Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-06-25

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Minnesota, Massachusetts,, New Jersey, Ohio
New York, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Mich
gan and Pennsylvania. A permanent orgaui
zation was effected by the election of Rev. A.
A. Miner, d. D., of Massachusetts, as Chair
man and Rev. s. T.. Webster of New Jersey,
Secretary. A platform was then adopted aud
General Neal Dow, OF Maine, nominated for
President and Rev. A. H. Thompson, d. D.,
Of Otterbein University, Westervile Ohio,
for Vice-PresidenA
SENATOR u. B. VANCE, of North Car
olna was married TO Mrs. Florence g. Mar
tin, in Oldham County, Ky, on the 10th.
Two GAMBLERS named Harris and
Young were riding in hack at Albuquerque,
New Mexico, recently, when the latter got
into quarrel with the driver an shot him.
Young then shot and killed Harris.
MEMPHIS has laid more than twenty
miles Of sewerage and thirty miles of tile drain
since the close of the last epidemic.
THE Colorado Greenbackers nomina-
ted the following ticket for State officers on
the 18th: For Governor, Rev. A. j. Chitten.
/ den; Lieutenant Albert Campbell;
Secretary of State, c. w. King Treasurer,
John II. Riclett; Attorney General, L. G.
| Hollinsworth.
THE North Carolina Democratic State
Convention was held at Raei n on the 18th.
All the present State officers were renomina.
ted except those for Lieutenant Governor and
Auditor. The delegates TO Cincinnati were
not instructed, but are favorable to Seymour,
second choice Baysrd.
The Indiana Supreme Court has over
/ thrown the Constitutional amendment chang
| ing the time of holding the election for State
officers from October to the second Tuesday
| in November
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at the
| Yellow Jacket Mine, Gold Hin New, on the
/ 18th, occasioned by ear load Of tools falling
/ from near the surface to the bottom, where
| eight men were on the skip. -Four were in.
stantly killed and two seriously injured
A SPECIAL from Shakespeare, N. NJ,
to a Tucson, Arizona, paper on the 18th,
stated that the citizens Of Silver City and vi
cinity were almost starving for want of pro-
visions. No flour, potatoes or baconr or any
I of the staple neccssaries OF life were to be OBJ
tanned for love or money. Business was com
pletely prostrated in consequence both at Sn-
yer City and Shakespeare. Nictorio's raids
caused all THIS
SAMUEL SAMPSON HOWARD was
hanged at Bastrop, Texas, on the 18th, for
the murder of Alexander Farmer in MAY, 1878.
A TEN-YEARs-oLD boy in Adrian,
Mich, shot ninc-years-old boy in the groin
with a revolver on the l6;h lie was going to
shoot dog and the boy said something to
him when he fired. The wounded boy is in a
critical condition.
a RAILROAD accident from singular
cause happened at the bridge over the scIoto
Riyernear Chillic )the, Ohio, on the Dayton
IL Southeastern Railroad, on the 18th. James
Duffy, bridge wa Gilman, laid down beside
the track and went to sleep with one arm over
the rail. A gravel train backed down upon
him and the entire train was thrown or the
track. Five men were thrown into the river
and twenty others into the debris of the
wrecked train. Duffy and two others were
fatally injured. John Kennedy had both legs
broken. He then fell into the river and was
drowned. The others scapci with slight in
jury.
THE New York delegates to the Ma
tianal Democratic Convent IN hel | a meeting
at Cincinnati on the night Of the 2lth, At
which letter was read from Samuel J. Tilden
declining to be a canlidlte forren0mination
to the Presidency.
PART of the town of Starksville, Miss. >.
including the Court House and Odd Fellows'
Hall, was burne on the 18th. Loss, 500, ,0OO; /;
insurance, $30,0O.
AT Port Jefferson, Ohio, on the 18th,
young blacksmith name David T.. Shank
attacked two widows in their house and killed
one, Mrs Line aged sixty-four, the weapon
being fence rail. He was driven away be.
fore he hal He'd the other woman. He
fegned insanity when arrested, but it is said
he was only drunk.
JAMES CURRIE, who killed Porter, the
actor In Mushall Texas, has been found n 1t
guilty on the ground OF insanity.
THE boiler ut Kendall " Barnes oil
mill, Richmond, Ind, explode on the 10 h.
killing one person and dangerously mjurine
four others
Two Lancaster, Ky, boys aged four.
teen and fifteen years, quarrelcd on the l9:h
The younger one procured a revolver and shot
the elder one through the body inhicting q
fatal wound.