Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-10-22


as the civil officers on the reservation, had
been instructed 10 use every possible effort TO
restrain the excitement of the Indians and to
prevent collision, and expressed the hope that
the State authorities would join with them to
! repress whatever lawless intent, that, accord
/ ing to current rumor in newspapers, existed
among the population on the borders Of the
| Ute reservation.
CHIEF SPOTTED TAIL has sent 1892. so
to Secretary Schurz, that six young men of
the tribe, who are to be tried for the massacre
OF the whites near the White River Agency,
may secure the services of able lawyers to de-
| fend them before the courts of the Great
! Father.
OWING to continuous drought Rich
mond, Va, is threatened with awater famine,
Many factories have shut down and hundreds
OF employees have been thrown out of work.
ALL of the counties in Indiana but
two had been heard from on the 18th and
! showed Porter's majority to be 6,742. The
! Congressional delegation will stand eight Re-
| publicans and five Democrats.
SEVEN persons were killed by boiler
explosion at Chicago on the 18th.
UNOFFICIAL returns had been received
from all the counties of Ohio on the 18th
which showed Townsend's majority to be 49,
92S. In several counties containing large
cities Townsend was cut considerably on ac-
count Of his temperance record. This did not
| have its effect upon the balance of the ticket
| and hence the average majority for all other
candidates will be fully 10000.
JIM SHIRLEY started to take Nellie
! Wright to a dance near the town Of Kane,
Green County, ILL.,, on the night of the 14th.
| Matt Munday followed them and attempted
to take the girl away from Shirley, but falling,
shot Shirley dead. He also fired at the girl
and then fed, and at last accounts had not
been captured.
AGENT BERRY, of the Los Pinos
| Agency, who was arrested by the Sheriff Of
Gunnison County, Col, for the recent murder
of teamster on the reservation by Indians
under his charge, gave the officer the slip on
the night Of the 14th and disappeared.
A SNOW storm at Sioux City, Iowa, on
the 18th covered the streets with an inch of
slush. The mercury was at freezing point at
sunset The storm extended over the entire
section.
WHILE circus and menagerie was
exhibiting at Argenta, Ark, on the night of
the 18th, wind storm came up and the can
vas was blown down, turning over a wagon
containing a lion and lioness. A lighted
torch fell against the cage and so terrified the
animals that they shattered the cage and
made good their escape, flying over the heads
of the affrighted multitude, mostly negroes
and an indescribable scene offiight, confusion
and uproar of beasts and human beings en-
sued The lions disappeared without injuring
any one. They were afterward found crouched
in fence corner, when a cage with the door
opened was moved up to them and they qui-
| etly walked in.
ONE of the large rotary bleaching
boilers in the Massif1on, Ohio, Paper Mills,
exploded on the morning Of the 16th killing
a boy named Anthony Wash and seriously
injuring five others. The main portion of
the mill building was completely demolished,
and all the costly machinery was damaged be-
| yond repair. The superintendent could give
no explanation of the cause of the explosion.
THE Oregon Senate and House, on the
18th, passed a Constitutional amendment in
favor Of woman suffrage.
Mrs. JULIA d. Bates, widow of Hon.
Edward Bates, United States Attorney General
under President Lincoln, died in St. LOUIS on
the 18th.
AT Wilmington, Del, during the
passage of Democratic parade on the night
of the 18th, it was fired upon from the house
| tops and six persons seriously wounded. The
| fire was returned and the building Quilted and
several of the first assailants wounded.
! SEVENTEEN Mormon elders have gone
to Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
North Carolina and Virginia to make con-
verts to the Mormon faith and secure Nor
mon emigrants to Colorado and Utah.
THE heaviest wind storm ever ex-
perienced prevailed throughout the North
west and Upper Lake regions on the 18th, 10Th
and 18th. Dispatches from La Crosse, Wis,
stated that the passenger and freight trains
along the Southern Minnesota Railroad were
blockaded in snow drifts from ten to twelve
feet deep and teams with provisions had been
| dispatched to their relief from several points
Many cattle and horses perished. The only
accident of serious nature reported was the
loss of the schooner B. W. Wells, loaded with
iron ore from Escanaba to Chicago, with crew
of eight persons, which foundered off Chicago
and as none of the crew had reported it was
presumed all we're lost.