Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-07-09
THE East.

The Orange County, New York,
Grand Jury has indicted Beaumont B. Buck,
the Texan student who shot John G.. Tbomp-
son, Jr, at Highland Falls few weeks ago.
The excursion steamer Long Branch,
just after casting of from the dock at New
York CityOn the Goth ult., and crowded with
aSunday school party, was run into by an oil
boat and crushed in below the water line.
The boat began to fill, causing great alarm on
board among the children and teachers and
making frantic the friends on shore who Wit
messed the collision. The boat speedily re-
turned to shore and all landed in safety.
SOME terrible sights confronted the
reporters who visited the scene of the wrecked
Seawanahaka on the Goth ult On the star
board side, nearly level with the edge, was a
bed of cinders and iron containing the remains
Of two human beings. Who they were will
probably never be known, for the remains
bore resemblance 20 nothing more closely
than chunks of burned meat. The heads and
limbs alike were welded by the fierce heat In
TO very small compass. The bodies Iay
about eight feet apart. On the top of the
horizontal boiler, the ordinary position of
which was directly beneath the main forward
deck, were the bones of a third. How the
person got there is mystery, unless, indeed,
he or she fell through the burning deck, and
there met fate a thousand times more horri
BILE than death by drowning. large num-
Der OF the dead were identified by friends
The list Of missing is large, but the officers
were unable to give names.
PHILADELPHIA has population of
1852.
SENATOR j. ID. CAMERON has written
a letter stating that he cannot accept the
craftsmanship of the National Republican
Committee, as he is physically unable to un-
dergo the labors which necessarily belong to
the position. He says he found himself after
the adjournment of Congress very much
broken down and he was therefore compelled
TO abandon all his business affairs, although
they had been neglected during the entire
session of Congress, and go to White Sulphur
SPRINGS with the hope of having his health re-
stored.
A REVISED list of the dead of the Sea-
wnnahala disaster made on the 30th ult
showed that thirty-two bodies had been re-
covered. II all the missing persons be added
to the list the total will reach sixty-two.
THERE were seventy-nine fatal cases
OF bunbJfOke IN New 1Ofk ClJy In the twenty
four hours ending at noon on the lst.
AT Kenebunk, Me-, on the 1st, Mrs.
Sylvester Chick took her only son, eight years
old, 10 the river, undressed him and held him
under the water until he drowned. She then
attempted to drown herself.
DURING fire at New Brunswick, N.
j., on the 1st, George Robotham and Thomas
Hemming were fatally injured by ladder
falling.
. MARSHALL JEWELL, of Connecticut,
was elected Chairman of the National Repub-
lcan Committee, aud s. w. Dorsey, Secretary,
on the I'd.
MARY O'CoNNoR, aged forty-hve, of
Jersey City, N. j., killed her three children ON
the night of the lst. Mrs. O'Connor had been
sick for long time and had been unable to
take care Of her children and she thought that
by killing them they would go to heaven.
THERE were 1904 arrivals of immi-
grants at Castle Garden on the Both ult. The
total number Of immigrants for the month of
June was 42,026 as against is, $50 for June Of
last year.