Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-12

on Joint ballot In the Legislature to elect the
Executive Council and subordinate officers
even though they have not elected a majority
Of the Senate.
WEST AND SOUTH.
John 8. Pillsbury was nominated for Gov
ernor, Q. A. Gilman for Lieutenant-G Gov
ernor, Fred Won Bomback for Secretary OF
State, George Kettleson for State Treasurer,
e. NJ Start for Attorney-General and r. Mar.
shall for Railroad Commissioner by the
Minnesota Republican State Convention
held at st. Paul on the 2d. A platform
was adopted acknowledging the fidelity
and ability with which the finances have been
conducted by the present administration and
especially commencing the course Of the
President in firmly exercising his veto power
to uphold the safeguards of the ballot-box
| demanding retrenchment and the strictest
economy in every department of the National
and State Government, and declaring against
everything that savors of monopoly and un.
| just discrimination and combination by rail
road or other corporations.
TREMENDOUS gale ragged around Morgan
City, La, and along the Bayou Teche on the
] I'd, causing immense damage to property.
pletely destroyed. At New Orleans forty-ive
coal boats, loaded with coal, were SUNK caus-
inga loss of about S200,0O0.
| The bodies of two women and little girl,
supposed to be a Mrs. HATTIE, her sister and
her sisters child, we're found in house at
| Waynesville, Ohio, on the I'd. They had evi-
IDENTIFY been murdered some days before, as
the stencil from the bodies was dreadful. The
bodies were covered with bed clothing and had
been sprinkled with lime.
| James Halle shot ana killed William A.
Jenkins near Galnesboro, Tenn, on the Goth
| ult.
Anderson Garner, of Allen County, Ky., in
fit of jealousy, on the 2Sth ult., shot and
killed his wife and then blew out his own
brains.
General Grant sailed from Yokohama on the
Sd and will probably arrive at San Francisco
on the 2lst.
The body Of Willie Anderson, who was sus.
pected of the murder of the two women and
little girl at WayDesville, Ohio, was found on
| the Sd in an unoccuped water station at
Plainville, ten miles from Cincinnati, where
he had committed suicide by shooting.
Stephen Smith killed Charles Wood in ALE
gheny County, n. c., on the Sd. The difficult
ty was about the division OF a shoe-string.
Charles Brown and William Yoakum were
fatally injured by the falling of scaffolding
at Leavenworth, Kan, on the 4th. Three 9TH
ers were slightly hurt.
| At Willet's, CAL, on the night of the Sd, an
armed band of men took Elijah Frost, Bige
Gibson and Tom McCracken from a constable
and hung them. They were under arrest for
larceny.
At Baltimore, on the 5th, while several
workmen were at work on new bridge, the
scaffolding gave way, causing the death OF
Thomas McCarty and James Mentally. John
Welch had his back broken, and Christian
Hesserlof and John King received internal
injuries supposed to be serious.
The excursion steamer Alaska, in the De,
troit aud Bay line, exploded the dome
Of her boiler on the 5th, instantly killing both
engineers and one deck hand, and seriously
scalding ten other deck hands, two fatally
Only one passenger was injured.
Near Walton, KY, on the 5th, negro
named Theodore Black was caught in the act
of outraging Mary Carney, aged sixteen. He
| was taken to Burlington, posse of citizens
summoned, mock trial had, and the negro
sentenced to be shot. He was then tied to
tree and twenty shots fired into his body.
Returns received from the California elec
tion up to the morning of the 9th indicate
the election OF Perkins, Rep, for Governor
by 10000. The balance Of the Republican
State ticket, with the exception of Justice
is also elected. The Republicans have prob
ably elected all the Congressman, though
the vote is very close in the San francisco
district. Kalloch, for Mayor, is elected beyond
doubt.
| Advices from the parishes show that almost
every sugar plantation in Louisiana suffered
more or less by damage to or destruction OF
buildings by the storm on the 1st.
A two-story brick building at Cheyenne, w
T., fell in on the 5th completely wrecxing the
building. Col. G. ]. F. Vandesande and two
children OF Mrs. Bell were killed. and sew
eral other persons were more or less injured
A party of two girls and two young mel
while crossing White River, twenty milei
south of Vincennes, Ind, on the 4th, were
thrown into the river by the horses ATTACHED
to the wagon in which they were seated be
coming frightened and backing off the boat
The two girls and one of the young men wer,
drowned.
David Benjamin, minister of the Chris
tian Union Church, at Zaleski, Ohio, was beat
en- to death by his son-in-law, John T. Sharp
on the Sth. Sharp was beating his wife ant
children with a stick of stove-wood, whel
Benjamin interfered, whereupon Sharp turned
on the latter and struck him ON the head
knocking him down, and then kicking him II
the stomach. Benjamin lived but two hour
attoEward. Sharp escaped. His wife and daugh
ter are both severely injured.
On the Sth there were forty-eight prisoner
in the United States jail at Fort Smith, Ark.
including nine for murder.
p. j. Ryan, a asection boss on the Missouri
Pacific Railroad at Lees Summit, Mo-, wa
shot and killed by DIR. r. w. McAfee on tn
9th. Both men were under the influence o
liquor.
A fire at Fon du Lac, Wis, on the night o
the 9th destroyed a number of buildings.
young lady named Gibson was burned +
death.
The Workingmen at San Francisco electe
the Mayor, Sheriff, Auditor, Treasurer, Ia
Collector, Public Administrator, Surveyor
District Attorney, City and County Attorney
Police Judge, one Supervisor, five member
of the Board of Education and Railroad Con
missiC er for the city district. The Repul
/
city officers and the Congressman.
YELLOW FEVER ITEMS.
A quarantine picket, enclircling Memphi
and suburbs, was established on the I'd. Fou
deaths and twenty-eight new cases were r,
ported.
Eight deaths and twenty-slx new cases WEI
! reported at Memphis on the Sd. A. d. Ions
staff, President Of the Howard Association
, visited Louisville aud Cincinnati on the 8
and 4th to solicit aid.
A committee has been appointed by th
, Louisiana Association of the Army OF Nortl
, ern Virginia and the Army of the TennessC
? to receive contributions for the benefit of ii
children Of the late General Hood.
r w. J. Smith, Acting President OF the How
, ard Association at Memphis, issued the 70
| ha N A