Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-06-20

At Chicago, on the night of the 18th, while
a hose-cart was about to cross State street
bridge running to fire, twas discovered, toe
late to stop, that the draw was open, and the
cart plunged into the river, distance OF
about eighteen feet. The driver escaped after
striking the mud on the bottom Of the river,
but John Coyle was drowned. The horses
were also drowned. Two other men who were
riding on the machine jumped on the brink of
the bridge and escaped without injury.
At Salt Lake, Utah, on the 14th, George r.
Reynolds bigamist was sentenced TO two
years imprisonment and $500 fine. lie is the
first Mormon convicted of polygamy since the
passage Of the act IN 1862. lie will be sent to
the Detroit penitentiary.
Two brick masons, Walter Kendell and
Hardin Brown, were killed at Terre Haute,
Ind, on the 14th, by the caving in Of new
sewer. Two other men we're injured.
At Boswell, Ind, on the 14th, about one
hundred and fifty persons we're taking shelter
in low lumber shed, from severe thunder
storm, when thunder bolt struck the shed,
and, separating, passed down each side of it,
killing instantly two men, Mike Wsyman and
Lew Shermes, fatally iniuring John James
and John Lane, while Lorenzo Storer, DIR. j.
| w. Green, Samuel Gay and another man, name
not learned, were seriously injured. The
crowd had collected for a shooting tourna-
mcnt.
DIR. Samuel 8. Harris, Of Chicago, has ac-
cepted the Episcopal Bishopric of Michigan,
to which he was recently elected.
At Salt Lake, Utah, on the 14th, Emelia
Young, one of Brigham Young's widows,
made application for the appointment of a re-
ceiver and for instruction to restrain the ex-
ecutors of the estate from further perform
ance of duty, claiming that they have improp-
erly made away with about 81 ,0OO, ,0O0o of the es-
tate. The estate is said to be worth $4,000, :
600. Brigham Young's will was published in
full on the 14th.
At Buffalo Gap, d. T., on the night of the
18th, by sudden rise and overflow of Beaver
Creek, caused by water-spout, eleven per-
sons we're drowned. Their names were Mrs.
Moore, Mrs. Rhodes, Oliver Rhodes, Frank
Reed, Clyde Rhodes, Cliff Rhodes, Maud
Rhodes, (the latter three children.) All were
emigrants on their way to the Hills, from
Mills County, Iowa, and four men going
from the Hills to the railroad, names un-
known. The water covered a space forty
miles wide, and subsided within two hours
after the rise.
Manley Stevens, a night-watchman at a
saw-mill at Hunters Creek, Mich, station
on the Detroit IL Bay City Railroad, went
home at an early hour on the morning Of the
14th, and finding John House there, shot him
through the head twice and through the chest
three times. He also shot his wife through
the head once, and then shot himself through
the head and expired Immediately. Mrs.
Stevens and House, it is thought, cannot sur
vive.
Samuel Bucher, City Marshal of West
port, village four miles south of Kan
the 18th by William NJ Gossard, telegraph
operator at Kansas City. Gossard had trouble
with Bucher a short time before, on account
of fast driving and Bucher in attempting to
arrest him inflicted a severe wound with his
cane.
Dangerous ffty-dollar counterfeit green
backs purporting to be issued in 1869, with a
medallion of Henry Clay, have been passed at
Van Buren, Arkansas.
At Bracketsville, Tex, on the 10th, in a
fight with DIR. Charles Rivers, of that place,
Lieutenant Rosson, of the Twentieth United
States Infantry, was shot and killed.
A Galveston (Tex) Nt,Cs special from Lare-
do, dated the 18th, says reliable telegraphic
information from the City of Mexico, June
18th, says General Negret, commanding the
Mexican army, pronounced against Daz and
left the city with 1900 adherents. Diaz star ted
in Dursuit .s