Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-08-29
THE EAST.

THE EAST
The New England and middle Atlantic
States were visited by damaging rain and
wind storm on the 18th. The storm along the
coast was unusually severe and caused consid-
cradle damage to shipping Between twenty
and thirty sail boats we're sunk or damaged at
Newport. Four yachts were wrecked at New
buryport, and a number of steamers and
schooners in the harbor were badly wrenched.
At Norfolk, Va, many buildings were un-
rooted and flooded, trees uprooted and ship
ping damaged, many vessels dragging ashore.
The wharves all along the river front were
flooded. The tide was higher than ever known
In the vicinity of Water street, which was
only accessible BY boats. The sight there
was unexampled even to the oldest inhabi-
tant The crops in counties adjacent to
Petersburg, Va, were badly damaged, in one
county alone, the damage to corn being esti-
mated at fifty per cent. The storm at More
head City, N. O., was the most violent which
has ever visited that place. The Atlantic
House, the largest hotel in that part of the
country, was entirely demolished, not YES
tige being left. There were $50 guests in it,
and there was not particle Of clothing saved
by any of them. The people did not begin to
leave until the waves were literally breaking
the hotel to pieces; then there was a STAN
pede. The young men saved all the ladies
and children at the risk of their own lives.
Many houses at Beaufort we're ruined.
A bridge over the Housatonic at Stock
bridge, Mass. fell into the stream on the 18th,
killing somers Benjamin, seriously wound
ing Aggie Ronald and Fanny Millard, and
slightly injurtng two others who were passing
over it in wagon.
Governor Talbot, of Massachusetts,, has
written letter to the Chairman of the Re-
publican State Committee positively declining
a denomination.
Antonia Ardito, a Greek, and Nicola Infan-
tum, S.cilian, were arrested at Boston on
the 10Th for the murder of Joseph F. Frye on
the night of the 18th. Nicola Infantum con-
fessed and informed the officers where the
property, stolen at the time of the murder,
could be found.
train of twenty-eight loaded oil tanks
was wrecked and burned near Sunbury Pa,
on the Sunbury, Hazleton IL Wilkesbarre
Railroad, on the Goth.
Paine, the defaulting treasurer of the Amer
lean Linen Company at Fall River, absconded
on the Goth. He made a written confession
which was handed in by his son during the
meeting of the Board of Directors. The COM
pany loses Sl59,000 by his defalcation.
Lemaire Latremouille was hanged at Alba
ny, N. T., on the Goth, for the murder of Cath
crime Dunshach near Cohoes in April last.
In the single scull race at Charlotte, N. Y,
on the 10th, Courtney beat Frenchy johnson
by half length in twenty-five minutes and
five seconds, distance three miles with turn
Johnson's time, twenty-five minutes, five and
a half seconds.
Rev. Henry j. Munson, the self-married Ad-
vent preacher, of Fltchburg, Mass, was con-
victed of lewd and lascivious conduct on the
2lst. The case goes to the Supreme Court.
The validity of a divorce in Missouri is dis
puted.
shock of an earthquake, lasting about
five seconds, was felt at Lockport, N. Y, on
the 2lst.
Over one million dollars in gold bars was
brought to New York from Europe by the
steamers Abyssinia and France. They arrived
on the 2lst.
The agent of the Boston Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children secured the
arrest of several persons at South Walpole, on
the 22d, charged with keeping an infamous
den where infanticide and other crimes were
committed. The bodies of two infants, sup
posed to be murdered, were found.
President Matthews, OF the Alpine Club,
writes from Zermatt, Switzerland, saying
that the remains of Dr. William o. Mosely,
Jr., Of Boston, who met his death recently in
the Alps, were found two thousand feet below
from where the accident happened. DR..
Mosely had refused the guides proffered help
and endeavored to leap over projecting rock,
when he stumbled and fell into the snow be-
meath, down which he slipped on his back.
A powder mill at Tamaqua, Pa, exploded
on the 25th, instantly killing the foreman,
James Meifert, and burning two children SC
badly tina. they died shortly afterward.
By the falling of an arch which was being
removed to make repairs ~ the blast furnace
OF the Pottstown, Pa, lrou Company, on the
25th, Samuel Laner was killed, and John Hoff
man, Price Williams, Wharton Bell, and mar
named Boyer were fatally injured.
Considerable damage was caused by the ex
cessive rain fall at Pittsburg and vicinity on
he Gath and 25th. Houses were flooded
fences and outbuildings washed away, and
other property destroyed. The principal dam
age was experienced at tMillvaleborough, where
thirty houses were flooded. The Evergreen
Narrow Guage Railroad at that place LOST
seven bridges and several hundred feet OF
track.
The Coroner's investigation into the cause