Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-12-12
WEST AND SOUTH.

Near Waco, Texas, on the night Of the 1st
where dance was progressing, Bud Wood
became incensed because a young lady re-
fused 10 dance with him, and demanded that
the dance cease. Wood followed a young
man named Currie into back room and pro-
voked fight. Currie knocked him down,
and they then went outside the house
and had duel with pistols. A dozen shots
were fired; Currie was wounded in the hand,
Wood in the thigh, and a bystander in the
leg. Wood then went to where the young
lady was talking with Albert Choch, made two
attempts to shoot her, and remarking to
Choch, "You are a friend of Currie," shot
Choch dead, knocked Jim Currle senseless
with pistol and escaped.
The two boilers of the Girard furnace at
Youngstown, Ohio, exploded on the afternoon
OF the I'd, wrecklng the boiler house and un-
settling the foundation of the furnace
Though there were 100 men working about
the furnace, only one was killed.
Dispatches from Louisiana report that the
State election passed off quietly on the I'd.
Returns received show heavy Democratic
gains.
Colorow testified before the Ute Commits
sioners on the 30 that twenty Indians were
killed and several wounded in the Thornburg
fight He said he never met the Mormons
personally, but knew those who had, to whom
the proposition was made TO furnish arms and
ammunition. General HGtch's theory that
the fight between the Indians and soldiers
was an accident was clearly proven. The In
dians had left the main road to avoid the SOL
diers, and If Thornburg had kept the main
road, would have reached the agency unmo-
Tested.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has reduced It's rates from fifteen to twenty
per cent.
The Cincinnati Price Current, on the 4th
published an elaborate report Of the supply
Of hogs in the West, showing that In Ohio,
Kentucky and Indiana there is a considerable
deficiency In the number OF hogs, but Illinois
and Iowa are expected to fall very little, If
any below last years supply, and Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska are expected to make
up the deficiency east Of the Mississippi
River.
Jack, who took a prominent part in the
White River massacre, arrived at Los Plnos,
Col, on the Sd. He has promised TO give
full particulars of the affair. Chief Ouray
says that with the cooperation of Jack and
Colorow the Commission will be able to settle
the difficulty to the satisfaction OF the De-
partment.
l.. w. Heath has been elected a member of
the National Republican Committee from
Michigan vics zachariah Chandler, deceased,
Medford Waters, colored, was hanged at
Elkton, Nd, on the 9TH, for the murder OF
Jenkins Whaley, colored, Nov. G3, 1873.
Jack testified before the Ute Commission
on the 4th that the removal of the agency was
the commencement Of the trouble; that at an
elevation OF $500 feet, with frost every month
In the year, farming was impossible; that he
and his band received no rations for year,
which he claims was violation of the treaty
Of 1858, and that his engagement with the
troops was fair fight, ahd that white men
under the same circumstances would have
fought Thornburg.
An extra session of the Tennessee Leglsla-