Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-07-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Gathered from All Quarters.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
THE total amount annually expended
by the Government for rented premises in all
the departments exceeds 81, 250,000, a sum
equivalent TO -four per cent, interest on more
than S3t, ,00OOO0
JAMES KELCnER's livery stable at
Washington City, where John Wilkes Booth
hired the horse on which he rode out of the
city after shooting President Lincoln, was
burned on the 22l.
ADMIRAL WYMAN, having investigated
the alleged indlmitcs offered the American
flag in Cuban waters by a Spanish gunboat,
says there Is nothing In the case to warrant
further inquiry
THE State Department has given per-
mission 20 the Mexican troops to follow Vic
torio across our line, on the ground that they
are in hot pursuit and Victorio will soon be
captured, having crossed into New Mexico.
The Interior Department, on the 23d,
received telegram from Indian Agent Lud-
lam, at Casagrande. Arizona, stating that tho
Indians at that point were drunk on liquor of
their own manufacture and were KILN each
other lie had sent 10 Fort Mcdowell for mil
itary assistance to quell the disturbance.
The statement prepared at the Treas
ury Department shows that the total decrease
OF the annual Interest charge on the public
debt from August 81, les, tn July /, 1877.
was 5TSl7, Ojl and to July l. $780, 81, ,343, 7l6.
THE EAST.
AT New York City, on the morning
of the 2lst, the caisson leading to the entrance
of the Hudson River tunnel cayed in, carry
In tvff Of arfl
Twenty eight men were buried Eight were
soon after taken out bruised but not seriously
injured. The other twenty were killed OF
droyncd, as the water from the river flowed
in rapidly and soon filed the tunnel Tho
officers OF the company explain the accident
10y saying that the workmen in coming
through the air-lock must have exercised un.
usual areiessuess and both doors Of the air.
lock being open at the same time the com.
pressed air was allowed to escape. The com.
pressed air serves a double purpose namely
70 keep water out and to support the roof OF
the tunnel. so when it escaped the catastro.
phe was inevitable
DIR. TANNER, the New York faster,
entered upon the twenty-fourth day of his
fast on the 2lst. He felt confident of accom-.
plishing the feat of remaining forty days
without food.
PATRICK SwAYNE, of Albany, N. Y,
confessed, on the 2lst, that he and Horace
EXner murdered Henry Page at Moutezuma
eight years ago. Remorse led to the confes
sion. Both were arrested.
THE official returns of the census su.
peryisors give Boston population of 1853, 565
THE President, on the 22d, appointed
General Henry s Huiedekoper Postmaster at
Philadelphia
THE following ticket was nominated
by the Vermont Democratic State Convention
on the 22d For Governor, Edward J. Phelps
Lieutenant Governor, George W. Gates
Treasurer, James X. Williams.
JAMES WooD, an engineer of sta.
tionary engine for the Lehigh Coal & Navga.
tiOn Company, al Bull Run, Pa, between
Tamaqua and Summit Hill, was murdered by
masked men on the night of the 2lst. Tn,
Molly Maguires are suspected.
THE population of Pennsylvania, ac,
cOrdng 10 the new census is about 4, 22B 900
New Jersey, 1,l0O, 600; Missouri, 2,295, 900.
THE population of Rhode Island il
276, III, gain of 59,3O7 in ten years.
CHARLES BARLOW, of r. G.. Dun
Co.'S Mercantile Agency, died at Long Brancl
on the 18th.
A SEA LION was caught at New Bruns,
wick, n. j., on the oath by the harbor master
1t is eight feet long aud is supposed to have
escaped from Coney Island.