Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-07-04

dent Hayes and the Republican members OF
both Houses of Congress In sustaining wise
and just laws against the REASONABLE and rev.
outiOnary course of the Democratic party in
Congress; protests against reopeniug sec
tional issues favors good honest money, and
opposes irredeemable paper currency; recog-
nizes temperance as q cause which has con
ferred the greatest benefit on the State, and
sustains the principle of prohibition"
Daniel Searles (colored) murdered and
robbed Eldridge Ruey farmer Of Tioga
County, N. Y, on the Goth, because Ruey re-
fused to lend him some money.
The Grand Jury at New York on the Goth
found bill for murder in the first degree
against Chastine Cox, the murderer of Mrs
Huh.
Edgar d. Thomas, of Providence, r. l., who
had been separated from his wife for several
weeks, visited her at her father'shouse on the
26th and shot her fatally.
James Dempsey, now and for twenty years
past, Coroner of Staten Island has been con
victed of perjury and sentenced TO State prison
! for one year at hard labor.
The University boat race at New London,
Conn, on the 9th, resulted in an easy
victory for Harvard. Official time, 22 min.
| Is sec. for Harvard, and % min. So sec for
| Yale.
boiler exploded in wits planning mill at
Philadelphia, on the 9th, causing great dam
age. The engineer was killed. The boiler by
force of the explosion was driven into the
second story of a dwelling occupied by fam
| lily named Long. Mrs. Long and Claude, her
son, aged eight years, were instantly killed.
Stella Long, aged eleven, and a Mrs. Nc
Avoy, were found alive in the RUNS but died
soon after being extricated,
The body of Madam ROLAND, drowned while
visiting Niagara Falls with her husband on
bridal tour on the 2lst, was found on the 27th
The steamer City of New York, which left
New York on the 2Sth ult., collided with the
iron bark Helen between Obsecom and Barne-
gat. The bark sunk, taking down the Captain,
boatswain, cook, seaman and apprentice. The
mate and five seamen were saved The City
| of New York returned leaking.
James +. Edmunds, a well-lnown citizen
and ex-Aderman of Newton, Mass, and a
-four and commission merchant of Boston,
was arrested on the 2sth ult., for forgery.
The forgeres aggregate $4,000.
WEST AND SOUTH.
meeting of the Ohio Nationals who we're
dissatisfied with the Columbus Convention
met at Toledo on the oath and adopted anoth.
er platform. A letter was read from Peter
Cooper advising the Greenback party in Ohio
to support General Ewing for Governor. The
resolutions declare that the effort to revive
sectional animosities and rekindle the pas
sions of the war is the more criminal because
made to serve the ends of party; that this
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lished by the people In defiance of the king
craft of Europe and maintained solely by
their own money and their own arms, is able
and of right should exercise its most vital
functions, the coinage of money, independent
OF the action of any foreign power; that it is
the exclusive function and imperative duty of
the General Government TO supply the entire
circulating medium; that all bank issues of
currency should be suppressed; that the So
called specie resumption is fraud; all bonds
of the Government should be paid in accord
ance with the law under which they were
created; demands the unlimited coinage of
the silver dollar of 41213 grains, etc, etc.
most diabolical outrage was committed
at Sand Ripple twelve miles from Frankfort,
KY, on the night of the 2lst. A party of un-
known men attacked the house of Sam
Faulkner and severely wounded him as he es-
capped from the house. The mob then set fire
to the dwelling which was consumed with its
inmates, Henry Russell, aged eighteen, who
was also shot, and two children of Faulkner,
aged eleven and three.
Daniel O'Leary and Peter Grassland began
walk of seventy-ive hours for S., 900 side
at Chicago on the 25th.
Robert Jones, colored, who murdered Ru-
dolph Eaton, white, in the village of Rocky
Mount, N. c., Dec. %, 1877, was hanged at
Tarboro on the 25th. On the way to the gal
lows Jones ioked with the Sheriff. and dwelt
long on his religious experiences.
Hiram Trotter (colored) shot and killed
Charles McCraw (colored) at a colored picnic
near Batavia, Ohio, on the Goth. Trotter was
drunk and endeavored early in the day to pro-
yoke his victim into quarrel, and late in the
day raised a row with him, with the above re-
suit.
William W. Hume, treasurer of a variety
show at Columbus, Ohio, attempted to shoot
a Minnie Bertram at Chicago, on the Goth, but
only Inflicted a slight flesh wound. He then
fired three balls into his own body and died
instantly.
A destructive storm passed over central and
western Iowa and eastern Nebraska on the
night of the 25th. At Stuart, Iowa, Mrs. B.
McMasters and two daughters were drowned
by the overflow of creek
At Wellsville, Lafayette County, Mo, on
the 25th, r. 8. Taylor and Robert Taylor,
brothers, and B. e. Wren, between whom an
old feud existed renewed the quarrel, when
the Taylors fired four balls into Wren's body.
Wren then drew his revolver and began firing,
killing r. s. Taylor instantly and fatally
wounding Robert: '''"
At California City, just across the Bay from
San Francisco, on the 9th, R. II. Moore, the
keeper of the Dupont Powder Company's
magazine, shot and instantly killed A. Fulton,
manager of the works. He then blew his own
brains out.
Henry Taylor, a colorcd Baptist preacher,
was hanged at Forest City, Ark, on the 9th,
for outraging seyen-years-old colored girl
on the 18th OF last September. He delivered
an address on the gallows protesting his in.
nocence.
A boiler explosion took place on the 27th at
Brown, Brownell II Co.'s mill, at Youngstown,
Ohio, by which nine men were badly hurt,
one Of whom has since died and the recovery
of two Others is doubtful.
Two haryesters were met by two tramps
near Alton Junction, ILL.,, on the 9th, who at
tempted to rob them. A resistance was made,
when one OF the harvesters was shot and killed
and both robbed. The tramps fed.
A terrible accident occurred on the Mis-
souri, River, five miles below Nebraska City,
Neb., on the 9th ult. The boiler of the Gov,
ernment tug-boat exploded, killing the en-
gineer and fireman, and fatally iniurlng two
others. The Captain of the tug and another
man we're badly scalded.
A pleasure steamer, on Lake Mlnnetolka
Peninsula, summer resort near Minneapolis,
Mimi, exploded while landing at a wharf on