Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-10-10
WEST AND SOUTH.

General Grant has telegraphed that he can
not be in Chicago before November 18th, and
the reunion OF the Army of the Tennessee
will therefore be postponed until that time.
The National Military Convention met at
st. Louis on the Both ult. Speeches were
made in favor Of organizing the militia of the
whole country in a uniform manner and in
accordance with one plan. A military review
was held, General Beauregard being the review
ing officer.
President Hayes and party attended the
Springfield, Ill, Fair on the Both ult.
Hon. Carl schurz and Count Donohoff, Sec
retary of the German Legation at Washing
ton, attended the Indiana International Fair
at Muscogee, l. T., on the Both ult.
Up TO the 1st no tidings had been received
of the whereabouts of Professor Wise and
George Burr, who left st. Louis in balloon
on the 2Sth ult, and the opinion is growing
very strong that they have met the same fate
as Donaldson and Greenwood, who ascended
from Chicago two or three years ago.
The reunion of the survivors of the South
ern war prisons began at Toledo, Ohio, on
the 1st. About 1900 ex.prisoners we're pres
ent from nearly every State in the Union.
1Hc NcDTdShd htpuDllCdn SJhJe convention
was held at Omaha on the 1st. General
Amasa Cobb, the present incumbent, was
nominated for Supreme Judge, and John L.
Carson and Jos. W. Gannett for Regents of
the State University.
John Freidnill, German, killed his di-
yorced wife at Indianapolis on the 1st. He
afterwards fatally shot himself and died in a
few hours.
The Presidential party attended the In
diana State Fair at Indianapolis on the 3D.
The President and General Sherman made
short speeches.
Kings powder mill, near South Lebanon
Ohio, exploded on the Sd, killing Henry Sim
monds, Charles Meyers and Joseph Pastors
The explosion was the result of carelessness
of employees.
Joe Kemp was hung at Evening Shade,
Ark, on the Sd, for the murder of Marion HUI
sey in 1869.
On the afternoon of the Sd a cyclone accom-
panied by heavy rain passed over the county
fair grounds at Watsonville, Trscola County,
Mich, doing great damage. Ci-th tents were
torn to shreds and fences blown uuwn. One
tent, where tables were set for one hundred
persons, was blown down, overturning the
stove and large reservoir of boiling water,
scalding six ladies, one Of whom with an in
FAINT few months old, probably fatally. In
the main hall the exhibits were considerably
injured by rain.
The city government of Mt. Vernon, Ind,
has been abandoned in order to avoid the pay
ment of Judgment obtained by the Newark,
N. j., Savings Institution against the city for
$4,000.
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Springfield on the 4th, was an unprecedented
success.
Chicago banks did an immense business for
the week, ending the 4th, showing how rap
idly and surely trade and commerce are reviv.
ing. The clearings for the week foot up
total of $34, ,407, 500, being over $9,53S, 600
in excess of those of the corresponding week
last year.
Thomas Ellis, for the murder of David
O'Neill, yardmaster of the Northwestern Rail
road, at Chicago, was sentenced by Judge
Barnum on the 4th to the Penitentiary for
life. Ellis had plead guilty.
Six shoshone chiefs, with war paint, and
armed with breech-loading rifles, came down
on the Utah Northern Railroad and went
East on the 4th, on the Union Pacific Road
paying their fare, and announcing they we're
going to join the Utes.
A special from San Antonio, Texas, says
General McKenzie's regiment, the Fourth
Cavalry, has been ordered to Fort Hayes in
the Ute country. The departure of these
troops is greatly regretted, as large area of
the Mexican border is left unprotected and It
is feared there will be arepetition of the raid
ing outrages of two years ago.
A fire on the 4th destroyed Gates saw-mill
on Boulder Creek, near Deadwood, D. T., to-
gether with over half million feet of lum-
Der. Loss, $4,000 to 900.
The pork packers statistics from Cinciu-
natl for the past season make an exceedingly
favorable showing, as to the increase in re-
ceipts OF live stock at that market as compared
with the season of 1878. Receipts of hogs
aggregated $780, 600, l00,0OO increase; cattle
los