Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-07-18

StaJlOn, "a Wuliam Whitenead, JOnn NC
Keal and James Burns were fatally, and A.
Steel and W. Kidney seriously injured. The
cause Of the accident is unknown.
In ft OF jealousy John Herr, of Hartford,
Conn, on the 11th, stabbed Henry Meister-
ling and then his wife, the latter fifteen times.
State Assayer Hutchings reports the dis
covery OF a gold-bearing vein of quartz In the
western part Of Penobscot County, Maine.
A number of steers broke from a herd in
the upper section of New York City, on the
18th, and after tossing several persons in the
air and gorinG horses, were either shot or las
soed.
An old building I'm the course of demolition
at Boston fell on the 18th, burying several
children In the ruins, two of whom were seri-
ously injured.
AT meeting of the Fall River, Mass, cot
ton operatives on the 14th, delegate was
chosen to visit the West and examine the
country and report as soon as possible as to
the condition, with view to emigration and
settlement Of lands by the operatives of that
city.
| Colonies are forming at Lowell and other
| portions of, New England with a view of emil
| grating TO Tennessee.
A terrible hail storm passed over the vii
lagos of Wells River, Vt, and Woodvllle, N.
| H., on the l4th. Hail stones fell the size of
hens eggs, The damage was very heavy.
WEST AND SOUTH.
negro named Mart Lee, who outraged
white woman in Fayette County, w. Va, re-
Gently, was taken from the officers and
hanged by mob at Coalburg on the Sth.
Denham's planning mill, the Variety Iron
IL. w II
and portion of the lumber yard of Woods,
Perry Il Co., at Cleveland, Ohio, were de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the Sth. Loss
about 100000, partially covered by insurance.
The German Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation assembled in annual convention at
| Cincinnati on the Sth. The attendance was
| large.
At Carlisle, KY, on the Sth, the boiler in a
mill exploded, throwing the engineer, James
Summers, distance of forty feet. He was
terribly mangled and died in two hours.
The Arctic exploring yacht Jeannette sailed
from San Francisco on the Sth.
Red Wing, Mimi, special on the Sth
stated that four more victims of the destruc-
tion of the Orphan Asylum at Vas by the
storm, on the ID, have died, making thirteen
deaths so far.
A fatal case OF yellow fever was reported at
Memphis on the 9th. Considerable excite
ment prevailed.
The corn prospect in Iowa is the best for
years and will be an immense crop II no harm
befalls it. Fall wheat has been harvested and
is good.
Ten cases of sunstroke occurred at st. Louis
ON the 9th, four of which resulted fatally.
The mercury ranged as high as Dinety-nine In
the shade.
At Edlnton, Ill. on the 9th, Lee Robbins
shot and instantly killed his sister, aged
twenty, and then shot himself, innicting
wounds from which he will not recover. Miss
Robbins was engaged to be married and her
brother had been trying to prevent the mar
rage, but she refused TO break her promise
William Teets, a well known and respectable
farmer living near Muscatine, Iowa, was mur-
dcred on the Sth with a club in the hands of
William Pickering. The cause of the act
seems to have been family troubles.
Nearly whole square on Main and Con
gress streets, Houston, Texas, was destroyed
by fire on the 9th. Loss about $4,000.
Frank Davidson, who killed William Hag-
gcrty, Sept. 81, 1873, was hanged at Warrens
burg, Mo-, on the 9th.
Two deaths from sunstroke occurred at
Memphis on the 9th.
Two farmers, on the way to Cincinnati on
the 10th, were overtaken by storm and took
refuge undera bridge. Lightning struck the
bridge and killed the men and their teams.
policeman at Chicago shot and instantly
killed James Lahey on the night of the 10th
The policemen found Lahey aud a number of
companions in barn and attempted to arrest
them, when they resisted. He then drew his
revolver and shot Lahey while attempting to
run away.
stranger, supposed to be named John or
Michael Reiche, and his residence Springfield,
ILL.,, or Reading, Pa, was found murdered
near indianapolis on the Sth.
notice was published by the Memphis
Board of Health, on the 10th, warning all citi-
zens OF that city to remove their families
to place of safety until they could deter
mine whether the few cases of yellow fever
reported would assume an epidemic form.
Five cases were reported, two of which had
resulted fatally. All of the trains leaving the
city were crowded. Vicksburg has estab-
lished strict quarantine against the city.
A Bodie, CAL, dispatch on the 10th stated
that there was a terrible explosion of a pow
der magazine near the old Standard Incline
Works. The works were blown to atoms, and
everything near them leyeled to the ground.
Many men were killed, but the number was
not known when the dispatch was sent. About
twenty wounded were found, and it is sup
posed some were injured in the shaft and un-
derground works.
A dispatch from San Francisco, on the 1lth,
says as far as heard from there were eight
known to be killed and over forty wounded,
many of whom will die from injuries, by the
explosion at Bodie, CAL, on the 10Th.
At Oak Harbor, Ottawa County, Ohio, on
the llth, Cornelius Hennes ,y shot and killed
Edward Walsh. Walsh had seduced Hennes-
sy's wife.
Ex-Governor William Allen died at his home
near Chillicothe, Ohio, on the 11th.
John Davis, colored, was hanged at Smith
vile, N. c., on the 1lth, for the murder of
Henry McDufTy, colored, last December.
Antonia Garcia was executed at Corpus
Christi, Tex, on the 1Ith, for the murder of
Augustin Arnollo, Sept. z, 1878.
At Lake Providence, La, on the 11th,
Squire Lusk, of West Carroll, killed Post
master Austin, and mortally wounded s. L.
Austin, Jr., Parish Judge. w. H. Smith, col
ored, who was crossing the street during the
melee, was struck, it is alleged, by q stray
bullet and instantly killed.
A boiler exploded in the box factory of
Adams & Setter, Baltimore, Md, ON the 1lth,
killing August Setter, one of the proprietors
and Henry Uhich, engineer. Eight others
were injured one fatally.
1t is estimated that 5000 people left Mem
phis on the 1lth. Little Rock, Galveston and
Montgomery have quarantined against Mem
phis. No new cases of fever were reported ON
the 11th.
At Washington, N. c., on the 18th, James
Holton, ex-Ulerk of the Superior Court and
ex-Judge OF Probate, shot and killed Mary
Radcliffe, colored. He attempted to escape,
but being closely pursued by the police DELHI
erately shot himself through the brain, dying
almost instantly. HOlton was desperate
character, having been sentenced to the peni-
tentiarY seYaral Vaara ano for inintinn q ri,t