.
Cause, an old family feud.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has refused
to pass the Border Raid bill, authorizing the
State to redeem over 50, 100000 worth of GER
tiicates issued to sufferers from raids in bor-
der counties during the late civil war
The American Tract Society held their an
nual meeting at New York City on the 9TH.
The available resources during 1873 were s4lO,
600. The expenditures for the same time were
100000. The American Home Missionary
Society also held their annual meeting on the
same day. The Treasurer's report showed
the receipts to have been s273,69l, and ex-
penditures s26O,330 with S6,71e still due to
the missionaries.
An explosion OF gas occurred the Stanton
shaft of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre coal
mines at Wtlkesbarre on the uight Of the 9th
large force Of men were driving tunnel
at the time, and eight of them were badly
burned, majority it is thought fatally
cred Leary," awaiting a requisition from
the Governor Of Massachusetts, for completely
in the Northampton bank robbery, escaped
from Ludlow Street Jail, New York CITY, on
the 9TH, by the help of confederates, who
occupied rooms inan adjoining house and cut
hole through the walls into a closet of the
Jail.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has passed a
bill to prevent discrimination in railroad
freight charges.
a priZe-hght between Elliott and Dwyer oc-
CURED at Long Point, Canada. opposite Erie,
on the sth. Dwyer defeated Elliott in twelve
rounds. The latter was badly used up, hay
ing five ribs fractured.
The Pennsylvania Senate by a party vote,
on the Sth, adopted the House resolution to
appoint a committee to receive exp President
Grant at San Francisco upon his return home.
The American Bible Society printed 1,266,-
95S Bibles last year, of which $40 Sl4 were dis
tributed at home and 23S,04U abroad. The
society also translated the whole Bible into
Turkish and portions of it into many other
languages.
In the cricket match at New York City on
the 9TH and Sth, between the English and
American teams, the former won by a score of
253 TO 81.
A final vote was taken in the Brooklyn
Presbytery, on the Sth, on the charges
against Talmage and he was acquitted. Tai
mage said he felt thankful to his brethren and
to the press for the fairness and generosity
with which they reported the case, and that
he should go out of the trial with increased
hatred fer everything like seetarianism.
The race to decide the superiority of the
champion scullers of Yale and Harvard took
place on the 9th. Goddard, Harvard's cham
pion, won, beating Livingston, of Yale, by
six lengths. Distance two miles with turn;
time fourteen minutes and thirty seconds.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
just decided a second suit growing out Of
the suspension of George w. Stuart by the
general synod of the Reformed Presbyterian
Church for hymn singing and commuuing
with other evangelical churches. This de-
cison sustains Stuart and his friends, at the
same time eondemning the action of the
synod.
Whitmore, Peet, Post & Co., commission
merchants and manufacturers, New York
City, failed on the Sth. Liabilities $l,OOO,O 900.
The house of DR.. Delos w. southworth, at
Angola, N. Y, was burned on the morning OF
the 9th. The Doctor perished in the flames.
His wife was probably fatally burned.
On the morning of the 10th a tramp de-
manded the money in possession OF Frank
Carter, station master of Bogota, on the New
Jersey Midland Railroad, and, being refused,
fatally shot Carter.
Hon, John Rogers, ex-member of Congress,
died at Moreau N. Y, on the 10th.
Forest fires in the vicinity of Scranton, Pa,
on the 10th, destroyed an immense amount of
timber. The village of Tobyhanna was en-
tirely surrounded by fire, but the citizens
turned out and fought the flames and inally y
got them under control.
Francis E. Hayden of Fitchburg Mass
was arrested on the 10th, charged with
poisoning his sister. Young Hayden's
father and mother died April 10 and l6
respectively, both after a sickness of few
days. The sister was sick only few hours
Hayden's fathers property amounted to
about $500, but the daughter held notes
against the estate for money advanced to pay
the expenses OF young Hayden at Boston
University so his share will be less than
! $4,000.