Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-02-22
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Miss Susan Dicxie, whose alleged insanity
has been a subject of inquiry by New York
jury since Dec 9, has been declared of sound
mind. She has been confined in a lunatic asy-
lum seven years at the instance of her broth
ers and sisters She will at once enter suit for
her property.
The Free Pipe Line bill has passed third
reading in the Pennsylvania House.
A bill was introduced in the New York SEN
ate on the 10Th permitting pool-selling on
race tracks.
A collision between express and freight
trains occurred near Newport on the New
castle branch of the Pittsburgh IL Fort Wayne
Road, on the 18th. Engineer Pfiugh, of the
freight, and Fireman Hill, of the passenger
train, were killed. Both engines and several
freight cars were wrecked.
The President and family were in Baltimore
on the 18th and attended the opening of a
Methodist fair.
The shoemakers' strike at Lynn, Mass, is
ended, mutual concessions having been made
Mother Theresa, of the order of Carmelite
Nuns died in Baltimore on the 18th in the
eighty-frst year of her age and the sixty-frst
of her religion. Her father was Col. Sewell,
of Gen. Washington's staff.
Case, the convicted and sentenced ex-Presi-
dent of the New York Security Life Insurance
Company, was admitted to bail in s25, on
the 18th, pending his appeal.
j. F. Tracy, for many years President of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, died
ut Erie, Pa, on the 18th.
Daniel Websters old mansion at Marsh
field, Mass, was destroyed by fire on the l4th.
Ex-Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles
was buried on the 14th at Hartford, Conn.
The ceremonies were simply the burial service
Of the Episcopal Church. A number Of dis
tinguished persons were present.
c. w. Woolley of Cincinnati, has been
elected President of the National Trotting
Association.
On the 14th the steamer Richmond sailed
from Philadelphia for Brazil, conveying men
and material for the execution of the contract
of building the MADEIRA IL Mamore (Brazi)
Railway. She carries forty officers and sea-
men, forty-two cabin passengers, and about
425 steerage passengers Many of the Metrop-
oils survivors started again and others will
follow on the next steamer Thomas Col
Inns, one of the contractors, was one of the
passengers.
The Corn Exchange, First and Chase Ma
tional Banks, of New York, have been victim
lied to the amount of $4,000 by false checks
issued by the clerk of deposit of the Corn Ex-
change Bank.
A bill has been reported in the Maine House
of Representatives giving equal political rights,
irrespective of sex, and granting women the
right to vote in municipal elections.
The Schepler Brothers, of Philadelphia,
manufacturers of worsted goods, suspended
payment on the 18th. Their liabilities are
very heavy.
The Manchester IN. H. City Savings Bank
has suspended business.
The difficulties of the Lord family at New
York, growing out of the marriage of the old
gentleman to Mrs. Hicks, have been settled.
Thomas Lord, Sr., surrenders his entire estate
estimated to amount to over So, 200, ,000-to
trustees, who will pay to each of the children
$4,000 per annum during the old mans life.
| On his death the estate goes to them. Mrs.
Lord surrenders all right of dover. She is
said to possess fortune of over S500,000.
A large number Of cases of poisoning from
an infected well have occurred at RockpOrt, Vt.
On the morning of the 18th the steamer Old
Colony, of the Fall River Il New York line,
when off Point Judith, broke her walking
beam, which crashed through the decks to the
hold, injuring the vessel TO the amount OF
$75,000. Fortunately no one was injured.
The force of the fall may be imagined when it
is considered that upward of twenty tons OF
iron fell from an elevation of from forty to
| fifty feet. 1t was a most marvellous escape
| from entire destruction.
The Excelsior Block, Twenty-third street,
New York, and the Presbyterian and Scotch
Covenanters' Churches, adjoining, were de
stroyed by fire on the nth. Loss estimated at
$475, 900.
Peter Cooper has issued an appeal to the
country in which he declares it to be "thG
duty of our Government to remOnetize silver
and also TO do all that is possible to be done
| to induce those Governments that have de-
monetized silver to remonetize the same. y
He suggests that Northwestern or South
western railroad be built TO give work to the
unemployed that silver be restored as a legal
tender; that permanent financial policy be
adopted that iudicious tariff be levied on
all importations Of which we have the raw
material in abundance, and that the civil serv
ice be organized as specifically as the military.
The Plalnheld (N J.) Savings Institution
has closed its DOORS
Operations were resumed In the Lehigh
| (Pa) coal regions on the 18th.
The steamer City of Dallas, laden with cot
ton, was burned at New York ON the 18TH
WEST AND SOUTH.
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