Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-10-01

tional Soldiers Homes have made several
changes In officers, removing Governor Brown,
OF the Dayton Home, and appointing General
Patrick, of New York, In his place. Governor
Hinck, of the Milwaukee Home, is 20 be su-
perceded by General Sharpe, of New York.
Colonel Brown was appointed General In
spector of Homes.
The boiler in a fruit drying estab-
lishment at Monroe, Mich, exploded with
terrific violence on the oath, killing Henry
O'Brien, engineer, Leonard Morton, cutter,
and boy named Chaleaureaux, and wounding
more or less seriously nine others. There
were at the time thirty persons around the
building, which was demolished.
THE steamer Florence Meyer, from
Cincinnati, struck a snag on the morning of
the oath at Bulit's Bayou, twelve miles above
Natchez, and sunk to the hurricane roof. Five
persons were drowned.
AN accidental explosion of three hum
dred pounds of hercules powder and nitro
glycerine took place at the Lime Kiln Cross
ing, shoal in the Detroit river about twenty
miles below Detroit on the oath. The explo-
sive materials were in a scow moving over
the shoals Several workmen engaged near
the vicinity were cut by flying splinters but
none were seriously hurt
AN east bound freight and west bound
passenger train on the Vandalia line collided
nine miles west Of Terre Haute on the oath.
Both trains were badly wrecked. An engineer
and fireman were killed, and an engineer,
brakeman and four postal clerks were seri-
ously injured. None of the passengers were
injured in the least
AT River Falls, Wis, on the afternoon
of the oath, Mary Weldon, aged ten years,
was found lying upon the floor at her home
horribly mutilated, dead and rapidly decom-
posing. A sister aged twelve years, was lying
on a lounge senseless. The father was miss
ing and no clue to the murderer had been OBJ
tanned.
FOUR inches of snow fell on the 25th
at Lookout Station, Wyoming.
The Coroner's Jury in the case of the
murder of Mary Watson at River Falls, Wis,
charges her father with the murder He was
still at large on the 26th. He is supposed to
be insane. The younger daughter, Emma,
will recover.
Tom MCCARTY and Tom Kelly were
burned to death on the night of the 25th in
saloon at Buena Vista, Ill. There are sus-
picions that the men were murdered and the
saloon fired.
WHILE the steamer Maggie Harper
was passing Meals Landing on the Ohio river,
on the night of the 25th, her steam pipe ex-
ploded with terrible force, filing the stern Of
the boat with steam The engineer was badly
scalded and in his agony leaped into the water
and was drowned. Five colored roustabouts
were seriously scalded, None Of the passen-
gers were injured.
The whaling bark Francis Palmer,
which arrived at San Francisco from the Arc
tic on the 25th reports that on August %
while off Icy Cape Captain Hooker of the
! United States steamer Thomas C0rwin, came
on board and requested the officers to report
him all well. He was two days from Point
Barron, bound to Plover Bay for coal, then to
| Herald Island. Had not heard of the missing
whalers or Of the exploring steamer
THEODORE CLANCY, editor of the
Santa Barbara (Cal.) Press, was shot and NOR
tally wounded on the 25th by Clarence Gray,
Republican candidate for District Attorney.
| The Press had contained articles rejecting Sc
yerely on Gray, and the latter had warned
| Clancy with violence if he continued his at
| tack. The Press returned to the attack and
! Gray meeting Clancy shortly after the pub
lication, drew revolver and shot him.
A LITTLE Rock, Ark, dispatch says
the Constitutional Amendment, providing for
the reputation Of the State debt, voted on at
the recent election, is defeated by about7, 900
votes