Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-11-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
Rear Admiral William Reynolds, Of th,
United States Navy, died at his residence II
Washington on the 5th.
An appropriation of 81, $50 600 will be asket
for taking the census OF $780,
The Executive Committee having in charge
the arrangements for the meeting OF the 80
ciety OF the Army of the Cumberland, issued
an explanatory address on the 9th stating that
invitations had been sent to every comrade
Whoss post-office address is known to be pres
ent at the reunion to be held in Washington
on the 10Th and Goth of this month, on which
occasion the monument OF Hon. George II.
Thomas will be unveiled and presented to the
Nation; but as the post Office address of many
OF their comrades is not known the committee
send through the Associated Press a cordial
ana earnest invitation to every comrade 10
meet with them and aid in paying their re.
spcct to the memory OF their great command
er, General Thomas
The estimates for the Consular and Diplo.
matte Service for the next fiscal year will ex-
ceed those for the current year by about $685.
900.
Secretary Schurz has refused 10 allow the
Sacs, Foxes and Iowa tribes of Indians
to remove to Indian Territory from their
present reservation, which comprises 24OOO
acres In Northern Kansas and Southern Ne
braska
The annual report of the Third Assistant
Postmaster General shows that the receipts
Tor the twelve months, ending July 30, 1879,
were $7G4, ,466 more than those of the preced-
ing year and about 81, 900, 900 more than esti-
mated.
The United States Consul General at Shan
ghai, China, in a dispatch to the Department
OF State, reports that the cotton crop in that
section will not be more than half the average
yield. This will probably make the usual de-
mand In China and Japan for cotton goods.
The United States Consul at Odessa reports
TO the same department that the wheat crop
OF Russia will fall short of the usual harvest,
and that American wheat must be in great
demand In all parts of Europe.
Governor elect Cornell of New York, and
Others, have prepared a call for meeting of
the National Republican Committee to be
held at Washington, December 10th, to take
appropriate action upon the death OF Hon. u.
Chandler, and to consider the time and place
of holding the next National Convention.
THE EAST.
On the night of the 81 an unknown schooner
went ashore at Broad Cove, Cape Elizabeth,
Me-, and the crew were all drowned.
Near Hackensack, N. j., on the 4th, pas
senger train on the New York Il Greenwood
Lake Railroad, composed of one engine and
one coach ran into the Hackensack River,
owing to drawbridge being open. There
we're about twenty persons In the coach, only
one OF whom was killed. Several others were
severely injured.
Samuel Hendrickson and wife, while driy-
Ing across the railway track at Freehold, N,
Y, on the 5th, were struck by an engine and
both fatally injured.
Six hundred thousand dollars was appropri-
ated for missionary work for the ensuing year
bv the General Missionary Committee OF the
NJ. L. Church, In session at New York on the
9TH. This is an increase of $50, 600 over the
amount appropriated last year.
The steamship France, which arrived at
New York from Havre on the 9th, brought
$s73,OOO in gold.
During aheavy fog at Lancaster, Pa, on the !
morning OF the 1th a freight train on the |
pennsylvania Railroad ran into another |
freight train and two oil cars were wrecked. |
The escaping oil caught fire, and shortly after |
wards one OF the tanks exploded with terrific |
force, shaking all the buildings in the vicini- |
ty. For some hours the road was blocked for |
miles east and west with trains waiting for
the fire to burn itself out.
A freight train on the Pennsylyania Rail- |
road broke in two on the morning of the 9TH |
while running down the mountain, about |
eight miles west OF Altoona, Pa. The de-
tached portion OF the train gained great speed, |
running down hill at the rate OF mile min
ute, until at Kittaning Point It overlook and |
ran into the first part. Twenty-four cars
were completely wrecked and the freight scat
tered In all directions. James A. Mcdowell,
brakeman, was instantly killed, aud j. G. |
COOK, another brakeman, seriously Injured.
During October over $4,000, 900 postal cards
were sent from the Holyoke, Mass, factory
the largest months business ever done.
From the LIST of January to the 7th of No
vember, 1898 German emigrants landed at
Castle Garden, New York City, against is, 7I3
Tor the corresponding period last year.
The house and outbuildings of Isaac Spof.
ford, ef Brownfeld, Me-, were DESTROYED by
fire on the 7th, and Spofford perished In the
flames.
Rev. Mathew Hale Smith, the newspaper
correspondent known as "Burleigh,n - died at
his home in Brooklyn, N. on the sth.
are at McKeesport, Pa on the Sth, de-
stroyed hotel, large grst mill, and several
other buildings, causing loss of about $50.
900.
James }. Norris, OF Bradley, Me-, was mur.
dered and robbed on the night of the 9TH.
On the 9th Frenchman named Joseph Bon.
leau, who had been discharged from the mill
where Norris was foreman, was arrested on
suspicion, and sufficient evidence found on
his person to convict him.
The wife of Senator Davis, OF Illinois, died
at Stockbridge, Mass, on the 10th.
Richard Schell died at New York on the
10th.