Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-08-22
WEST AND SOUTH.

The Iowa Greenback State Convention was
held at Marshalltown, on the 12th. Resolu-
tions were adopted indorsing the Chicago
platform of March 4, 1879, and pledging their
honor and lives to accomplish the principles
therein set forth, and that all future conven-
tions, State and National, shall be conducted
according to club representation, the or
ganization Of clubs to be furthered by every
honorable means, and the charter of such
clubs to be received in strict conformity to NJ
NJ. POmeroy's instructions. No nominations
were made.
MIR. Case and wife, of South Bend, Ind,
were seriously injured by jumping frem a
burning building on the 18th. Miss Lizzie
Collins, who roomed in the building, was
sutfocated to death.
The High Court of the Ancient Order of
Foresters convened at st. Louis on the 18th
The order has over 1900 courts scattered over
the world, and is rapidly increasing in mem
bership. Its courts and benefit societies have
over S12, 100000 pledged to the relief of want
and distress.
An Ogden, Utah, dispatch states that the
conviction aud imprisonment of Reynolds for
polygamy; the murder of Standing, a Nor
mon preacher in Georgia; the Imprisonment
Of George Q. Cannon, delegate to Congress-
and the other executors of the Brigham
Young estate for contempt, have caused
a bitter feeling, and the NelUs, the leading
church paper, has lately contained threaten
ing articles, and infiammatory speeches have
been made as to Evarts' anti-Mormon circular
to foreign countries. There is no evidence of
any intention of forcible resistance to the
Government, but the Mormons have a good
military organization and are mostly well
armed.
The third annual convention of the National
Liberal League will be held at Cincinnati
Sept. ID.
President Hayes has accepted invitations to
attend the Indiana State Fair at indianapolis
in October, and the Kansas State Fair at Neo-
sha on the 25th Of September.
The population of Kansas on the 1st of last
March, according to the census returns re-
ceived at Topeka, was s49,97S.
During quarrel at FincastH, Va, on the
18th, James Stevens shot his wife dead and
fled.
Fifty-seven Indians who recently left the
Rosebud Agency to Join Sitting Bull have
been captured by detachment of the Fifth
Infantry.
Thaddeus e. Baber shot and killed a Mrs.
Schoulder and mortally wounded her daughter
at st. Louis on the night of the l4th. Baber
had lived with the young woman as her hus-
band for several years, butrecently they quar-
relied and he left her. He claims that he
wished to marry the daughter but the old
woman refused to give her consent and caused
the difficulty; that he went to the house un-
der the impression and believing that a man
was there with the daughter; that when he
entered the room in which the women were
Mrs. Schoulder drew pistol on him and he
shot her, and that the shooting of the
daughter was accidental.
A construction train on the Keokuk Il st.
Louis Road was thrown from the track on the
18th by running over COW about twenty miles
south of Louisiana, Mo-, and Nicholas Dubois
chief engineer of the road, was instantly
killed. Several others belonging to the train
were badly hurt.
J. ID. Trainor, a tramp, who was attempting
to force an entrance into the house of H. w
Baldwin, at Forest River, suburb of Chica
go, on the night of the 14th, was shot dead by
a charge from a shotgun in the hands of {
son of Mr.. Baldwin. Two accomplices escaped
Tran0r was formerly a journalists, having
once been reporter on Chicago papers, bu
he has led very dissipated life for man!
years.
1t was reported at Des Moines, Iowa, on th
10Th, that there will be a strike of all The Goa
miners in Iowa-32,0O0 in number-on al
agreed day in October.
The wheat crop of Illinois this year, accord
ing to figures received by the State Board o
| Agriculture amounts TO total of 42,04l, ,25
bushels, an average of 1898 bushels per acre.
YELLOW FEVER ITEMS.
The Mayor and President of the Board o