Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-10-05
THE EAST.

Three thousand of the Lehigh Il Wilkes
barre Coal Company's miners have accepted
the offer of 10 per cent. advance and resumed
work. aF aft
Three trunks containing $4,000 in securi-
ties have mysteriouslY disappeared from the
Cambrldgeport (Mass.) National Bank.
The miners of the Pennsylvania Coal Com
pany have indefinitely postponed resump-
ton on the company's terms.
John s. Morton, President; B. +. Stokes,
Secretary, and Samuel P. Huhn, Treasurer,
Of the Market Street Railway, Philadelphia,
q and George Vickers, private secretary of
MortonI were arrested on the 26th, on the
charge of conspiracy to cheat and de-
fraud the company. The arrests were made
at the instigaton Of the new President and
Board OF Directors. Warrants are out for
thearrest of others.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Northern Pacific Railroad was held at
New York on the 26th The report for the
year ending Sept. shows that the earnings
exceeded the expenses 1892, 2,699 Charles B.
Iwnght,of Pennsyiyania, was elected Presi-
dent.
Tie Charter Oak Life Insurance Company
Directors ask. policy-holders to release 40 per
pany will be turned over to receiver IL they
refuse.G1
9 Baseball on the 9th ult.: Boston 1S, Hart
ford 9; Louisville 9, Chicago Stem innings.
Mai. Gen Pierson, the commander of the
State troops at Pittsburgh during the late
riot has been arrested on the charge of muir
der. 1t is claimed that the General gave the
troops the order to fire on the crowd and
one Nicholas Stopped was killed by that
hfe.. Gen, Pierson was admitted to bail in
10000 t-F bee
The Barnstable (Msss.) Savings Bank has
closed. 1t is stated that depositors will be
paid in full. .7T 20 -
The ehromo establishment of Prang Il Co.
Jh Boston was burned on the 9th ult Loss
&loo.OoOs
Base ball on the Goth: Boston s, Hart
ford 4; Cincinnati IL, Chicago 10; Louisville
-, st. Louis 2. Efr
- Putnam, Conn, was nearly destroyed by
fire on the SOth ult, Loss about 100000.
- - The Savings bank at Hyannis, Mass, sus-
- pended onthe 1st. '.sfl-u} .f..
80 Operations at the mines Of the Lehigh &
Wllkesbarre Coal Company have been re-
! spmed.,
-. An enthusiastic workingmen's demonstra-
tion occnrEed at Wilkesbarre on the lst, the
occasion being thS release from prison under
bail Of Pouey and Harrison, leaders Of the
mob during the recent riots, who have been
Imprisoned at Pittsburgh. They were es-
q eerted through the streets by 1900 working
men. gf rfANcIV .trr .fe
e 10 The Poppenheusens, of the Long Island
a. ~ Railway, went to profession the lst.
.asttwEsT AND SOUTH.
= - On the 25th Anderson Shifflet was exc
= cutet at the Jail in Harrodsburg, Va, for
the murder of d. G. Lawson. He asserted
i his innocence of actual murder on the scaf.
= fold'but acknowledged that he knew Lawson
ttwas 10 be murdered. When the trap fell the
rope broke, letting sheifiet fall to the ground.
J. AT the second attempt he strangled to death,
his neck not being broken by the fall
.e.1 Baseball on the e5th: Cincinnati Z, st.
Louis A. =,
Three deaths from yellow-fever and twenty
y new,cases were reported at Fernandina on the
25tl. = y r
~ Tho receiver OF the Merchants, Farmers
. I AZ Mechanics Savings Bank of Chicago had
i un TO the 25th found as the assets Of the con.
= 4 cern'only $50 In cash and some 800, 600 worth
lsof eneumbered real estate.
The annual sessions Of the National Agri-
cultural Congress and the American Public
Health Association commenced at Chicago
ton the 25th. gs flfl rff
S'sasidney Myers, President OF the Merchants'
Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank, OF
Chicsg9s which suspended recently. has been
Indicted by the Grand Jury for embezzlement
of 100000, and was lodged in Jail In default
OF 100000 bail. The Grand Jury also in.
dlcted the officers Of the defunct Protection