Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-08-29

WEST AND SOUTH.
James N. Stevens, who killed his wife a
Richmond, Va, on the 11th, and subsequent
ly escaped, committed suicide on the 10Th.
A fight occurred at Fish Creek, nea
Eureka, New, on the 18th, between Sheriff
posse and some striking Italian charcoal burn
ers. Five of the latter we're killed and six badly
wounded. None Of the Sheriff's posse received
scratch in the fight, and this causes many
people to believe the coal burners we're not
armed. On the other hand, the messenger re
ports that the Italians fired the first shot
The Sherff's posse numbered nine men and
the Italians about one hundred. The Sherif's
posse claim that they were in close place and
compelled to fight or be killed. The officers
do not believe there were any wounded.
At Waldron, Scott County, Ark, on the
the Goth, Walter Malone shot the Sheriff, who
attempted his arrest. He attempted to es-
cape but was followed by posse of citizens
and shot.
Secretary Sherman spoke at Steubenville,
and Secretary Schurz at Cincinnati on the
Goth.
AT Yazoo City, Miss, on the 18th, difficult
ty occurred between James Barksdale, Chaun-
Gerry Clerk, and Henry NJ Dixon, the Inde-
pendent candidate for Sheriff, resulting in
the death of the latter. The difficulty, as
represented by Barksdale's friends, was of a
personal nature.
! Henry j. Rogers, constructor of the first
| telegraph line between Baltimore and Wash
ington, died in the former city on the GOTH
| The San Francisco CAL published an inter-
view, on the Goth, with Rev. w. H. H. Muir
ray He claimed that he went to California
to Introduce his blackboard, and that when
he left home his business affairs were in snug
condition; that his entire Indebtedness does
not exceed $4,000, and his property if sold
under the hammer would pay his debts and
leave handsome surplus.
At Carrollton, Mich, on the Goth, saw mill,
salt block and drill house, 600 barrels of salt,
3OO,OOO slaves, 1000 cords of wood, 6, 500, 900
feet OF lumber, one cooper shop, boarding
house and four dwellings were DESTROYED by
fire. Estimated loss, S125, 900, with insurance
Of about $3.50
Suit has been brought against the executors
of the estate of w. 8. O'Brien, by John H.
Burke, of San Francisco, to recover s26O15,-
600. This is duplicate of the suit against
Flood, Fair, Mackey and others, now pending.
and is brought to prevent the distribution of
the O'Brien estate.
John d. Conkerton was shot and killed at
Mississippi City, Miss, on the 2lst by R. B.
Pearson, Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion OF Harrison County. They were in a sa-
loon and quarreled about the payment of
drink.
j. W. Cotton, station agent and grocer at
Williamsburg station, on the Kansas Pacific
Railroad, near Topeka, Kan, was murdered
by tramp on the 2lst. The tramp called
for cheese and crackers, and while Cotton was
reaching into barrel to get the crackers the
tramp struck him in the back of the neck
with an axe, nearly severing his head from the
shoulders. A man has been arrested on sus-
picion.
Taylor AXE, convicted of rape, was hanged
at Austin, Tex, on the 22d. He was singing
John Browns BodY' when the drop fell.
At Fisk's Mill, sonoma County, CAL, on the
18th, tidal wave washed three men and one
woman into the ocean. All were drowned.
At Tuscola, ILL.,, on the 22d, George Clark
was fatally shot by his step-son, Hugh Nc
Guire, who met Clark in the street and told
him he had come all the way from Kansas to
kill him for deserting his Mcclure 81 mother.
Two men named Cormack and Dan Logan,
imprisoned in the Jail at Trinidad, Col, for
attempting to outrage two little girls. we're
taken from the prison by about 200 men on
the night of the 22d, and hanged.
James Dobbins and Michael Burns, farm
ers and neighbors, living six miles west of
Kansas City, in Kansas, had a desperate and
fatal encounter on the 22d in which both we're
killed The difficulty originated about money
matters.
On the night of the 21st, Fred Kerster,
German farmer living near Buckley, Iroquois
County, H., shot his wife with a gun, the
charge carrying away her lower jaw He com
pleted the murder with an ak, with which he
gashed her head and body in horrible man
ner as she attempted to escape. No cause is
known.
w. K. Bell, cashier of the American Express
Company at Kansas City, Mo-, has absconded
with $4,000 of the company's money.
T. w. Mcclure and Henry Bedford, con-
testants of land claim in Barbour County,
Kan, quarreled on the Goth about cutting
timber on the land in dispute, and Mcclure
was shot and mortally wounded by Bedford.
Twenty-Five business houses at Farmer CITY,
ILL.,, were destroyed by fire on the 23d, causing
loss of about 100000.
Police Sergeant Nohl, of Toledo, Ohio, shot
and killed Ross Salisbury and then killed him
self on the 23d. Salisbury had published a
card in one of the city papers rejecting Sc
verely upon Nohps character as a citizen and
officer
Charles Grider, but eleven years OF age, was
arrested at. Louisville, KY, on the 25th,
charged with the murder of James Fernie, a
playmate of the same age. On the afternoon
of the 22d they with a number of other BOYS
were playing, when dispute arose between
Grider and Fernie, in which the former
struck the latter on the head with rock,
knocking him down. He was taken TO his
home and died on the following morning
William Frey, iourneyman baker at Gin
cinnati, killed Jacob Junch at the bakery of
the latter, on the 25th, by repeated blows
upon the head with hatchet. The cause of
the assault was reservation of small amount
from Frey's wages to pay a debt the latter
had incurred in neighboring grocery.
YELLOW FEVER ITEMS.
Thirty-one cases in all were reported to the
Memphis Board of Health on the 10Th, thir-
teen of whom were colored. There were four
deaths.
Four deaths and twenty-seven new cases at
Memphis on the goth.
The National Board of Health has decided
not to furnish rations to persons who remain
in infected cities, and only to those In camp,
under supervision, for limited time.
The Odd Fellows of Memphis have appealed
to absent members for assistance. This is
done to avoid the necessity OF the Grand Mas
ter calling for assistance from the Order at
large. Six deaths and twenty-six new cases
were reported on the 2lst.
The Secretary of the New Orleans Board of
Health, on the 23d, denied the report that the
fever was spreading in that city. Only two
cases had occurred since July 2Sth.
Private advices from Starkville, Miss, on
the 22d, reported four cases of fever there,
being attributed to refugees from Memphis.
Eleven deaths and eleven new cases were re.
ported at Memphis on the 22d.
Nineteen deaths and thirty-six new cases