Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-03-14

The EiXth annual convention OF the National
Butter, Cheese and Egg Association met at
Chicago on the 5th. Thirteen States and one
Territory were represented.
Number OF hogs packed at Cincinnati for the
season Just closed, 623,5S aggregate gross
weight, 1853, 733, ,427 pounds; average cost per
one hundred pounds gross, S2S3 S9100; last
season, $4.19 S3-1OO.
John II. Pendergrass, one of the principal
witnesses before the Teller Committee at
Charleston, s. c., has been convicted of libel
before Judge Maekey, and sentenced to two
years hard labor in the penltentiary or pay
$500 fine and costs of suit. The libel consisted
in the publication in the Washington Repub-
licdn, last November, of letter charging the
managers of election at Kings Tree with stuff
ing the ballot-box aud charging certain citi-
zens with voting more than once.
Rev. Martin Kindig, Vicar General of Mil
waukee, died on the 9th. He went'to Milwau-
kee in 1S42, and had been Vicar General for
fifteen years.
The Los Angeles, Cal, reservoir, which
contained 100 OOO, 600 gallons of water, broke
on the 9th. The damage was confined to the
flooding of streets and cellars.
Near Sullivan, ILL.,, on the 5th, the boiler in
a saw mill exploded, killing the head sawyer,
whose body was blown to fragments and scat
tered in all directions. Two other persons
were severely, perhaps fatally injured.
The Republican State Convention of Michi-
gan, which met at Lansing on the 9th, NOM
mated Judge James V. Campbell for Asso-
ciate Judge of the Supreme Court, and E. o.
Grosvenor and James Shearer for Regents of
the State University. resolution was
adopted declaring that "the Republican party
having redeemed its pledge to make the
greenback dollar worth one hundred cents in
gold and silver, and having given to the coun-
try safe, flexible currency, we'll adapted to
the industrial needs of the people, we there
fore oppose any radical change in our present
financial system, and congratulate the coun-
try on the successful resumption of specie
payments, and on the signs of returning pros
perity in all branches of business"
furry in the Chicago wheat market, on
the 9TH, was occasioned by the sudden ap-
pearance of Archie Fisher, as a seller of
wheat, presumably on account of James
Keene, who recently bought large quantity
of wheat in that market. Fisher sold 2O00,-
OOO bushels. Inc total sales were nearly
100000 bushels. 1t transpired later that the
telegram ordering Fisher to sell was
forgery. Keene knew nothing of it and re-
pudiates the whole transaction. Keene says
suspicious are strong against persons short
of provisions, who hoped by this means to de-
press the market and cover shorts. He will
offer large reward for the discovery of the
forger and his associates.
The persons from Natchitoches Parish, La,
indicted, recently, by Grand Jury, for intim-
idating voters, etc, were tried at New Orleans
on the 9TH and acquitted.
The pork packing establishment of T. NJ.
Sinclair d Co., Cedar Rapids, Ia, was par
TALLY destroyed by fire ON the 7th. Loss esti-
mated at $4,000; small insurance
fire broke out in the wagon shop of
Mrs. Henrietta Bausch, East st. Louis, be-
tween one and two o'clock on the morning of
the 9th. In the second story of the shop,
where the fire started, and which was Occu-
pied as a residence by Mrs. Bausch, there
were sleeping her three children by a
former marriage, Henry Schoepperkoetter,
blacksmith, and Mrs. Catharina Borst
who was spending the night with Mrs.
Bausch, all of whom, except Mrs. Bausch,
were burned to death, they being unable to
escape by reason of door leading to their
departments being fastened on the outside.
Mrs. Bausch jumped from a window and as
SO severely injured that she will probably die.
At the inquest the testimony elected pointed
so strongly to incendiarism that John Borst,
husband of Catharina Borst, Andrew Marshall
and Thomas Hammond were arrested and
locked up.
Felix P. Poche, Conservative, was nom-
mated by the Republicans in the Senatorial
district composed of the parishes of st. James
and Ascension, La, over Morris Marks, the
Custom House candidate. The district is
overwhelmingly Republican,