Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-08-01
WEST AND SOUTH.

At Opelika, Ga, on the 22d, Samuel G.
Grasty, a commercial traveller from Atlanta
was attacked in his room by Mr.. Read and
his son for alleged improper intimacy with
Miss Read. In the encounter Grasty shot
both of his opponents, the elder Read fatally
Grasty was baldy cut about the head and
hands.
general strike of the laborers at the rail-
road warehouses in East st. Louis occurred
on the 22d. The men demand an increase of
twenty five cents day. They have been re-
ceiving 81 day.
special from Fort Keogh, on the 22d, sta
ted that a fight occurred on the 18th between
two companies of troops and Lieutenant
Clark's Indian scouts of Miles command and
800 Sioux, near the mouth of Beaver Creek.
Four Indian scouts were killed and two sol
diers wounded. The Indians retreated to Sit
ting Bulls camp.
The Wisconsin Republican State Convention
was held at Madison on the 23d. Governor
Smith was renominated. The other State Of
ficers were renominated by acclamation as fol-
lows: Lieutenant Governor, James N. Bing-
| ham; Secretary of State, Hans R. Warner;
Treasurer, Richard Guenther; Attorney Gen
eral, Alexander Wilson; Superintendent of
Public Instruction, William c. Whitford. Res
olutions were adopted declaring that the Re-
public of the United States is Nation, not a
confederacy of sovereign States; that the elec-
tions of members of Congress are National
elections, and as such the whole country is
interested in having them fairly and peace
fully conducted, so that every voter may be
afforded an opportunity to exercise mis- right
of suffrage freely and without fear of personal
violence; that the refusal of mere majority
in Congress to make appropriations OF money
already collected by tax from the people for
the ordinary and legitimate expenses of the
Government with the purpose of compel
ling the President by such refusal to
| approve measure which he regards as un
wise and wrong, is revolutionary in principle,
subversive of the Constitution and deserving
the condemnation of all good citizens; that
the practice of attaching what is popularly
termed political riders to appropria
tion bills is abusing legislation, and
should be prohibited; that the thanks
and grateful recognition of the people
are due to President Hayes and to the Repub
llcan members OF Congress for their rirm an6
successful resistance to tAe attempts made by
the Democratic party to disarm the Nationa
Government on election days; and that the
successful resumption of specie payments hai
! indicated the wisdom of the Republican pol
icy on that subject.
Thomas Buford, who killed Judge Elliott a
Frankfort, KY, last spring, has been trlet
and sentenced to imprisonment in the peni
tentiary for life.
The Louisiana Constitutional Convention
adjourned sine die on the 23d.
On the night of the 22d band of armet
men entered the Jail where Frank Hobb
(colored) was confined ona charge of outrag
ing and nearly killing Mrs. Ferguson, at Red
ding, Pike County, H., shot him dead an,
dragged his body rlddled with bullets througl
the streets.
| scaffolding, upon which three me
were working at Petersburg, Va, fell o
the Oath killing James Charles, and injurin
Alex. Nugent and Robert Charles, the forme
fatally.
On the 2lst party of detectives under con
mand OF Llewellyan attempted to arrest Do
Middleton, leader of band Of thieves an
murderers infesting the cattle country of NiC
brara River, Nebraska. Shots were fire
by two of the detectives and returned by th
desperadoes with effect upon each side. A
though no lives were lost, Hagen, one of th
detectives, received three balls, one in tn
neck, one in the arm, and third passe
, through his body below the ribs. The oth6
detectives escaped without a scratch an
,, made their way to Columbus, $50 miles dil
, tant. Middleton was wounded in the groi
and win probably die.
Another account of the fight between d
tectives and the outlaw Middleton's gang G
the Niobrara River, in Nebraska, was receive
on the 25th. Beside Hazen, OF the detectl'
: force, who was badly wounded, Llewellyn r
ceived a slight wound, and two outlaws we
killed.
A party of over 200 Icelanders passC
+ through Chicago on the 24th for MINI
0 sofa border settlement. Their destinatiC
l originally was Manitoba, but they -four
e greater advantages offered on this side
. the border. They carried an average