Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-08-08
WEST Ann snI1TII.

wedding excursion.
WEST AND SOUTH.
The Exchange Bank of st. Louis has gone
Into liquidation. Depositors are promised
pay in full, stockholders seventy per cent.
At East Pennington, Polk County, Wis, on
the 29th John Kranz drove into lake with
six children in his wagon to water his horses.
The horses becoming frightened ran into deep
water and the wagon was upset. Kranz and
five OF the children were drowned. One boy,
being able to swim, escaped.
dispatch on the 29th ult. stated that a
disease similar to the cholera had been raging
at Centre Point, Linn County, Iowa, for two
weeks. About twenty deaths had occurred
and as many more persons were prostrated
with it. 1t was also raging in Walker, town
seven miles from Centre Point.
At Cairo, ILL.,, on the 3Oth ult., John Hogan,
a constable, shot and killed Charles d. Arter,
ex-Chief of Police. Arter was seated reading
newspaper when Hogan approached him
from behind, and without a word of warning
fred the fatal shot. Various rumors were
anoat as to the motive, but Hogan gave no
explanation except that he thought his action
justifable.
John Colt was stabbed aud killed by Barnet
Gorden in bar-room fight at Louisville, KY,
on the Both ult.
A shooting affray occurred at the residence
Of Lucas Covert, near Columbus, Ind, at the
breakfast table on the morning OF the Both
ult., between his sons Henry and Aleck, in
which Henry was instantly killed and Aleck
mortally wounded.
In the case of Cannon, Darlington and
Young, executors of the Brigham Young es-
tate and John Taylor, President OF the Nor
mon Church, before Judge Boreman at Salt
Lake City, on the Both ult., for contempt in
not turning property over to the receiver, an
order was made that the executors pay into
the court $l42, 900 in cash and that John Tay.
lor pay $4,000 in cash and the stocks Illegal
ly received by him, and to be imprisoned until
paid.
Doc Middleton, the Nebraska outlaw, who
was badly wounded in a fight with detectives
recently, was captured on the 9th ult
A meeting of the National Lincoln Monu-
ment Association was held at Springfield, Ill.
on the 3lst ult. A letter was read from Lar
kin e. Mead, stating that he had model OF
the third or artillery group, complete and
ready for casting, and had commenced work
on the fourth and last, the cavalry group.
He was instructed to have both cast
as soon as possible. A commune. tion
was presented from Robert T. Lincoln, son of
President Lincoln, proposing to convey to the
association his interest in the old Lincoln
homestead, provided it be restored to the con-
dition left by Mr.. Lincoln and preserved as a
memorial. The charter of the association pre-
vents their acceptance, but a resolution was
adopted appointing the Governor of Illinois
a committee to consult with Robert Lincoln,
and ascertain II the property could not be
conveyed to an association of ladies formed
for that purpose.
General Terry received a dispatch from
General Miles on the 3lst nit. stating that he
was in camp eighteen miles south of the
boundary line, and that Sitting BULBS band,
numbering about 5000 persons, with 1900
fighting men, had fed northward toward the
mountains, leaving considerable property
scattered along the line Of their flight.
Five convicts escaped from the penitentiary
at Frankfort, KY, on the 3lst ult., but three
of them were afterward recaptured, one OF
them having been wounded hy the guards as
he was descending a rope from the outside
wall.
The dwelling of James Cleveland and three
boat houses, on the lake shore at Battle Creek
Mich, were burned on the 3lst ult. Mrs
Cleveland and her infant persisted in the
flames. Two other children were so badly in.
jured that they are not expected to live
Cleveland saved his own and one of his chill
dren's lives by jumping from the second story
of his burning house into the lake.
In the case of tine Western Union Telegraph
Company against the Wabash Railway Com,
pany and the American Union Telegraph
Company, on a motion for a temporary in
junction to restrain the defendants from con.
structing line of telegraph upon the right
of way of the Wabash Railway in the States
of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, on the
ground that the contract between the
railroad and the Western Union Company
granted to the latter the exclusive right ol
way for the construction and maintenance oi
its telegraph lines, the United States Court
Of Indiana and the Circuit Court of the South
ern District of Illinois, on the LIST, issued or
ders restraining.the defendant from construct
ing the lines pending the consideration OF
the motion. A decision will probably be
given In October.
Mrs. John Howe and servant fell into q
vault at Covington, Ky, on the night of the
I'd, and were suffocatei. Mr.. Howe, who
went to their assistance, was taken out insen.
sible, but recovered.
Deputy United States Marshal George
White, and party, who were taking prisoner
named Tom Afford to Fort Worth, Texas, or
the 30, were attacked by three of Affords
brothers near Arlington, and in the engage
ment White and two of the Affords were
wounded, White fatally. The Affords, how
ever rescued their brother and escaped.
Four unknown men rode into Coffeyvllle
Kan, on the "a, robbed the post-ofIice ant
committed other depredations. Citizens re
sisted, one of whom, named Fitzpatrick, wa
killed and another, named Roberts, wounded
| The robbers escaped. A detachment of UniteC
States troops started in pursuit.
The town of Volcano, w. Va, was almost
entirely destroyed by fire on the morning o
the 4th. There were six hundred barrels o
heavy oil burned, ten stores, the post-office
railroad depot and telegraph office, the hotel
printing office, nine dwelling houses, th
West Virginia Transportation office, Smith
Boiler Works, one pumping station and sew
eral other small buildings. Almost the entir
contents of the stores and dwellings wer
consumed, the flames spreading with sue
lightning rapidity, and all the buildings bein
wooden structures. The fire is supposed +
have been the work OF incendiaries. Tn
total loss is estimated at $4,000; insurance
S43,0 600.
During the absence OF James Rose colore
farmer, from his home, near Petersburg, Va
on the 4th, Maggie Tinns, with whom he ha
lived, and their infant child were murdere
by an unknown man and woman whom Ros
had married and abandoned.
A whole family, consisting OF L. P. LesueI
and wife and two children, were struck b
lightning at Rochester, Mimi, on the nigE
of the Sd. Mrs. Lesuem and the childre
were killed and Lesuem fatally injured.
John Thomas, Mary Hanson and an Italia
musician named Frank DE Luca, were browne
in the Mississippi River above La Cross
Wis, on the night of the Sd. They were pa
of a picnic party from La Crosse.