Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-18
renders prompt assistance the residents will

renders prompt assistance the residents will
probably be overpowered and massacred.
A party of seven Indians attacked Sergeant
Kennedy, late signal observer at Deadwood,
and private soldier named Bader, on the 9th,
while the two men were eating lunch at Mlz-
| pah, forty-tve miles from Fort Keogh, their
destination, when fred upon. Bader was in
stantly killed and Kennedy badly wounded.
Kennedy crawled into the brush and kept the
Indians off until assistance arrived. Kennedy
will probably recover.
| The Republican State Convention of Ken
| tucky, held on the 10th, nominated Walter
Evans for Governor. Resolutions were adopt.
cd declaring firm adherence to the principles
OF the Republican party as enunciated in the
platform adopted at Cincinnati in 1876; that
the National debt should be paid in the most
scrupulous good faith; that the right OF the
President TO veto measure is as clear as the
right OF Congress to pass IL. A resolution
was also adopted expressing admiration and
esteem for General Grant and their gratitude
to and confidence in him.
New Orleans will establish twenty days
quarantine, May l, against all. vessels from
southern ports.
The Chinese Six Companies of San Francis
co published card on the 11th stating that
they arc "daily in receipt OF applications for
laborers TO go to the Southern States, notably
Mississippi and Louisiana, to take the place
of the negro labor now emigrating. The Off
GERS of these companies wish it expressly un-
derstood that they have no control over their
peoples labor, and have never brought or
caused to be brought one of their countrymen
here, never contracted their labor, or collect
ed their wages in any manner whatsoever, the
press of California to the contrary notwith-
standing"
Eight thousand norins collected by the
Deak Society from the citizens of Chicago,
has been sent to Segedln for the relief OF the
sufferers by the recent inundation.
The Indians who killed private Bader, OF
the Second Cavalry, and seriously wounded
Sergeant Kennedy Of the Signal Service, on
the 9th, were captured on the 18th and taken
to Fort Keogh. Bader's horse and scalp were
found in their possession.
The Macklnaw Straits were still closed by
ice on the 18th, with little prospect of being
cleared before the first of May
A distinct earthquake shock was felt at
Norfolk, Va, on the morning of the 14th.
Almost the entire business part of euro,
Texas, was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
FOREIGN TNTELLIGENCB.
The stockholders of the City Of Glasgow
Bank have been called on to pay 92,25O on
each 910O share.
Thirty thousand miners at Durham, En-
gland, went out on a strike on the Sth.
The rumor that Germany intended to large
ly increase her silver coinage is denied.
A convoy of supplies, escorted by 104 men
of the Eightieth British Regiment, was at
tackled by 1900 Zulus on the banks of the Ju-
tambe River at daybreak on the 18th Of March.
The commanding officer and forty men were
killed, and twenty men were missing. A
Lieutenant and forty men escaped and suor
ceeded in reaching Luneburg. Twenty wagons
containing supplies were lost. One hundred
and fifty men of the Eightieth Regiment sub
sequently proceeded to the scene of the fight,
and recovered quantity of rockets and am
munitiOn and buried the dead.
Eugene Schuyler has received letter from
the President of the Bulgarian National AS
sembly, thanking him, in the name of the
Bulgarian Nation, for his report about Turk
ish atrocities in Roumelia, which brought the
The miners in the Houghton and Durham
districts in England determined, on the 9th,
to destroy the property of owners and man
ayers. A conflict between the miners and
police seemed imminent. The colliery man
ayers were leaving or barricading their
houses.
The Russian revolutionary committee have
sent letters to all Imperial dlgnitaries at st.
Petersburg saving though they do not intend
to attack the Gar they will continue to kill
his attendants, especially the heads of the
police department, so long as the treatment
of political prisoners lie unameliorated.
One thousand and forty Nihilsts have been
arrested at Charkoff. The conspirators do
not seem TO be intinidated by the severe meas
ures adopted by the Government against men,
bers of their society.
The difficulty raised by Italy caused the fail
ure of the schSme for the mixed occupation
of Roumelia. 1t is asserted that there are
some secret relations between Italy and Russia.
Seventeen thousand persons are subsisting
on charity at Szegedin.
The death of Karl Bech, German poet, was
announced on the 11th.
The water in the lower part of szegedin on
and cannot be pumped out in much less than
one hundred days. The total loss OF life by
the inundation is represented now not to ex-
ceed seventy-seven.
The corpse of student was found on one
OF the streets at st. Petersburg recently Ia
beled: Sentenced as traitor by the Social
lists Revolutionary Committee"
The German Government has two men-of-
war at Samoa, and it is thought they will
fully suffice for the protection of foreigners.
Another dispatch states that Germany,
though entertaining no idea of annexing the
islands, intends to protect German interests
and prevent the Americana from establishing
themselves there to the detriment of other
nations.
General Manteuffel has declined the Gov
ernorship OF Alsace and Lorraine.
In consequence of the Egyptian difficulty
business throughout that country is com
pletely suspended and is likely to remain so
until the decision of England and France is
known. The Government is collecting money
throughout the provinces using every means
of cOmpulsion. An immediate levy of TO-
600 soldiers has been ordered
A terrible fire was raging at Cairo on the
18th, and whole blocks of buildings hundred
of yards in length had been destroyed.
A Kieff correspondent of the st. Petersburg
Journal gives the following account of an out
break among the political prisoners there, re-
Gently: "The persons under arrest in Kieff
prison resolved some time ago to tunnel un-
der the walls and escape. The scheme was
BETRAYED by one of the conspirators. The au-
thorities allowed the prisoners to continue
the excavation. When the tunnel was COM
pleted and the prisoners had entered 1t
one after the other intending to come
up through an opening beyond the pris-
ON precincts, the soldiers previously posted at
the opening shot the escaping prisoners as
they came up. The bulk of the prisoners ter
rihed by the noise of firing stopped and re-
mained In the tunnel. Soldiers were sent in