Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-03-21
THE EASE.

At meeting of the Philadelphia Iron Mer-
chants Association, on the 1lth, the prices of
all descriptions of merchant iron we're ad-
vanced five per cent.
AT the second balloting for Mayor at Rock
land, Me-, on the 11th, there was no choice.
Loveioy, Rep, received $50; Hall, Gr., 5l6;
Gregory, Dem, 324
At the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania
Railway Company, held at Philadelphia on the
1ltb, resolutions looking to the reduction OF
salaries, operating their own express and
sleeping, parlor and palace cars, and prohibit
ing the issue of passes, were referred to the
new Board of Directors.
The General Sherman reported dangerously
i'll at Newport, r. l., on the 9th, is an old res
ident OF that place, and not General Sherman
of the United States Army, as many were led
to believe from the telegram. ..
The Manhattan Savings Bank Of New York
CITY resumed business on the 18th. The
$4,000, 900 of securities of which the bank was
robbed have been duplicated and redeposited.
A large number of depositors Immediately
withdrew their deposits but only for present
contingencies, the President claimed.
Two children Of Mrs. John Taylor, of Man
tic, Conn, who were sent TO pond for pail
of water on the 12th, fell in and were drowned.
Their mother, attracted to the spot by the
cries OF the children, attempted to rescue
them and was also drowned.
A. c. Woodward, secretary and treasurer of
the Stanstead and Sherbrooke Mutual Fire
Insurance Company, of Derby Line, VT, has
been suspended from office. His accounts
are short $l25,0O0.
A serious accident occurred at Gilmore's
Garden in New York City on the 12th where
nearly 10000 persons had assembled to witness
the international walking contest. A section
Of temporary boxes about forty-ive feet long
and twenty feet deep fell in, being over
crowded, and about dozen persons we're in
jured, one man fatally. When the crash was
heard in other parts Of the building panic
ensued, and for time it looked as il hun
dreds OF lives would be lost, but through the
exertions of the police and Others who knew
the extent of the accident the excitement was
allayed without any further injury.
Gen. Thomas T. Eckert, President of the
Atlantic aud Pacific Telegraph Company, re-
signed on the 18th.
O'Leary withdrew from the international
walking contest, at New York. on the 18th.
He had been unwell from the start and his
physician advised him to abandon the race.
O'Leary declares that he win never appear In
public again.
The ice gorge above Farrandsville, Pa, in
the Susquehanna River, broke on the night of
the 18th and carried everything before it un-
til 1t reached the Queen Run railroad bridge.
The ice at Farrandsville was piled thirty feet
high
The steamer Gellert, with the remains OF
Bayard Taylor on board arrived at New York
on the 18th. The ceremonies over the re-
mains took place at the City Hall in the
presence OF large number Of spectators.
A powder mill, near st. Clair, Pa, exploded
on the 18th, killing James Hine and seriously
iniuring Samuel Messermith.
Charles II. Bell has been appointed United
States Senator by Governor Prescott, of New
Hampshire, for the extra session, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the expiration of the
term Of Senator Wadleigh. Bell has accepted.
The Mahoning Powder Works, near Dan
vile, Pa, were completely destroyed by an
explosion on the 18th. Willis Lloyd, one Of
the proprietors, John j. Evans and John @.
Mower were blown to pieces.
Dispatches announcing the probable loss Of
thirteen fishing vessels belonging to Glouces-
ter, Mass, are considered by the owners OF
the vessels TO be premature, as on the 11th
and l2th two vessels which were said to be
ost had arrived and there were strong reasons
for anticipating further arrivals
Three murderers were hanged In three New
England States on the 14th John Q. Pink
ham at Concord, N. H., for the murder OF
Mrs. Marion Berry near Durham, Jan. 9, 1877
William II. Devlin at Lowell, Mass, for the
murder of his wife and infant child Dec g.
1877, and Henry Gravelin, at Windsor, Vt.
for tha fnurdar of Harhart n Whita In Oofn
Der, 1876. Gravelin asserted his innocence IN
strong terms and said he felt as though he
had been robbed and murdered and lied int
his grave.
The large car-wheel foundIg and machine
shops of the Taylor Iron Company at Higl
Bridge, N. j., were burned on the 14th.
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