Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-09
WEST AND ROuTH.


hood of the Pecos River in Texas are killing
herders and driving Oft stock. There are fears
of a general massacre.
Mons. Florentine, variety performer, at
Toledo, Ohio, shot his wife on the night of
the 29th ult., and then killed himself. His
wife is in precarious condition, but may re-
cover.
Mrs. Ada Roberts shot and mortally wound
ed Theodore b. Weber, prominent wholesale
boot and shoe dealer, at Chicago, on the 1st.
Weber had seduced Mrs. Roberts.
The Grand Jury of st. Louis made report
to the Criminal Court on the 1st. stating
that they found chain OF strong circum-
stantial evidence against James c. Nidelet,
late member Of the Board of Police Commits
sioners in connection with the Missouri State
Lottery; that Hon. q. Jones, recent Judge of
the Criminal Court, while Judge of that
court, frequently placed himself under pc
cuniary obligations to parties accused OF
crime before his court, and that the gambling
interest has for many years been source of
corruption to the police department.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat had special
from Springfield, Mo-, on the 1st stating that
posse of citizens attempted to arrest gang
of horsethieves at the house of one Pierson,
in Taney County, on the Goth ult. The thieves
resisted, and in the melee James Cogburn and
William Bates, of the posse, were killed and
another severely wounded. Person, of the
other side, was mortally wounded, and a man
named Lockhart is believed to be killed. The
rest of the outlaws escaped.
William Lalance and George Rhodes, who
were on a hunting and fishing trip, crawled
nj hn Of fha Ill
New Haven, near Pomeroy, Ohio, on the night
of the 1st to sleep. During the night the
house caught fire and the young men were
consumed in the flames. Their bodies were
found in the morning charred beyond recog-
milton.
Three children were seriously and enc badly
injured by the falling of all unoccupied two
story dwelling house at Cincinnati on the I'd.
The children were passing the house when it
fell.
Daniel II. Wells, First Counsellor to the
Twelve Apostles of the Mormon Church, was
fined 300 and sentenced to two days. impris.
onment by Judge Emerson at Salt Lake on the
3D., for contempt in refusing to answer ques-
tions in the Miles polygamy case.
The following nominations were made by
the Democratic State Convention held at
Louisville on the I'd: For Governor, DIR. Luke
p. Blackburn; Lieutenant Governor, James
E. Cantrell; Attorney-General, P. w. Hard
| ing; Auditor, Fayette Hewitt; Superintendent
of Public Instruction, James ID. Pickett; Reg
lister of Land Office, Ralph Sheldon. The
| platform adopted heartily indorses the posi-
tion taken by the Democratic Senators and
Representatives in Congress on the Appropri-
alton bills. The action of the General Assem-
bly, in submitting to the people the question
of calling a convention for the purpose of
forming State Constitution was approved,
as were also the measures heretofore adopted
to create general and efficient system of
common school education.
| Secretary Sherman visited Mansfield Ohio,
his old home, on the 5th. In the evening he
was serenaded and made a speech.
johnson Spencer and Nevlin Porter, who
were imprisoned at Starksville, Miss, on the
charge of burning a barn and attempting to
assassnate Jordon Moore, were taken from
the jail on the night of the Sd by a body of
armed men, white and black, and hung
Kat Kos, a Chilcat Indian, was executed at
Portland, Oregon, on the 9th, by United
States Marshal Waters for the murder OF
Thomas J. Brown, near Sitka, last January.
The fern house of Thomas Pool at Pember.
ton Meadows, near silooch, Washington Ter
ritory, was burned few days ago and Pool
and two children perished in the flames
There is suspicion of murder and arson by
| Indians.
A telegram from Southeastern Kansas, OF
the 5th, states that rich silver mines have
been discovered Just south of the Kansas
L.,
registered daily in the Squatter's Registry
office, two miles from Baxter Springs, Kan
The same telegram states that about 1900
men have gone into the Indian Territory
within a week.
The Mississippi Valley Labor Convention
met at Vicksburg on the 5th. Fully 400 dele
| gates were present, every county and parish
on the Mississippi River between Helena
Ark, and New Orleans, being represented. A
resolution was adopted that the convention
"being called to take into consideration the
material interest of the people, irrespective
OF party or color, no resolution of political
character shall be entertained by the Chair"
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCB.
The official report of an earthquake al
Minareh, Persia, on the 22d of March, says
twenty-eight villages were destroyed and 92
persons killed.
Prince Alexander, OF Batenburg, was unan
imously elected King of Bulgaria by the Bul
garian Assembly of fNotables on the 29th ult.
Germany and France are strongly urging
the Porte to concede to Greece territory indi
Gated in the thirteenth protocol of the Berlin
Congress
Lord Lorne iusti6es the Dominion protec
tive tariff on the ground that the action o
the United States is invariably hostile to Can
ada on all matters relating to tariffs.
The st. Petersburg police are now openl,
arresting people by patches at all hours of tn
day. Hitherto arrests were made at night
On the slightest suspicion against any pei
son his whole family are arrested, and dom
iciliary visits are paid to all their acquaint
ances.
The fortresses on the Danube held by tn
Russians are to be evacuated and demolishe
by the first of August,
, The village of Gratchenko, on the Volgs
has been totally destroyed by fire.
, Forty dwelling houses were destroyed b
fire at Montreal on the 30th ult.
. The most remarkable precautions wer
taken during the Czar's recent journey I
8 Liyadia. Sentinels were placed the Who'll
length of the line, traffic was stopped, and a
access to the line prohibited for twenty-fou
hours before the departure of the royal trair
< The recent fire at orenburg, Russia, is a
8 tributed to carelessness. Nine hundred an
I forty-nine dwellings and over 800 shops an
stores were destroyed
s The Russians, 1t is claimed, are not please
e with the Czar's action in prohibiting the ele
i tion Of Russian 10 the throne of Bulgari
d The Gar, however, declares that he did nc
/ wish to accept the responsibility of the Pal
slayist agitation, of which Bulgaria will /
J. the center,