Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-07-16
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n hENiSED llSJ Oh Ine Oeau OF inc sea
wanahaka disaster, made on the Both ult.,
showed that thirty-two bodies had been re-
covered. II all the missing persons be added
TO the list the total will reach slxty-two.
REPORTS from the census in Vermont
Indicate such decrease in the population that
It seems doubtful il she will have more than
two COngressmen under the next apportion-
ment. There are three now. Some counties
show falling off of from ten to twelve per
cent. t..
AT Homestead Station, n. j., on the
9th, Jacob Kuntz fatally shot his wife and
then killed himself. Kuntz had several times
attempted to take his wife's life and also that
of his son, who protected her. Kuntz and his
wife were both over sixty years of age.
AT New York City, on the Sd, mes
senger in the employ of Brayton, Ives & Co.,
was sent TO deliver stocks valued at $S7,2
He returned saying that he had lost the pack
ihge. The loss was reported TO the police and
after long search the securities were traced
10 the possession of Lawrence b. jerome, Jr.,
son of the well-known banker and sporting
man, and Edward NJ Patchell, manager OF
the banking house OF Guy Bevan Il Co.
After their arrest the securities we're found
young men that they knew to whom the secu-
rites belonged. They intended to send them
TO Europe and have them negotiated there.
A FIRE at Tyrone, Pa, on the 9Th,
destroyed sixteen buildings, including two
banks and the Herald and Democrat printing
offices.
COLONEL PELTON, nephew of ex-Gov-
ernor Tllden, died at New York on the sth.
On the 9th, while Philip Schum, a
leading merchant of Lancaster, Pa, and his
wife were crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad,
near Salunga, the carriage was struck by the
Niagara express and both occupants killed.
THE total number of immigrants land
ed in New York for the six months ending
June 80, was IL, 1863.
SIX feet of water was reported in tho
Hoosac tunnel on the 1lth, owing to an over
flow OF the mountain brooks.
AT Pittsburg, on the 18th, boiler
exploded in an iron mill, killing Fred Grobel,
engineer, and William Black, fireman.
COINAGE has been resumed at all the
-nints except Philadelphia, where some re-
pairs are being made.
THERE were seven deaths from sun
III ~NSh lbIh Sltl bu lVtu.
WEST AND SOUTH.
THE boiler of steam thresher ex-
ploded near Dunkirk, Ohio, on the 6th killing
five persons and seriously wounding four
others. The cause of the explosion is un-
known.
THE Virginia Readjusters met in State
Convention at Richmond on the 9TH and
adopted resolution declaring in favor of
Hancock and English.
A PARTY of rangers met a band of
despersdoes thirty miles from Fort Davis,
Gal, on the 9th. After the exchange of few
shots three Of the desperadoes surrendered
The fourth continued firing killing one OF the
rangers, when he was forthwith riddled with
bullets by the rangers
o.. JUDGE LAWRENCE, of Ohio, recently
rendered the ONCE of First Comptroller OF the
Treasury, made vacant by the resignation OF
Hon. A. G. Porter of Indiana, has declined
the offer. ~. r.t ..I
The dwelling of man named Turn
rose, near Fraconia, Ohisago County, Mimi,
caught fire on the evening Of the 7th aud two
ofhis children, girls, aged three and eleven
years, we're burned to death. Another daugh-
ter aged seventeen, was frightfully burned.
Turnrose In his endeavors to save the house
forgot the children.
THE loss by the recent overflow of the
sny levee on the Mississippi River In Illinois
Is estimated at $500, 900. The overflow from
the break was nearly seventy hours travelling
twenty-three. miles, which gave many farmers
time TO save much Of their property outside
Of the growing crops
A VERY heavy rain fell in Central
Iowa on the night Of the 7th and the wind
aid considerable damage At Buffalo four
houses and amill were blown down and a
man named Bean killed
TIE following hangings occurred on
the 9th: George A. Price, at Cinninnatl; Hen
ry Ryan, colored, at atWaynesboro, Ga Daniel
Washington, notorious negro desperate, at
Charleston, s. c.; Alex Howard, colored at
G0ldsboro, N. @.
CAPTAIN PAYNE, who left the south
em border of Kansas on the 5th with party
OF some 800 men on q second invasion of In
dian territory reached his destination without
molestation. He now defles the authority OF
the Government and courts arrest and trial
10 determine in the courts whether his act Is
in violation OF any law.
AT Danville, Va, on the night of the
sth, Thomas d. Dejarnette entered house of
bad repute, where his sister was stopping,
and, after proceeding 10 a room, shot her five
times, two shots being fatal. He Immediately
confessed shooting hls sister, Ayerring that