Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-06-18

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Wagner, Of Philadelphia, COMMANDMENT
Chief, General Swayne, of Chicago, Senior
| Vice Commander; Colonel Geo. Bowers, of
Nashua, N H., Junior Vice Commander; Sur
geon General d. II. Hamblin, Bangor, Me-;
Chaplain, Rev. Joseph p. Lowering, Worces-
| ter, Mass. The next session is TO be held in
indianapolis in June, 1881.
a PORTLAND, Oregon, dispatch says
returns received up to the 9th from the recent
election in that State indicate that NJ. G.
George, Republican, is elected to Congress by
about eight hundred majority, and three Re
publican Supreme Judges with an average
majority Of over one thousand. The Legisla-
ture is doubtful, with the chances in favor of
/ the Republicans.
A TERRIBLE tornado swept through
the southeastern part of Pottawattamie Coun-
| ty, Iowa, on the evening of the 9th. The
track Of the storm was about half a mile in
width and swept everything before it, demol-
lshng farm houses, barns and other buildings
and carrying some of them bodily for nun
dreds Of feet and then dashing them to the
ground in pieces, There were from fifteen to
twenty persons killed outright and many
wounded, while others cannot be found.
| After the storm the scene is described to have
been heartrending In the extreme. Parents
were looking for their children and husbands
for their wives and wives for their husbands.
| Not house in the track of the tornado was
left standing and there could not be found
pieces enough of some to start a fire. The
storm did not last fifteen minutes and was not
accompanied by rain.
The Illinois Democratic State Con-
vention, held at Springfield on the 10th, NOM
mated the following ticket: For Governor,
| Lyman 1rumbull; Lieutenant Governor, Lewis
b. Parsons; Secretary of State, j. II. Aberly;
| Auditor, Louis Starkel Treasurer, Thomas
Butterworth; Attorney General, Lawrence
Haman. The delegates to the National Con-
vention were not instructed but the Seymour
men claim to have twenty-four of the forty
two delegates and expect, under the unit
rule, TO secure the vote of the State at Gin
cinnati for Seymour. The platform adopted
declares against tariff for pro.scton no thi rd
term; substantial reform Of civil service so
that the Federal officers shall be the servants
Of the people and not Of the party; equal
rights to all the States and no Federal inter
ference with the Constitutional functions of
the States; constitutional currency of gold
and silver and paper convertible in to coin /;
no more land grants to monopolies, and that
laws shall he enacted to protect laborers in
the more prompt and certain collection of
their wages
The grand parade at the Soldiers
Reunion at Milwaukee, ON the 10th, partici-
pated in by the veterans Of Wisconsin and
other States, included the remaining veterans
of four regiments Of cavalry, fourteen bat
teries of artillery, one regiment of heavy
artillery and fifty one regiments of infantry
soldiers. About 10000 persons witness ed
the parade. General Grant made short
speech stating that he was glad to see them all
well and to find the country m a happy and
prosperous condition, and that he knew from
past experience, should occasion require them
TO imperil their lives in the preservation of
the union of the country, all and every one
wi be on hand.
, MISSOURI took the first prize for the
finest display ofgrain and mill products at the
| Miller's Exposition at Cincinnati.
E. r. MORRIS, County Judge of Bay
lOr County, Texas, was shot and instantly
killed in the courthouse at Seymour, cn the
10th, by W. A. Taylor asaloon-keeper Tay
, lor escaped.
, JOHN KNAPP, negro, was hanged al
Keytesville, Mo, on the 11th, for killing q
young farmer named Noah Forest at Forest
Green, Charlton County, last Christmas.
A REPORT from White Rancho, Texas
says four men were hanged in the upper edge
of Brown County on the 11th by mob, it il
: believed for crookedBess with cattle.
|, AT Marshall, Texas, on the 11th, w
!. I'S. Colman was fatally shot by Burt Jennings
editor and proprietor of the Messenger Al
offensive editorial was the cause of the shoot
a ing. Jennings was arrested.
r A MAN at Orangeburg, N. c., who's,
!, wife had left him, owing to ill-treatment, sho
e her and her mother few days ago.
: CHARLES A. HILL, a lawyer of st
u Louis, was arrested on the 11th on a charg
. of cOunterfeiting and uttering bogus money
: When the officers entered his Office he wa
. found manipulating one dollar greenbacl
notes in such a manner as to make 80 ou
: of 50.
T. EX-SENATOR JAMES A. BAYARD, dieC
u at Wilmington, Del, on the 18th.
n EX- GOVERNOR ALBERT G. Brown, o
q Mississippi, was thrown from his horse in
: pond near his home at Jackson, on the 10th
and was drowned
l. THE Chippewa River at Chippew
a. Falls, Wis, was sixteen feet above high waite
mark on the 18th, About 15O,0OO, 900 feet q
logs jammed above the city broke away an
- went down the river in solid mass, the rive
= being swept clear Of piers and booms.
: SEVERAL cases of sunstroke were re
q ported at Chicago on the 18th, of which thre
n or four proved fatal
10 A CYCLONE leveled crops, trees
ID fences barns and telegraph wires over
Id large portion of the section about Peter
i'd burg, Va, on the 18th, and unroofed sewers
2. houses and factories.
u On the 18th the body of James viii
~ Jams (colored) was found in the woods neI
III Lawrence, Iud., with his head SMASHED into
shapeless mass. At his cabin his wife Wa
K, found lying on the floor unconscious with h'
C. skull crushed, but still alive. Her recover
w is doubtful. No clue to the murderers
sd HENRY QUARLEs was hanged at Hou
ton, Texas, ON the l2th for the murder of h
~ wife.
On THERE was intense excitement
w Leadville on the 10Th on account of the stril
troubles. The citizens who had organize
l. themselves into companies were called out |
in the fire bells. The ringleader of the strike
Ii was arrested and a company of the citizel
in charged on some strikers in front of a hotG
There was some confusion but no blood She
Ii Later the Governor proclaimed martial la'
ny FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
DURING May 29,992 emigrants lie
Liverpool.
The funeral of the Empress of Ru
IN sia took place in Petropalovsk Fortress
lid the 9th.
or A FRE-DAMP explosion occurred in
M mine at Dortmund, Germany ON the OF
Nineteen corpses were taken out.
n The Lord Mayor of Dublin has tel
nd graphed the Mayor of every city in the Unit
'or States and Canada as follows: ~ regret
mt say that funds are still needed for the relief
ne the distress in Ireland. In many districts I
ere pinch is now equal TO any previous time. II
in distress is much felt by small farmers, wi
Of dread the Morkhouse relief but can get not