Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-08-15

L. nso' hhilhB porter In uenJlsts establish
ment and robbing the place of a large amour
Il OF gold. The murder referred to is that o
9 James Neads in 1865, who was gagged an,
o strangled at Whites dental establishment
o Parties were arrested at the time, but the evi
dence was insufficient to hold them.
G Charles B. Salter, of Philadelphia, was ar
rested on the 1lth at the instance of the Rio
b. Bill Investigating Committee on a charge O.
i. corrupt solicitation of members of the Legis
, lature in connection with the Pittsburg Rio
! Claims bill William II. Kimble was also for
! mally notified to enter bail at Harrisburg on
a similar claim. The committee have en-
gagged as attorneys for the prosecution, Sen
, ator Matt Carpenter, Judge Jere s. Black anC
franklin B. Gowan. Chairman Wolfe states
that the case will be vigorously pushed.
During the year ending July 81, 1879, 1O3,.
245 immigrants arrived at New York City, an
increase Of %, LOG over the previous year.
WEST AND SOUTH.
Major Walsh, of the Canadian mounted Do
lice, accompanied by Long Dog, Sioux chief,
visited General Miles camp on the 2sth OF
July, and stated that Sitting Bulls band had
moved north TO Swan Lake, about eighty
miles from the line, where they had deter
that the Indians would abstain from all hos
tile movements on this side of the line. and
desist from hunting American buffalo unless
permitted to do SO under the supervision of
United States officials.
The wreck OF the other Jonathan. which
foundered off Point St. George, near Crescent
City, in July, 1865, has been discovered by
some San Francisco parties, who are making
| ARRANGEMENTS ~ ba
$l,OOO,OOO in treasury notes and bullion, which
was in the safe.
At Chicago, on the 5th, Solomon Sem, part
ner OF the firm of Schillo, Kossman IL Sem,
iron founders, shot the foreman of the firm,
Conrad Engleman, through the head, and
then, after swapping a revolver at his own
head, retired into his private office and cut
his throat from ear to ear. The quarrel was
about pillar which was being cast in the
| shop, and which Sem claimed was being
spoiled by Engleman.
| \ special to the st. Paul Pioneer Press re-
ports the discovery of rich mineral veins in
the Northern Light Lake region, on the north
shere of Lake Superior. Specimens assay $40
gold and $57 silver per ton.
John Taylor, trustee of the Mormon Church,
has brought suit against the estate of Brig
ham Young for 81, 900, ,OOO
Returns from the threshers in Minnesota
furnish the basis for an estimate of the prob
able yield of wheat in that State. A conserv.
alive estimate shows the average in two
thirds Of the wheat area at thirteen bushels
per acre, and in the remainder at seventeen.
This would give 100000 bushels in the
whole crop.
On the 9th, -i,iIU si4N. -------1--I,
ing of the dome of the new Music Hall at Chi
cago, sixty feet above the ground, the entire
scaffolding fell through the doors to the ground
floor. Four of the workmen we're terribly in
jured. The other two caught projections on
the wall and escaped comparatively without
injury.
At Middletown, Ohio, on the 9th, Charles
Ballett, livery stable keeper shot and killed
his wife, and Immediately afterward placed
the revolver to his own heart and fired, dying |
instantly. Ballett was a drunkard and his |
wife had petitioned for divorce.
DIR. James l.. Roberts, highly respected |
citizen of Melville, Ray County, No, was |
shot and instantly killed by DIR. j. L. Keyes |
on the 9th. Keyes accused Roberts with talk |
ing about his (KeyesD family, but Roberts de-
MED the charge. Roberts was over sixty !
years old, while Keyes was about thirty, and |
addicted to drink. Keycs escaped.
Samuel Nussbaum, an old citizen of Cape |
Girardeau County, Mo-, cut his wife's throat |
on the 5th, and then cut his own throat. Do
nestle trouble is said to be the cause. Nuss-
baum will die, while his wife may recover.
Two of the workmen who fell from the |
scaffolding in the Music Hall at Chicago, on |
the 9th, died on the 9TH.
The Maryland Democratic State Convention |
was held at Baltimore on the 7th. William |
I. Hamilton was nominated for Governor;
c. ]. NJ. Gwinn for Attorney General; Thorn
as j. Keating for Comptroller, and Spencer
Jones for Clerk Of the Court of Appeals.
The resolutions adopted declare that
the obligations and credit of the United |
States and of Maryland ought to be sacredly |
maintained; that when the Democratic party |
regained power in the Congress OF the United |
States 1t enforced an economical administra-
tion Of public affairs and made the resump' ion |
OF specie payment a possible event, it will,
therefore, be its duty to maintain the advant-
age thus gained by firmly establishing the
credit OF the country upon basis OF coin ex-
changeable in all the markets of the world that
the Democratic party of the country was de-
prived by fraud of the fruits of its victory IN the
Presidential contest of 1876, and that it is the
duty OF the people, acting in their respective
States, to protect themselves and their poster
tty against the recurrence of the offense by
enacting laws which will afford no future op-
portunity for such fraudulent practices: that
the Democratic party of Maryland faithful to
the supremacy of the Constitution of the
United States, rests its construction of that
instrument upon the express words of the
tenth amendment, adopted in 1871, "The
powers not delegated to the United States by
the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the
States, are reserved to the States, respective
ly, or to the people,"
The Auditor Of the State of Kentucky gave
notice on the 9TH that in consequence of the
depletion of the Treasury occasioned by re.
duction Of twenty-five per cent. of the taxes
imposed on the taxable property of the State,
the shrinkage of values, the reduction Of
taxes on railroads, the failure of Sheriffs and
other collecting officers to pay the public dues
into the Treasury, and the continued increase
OF the expenses OF the State, he has been com
PEELED to cease auditing claims for the pres
ent and until the Treasury is replenished.
Jacob E. Hairline was hanged at San Anto-
MO, Texss, on the Sth, for the murder of Pc
ter Maddox in February last. lie affirmed
his innocence to the last.
Returns from the Tennessee election indl-
cate that the proposition to settle the debt at
fifty cents and four per cent. interest has been
rejected by not less than $4,000 majority.
At California, Mo-, on the night of the 9th,
several white men and boys went to a negro
ball and created a disturbance, during which
Louis Myrick was shot and killed by a negro
named Maupin. Two or three others were
wounded.
Fifty-eight counties in Kentucky give Black
burn, Democrat, for Governor, 23,5l4 majorl-
ty. Blackburn's majority in the State will |
probably exceed 10000. The Republicans gain
three or four Senators and twelve Representa-
tiVes.
John Duncan, of Warrensburg, Mo-, died |
on the 9th from the effects of injuries re-
eeiyed In row the night before. George An