Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-01-10
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Ten convicts attempted to escape from the
Iowa Penitentiary at Anamos on the I'd. One
Of them was shot dead, one fatally and two
seriously wounded. Five others were re-
captured and one remained at liberty. n
Special Deputy-Collector James Davis was
arrested at Nashville, Tenn, on the I'd, by
the Sheriff Of that county, on cdpiaSeS issued
by the Circuit Court of Macon County, on
suits brought by persons alleging false impris-
| onment. Davis procured a writ Of hdbedS
corpus, which having been heard by Judge
Baxter, of the United States Circuit Court,
he was placed in custody of the United States
Marshal, with the privilege of going where he
pleased on a bond previously given. Davis,
while on a raid in, Macon County; expected an
attack from moonshners, who, as he believed,
had sent down four men to take in their sit
alton and act accordingly. These men he held
as a matter of safety to himself and men until
next morning. Much interest is manifested
throughout Tennessee in the pending conflict
of jurisdiction between the State and Federal
courts as TO questions growing out Of the en-
forcement of the revenue laws.
Various thermometers at st. Paul, Mimi,
on the I'd, registered 20 to 80 degrees below
zero. At Chicago, the lowest point reached
was %. Yankton, d. T., 25 Detroit, 13, Gin
cinnati, IL. The weather at other points was
extremely severe, and two or three deaths
we're reported by freezing in Western Mis-
souri, aud Kansas.
Thirty-fye persons charged with fraud and
intimidation in the recent elections in Louisi-
ana appeared before the Judge of the United
States Circuit Court at New Orleans on
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Some of these are the parties against whom
Hornsby gave evidence for running him out
of Natchitoches parish during the late cam
paign.
The west end of the Southern Pacific Rail
road will be finished to Maricopa Wells by
May next.
The Second Baptist Church at st. Louis was
burned on the 3D.. Loss, S17OOO0; insurance,
100000 r- .-.,
| Two burglars named Williams and Gainey,
who had made arrangements to rob a store in
0aktown, Ind, were fired upon by some citi-
zens who had been informed of their inten-
ton, and Williams was killed and Gainey
badly wounded. One of the citizens was
| slightly wounded by the burglars.
| Fires on the 4th: The establishment of
the st. Louis Beef-Canning Company; loss
| from $4,000 to $lOO, ,O00 insured. The Ran
kin House, with a skating rink and thirteen
stores underneath, at Columbus, Georgia
loss, $4,000; insured for $4,000 The
general offices of the Michigan Central Rail
road Company, at Detroit; loss, $4,000. The
Academy of Angels (Catholic), at Buffalo
loss, $780, 600; insurance, $500 s. Hughes
| Touring mill, at Hamilton, o. loss, SIS, 900;
insured Besides these twelve other fires were
reported in various parts of the country, the
I losses on which were under IS, 900 each. ''-
Capt Burnside, of the revenue service with
a squad of fifty men under his command, re-
turned to Cincinnati on the 4th from a very
successful raid on the moonshiners of South
| ern Kentucky and Northern Tennessee. He
captured large number of Illicit distillers
and destroyed about fifty distilleries. 1t is
thought the business is pretty well broken up
in that region.
| The total amount of money received Mt
Memphis during the yellow fever epidemic
was S417, ,536. 66, and the disbursements were
S415, 1858.
| The quarantine authorities at New Orleans
will compel every vessel arriving from South,
Central American and West Indian ports to
give their ships thorough fumigating in or
der to prevent the introduction of smallpox.
Four tramps were frozen to death at Glas-
gov Junction, KY, on the night Of the Sd.
Sutter Bros, tobacconists, of Chicago failed
on the 9th. Liabilities $lS5,0O0. They will
probably not pay more than twenty-five cents
on the dollar.
Olive, Green, Baldwin and six others
charged with the murder of Mitchell and
KetchuIn, burned at the stake north OF
Kearney, Neb., few weeks ago, have been
arrested, The party were taken to Kearney
and lodged in Jail. II
The Virginia Legislature adopted resolu
tion on the 9th asking the Governor to re-
quest the representatives Of foreign bond
holders to meet the Assembly on the 22d inst.
for conference regarding plan for settlement
of the State debt.
Dutch Charley, who was being taken tc
Rawlins, W. t.. for trial charged with par
ticipation in the murder of a widow named
Mrs. Field, last fall, was taken from the coach
at Carbon, by a body of masked men and
hung to telegraph pole. @
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Many of the Russian students arrested fo