Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.

OHIO NEWS ITEMS.
THE annual report of tho State In
stitution for the Deaf and Dumb shows
that the attendance this year has been
larger than ever before and there has
been little sickness. The estimates for
the Institution for the coming year ag-
gregate $102,500.
The Trustees and officers of the State
Hospital for Insane in their annual re-
port give in detail the money spent for
building, the reasons for not sooner
opening the building for the admission
of patients, etc. During the year $2l4,-
56S.03 has been spent for building pur-
poses and So, 246 is required to COM
plete the building. This will make the
total cost of the hospital 81, ,526, 226. As.
The estimates for 1873 are 1882 900.
ANOTHER revolving case of body
snatching has come to light at Cleve-
land. Charles L. Newman, Young
and well-known merchant, died Nov
"a. His friends lately suspected that
his grave had been invaded and
search proved their surmises correct
Search was instituted and the body
was found in a dozen pieces in the
Medical Department of Wooster Uni
versity. The clothes and jewelry that
were on the body were found on the
premises of the janitor of the college,
and he was arrested.
w. H. MUssER, living near Shreve,
while steaming grain for his stock on
the oath, placed tub of boiling water
upon the floor. His four-years-old
daughter, not seeing it, fell backward
into it, scalding her so seriously that
death ensued in two hours.
GEN. EWING is in Columbus directing
his forces in the Senatorial battle.
ROBERT LEWIS eloped with the six
teen-years-old daughter of Oscar Foot,
of Streetsboro, on the night of the 25th
ult. The parties were captured at
Mantua the next morning by Mr.. Foot,
who attempted to shoot Lewis, but was
disarmed.
In quarrel at Delaware on the 9th
ult. a man named Leach was struck on
the head by one Olney with piece of
gas-pipe. The blow crushed his skull
and will probably prove fatal.
A ONE-YEAR-oLD son of z. Burns, of
Springfield, fell into tub of scalding
water on the Goth ult. and was fatally
injured.
The fourth annual session of the
Ohio College Association was held in
Cincinnati from the 26th to the 28th
ult. Representatives were present from
all the colleges in the State.
JAMES CONNER was killed at the
shaft of the Welleston furnace at Jack
son on the 9th ult. by being crushed
to death while the hosting apparatus
was coming up.
Gov. BIsHoP's staff was announced
on the 29th ult., as follows: Adjutant-
General, Joseph L. NJ. Nelly, Lima; As
sistant Adiutant-General, l.. M. HOag-
land, Millersburg; Judge-Advocate,
Hon. S. f. Hunt, Cincinnati; Quarter
master-General, Maj. Charles l.. Young,
Toledo; Surgeon General, DR.. j. E..
Burns, Cleveland; Engineer, with rank
of Colonel, Fred Geiger, GAINESVILLE.
The Scioto Valley Railroad from
Columbus to Portsmouth, is open for
business.
A FIRE at Napoleon, on the 29th
ult., originating in the grocery of L.
Bockleman, destroyed six buildings in
the business portion of thetown, oc-
cupied as furniture stores, grocery
stores, meat markets, restaurants and
saloons. Loss $4,000, insurance $S,-
700.
The annual report of Railway-Com-
missioner Delano shows the net gain for
the year in length ofrailway line within
| the State was 273 miles, against SO last
year; 1892, ,589 passengers were car.
ried during the year-6S4, 063 less than
in 1876; the freight tonnage aggregated
80, 1913, ,004-an increase of 990, 2O4 over
the previous year; the gross earnings
of operated lines aggregated $5S, ,095,'
489. S7-a decrease of So, l65, $50. 76 be-
low those of last year; net earnings
S14, 1882, 223. Ca falling off, compared
with the previous year, of $2,977, ,2l4.65
the passenger earnings aggregated $15,
592, 149. 32-a decrease of 1894, us. 40
freight earnings, $38, ,678, 764. 65-
falling off of S3,765, ,327.92. The to-
tai paid-in capital stock of the several
roads aggregates S273, ,310,578.02, the
outstanding bonds amount to $282, 283,-
1909, the other net debt to $24,97S,
548.21, making an aggregate of $3.50,
572, 2,247.32. The interest reported pait
on bonds during the past year was SO,
$50, 682. "a, and on floating debt $645,
1886. The dividends paid on pre-
ferred stock amounted to $3.50, 029.7I
and on general stock $3,940, ,3SS.0 05
The proportion of these aggregates fo
Ohio is as follows:
CAPITAL stock paid in ........... Sl56 2SS, $50 z
Funded debt. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1872 406, AL
| Other debts snet.................. 17196,007 Z
Total debt NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. I70l04,549 2
Total stock and debt. ............. SIG, ,9S9,5l0
7 Miles of main I rack. ............,. AZ
Miles of sidings and double track. l2i
Total earnines $Sl OFT ,6S6 {
Net earnings. ngs....................... S,073,S20 Q
Persons employed in Ohio ...,... $50
, During the year 269 persons wer
killed on the railroads and 434 were in
iu red, but this includes the victims O
, the Ashta bula disaster. Out of fifty